Chehalem Valley Presbyterian Church

 Fletcher Matandika, a Malawian and founder of Ministry of Hope, an orphanage in Malawi preached at our sister congregation, Evergreen Presbyterian Church. He has most recently founded “Joy to the World,” an organization transforming a Malawian village, including the offering of micro loans to groups of women. The Fresh Start Microloans group comprised of Evergreen Presbyterian [...]

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Nathan Lewis is preaching four sermons on “The Ascension of Jesus Christ.” To hear his first three sermons, “The History of the Ascension,” “The Science of the Ascension,” and “The Blessing of the Ascension,” go to Audio Sermons. To read these sermons, go to his blog, www.nathanlewis.org. This May 11 is Ascension Sunday [...]

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Beginning this Sunday night, April 6, the youth group is meeting at the home of Joe and Cindy Pope to open the Spring International Short Film Festival. As usual, we will meet at 5:00 p.m. to mix, eat food (bring munchies to share), play games. Nathan will then show on the big screen one [...]

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On Sunday, April 27 at 10:30 a.m. Allen Pritzlaff will present a lecture on Islam, helping Christians to understand and to interact with Muslims. Through study and years of experience, Allen is an expert voice in helping anyone who wishes to find appropriate and effective ways of sharing the gospel with Muslims. Following his lecture, [...]

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Our sister congregation, Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Salem hosts the Grassroots Music Festival featuring local bluegrass bands. A concert is scheduled every Friday night in April at 7:00 p.m. at the church site at 905 Cottage Street NE in Salem, Oregon. Drive down to Salem, make the concert a hot date and support our sister [...]

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Nathan E. Lewis has been preaching through Paul’s First Epistle to the Church at Corinth. His six sermons from I Corinthians 15 focus on resurrection. Read them. Or you may listen to them.

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Jeff Hockema and Chase Hansen are preparing and serving dinner at the Roy home on Saturday, March 29, to raise funds to equip the dental office of Magda, our dentist working at the Eirene Center in Santa Ana Tepetitlan in Guadalajara. Both Chase and Jeff have been on location and desire to return to serve [...]

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On Sunday, March 30 at 2:00 p.m. we will be ordaining and installing additional ruling elders and deacons to serve our congregation. Our ruling elder candidates are Keith Hansen, David Hansen, and Peter MacIver. Our deacon candidates are Daniel Wilson and David McGuire. We will be meeting at Scholls Community Church, a beautiful location half-way [...]

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Go to Nathan’s blog for information on one very good reason why you should drive over the hill, navigate 99 through Tigard and descend into downtown Portland! Tim’s book has risen to #7 on the New York Times Bestseller list this week!

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Chehalem celebrates Seder, the Passover Feast, tracing its fulfillment in Christ, preserving the Jewish traditions rich with hints of Christ. We celebrate the Lord’s Supper in the midst of the feast as Christ instituted it in the presence of his disciples. If you have never celebrated Seder with us in the past, take a few [...]

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