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Ministry that Matters: Upcoming trainings offer tools for suicide prevention
9/13/2023
Register for Soul Shop + Learn More Sept. 18 training in Meridian, Idaho October 16 training in Salem, Oregon Learn more about Soul ...
Disaster kits in short supply across Oregon-Idaho Conference
7/27/2022
With wildfire season beginning across the west, the hope and prayer is always that everyone stays safe. But the reality is, our churches and...
Helping our Tongan siblings: An appeal from Lents Tongan Fellowship
3/30/2022
To Whom It May Concern: My name is Rev. Fungalei Taufoou, and I am the pastor of the Lents’ Tongan Fellowship of the United Methodist ...
Clergy OVERWHELM: A workshop for clergy and lay-persons assigned
2/1/2022
Clergy and lay-persons assigned to the local church: Are you carrying too much in this season? Struggling to balance caring for your ...
UMCOR Sunday 2021 holds special meaning for the GNW Area
3/18/2021
Photo provided by Dana & Kathy Bryson. . In the last year, disaster response coordinators from the Greater Northwest Area have ...
Oregon-Idaho Camp and Retreat Ministries offering “Trauma-Informed Care” class for GNW
3/11/2021
Shauna Signorini, resilience and trauma educator. . After the first year of dealing with COVID-19, many are eyeing the ...
Clarkes-Mulino remembers Rev. Truby with unique tribute
3/19/2020
When news that Clarkes-Mulino UMC’s Rev. Tom Truby passed away this week after a prolonged illness, church members knew exactly what to do –...
Conference assisting with eastern Oregon flood relief
2/12/2020
Larry Johnson headed out the door on Wednesday of the Oregon-Idaho Conference Center in order to get to Pendleton, Oregon, by the late ...
ERT volunteers needed in Saipan
5/15/2019
It takes more than 20 hours to fly there, but the people of Saipan are in desperate need of trained volunteer emergency responders to help ...
Oregon-Idaho missionaries see border crisis up close
5/8/2019
There’s nothing quite as heartbreaking as stumbling across a grave of a young migrant infant in the desert. But that’s what Oregon-Idaho ...
Greater NW churches respond to GC2019 with messages of frustration, apology and love
3/6/2019
As soon as Rev. Barbara Nixon saw the votes tallied at General Conference that would ensure that The United Methodist Church would re-affirm...
UMCOR and disaster response
1/28/2019
When disasters strike in the United States or Internationally, the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) responds. But unlike past ...
Training opportunity for churches on addressing mentally ill
1/23/2019
Community resources are often scarce for people facing acute mental illnesses – and more frequently churches are becoming first responders ...
UMCOR West Depot seeking volunteers for spring, summer 2019
1/23/2019
Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, UMCOR West Office and Depot seeks to be a vital part of the work and vision of the United ...
I am not a divider, am I?
1/17/2019
1995 Medford Mail Tribune Headline I serve a church in Ashland, Oregon. We are on the very southern edge of the Oregon/Idaho border, yet ...
Early Response Team from Oregon-Idaho Responds to Hurricane Florence
10/24/2018
Larry Johnson at an ERT Fair earlier this year Larry Johnson and Tom Ettelson of Mt Home UMC in Sherwood, Oregon are traveling to North ...
Emergency Preparedness ministry available in Oregon-Idaho Conference
10/17/2018
Planning for a disaster or preparing for an emergency might seem like a self-fulfilling prophecy that no one really wants to come true. ...
Items being collected for UMCOR West Depot starting Oct. 15
9/19/2018
Starting October 15, local volunteer Steve Matthews will be traveling through Oregon and Idaho to pick up supplies to deliver to the United ...
Responding to suicide prevention in faith-based communities
9/12/2018
September is National Suicide Prevention Month and Suicide Prevention Week is September 10-15. The Faith Communities Task Force of the ...
United Methodists Reach Out
10/2/2015
As the city of Roseburg and the surrounding community try to grasp the realities of Thursday’s violent shooting at Umpqua Community ...
Westside United Methodist Church loses education building
5/4/2015
The burned out shell of the Westside UMC education buliding stands after the fire is out. (Brian Shimer photos) The Westside United ...
Church serves as help site in shooting wake
12/15/2012
Members of Newtown United Methodist Church in Sandy Hook, Conn., are “still holding our breath” to learn the full impact of the Dec. 14 ...