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October 23, 2023 - Church kids caught robbing store

By Faith News Note, Two teen boys on the loose from church camp went on a robbery spree over several weeks in Rockaway Beach. Surveillance video showed the 16  and 17-year-olds attempting to steal alcohol and vape products and holding up a clerk at knifepoint. The boys were attending a […]


October 18, 2023 - Archdiocese announces new direction for Catholic Education

Archdiocese of Portland Press Release, The Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon is pleased to announce an exciting and transformational new direction for Catholic education and Catholic schools in western Oregon. Our goal is to integrate our Catholic schools more deeply into the evangelizing mission of each parish and the wider […]


October 16, 2023 - Pray for Israel and Peace

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Our hearts are broken for the people of Israel who have endured such great atrocities inflicted upon women and children and the elderly, slaughtered mercilessly. I also pray for those who seek peace, including believers in Jesus in Gaza, who will inevitably suffer as […]


October 11, 2023 - Maui pets being sent to Oregon for rescue

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, When wildfires swept across Maui, officials at the Hawaiian island’s only local Humane Shelter officials sought help from Greater Good Charities and the Oregon Humane Society to relocate more than a hundred pets to Portland, according to KPTV.com. Greater Good Charities worked with Southwest […]


October 9, 2023 - One Alaska Native’s Faith Felt for Generations

By NW Adventist Nathan Noongwook was born in 1910 in the village of Savoonga, on St. Lawrence Island. A leader in his village, he drove dog sled teams between Nome, Savoonga and Gambell delivering mail. He also taught men in Savoonga to hunt and drum in the traditions of his […]


October 4, 2023 - Pacific Lifestyle Homes Helps Enhance “Home” at Vida’s Ark

Transitional Youth Ministries Vida’s Ark has been transformed thanks to the time, hands and hearts of the Pacific Lifestyle Homes team. Their choice to dedicate volunteer hours at our young mamas’ home has made all the difference in the world for these young women and their babies. We all know […]


September 27, 2023 - Portland youth pastor guilty of sex abuse

By Oregon Faith News Note, In 1998, a Portland youth pastor sexually abused a six-year-old boy, but it wasn’t until Aug. 8 of this year that David N. Duong, 58, pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual abuse and started serving six years and three months in state prison.   Now the […]


September 25, 2023 - The social contagion targeting girls

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Note from Randy: This fifth article in our series on gender confusion is an important and sobering book review written by Al Stewart (National Director of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches in Australia). He does a good job of summarizing the key points […]


September 20, 2023 - A plan to help the homeless

By Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer Press Release, Chavez-DeRemer Unveils Bipartisan Homelessness Bill Expanding Mental Health, Substance Abuse Care DIRECT Care for the Homeless Act creates pilot program to expand street medicine services Reps. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) and Summer Lee (PA-12) introduced the bipartisan DIRECT Care for the Homeless Act. The […]


September 18, 2023 - Made in image of God, male and female

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry . Note from Randy: When we were both speaking at an apologetics conference some years ago, I had the privilege of meeting Christopher Yuan, who is an author, speaker, and instructor at Moody Bible Institute. We quickly became good friends. I read a lot of books, […]