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A creative collaboration between Trinity United Methodist Church and Sellwood Faith Community

Our community exists to embody the love of God in the world because we believe everyone needs a safe space to be loved for who they are already.

The Joy of Grief

This  week I am grieving. This morning I officiated at the funeral of a family friend. I spent the afternoon discussing grief as part of our clergy study group’s reading of See No Stranger. And my heart is full with the images and  news out of Gaza & Israel. I’m...

Loving the past and excited for the future.

This week I got to have coffee with a retired colleague. It was so fun talking about all the people we had worked with and learned from throughout the years. Names of people who mentored me as a child, who I sat with at annual conference, who I remember from district...

See No Stranger

As part of our work as clergy in our area we are reading the amazing book See No Stranger: a Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valerie Kaur.  Twice a month I will be gathering with a small group of other area United Methodist Pastors to explore and discuss the book...

Discernment practices

This week we are taking some time to practice discernment. On Sunday I shared 4 exercises from Ignation Spirituality as a eay to get started. You can pray, or imagine in your mind, or journal through the prompt and see what God opens up to you. The four practices are...

Stewarding our Holy Character

Each year we take a month in the fall to promote stewardship. This is when we remember the promises we make to one another as a community and think about how we want to live out those promises. As United Methodists we promise when we join a new church to uphold our...

A GREAT Meeting

This past Sunday we met to revise our 5 year plan.  About 20 folks attended and it was a wonderful, hope-filled, exciting conversation.  To focus on the gift we have of amazing people we agreed to continue our focus on learning and creating space for leadership. ...

Preschool update

The preschool that has shared space with us for decades now is not opening this fall.  After long time teacher and more recent owner Jennie moved on last year a couple of neighborhood moms decided to take over.  They struggled all last year to get a cohort of...

Getting curious

Last week when I was officiating a wedding I was rocking my cool new clergy collar dress. I have to admit my hair has become grayer and grayer over the last few years. So I definitely look like I'm in my 40's. As I was meeting with the dj to get my mic set up he asked...

The First Day of School

Today is the first day of school in our city. My Facebook feed is full of pictures of kids ready for a new year. It is a time of starting new rhythms for families. Traffic flow in the city changes as buses navigate the streets and parents add in a stop for drop off in...

The hard work of sharing space

It is one of the great gifts of stewarding the Trinity Building that we can share it with our wider community. This place is home to the office of an aging in place nonprofit and they regularly host activities for seniors in our memorial room. We also host a Christian...