The clergy, staff and community
of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon warmly welcome you to our website. We hope that you will visit our “real” parish, introduce yourself, and feel free to explore our church and grounds. We take seriously the ministry of hospitality with a goal of helping visitors find their way into our family. We have a variety of programs, which we hope will meet your spiritual, educational, worship, and social needs.Regardless of your age and whether you are family of one or many, we want you to find a comfortable place in our parish community. For more information please contact Brent, our Parish Administrator or Fr. Robert, Mtr. Whitney or Dcn. Julie at (503) 245-3777
Read Mtr. Whitney’s Sermon on
the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus.
Jesus, is of course, the name that we call our Messiah. But the name that he actually received on the day of his circumcision . . . was Yeshua. It’s worth mentioning because some of the meaning is lost in the Greek. Yeshua is the combination of two Hebrew verbs. The first being yesha, which means to be delivered, to be made whole. And shawa which means to cry out for help. So his name is actually a word of action, not only of God but also of God’s people. Yeshua embodies both humanity’s cries of prayer and longing, as well as the divine response of deliverance and wholeness. Read the entire sermon!
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