Sentralized Missional Conference - PortlandMissional Church Network

“Seeking the Welfare of Your City”

Join us for the Sentralized 2015 gathering in Portland, OR, October 1st & 2nd. We will be hosting some of the best missional thinkers and practitioners in the world.

How Portland Influences Culture

“Food trucks first brought eyeballs to Portland. The idea of being laid-back and carefree, opening a dream idea, creating the communities out of “pods.” We saw a culture and attitude about food and life. You can’t overstate the importance of Portland in setting a vibe that influenced the rest of the country.”http://t.co/8VthKcMMBJ

CATCH THE VISION

#NWBC I-5 Catch the Vision Tour continues today in Portland, meeting pastors of new churches & sites for new churches w/ #GalvestonBaptistAssoc.

Schedule your trip today!

Portland = The Distribution of Urban Fabric

These comments from Jeff Kovel, an architect, are helpful in understanding the difference between the city of Portland and other western cities, like Denver and Seattle:

"What Portland has going for it is the distribution of urban fabric. Everywhere you drive around, people are investing, trying to make their neighborhoods better.  Try driving around in Denver--there's like one neighborhood doing that. In Portland, we have great decentralization. You have a more vibrant city. A lot of cities, you don't know where to go. In every direction in Portland, you run into an interesting neighborhood. In Seattle, you need a tour guide" (Portland Monthly Magazine, April 2014).

Pray for Portland. Pray for these Portland neighborhood in need of disciplemakers who will make new disciples which may become a new church;
1.  Portsmouth/Kenton/University Park (North Portland) = First time home buyers.
2.  Richmond (Southeast)  = urbanites
3.  Sellwood/Moreland (Southeast) = Investors
4.  South Waterfront (Southwest) = empty nesters.

Portland is America's #1.....

The following is post is taken from my friend George Bradley....Thanks George for following Christ and making disciples in Portland!

If you live in Portland, you know all about our town. If you don’t live in Portland, let me share some of our cultural context. The information that follows appears this week in the Portland Tribune and Willamette Week newspapers.

We’re #1! - PORTLAND LEADS the NATION - PORTLAND is AMERICA’S #1:

·       Best City (Motovo)

·       Unhappiest City (Business Week)

·       Most Unbelieving (Irreligious) City (US Census)

·         Most Strip Clubs per Capita (tuscl)

·       Best Beer City (Travel & Leisure)

·       77% identify as Liberal (Values & Beliefs)

·       Top City for Casual Sex (OKCupid)

·       Top City for Book Lovers (Livability)

·       Best City for Movie Lovers (Motivo)

·       Best Bike City (Bicycling)

·       Most Green City (Popular Science)

Some are saying that the TV show Portlandia is not a comedy but a documentary! Portlandia - Forgot My Grocery Bag

Jesus is asking you and me to invite others to fall under His loving discipline. He asks us to make disciples. I have a yearning to be a follower of Jesus in Portland and to make disciples here. Maybe you do too. 

Jesus doesn’t ask us to convert Portlanders to Christianity. Converts change religions. Jesus is asking us to be disciple makers. Disciples change masters. Converts follow a system. Disciples follow the Person of Jesus. Converts build a religion. Disciples of Jesus build the Kingdom of God. Converts adapt rituals. Disciples of Jesus embrace His entire worldview, character, teachings, way of living and dying. Disciples baptize others in the context of “teaching them to observe all that I command you.” Converts love numbers. Followers of Jesus long for transformation. 

Jesus has allowed me to share Him with people from every continent. Then, together you helped us send missionaries from here. In recent years I’ve worked to make Jesus followers in Portland. You and I belong to Jesus. We are sold out, whole route. The people of Portland are wonderful and this town is amazing, despite our ambivalence about Jesus. Portland and I need your prayers.

Thank you for helping us share Jesus in Portland.  

Yours for transformation,

George Bradley

Yelp Us Identify Neighborhoods in Portland OR

Yelp Wordmaps Show Us How To Avoid Hipsters in NYC, Tourists in Paris, AND.....

.....IDENTIFY 20-minute neighborhoods where new churches can be started using Yelp analytics and key words like bacon, cheap, hipster, kosher, noodles, pasta, beer, pricey, romantic, tourist, view, yuppie, etc.....sorry if your city is not listed ;(

Here is a link to the post http://t.co/yyITLXgIZB

Here is the link to Portland's worldmap: www.yelp.com/worldmap/Portland

With over 50+ micro-breweries in Portland and their neighborhood affiliation and a vibrant "brunch"scene, I would follow these "paths" to discover 20-minute communities in need of a new church with new followers of Jesus.

What word or words would you suggest? And, unfortunately, you can't list words like "church" at this time.....

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A Portland Plan NEEDS Portland PLANTS (New Churches in the Neighborhood)

Portland recently adopted a plan for the future.  It is called the Portland Plan.

Portland is a city with a future.  The future requires us to take action now.  Will you join us in seeing new churches started in one of the many 20-minute communities throughout Portland?  Portlanders are seeking EQUITY and OPPORTUNITY for their youth, for their neighborhoods,  and for their economy.  

Equity and opportunity will come, but it should not come in a vacuum of churchless neighborhoods.  We need followers of Christ to root themselves--plant themselves--in a community for the welfare of the community. 

Come PLANT with us!  Come PARTNER with us!

Explore the TABS above on this web page and learn how you, your church, your network can help shape the future.

Spirituality in One #SendNAMB #SNANAMB City

Portland is a great city in need of great partners to help continue to push the Kingdom of God forward.

Did you know......
Portland may be one of the most unchurched cities in the U.S.A. but 64% of Portlanders say they are regligious or spiriutal.

25% consider themselves religious.
39% consider themselves spiritual.
10% atheist.
17% agnostic.
8% confused.

Go to www.namb.net/mobilizeme and register your church to partner with us in Portland OR!

Portland's Food Carts = 700+

PortlandiaTV (PortlandiaTV):
Street food boom towns: Three West Coast case studies: http://goo.gl/JwEjv Portland PDX Seattle Portlandia

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Take a Dollar and make Change in #Portland

The Union Gospel Mission feeds people for $1.50. Can you or your organization make a committment to make change in Portland by sponsoring a meal? It's our community let's make a difference.

Gunnar Simonsen (GunnarSimonsen):
Dollar for Change (Feed the Homeless) Portland: http://wp.me/phxks-vi

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