Our hearts are heavy as we extend our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the two young victims of the tragic shooting that occurred yesterday at Feather River Adventist School in California. We are keeping the Feather River community in prayer in the wake of this senseless act of violence.

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

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.

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.

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.

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:

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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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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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.

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

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