Land & Housing Circle
Update: August 16, 2023
Join us after service for a Church Family Meal on Rally Sunday – September 10 – hosted by the Land & Housing Circle with help from the FUMC Youth Group. Enjoy pancakes and catch up with new and old friends around the ‘kitchen table.’
Suggested donation $5/person or $20/family. Funds raised will go toward the Land and Housing Circle’s efforts to explore what we at First Church can do to reduce suffering caused by Portland’s housing crisis.
New Webpage
To stay up-to-date on the work of the Land and Housing Circle and better understand the housing crisis, check out the new webpage on the FUMC website: fumcpdx.org/land-housing-circle/
Feasibility Study
Thank you to everyone who offered perspectives at our April listening sessions. Both enthusiasm and concern surfaced as we explored how we might use our land to provide critically needed housing. Our partners at Second Stories and the Design Research Office have completed their feasibility study to answer some of our questions.
“If you see and want to work on ways that First Church can say ‘yes’ to housing in a fruitful and faithful way, today is the day to explore that. The need is so great that the ways to say ‘yes’ are manifold.” – Rev. Karyn Richards-Kuan
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