Archive for October, 2006
“We work in the confidence that God is able to give us the gifts and graces needed for ministry in our time and place.” -Will Willimon, Pastor “Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the work you have received…
“The church is then not simply the bearer of the message of reconciliation, in the way a newspaper or a telephone company can bear any message with which it is entrusted. Nor is the church simply the result of a…
“As I have interacted with various members of these [emerging church] groups, however, I have noticed on the one hand a propensity to react against evangelicalism’s modernity with versions of Christianity that look similar to classic Protestant liberalism. On the…
So Jr. V and I walked up to the Multnomah Arts Center last night (after a brief stop at Thinker Toys to check out the new Playmobil stuff and the Lego Star Destroyer that we both crave) to attend the Community Policing Celebration. Many folks came out …
So about a week ago, I noticed a URL in my site stats from outside.in. Now, you Portland people know that there’s a homeless youth shelter in Portland called Outside In, which is waht I initially assumed this link was. After noticing more hits from thi…
This event is definetly worth stopping by….We are going to be giving special recognition to former Neighborhood Response Team Officers Scott Westerman and Officer Steve Andrusko, plus Crime Prevention Specialist Stephanie Reynolds. This special cri…
Sen. Ron Wyden Thursday afternoon at the MAC
Closed Published October 17th, 2006 on The Multnomah VillagerHa! No, not the Multnomah Athletic Club, but our own MAC, the Multnomah Arts Center. Don’t believe me? Show up and see him yourself. Senator Wyden will be holding his Multnomah County Townhall in SW Portland this Thursday, Oct. 19 from 3:00 - 4:30PM.Co…
At the meeting on Tuesday, Brian mentioned something I had noticed from the street, but not investigated, which is that there is an OLCC permit application notice on the front door of the house which used to be the location of Village Beads, before the…
More like around the corner from the heart of the …
Closed Published October 11th, 2006 on The Multnomah VillagerSo, several months ago, a couple of freshly-scrubbed Jr. Executive types visited the Multnomah Neighborhood Association meeting to present an “idea” being proposed for a condo development in the Village. This is located kind of diagonally across from t…
Well that and being overwhelmingly busy at work. I’ll start updating again tomorrow. See you at the Neighborhood Association meeting tonight at 6:30? That or the Ballot Measures Forum if you’re into the whole educated voter thing, which hopefully many …