Chehalem Valley Presbyterian Church

The God of the Bible is the Lord of the entire world and his love extends to our community. And so, we also love our community and live the gospel where God has placed us. As you surf through the hotlinks below we are confident that you will discover many reasons why we love our community!

Newberg: Go to George Fox University ; Put your boat in the Willamette River at Rogers Landing; Go to the Coffee Cottage; Book your next retreat or send your child to summer camp at Tilikum. Don’t miss the Art Harvest Studio Tour of Yamhill County; Go to one of the last drive-in movie theaters in Oregon - 99WDrive-In and Twin Cinemas; visit Newberg wineries: penner-ash; Rex Hill; Chehalem; Beaux Freres; Bergstrom; Adelsheim; Anderson Family; Aramenta Cellars; ArborBrook; August Cellars. Take a balloon ride at Vista Balloons. Dine at The Painted Lady, the French Bear, or Ixtapa Restaurant.

Portland:
Go to the epicenter, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Pioneer Place and Portlandia.
Go to the Classical Chinese Garden, Washington Park, including the International Rose Test Garden and the Japanese Garden.
Go to Forest Park and to the Hoyt Arboretum.
Go to the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Art Museum, to the Oregon Historical Society, and to OMSI.
Go to Saturday Market and to Farmers Market on the Park blocks.
Go to Reed College, Lewis and Clark College, University of Portland, Western Seminary, PSU, and to OHSU (take the sky tram); Go to Western Culinary Institute.
Go to Powells Bookstore, the Pearl District, 21st and 23rd Avenues, and Hawthorne.
Go to Jim and Patty’s Coffee Shop, Fresh Pot, Stumptown Coffee, Dragonfly, and Fullers Cafe.
Go to one of Portland’s 75+ Microbreweries and visit their pubs.
Go to Higgins, Southpark, Nicholas, Ristorante Romas, Lemon Grass, Brasserie Montmartre, Portland City Grill, Kells Irish Pub, Todai, St. Honore Boulangerie Bakery, and Papa Haydn.

Oregon:
Go to the University of Oregon or Oregon State University, go to a football game, track meet, or concert - take a course!
Go to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland; Go to Crater Lake, the Steens, the McKenzie, the Cascade Lakes Loop, Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, the Wallowas, the Columbia River Gorge, the Painted Hills and the John Day Fossil Beds.
Go to the Oregon Coast! Ecola State Park; Cape Kiwanda; all of the lighthouses.
Go to the Sate Capitol in Salem;
Go to Willamette University in Salem, Linfield College in McMinnville, Pacific University in Forest Grove, George Fox University in Newberg; Go to downtown Bend, Lithia Park, Ashland, art galleries in Joseph, windsurfing in Hoodriver; skiing on Mt. Bachelor; Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood.
Go to Sleepy Monk Coffee in Cannon Beach, Bella Coffee in the Streets of Tanasbourne, Suislaw Coffee Roasters in Florence, Old Town.
Go to Nick’s Italian Cafe in McMinnville, go to the Bend Distillery for a juniper martini, Cannon Beach Bistro, for the best fish and chips on the coast, go to the Bandon Fish Market and Chowder House; Go to the original Mo’s on the docks at Newport, in a warehouse garage with a roll up door! Go to the Fields Station for the best hamburger and milk shake on the planet.
Go to all of the McMenamins Pubs (many are on the historic register).
Go to the Oregon Trail Museum and Interpretive Center in Baker City and the End of the Oregon Trail Museum in Oregon City. Go to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

Our community is connected to the world. For example, Beaverton is home to the international headquarters of Good Samaritan Ministries and Tigard is home to Medical Teams International, formerly, Northwest Medical Teams. Newberg is home to George Fox University, which has an increasing international influence.

Nike International headquarters are in Beaverton and so Evergreen prays for all of Nike’s international relationships. Manufacturing in developing nations is controversial and plagued by problems and so we pray for Nike’s fair treament and trade. (Check out Nike’s website - intriguing!)

Intel another employer in our local community is doing business internationally. We pray especially for India. Intel employees regularly travel to India and many East Indians have relocated to our community to work at Intel plants. Our world is shrinking! Our community is richer for it and opportunities for the gospel are increasing.

Oregon is on the Pacific Rim and so we interact with Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese. The Port of Portland is a gateway to Japan for Oregon grain and wood products. Our location and economy has an impact on our view of the world. We love it!

Chehalem Valley’s view of the Church is much larger than an independent congregation. We are connected by design to congregations in Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, the USA, Canada and through out the world. We view the Church to be an international community of faith much larger than our particular denominations and schools of thought. Evergreen is a member of the Presbyterian Church in America, which connects us to the world. Our international mission agency, Mission to the World, supports church planting teams and partners with mission and relief agencies throughout the world. In particular, view the video at the Mission to the World site showing the work of Andy and Bev Warren with AIDS victims in Addis Ababa. Also, go to SIM International to read a brief article on this AIDS relief project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Andy and Bev are members of the PCA and so Evergreen members are connected to them and to their part of the world. The Warrens are merely one out of thousands such connections with knit us to compassionate work worldwide.

In a very different part of the world we are connected to the Grace Project, a church planting network in Canada. Vancouver BC is quite different from Addis Ababa, but the same gospel surprisingly transforms lives in both places.