Art Exhibits and Parties

What do they have in common?

LivingStonespdx is hosting BOTH on

Saturday, August 25th

at the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center

(Ecotrust Building)

in the heart of the Pearl District

721 NW 9th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97209

presenting.......

VOICE

-a hope for community transformation-

artwork will portray the needs in our city and the hope we can find to see change take place

Exhibit will be open to the public

from Noon-10pm

A special reception for the artists will take place

from 5-7pm

7-10pm join us for a

Celebration on the Terrace

featuring a dessert bar, DJ and dance floor

celebrate our 7th birthday with us, as we

look forward to each of YOU becoming an answer to the prayers in our city,

together bringing about transformation through the power of Jesus!!

What's going on for the rest of the Summer???

July 14th
our second "vision" meeting, looking at the word justice
Marshall Snider, Director of Bridgetown Ministries will be sharing
8-10pm at Koinonia House (SW Broadway and SW Montgomery)

Fridays (July 20-Aug 17)

join us as we serve alongside two different ministries:

*Can We Help? teams walk the streets of Portland providing many needed resources to young men and women of all ages. A prayer team is being established to shadow this team on Friday nights. Meet at the Koinonia House at 6:45pm (SW Broadway and SW Montgomery)

*Bridgetown Ministries serves the homeless and the poor in many places around the city. On Fridays we will join them under the bridge where many come to receive food, clothing, a free haircut, footwashings and more.....
MEET AT 833 N Ivanhoe (in St John's) between 6-7pm. Orientation begins at 7pm, set up is happening from 6pm on.....groups will travel downtown together from here.

Saturday, August 4th
our third "vision" meeting, looking at the creative arts
Jan Carson, Director of Creative Events at Imago Dei Community will be sharing
8-10pm Koinonia House (SW Broadway and SW Montgomery)

Saturday, August 25

VOICE

join us at the Ecotrust Building in the Pearl District for an art exhibit and celebration as we officailly launch the ministry of LivingStonespdx...more info to come.....

THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER WE WILL CONTINUE TO PRAYER WALK AND SCHEDULE WORSHIP SESSIONS ON THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN...WATCH THIS SIGHT FOR FUTURE DATES!!

The Vision

LivingStonespdx
Mobilizing and equipping the body of Christ in
prayer, worship, justice and the arts

--a ministry of the Portland International House of Prayer

strategic corporate prayer will lead to community transformation
action that brings justice will flow out of our intimacy with God

Vision:
To see our community transformed by the presence of Jesus.

Mission:
To merge prayer , justice, and the creative arts as a lifestyle of worship in order to equip this generation to live a life of brokenness and blessing among the poor.

--the poor among us can be found in many places. Homeless and on the streets, in a small
single parent home, or in the market places where a poverty of spirit may be seen
even where finances are secure.
--the end result that we desire to see is not a place, a program or an event, but rather a
community that is transformed.

Strategy:
*To establish continuous, united, strategic prayer that leads to transformation.
*To motivate and equip believers to stand on behalf of the orphans and widows of our day, as well as those who need healing, salvation, deliverance.

What is important to us:

1. LivingStonespdx is a representation of the body of Christ in Portland, not a local church.

2. LivingStonespdx is a catalyst and a networking movement, motivating people to action
through an experience with God and joining hands with those serving in our city.

3. In all things Jesus remains the center and those involved with LivingStonespdx will be
committed to seeking His heart for the city.

4. The Word of God is central to the prayers spoken within the ministry of LivingStonespdx. Of
equal importance is the knowledge that we carry within us the living testimony of Jesus.

5. There must be no separation of prayer and works. LivingStonespdx team members will live an
incarnational ministry and a lifestyle of prayer, teaching others to do the same.

6. The creative arts are used as a tool to allow people to encounter God.

7. A biblical understanding of the word justice causes us to act in a way that brings all things
into proper alignment with God.


Scriptures that are important to us (there are many, but these are a few):

1. Isaiah 58-62: descriptions of justice and righteousness and how we are to partner with God
2. Jeremiah 33: restoration of the voice of the bride and the voice of the bridegroom—that it would be HEARD in the streets and in the marketplace
3. Philippians 3: we give up everything in order to know Christ
4. I Peter 2: we are living stones, being rightly fit together that HE may dwell among us