Church blesses troops with care package campaign By Oregon Faith News Note: The McMinnville News-Register has an excellent story on members of St. John’s Church in Yamhill  Oregon, sending hundreds of care packages to U.S. Troops.   This  highly involved care package campaign has been going strong since 2006. Leading […]

Georgene Rice of KPDQ-FM interviews Lila Rose, an undercover student investigator. She discusses a 15 year old student in the Seattle area who got an abortion on school time without the parents’ knowledge . Georgene: Lila Rose has visited many Planned Parenthoods and provided visual evidence that the practice of […]

Actress creates website to inspire teen girls By Project Inspired, With the goal of helping teenage girls achieve their maximum potential, ProjectInspired.com has launched as a strong voice and positive influence. Created by successful model Nicole Weider, ProjectInspired.com is a unique voice, providing wisdom, truth and honest answers to a […]

UP MBA students to deliver free burritos to homeless in downtown Portland on Saturday, Dec. 10 as part of Portland Burrito Project By University of Portland University of Portland Masters of Business Administration (MBA) students Joaquin Ortiz and Katie Smith have started the Portland Burrito Project, a group of friends […]

National campaign ads & speeches suddenly target morality By Guest opinion, The traditional campaign ads and speech attacks of the 2012 Presidential race by Republicans (and occasionally Obama) have been focused on issues and flip flops. With the recent surge of Newt Gingrich to GOP frontrunner has suddenly opened the […]

By Milan Homola Compassion Connect In preparation for the Portland City Impact Roundtable I’m revisiting a great book about which I’ve wanted to write a short blog series. The book is “To Transform a City” by Eric Swanson and Sam Williams, Swanson will be the keynote speaker at the City […]

by Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministries Sandy, Oregon Last month I received this letter from a 10-year-old Canadian boy named Christian. He had read the Courageous novel and wanted to share with Alex and Stephen Kendrick and me what he had learned from it. Dear writers of Courageous: Mr. Alex […]

Calls for Federal Investigation of ICM Registry and All Involved in XXX Domain Morality in Media News that the .XXX Domain is going live  caused Morality in Media to call for an investigation of ICM Registry, the company behind the .XXX Domain, for possible violations of federal laws prohibiting distribution […]

2011 Environmental Award won by Church of the Good Samaritan, Corvallis Episcopal Diocese of Oregon Good Samaritan installed the first solar array in the Diocese of Oregon, taking advantage of the Feed-In-Tariff program established by the Oregon legislature in 2009. Parishioners borrowed money from themselves, installed the solar panels, and […]

Pastor Lewis on the Place for Pink Martini at the Christmas Tree Lighting and Lessons & Carols at the Church Nathan Lewis, Senior Pastor Evergreen Presbyterian , This past week my family and friends took Max to Pioneer Courthouse Square to join thousands at the annual tree lighting. The Oregon […]