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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Dave McLaren -- Recently I was sitting at our breakfast table thinking about what to say in this communique regarding men and, specifically, our upcoming Men’s Retreat this fall. For some reason, an advertising slogan from the past came flashing across my mind: “Real Men Drink...
By Caris Power -- Picking Songs: Part 1 Picking worship songs and putting together the order of service each week is one of the most fun and most daunting tasks I am privileged to do as part of my job every week on staff. I was once asked if I just picked my favorites each week to sing...