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Uniting Under the Cross of Christ: A Compassion Clinics Story
Ryan Cate is a Physician Assistant who found an outlet to use his medical skills to serve his neighbors through the Compassion Tigard Clinic. After volunteering several times, he now helps coordinate the Tigard Clinic alongside Tara Arnold as a volunteer leader. The...
Finding Family at the Adorned In Grace Bridal Shop
Destiny spent her summer working at our Adorned In Grace Bridal Shop through the SummerWorks program. Her goal was to learn career skills and support the anti-trafficking mission, but what she didn’t count on was finding a support system of women who surrounded her...
Moving the Dial on Community Health Outcomes: Former Mrs. Oregon Shares Her Volunteer Story
Tara Arnold is a nurse and former Mrs. Oregon winner who attends Westside: A Jesus Church and has been involved in planning the last several Compassion Tigard clinics. She recently stepped back from her job as a nurse to stay home with her kids, which felt like...
“God Knew I Had to Meet You:” Building Community Relationships at the Minnesota Compassion Clinic
The very first midwest Compassion Clinic in New Brighton, Minnesota on June 19th was a beautiful picture of God's people working together to love and serve their neighbors through the provision of free health services. We are so grateful to all the volunteers who...
Love Needs No Translation: A Compassion Clinic Interpreter Shares Her Story
For the past six years Estefany D. has been volunteering as an interpreter at Compassion Clinics all over the Portland metro area. She first discovered Compassion Clinics at 18 years old when she attended as a guest, but she quickly realized she had a skill--speaking...
How My Close Call With Trafficking Inspired Me to Mentor Youth
Each one of the thousands of volunteers who have given their time to serve with us over the past fifteen years has a unique story. The motivation to get involved is different with every individual, but is sometimes a result of the person’s own powerful life story....
Uniting to Prevent Exploitation Through Mentorship
Our youth mentoring work began in 2011 as a result of the unfortunate discovery that many of the sex trafficking survivors we served had mothers and even grandmothers who had been exploited, and they feared the same fate for their children. As an organization focused...
Overcoming What Holds You Back: How to Take Your Faith from Pew to Practice
Cultivating a life that reflects Jesus is a central command of the Christian faith, but it is much easier said than done. How many of us sit in church on Sundays (or these days, watch the livestream) and think guiltily, “Am I doing enough to live out my faith?”...
Status Quo VS. The Kingdom: A Visual Blog
In times of cultural moldability, the Church can seize Kingdom opportunities by breaking down the status quo. To take steps forward we can re-embrace the calling to live a power-filled, invitational "Kingdom Normal." This won't happen without humble prayer,...
The Whole Kingdom: A Spiritual Journey of Racial Understanding and Healing
This blog is the latest in an ongoing series to continue learning how we as the Church can play a role in uniting together toward racial reconciliation and improving our understanding and embracing of the full diversity of God’s kingdom. For this installment in the...