by Communications Director | Dec 12, 2022 | Community, Creation Care, Featured News, Working Groups & Task Forces
In July of 2022, Bishop Akiyama commissioned a Housing Crisis Working Group for the Episcopal Church in Western Oregon in response to the evident emergency in our towns, cities, and nation. There are currently six of us, lay and ordained, from around the...
by Communications Director | Dec 8, 2022 | Congregational Life, Featured News
We are offering Vestry Days for all Clergy in Charge and their Vestries/BACs to kick off their 2023 year together. Each Convocation has a location and date and two facilitators from the Diocese to lead the day. We will work together to onboard new Vestry/BAC members,...
by Communications Director | Dec 8, 2022 | Bishop's Message, Featured News
Dear friends in Christ, Not quite a year ago, I stood on a small rise at the back of the property where I grew up in Hood River. The home I’d known since I was 3 years old was gone. In the place where the house once stood was an expanse of dirt. The enormous...
by Communications Director | Nov 23, 2022 | Bishop's Message, Featured News
“For whom and for what are we thankful?” The question rang through the worship space like a rung bell. I was not the officiant in this liturgy and therefore had the luxury of sinking into this question in prayer. The invitation for thanksgivings had been...
by Communications Director | Nov 21, 2022 | Bishop's Message, Featured News
View as a PDF Dear Friends in Christ, Last Thursday, November 17, 2022, we officially listed the Bishop’s Close and Elk Rock Garden on RMLS. Since becoming your Bishop in February 2021, I have heard many of you encouraging us to relocate to an area that...
