Leaven Community Highlights
“Let Our People Go” Call Campaign
On Tuesday, July 31st, clergy leaders and IMIrJ supporters prayed and walked to the ICE office in SW Portland, where we personally delivered a public letter asking for the immediate release of the people detained in Sheridan. In addition, we are asking faith communities throughout the state to participate in a massive calling campaign to the ICE offices. Starting July 31st and continuing throughout the week, we ask you to mobilize your community to phone bank, email, and flood acting regional director of ICE Elizabeth Godfrey with stories of those detained at Sheridan and our demand to “Let Our People Go!”
Click here for Call Campaign Info
Click here for IMIrJ website
LEAVEN COMMUNITY BOOK FOR THE SUMMER
Here are Paths for Engaging in Discussion and Reflection
1. Salt & Light Lutheran Services: Sundays 10AM
2. Waking Up Community Meditation & Discussion: Saturdays 9AM
3. Leaven Community Facebook. Go to Groups/The Five Invitations and click to join
4. Form your own book circle
"The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully," is a meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves.
The Five Invitations are...
...Don’t Wait
...Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing
...Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience
...Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things
...Cultivate Don’t Know Mind
Author Frank Ostaseski, a renowned teacher of compassionate care-giving and the cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering an evocative and stirring guide that points a radical path to transformation.
News from the Leaven Community Sanctuary Team
Monthly Meeting
Second Tuesdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm
St Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church
1704 NE 43rd Ave, Portland OR
Gather with us as we deepen relationships, learn and collaborate with other IMIrJ communities of faith and our NE Portland K-team partners (St. Andrews Catholic, Bethel Lutheran) to address the issues of justice around immigration in our communities. All are welcome!
LEAVEN COMMUNITY WEEKLY GATHERINGS and EVENTS
SUNROOM CO-WORKING SPACE
Mondays-Fridays/Lunes-Viernes
8am-5pm
The Leaven Community Sunroom Co-Working Space provides an opportunity for people to share the synergy and collaboration that comes from people working together in the same space. There is free Wi-Fi and a kitchenette with microwave and sink. Donation coffee and tea is also available. Everyone is welcome.
El Espacio Co-Working de Leaven Community Sunroom ofrece la oportunidad para que las personas compartan la sinergia y la colaboración que viene de las personas que trabajan juntas en el mismo espacio. Hay conexión inalámbrica a internet gratuita y un servicio de cocina con microondas y lavabo. ¡Todos son bienvenidos!
SWAP 'n' WORK and PLAY
Tuesdays-Thursdays, 9am-1pm
Come share your love, caring and playing with children in SWAP, (Swap 'n' Work and Play). SWAP is a low-cost childcare cooperative that is building lasting relationships and cultivating intergenerational connections. In order for this model to work, volunteer "Grandparents," "Aunts" and "Uncles" are needed. It you have a couple of free hours during the week, we welcome your participation. Read more.
WAKING UP COMMUNITY: Meditation & Discussion
Practices and texts from Buddhist and other traditions
Saturdays, 9am-10:30am
Refreshments and Conversation Afterward
Read more
NE Waking Up Community is the meditation and mindfulness community within the larger Leaven Community.
SALT & LIGHT LUTHERAN SERVICE
including Children's Wondering Time
Sundays, 10am-11:30am
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Salt & Light Lutheran is the Lutheran worshipping congregation within the larger Leaven Community.
LEAVEN COMMUNITY NEIGHBORS ACTING TOGETHER
Buying, Cooking, Connecting Across Cultures
The next cycle begins Saturday, September 8th.
Community cooking, preserving, canning sessions will be held in August and September.
We use our collective power to save money and access organic and sustainably grown non-GMO fruits and vegetables through Charlies Produce, an employee owned NW business. Produce arrives on Saturday mornings and participants can bag orders beginning at 11am or pick up bagged and labeled orders after 1pm while the building is open on Saturdays and Sundays. Contact LaVeta: (503) 936-2870 or lavetagj@gmail.com to participate. Read more
NE PORTLAND TOOL LIBRARY
Saturdays, 9am-2-pm
Tuesdays & Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm Read more
KITCHEN SHARE NE
Saturdays, 9am-12noon Read more
