We are now in a season of transition and JOY!
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
COME TOGETHER FOR THE 20th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST!
Leaven/S&L ZOOM Login
https://zoom.us/j/5032877553
Mobile: +1 408 638 0968
Meeting ID 503 287 7553
Passcode: 910512
9:30-10:30am “We Make the Road by Walking”
In the chapel and on Zoom (login above).
11:00-12:30pm Salt and Light Worship
Eric Conklin, Presiding
Scripture Reflection on 2 Timothy 4:6-8; 16-18 and
Luke 18:9-14Ali Ippolito & Lonnie Phelps, Musicians
Chris Evans, Usher
Jane Keating, Children’s Accompaniment Circle
Brent Wilson, Zoom AV Team
Create a Welcoming Space for All
Your participation is NEEDED to prepare the sanctuary for Sunday gatherings. All age groups are WELCOMED to help with the following simple tasks:
candle-lighting
flowers
greeters/ushers
sunroom hospitality
Talk with or email: Anneliese, Amy, Jenny, or Darrel at cmlt@leaven.org
Interested in Zoom-hosting? Talk with or email:
Brent, botanu@gmail.com
LaVeta, lavetagj@gmail.com
CALL-SEARCH TEAM UPDATE
The Call-Search Team met Saturday, October 8, and came to consensus on a candidate to recommend for the position of Leaven Community Director-Organizer and Pastor of Salt & Light Lutheran Church. On Thursday, October 20, the Leaven Community Board and the Salt and Light Congregational Mission Leader Team (CMLT) received the recommendation of the Call-Search Team for our next Director-Organizer-Pastor! This concludes the work of the Call-Search Team, and the process is now in the hands of the Board and CMLT, who will move through the process together as one team. Please join us in THANKING the members of the Call-Search Team - Derek Fenwick and Nancy Phelps (co-chairs), AmyDeWallace, Elissa Mendenhall, Eric Jordahl, and Mike Hogan - for the tremendous amount of time and effort they put into discerning a fantastic candidate for Leaven Community/Salt and Light!
NEXT STEPS
The Board and CMLT are eager to meet the candidate and will begin to work out a mutually agreeable compensation package. Becasue the candidate will also be the pastor of Salt & Light, the ELCA Oregon Synod process is also being followed and while we would love to share the candidate’s information, for now it still needs to be kept confidential. Much more to come (there are many, many steps in the process)! Continue to hold the candidate and the joint LC Board/CMLT Team in your meditations and prayers as we move towards bringing this recommendation to the community. The joint team members are: Co-chairs Lois Jordahl (board chair) and Anneliese Davis (CMLT president), Amy DeWallace, Ben Mendenhall, Darrel King, Jenny Duvander, John Rodgers and Richard Harmon.
Sidenote: If your interests are stirring you to engage in Leaven Community’s mission in a deeper way, there is room at the table for a diversity of voices on the 2023 LC Board of Directors. Share your interest in person with a board member or via email: board@leaven.org
Requests for Support & Healing
In Loving Memory
Celebration of Life Memorial Service for Harry R. Olsen
Sunday, October 30, 2022
3:00 p.m.
Salt and Light Lutheran Church
Obituary Here
PROJECT ABUNDANT MINT: Mint Drying
Children’s Accompaniment Circle
Update from Jane Keating
THIS SUNDAY
How did/do we become ourselves?
'...if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself'.
(Luke 18:9-14, The Message)
We'll also be thinking ahead to the honoring of our ancestors. What do we love about the holidays coming up?
Last Sunday
View the Root Buddies Story that was shared with us by Evelyn and Jane.
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CAC PLANNING MEETING
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Leaven Community Center
Email Jane for time: jane@leaven.org
Parents, youth and children are invited to come together to think about this diverse and growing group to make it as liberatory and inclusive as our resources evolve to make it possible.
In this evolving process we meet to:
1. Making sure our CAC time has needed support through the end of January (with a peek ahead into 2023).
2. Planning to make the holidays special for our youth and connect their spiritual formation in community.
3. Our Abundant Mint Project is finishing up. What do our youth want to do next?
You are all wanted in this process.
UPCOMING MEETINGS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2022
CAC Planning Meeting
Leaven Community Center
Email Jane for time: jane@leaven.org
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2022p
Cully-Roseway Language Exchange! // Intercambio de Cully-Roseway!
6-8PM Calvary Presbyterian Church
3516 NE 71st Ave, Portland, OR 97213
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
“Intergenerational Stories of Money & Value”
Story Gathering
7-8:30PM Leaven Community Center
5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR 97211
