Medical Teams International sends cholera medicines to help save lives in Zimbabwe Cholera epidemic, food shortages bring country closer to collapse (PORTLAND, ORE.—Dec. 19, 2008)  This Christmas, Medical Teams International is delivering critically needed medicines to Zimbabwe, an African country with one of the lowest life expectancies in the world. […]

Frontline Ministries and the Exodus Mandate Project (www.Exodusmandate.org) announced today that Dr. Brian D. Ray, Ph.D., is recipient of the 2008 Dr. Robert Dreyfus Courageous Christian Leadership Award.  Established by Frontline Ministries in 2007,  this award honors and recognizes a Christian leader who has exhibited moral courage while advancing Christianity […]

It was announced this week that Rick Warren and Rev. Joseph Lowery will deliver the prayers at President Elect Obama’s inauguration.  Rev. Joseph Lowery is one of America’s most honored civil rights leader and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King.   Rick Warren is author […]

By Jeannie St. John Taylor Oregon author of Culture-proof Kids King Herod tried to ruin my Christmas this year — more than two thousand years after he killed the babies of Bethlehem. Okay, it wasn’t Herod in the flesh. A recent National Geographic article about Herod distressed me, even though […]

Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling — Advancing Knowledge Engaging our World Living Portland Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling is partnering with the Muslim Education Trust (MET), a nonprofit organization that promotes greater understanding of the Islamic community through education and outreach initiatives. […]

By Faith Reporter, Four NW Restaurants are teaming up with Open House Minsitries for a “Operation Dinner Out” campaign to raise funds for their downtown Vancouver homeless shelter.  These restaurants are stepping up their charitable actions at a time when many Oregon restaurants have witnessed a steep 40% decline in […]

Recurring Giving Provides Churches with Valuable Online Tool to Increase Giving Church Community Builder (CCB) Adds Recurring Giving Functionality to its Already Powerful Online Church Management Solution. Church Community Builder (CCB), the original web-based church management solution, has announced that their customers can now offer members and donors the option […]

By The House of Ruth, A ministry helping unsupported young women, Support them here My life before coming to the House of Ruth was very disturbing. I’m not your typical pregnant teenage girl. By age 24 I’d been married, had children and tried to make the best out of an […]

Our Choice: Be Part of the Agony, or Part of the Answer By Paul Coughlin, Oregon author of No More Christian Nice Guy “If you give one of these simple, childlike believers a hard time, bullying or taking advantage of their simple trust, you’ll soon wish you hadn’t.  You’d be […]

By Medical teams International, (PORTLAND, ORE.—Dec. 5, 2008)   A leading evaluator of faith-based ministries has named Medical Teams International one of its top 30 “Shining Light” charities.  MinistryWatch.com compiles its annual list from nearly 500 of the largest nonprofit Christian organizations in the U.S., looking at financial transparency, fiscal efficiency, […]