Hey all! Advent is rapidly approaching.  For McMinnville Cooperative Ministries, Advent begins on Wednesday evening with our Wednesday evening service.  In the past few years, I have written a daily Advent devotional that begins with the first Sunday of Advent and ends with Christmas Eve. This year, I will begin my devotional sometime between Wednesday…

  Recently McMinnville Cooperative Ministries added a new worship service to our offerings of worship.  This worship service is a little different and many have been asking, “What are you doing exactly at this new Wednesday Worship Service at Remy Wines?”  Yes, you read that right, we meet at Remy Wines at 5:30pm every Wednesday….

Today I had the amazing privilege of going to work with Jessica Dehm.  Jessica is the mother of twin 3 year old boys.  Jessica has been going to school most recently, is a substitute teacher at times, and is quite the organizer but her main job is raising these two amazing little boys, Michael and…

Today I had the awesome pleasure of going to work with Chris Ames this morning for a few hours. Chris works at Oregon Pride Nurseries.  This is the Nursery off of Booth Bend Road and I love driving up to it….so pretty.   When I pulled up at 8am this morning Chris was waiting outside…

  Today I was invited to go to work with Helle Ruddenklau on their family farm. Even though Helle was the one who invited me I was warmly greeted by Bruce, Grant, and Lauren (Jack is at camp this week).  I was pretty excited and a bit nervous because I was told that I could…

Today Pastor Mark and I were invited to go to work with Alan Wenner at Bailey’s.  Alan coordinates their intern program and gave us quite the tour around a piece of the nursery. Mark and I learned a TON today about this particular nursery, plants, business, interns, machinery, more about plants, containers vs. propagation from…

Hey all! Eleanor Plamondon and I have talked about having lunch together for a while. We finally decided that this would be her work day and I would go to lunch! This worked out for both of us!  Plus she could show me her new studio apartment where she spends quite a bit of time…

Dorene Gleason got a hold of me to go to work with her this morning for just a few hours. I was super excited to see exactly what she does!  She told me that it would be a total gamble to figure out what would be going on when I came by.  I had no…

I received an email this weekend from Rebecca Arredondo seeing if I would like to go with her to her classroom to help clean up and learn more about her work. I immediately said “yes! Let’s go to work!  How about Monday?”  So I dutifully showed up at Willamina Elementary School a little late (12:30pm)…

Yesterday I was invited to go to work with some of our Linfield faculty and staff for some professional development.  I was invited by Jeff Peterson and in the mix I got to see Michael Hampton and Kristi MacKay in action.  I have to be honest that I didn’t really know what I was getting…