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Hip-Hop for Social Change: Upcoming panel explores its 50-year legacy
9/26/2023
As the hip-hop community commemorates its 50th anniversary, the Cultural Soul Project is set to host a panel, titled "Hip-Hop for Social ...
BeLonging Space to offer healing, loving spiritual presence at Eugene PRIDE
8/9/2023
Love is the central theme driving the work of BeLonging Space in organizing the faith and spirituality zone at the Eugene (Oregon) PRIDE ...
Oak Grove UMC hosts racial justice workshop Aug. 5
7/25/2023
Oak Grove United Methodist Church is preparing to host a racial justice workshop on August 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event, entitled "I'm...
More than 600 hygiene kits collected at Annual Conference
6/22/2023
With the support from 10 different congregations, the Oregon-Idaho Disaster Response Ministry now has 600-plus hygiene kits ready to deploy,...
Wesley UMC, MakePeace honored for community work in Milton-Freewater
5/18/2023
Through grant funding and partnerships with the community, Wesley United Methodist Church has been part of significant support for those in ...
Aloha UMC partnering with community to help with housing crisis
5/4/2023
Feeling called by scriptures to serve the “least among us” and understand what it truly means to be a good neighbor, Aloha United Methodist...
The Interfaith Solar Campaign: How churches in Oregon are going green
5/3/2023
The Oregon Interfaith Solar Campaign is spreading the message of environmental conservation through solar power use in local churches. One ...
Disaster Kit collection challenge for Annual Conference
4/20/2023
Disaster kits are needed in the Oregon-Idaho Conference! You are invited to assemble disaster kits for Annual Conference this year. ...
Annual Conference Actions: Advocating for comprehensive immigration reform
4/3/2023
Submitted by Claudia Roberts Each year at the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference Session, in among the budgets, appointments, reports, and ...
Silverton UMC hosts prom for adults with disabilities
3/22/2023
One afternoon, when one of the teachers in the Community Transition Program was closing up the church building at Silverton UMC, she passed ...
Annual Conference Actions: Transgender people are children of God
3/6/2023
Submitted by Debbie Mallis Each year at the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference Session, in among the budgets, appointments, reports, and ...
Webinar on Apartheid-free communities scheduled March 15
3/1/2023
In 2022, the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference passed a resolution "Identifying and Opposing Apartheid in the Holy Land." On March 15, 2023, ...
Bridgeforth to meet with Oregon-Idaho MFSA
2/23/2023
Oregon-Idaho Methodist Federation for Social Action invites justice-seekers to its spring event, “Why Justice Matters – A conversation with ...
Aloha UMC provides Christmas trees for community
12/21/2022
This time of year, Keren Rodriguez is likely to show up for all sorts of appointments with Christmas trees in the back of her car. She’s ...
Annual Conference Actions: MFSA reflects on "We Are UMC"
12/13/2022
Submitted by Greg Nelson with the Oregon-Idaho chapter of the Methodist Federation for Social Action Each year at the Oregon-Idaho Annual ...
Register now for United Women in Faith annual celebration Oct. 21-22 in Boise
9/28/2022
United Women in Faith, formerly United Methodist Women, of the Oregon-Idaho Conference will host its annual celebration and all-member ...
Abundant Health, MFSA O-I Chapter encourage advocacy for Health Care for All
9/24/2022
by Emilie Kroen and Rev. Karen Nelson Perhaps you are among the lucky in the United States and you have a good health insurance plan. Many ...
Israel: An Apartheid State
9/7/2022
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations have called Israel an “Apartheid State” for its numerous human rights ...
Oregon-Idaho Conference creates BIPOC Benefit Support Fund to assist ministry leaders, settings
12/15/2021
The Oregon-Idaho Conference is continuing its commitment to dismantle racism and create beloved community through a new fund designated for ...
You are a Light of the World! Celebrating Advent 2021
11/24/2021
“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on ...
Oregon-Idaho Conference Commission on Religion and Race accepting grant applications, seeking new members
5/13/2021
As Bishop Elaine JW Stanovsky has outlined dismantling racism as one of the top missional priorities for the Greater Northwest Episcopal ...
Wallowa UMC returned to the Nez Perce Tribe
4/30/2021
WALLOWA, OR – Sitting on the ancestral grounds of the Nez Perce Tribe and after 144 years of faithful ministry to its community, Wallowa ...
Barber receives national recognition for entrepreneurial, innovative work in the church
4/16/2021
Sometimes being a misfit in the church makes all the difference. For Rev. Dr. Leroy Barber, director of innovation for an engaged church in ...
Webb-Mitchell spends 3 years building LGBTQ+ advocacy in Oregon-Idaho Conference
2/15/2021
For three years, Rev. Dr. Brett Webb-Mitchell has been a dedicated, passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Oregon-Idaho Conference ...
Boise church deconsecrates and removes stained glass window depicting Confederate General Robert E. Lee as it repents of racism
8/7/2020
BOISE – Building on their commitment to fight racism, leaders of First United Methodist Church of Boise (Cathedral of the Rockies) ...