Posts from June 2021
June Affordable Housing Update
Our parish has nurtured a vision of an affordable housing ministry for some years. When Portland’s housing crisis erupted, homelessness came to our doorstep—literally—and the vision resurfaced. Starting in 2019, we began to explore how faith communities can justly steward their lands, with the help of the interfaith Leaven Community Land & Housing Coalition (LCLHC). In 2020, we testified before Portland City Council and successfully changed zoning laws. We established working relationships with Second Stories, a design and development firm…
June 27th worship will be on Zoom
June 27th worship will be on Zoom, bring your Book of Common Prayer.
Housing Update: Board of Trustees June 2021
Update to the Diocese of Oregon Board of Trustees on The Alcena and Kafoury Court Affordable Housing Project.
Summer Sunday Worship Schedule
Summer Sunday Worship Schedule: In-person, online, and both in-person and online!
Unveiling Alonzo Tucker EJI Historical Marker (Vanport Mosaic)
Our collective memory and our collective consciousness hold power. What we choose to remember as well as how we choose to remember is a reflection of the soul of our society. The Equal Justice Initiative (Montgomery, AL) has documented nearly 6,500 African American victims of lynching in the United States between 1865-1950. At least one African American was lynched in Oregon. His name was Alonzo Tucker and he was lynched in Coos Bay, OR in 1902 in front of a…