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Sharing our Home

The other day as I was fetching something from the basement I noticed something odd, our bamboo placemats were splayed all around the laundry hamper.  I quickly figured out that someone from dinner church the previous night had picked up the napkins and the...

Fighting Malaria with Music

April 25th was World Malaria Day.  It also marked the one year anniversary of the release of the Functional Monkeys album Can You Imagine?.  My daughter Paige (age 10) and I formed a band, The Functional Monkeys, and we put together a CD of original...

Press Clippings

The United Methodist News Service did a story on experimental faith communities in Portland and SFC is one of the communities mentioned.  Read on for another take on the context of new faith communities and the SFC journey.United Methodist NewsAmanda & Eilidh...

The Functional Community

Last Sunday my family was in California.  (There will be a forthcoming blog post about the amazing ministry that unfolded on the trip.) Since we were out of state we missed dinner on Sunday.  Our amazing house sitter set up for dinner.  He heated up the...

The Beauty of Explaining Who We Are

A few weeks ago Jeff & I had coffee with a gentleman who found SFC online. It was a little trippy to talk to someone who knew all about us from our blog posts, Facebook, and our website, yet who we had never met. He asked lots of really great questions. Once again...