by Communications Director | Oct 20, 2021 | Bishop's Message, Clergy News, Featured News
View as a .PDF Dear Clergy, In our clergy call yesterday, Tuesday, October 19, I mentioned that I would like all clergy in this diocese to be fully vaccinated. My guess is that most of our clergy are already fully vaccinated, but this requirement is an important...
by Communications Director | Sep 2, 2021 | Community, Featured News, Housing Crisis
This blog was written and contributed by The Rev. Laura Sheridan-Campbell, Vicar of St. Martin’s in Shady Cove. When the global pandemic hit in March 2020, St. Martin’s Shady Cove had been offering a monthly, indoor, no-barrier food pantry to the community for...
by Communications Director | Aug 25, 2021 | Bishop's Message, Featured News
View as a PDF. En Español. August 25, 2021 Dear Friends in Christ, It is the end of August 2021 and we find ourselves continuing to fight COVID-19, with cases and hospitalizations on the rise, again. Oregon is tracking around 2,500+ new confirmed and presumptive cases...
by Communications Director | May 21, 2021 | Congregational Life, Featured News
Almost as quickly as health authorities asked us to cease holding public worship in March 2020, the CDC has suddenly announced that it is appropriate for fully vaccinated people to gather unmasked indoors and outdoors. This is a lot for many of us to wrap our minds...
by Communications Director | Apr 2, 2020 | Congregational Life
By the Rev. Lawrence Crumb, vicar of St. Andrew’s, Cottage Grove The American playwright Thornton Wilder, best known for the high-school favorite “Our Town,” also wrote a play called “The Skin of Our Teeth.” Written during World War II, each act takes place just...
