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President Linrud Receives Vote of Confidence from Executive Committee, will Continue to Lead Oregon Conference Forward
Communication
March 22, 2024

We have previously communicated with you about serious financial challenges confronting the Oregon Conference that have increasingly come to light in recent months.

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An Open Letter to the Oregon Conference Church Family From Pastor Dan Linrud, Oregon Conference President
Dan Linrud
March 1, 2024

Many of you have seen or read the information we shared via my video and written statement about our conference financial circumstances. The consequences of the situation has called for many financial adjustments and reductions for our field, which were shared in those earlier releases.

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Oregon Conference Announces Disaffiliation of Bloom Group from Seventh-day Adventist Church
Communication
September 28, 2023

The Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Executive Committee voted that the Bloom group plant in Portland, Oregon, will no longer be part of the Adventist church and Oregon Conference, effective September 1, 2023.

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Message from Oregon Conference Executive Committee and Administration
Communication
March 18, 2022

We are so accustomed to sharing abundant praise reports and inspirational stories with you, that it is difficult to share this information with you. But we need to share this with you as our conference-wide family.

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Statement on OHA Advisory Meeting Regarding Mask Mandate Permanence
Jonathan Russell
December 3, 2021

On December 2, the Oregon Health Authority held a rules advisory committee meeting to discuss a planned permanent indoor mask mandate. Public reporting of this meeting named the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a participant in this advisory committee. Here’s what that means:

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Big Lake Youth Camp Begins Precautionary Evacuation Due To Wildfire
Communication
August 4, 2021

On Tuesday afternoon, August 3, Big Lake Youth Camp was advised by Willamette  National Forest Fire Dispatch to begin evacuating campers out of an abundance of caution due to a nearby wildfire.

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Regarding the Breach of the US Capitol
Communication
January 6, 2021

As Seventh-day Adventist followers of Jesus in the Oregon Conference we share deep concern about what we witnessed today in the United States of America with a crowd violently breaching the US capitol.

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Statement on Racial Justice
Communication
May 30, 2020

The Oregon Conference of theSeventh-day Adventist Church joins the chorus of voices to lift up the memory of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and the multitude of other black brothers and sisters whose lives were taken by unjust racially-influenced violence. We join the outcry for justice and raise our voice to stand in support of all our brothers and sisters who continue to live in an oppressive shadow of racially-derived mistrust, fear and abuse by the dominant society.

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NAD Responds to False Claims
Communication
January 4, 2019

The North American Division (NAD) has recently addressed inaccurate statements appearing online.

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Oregon Conference Statement on Extraordinary Tithe
Communication
November 29, 2018

The letter appealed to the GC administration to follow denominational tithe policy in regard to a recent (2017) extraordinary tithe return by a member of the Oregon Conference.