by Eilidh Lowery | Jun 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
This summer my daughter and I are focusing on art. She was really hoping to have an art class during the school year, but wound up in other awesome electives instead. This week we are engaging with landscape art. I have a friend who is a painter and she is hosting...
by Eilidh Lowery | Jun 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week I’ve packed two boxes and bought a standing desk. Amanda and I have talked about the art work we’ll be hanging in our new collaborative office at Trinity UMC and we have an appointment next week to buy chairs. We’ll be liberating her table...
by Eilidh Lowery | Jun 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the more experimental parts of our life as a new church has been the administration piece. With the new Southeast Portland Parish we had to think through all sorts of issues. How was money going to be handled between the two groups? Who was responsible for...
by Eilidh Lowery | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
This past week our community was rocked by a violent crime. On a commuter train in the NE part of the city a man began yelling atrocious threats at two teenage girls, one african american, the other wearing a headscarf. People intervened, telling the man he could...
by Eilidh Lowery | May 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week Jeff, Amanda, and I got together to plan the themes and some of the worship and gathering details for July-September. It took us 3 and a half hours of praying, reading scriptures, listening to Jeff play songs, laughing, trusting, and collaborating....
by Eilidh Lowery | May 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Several of my friends offered sympathy to me this week that I had to work on Mother’s Day. I think I actually had the perfect day. I got to share time with wonderful people over a meal, which is one of my favorite things in the whole world. I love hosting...
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