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God is Faithful to His Children

Posted by Sally Bland on

By Sally Bland --  Last Sunday we had the amazing opportunity to worship God as SW Church Together (a partnership between Missio, Riversgate, Multnomah Presbyterian, and Greater Portland Bible Church). Something special happens when we tear down the walls and boundaries of our individual...

Training to Save a Life

Posted by Caris Power on

By Caris Power -- Have you ever helped save a life? I have. It’s terrifying and thrilling and humbling. Many of you may have heard that one of our faith community members went into cardiac arrest in the church lobby early one Monday evening in September. Our good, great, and gracious God...

Joy in the Planning

Posted by Joyce Wachsmuth on

By Joyce Wachsmuth -- This weekend some of our women will be at the women’s retreat in Turner, Oregon at the Aldersgate Retreat Center. 1979 was my first experience of planning and attending a women’s retreat. Because I had never attended one, I had so may questions? What do women...

Overcoming Apprehension

Posted by Betty Lea on

By Betty Lea -- Each year our retreat team gets together and chooses a theme that we feel would encourage our women. October 5-6 is our Women’s Retreat with the theme “Joy”! I have been to many retreats in the past with Greater Portland Bible Church. I can remember just...

The Jesus-Bond in SW Portland

Posted by Wayne Williams on

By Wayne Williams -- I have been fortunate over the years to have visited several other countries and to have had the opportunity to worship with Christians of different languages, cultures, traditions, and practices. Whether it was a congregation in the Philippines, Spain, Jordan, South...

GPBC Culture

Posted by Susan Fleming on

By Susan Fleming -- When I was in school, a professor assigned us to research and write a paper on our culture. As I looked around the room and saw many classmates of color, I thought I wouldn’t have anything to report on. After class, I went up to my professor and told her that I...

Family Marks Us

Posted by Richard McElroy on

By Richard McElroy -- Susan and I are so thankful to call GPBC home and you our faith family. In a world where so many tugs and wounds damage every form of community, it’s such a comfort, such an assuring truth, to know that we are loved unconditionally by Jesus and made a part of His...

Jesus Is Our True Leader

Posted by Wayne Williams on

By Wayne Williams -- Well just déjà vu! With Pastor Jay’s departure, we are entering a new chapter in the life of Greater Portland Bible Church…again. We should be pretty good at new chapters by now, having had four of them in the last nine years, not counting several...

Get Out And Serve 2019

Posted by Janet Nordlund on

By Janet Nordlund -- This Sunday, August 25, is GET OUT and SERVE Community Sunday!!! "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and...

Changes on the Property

Posted by John Muirhead on

By John Muirhead -- With the July 1st start of our new fiscal year, we have much to look forward to. First let me say how honored I am to be serving you all as Greater Portland’s Property Manager. I look forward to managing our new budget which will allow us to upgrade another...