This is where you can find our bi-monthly newsletter.
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Winter Preparation Happenings at Anawim – October 2012
November 3—St. Johns moving indoors November 10—Red Barn Warehouse establishment November 17—Poverty Summit at Mountain View Church November 17—Good News Clinic Meal Extravaganza (Socks, bedding, tarp giveaway) -
Do You Want to Keep Up With Us on Facebook? – October 2012
If you want to know the latest Anawim publications, please “like” this page: http://www.facebook.com/AnawimCC?fref=ts If you want to help out in Anawim St. Johns and have prayer requests, join this page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/258410524280077/?fref=ts If you want to help out in Anawim Gresham and have prayer requests, join this page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/344913635602922/?fref=ts You... -
Prayer Requests – October 2012
Pray for Brook who is pregnant, on the street and without healthcare or really any future currently. Pray for Jo who is in the final stages of cancer and doesn’t have a safe place to live. Pray for Rick who is suffering from both tongue cancer and brain damage, and this combination is making... -
The Wild Garden, Part 2 – August 2012
Despite the chaos, beauty grows within the wild. “I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock” (John 10:16) It is true, some of our plants have disease, rot and are in... -
The Wild Garden, Part 1 – August 2012
Most people want to begin an already cultivated garden. They buy their plants from nurseries, they have carefully tended soils, they might even control the climate and atmosphere. At Anawim, we cultivate the Wild Garden: plants springing out of nowhere, growing up any which way, chaos barely tamed,... -
Communities need Community! – June 2012
Someday people will say, “Once in North Gresham there was a community that was ideal. Three churches, one of the homeless, one of African immigrants and one of Mien immigrants that supported a church together. A community of the homeless and mentally ill that supported each other, worshipped together and... -
Portland Mennonite Church – June 2012
For years, Portland Mennonite has been supporting Anawim, both financially and in connecting with our folks. They offer a meal once a month, and in that time they have a group sing acapella hymns for our folks! -
Mountainview Church – June 2012
This church has been very generous to the homeless in Gresham. A men’s Bible study has specifically targeted some homeless who don’t make it to the day shelters in Gresham, to offer them food and bedding supplies. A group has also brought items for a meal on Saturdays at Anawim.... -
The Chapel – June 2012
The Chapel is a Foursquare church in Troutdale, OR. They not only have a heart for worship, but a heart for the needy. They have started a meal two afternoons and one evening a week. They also have one of two running clothes closets in East Multnomah County. And they... -
St. Johns Wesleyan Church – June 2012
St. John’s Wesleyan has a food bank for poor families in North Portland. Although we are on the opposite end of town from them, we send a truck their way to pick up excess bread and ice cream that they have and they send a truck our way to pick...
