A Celebration of Life for Dr. Stephen Dow Beckham will be held on Sunday, November 1, at 1 p.m. in Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, with a reception to follow in Stamm in the Fowler Student Center.
The service will also be livestreamed and can be accessed here:
https://lclark-edu.zoom.us/j/81094563724
Create a safe container for energetic care and receiving spiritual gifts (and clearing). This is at the tail end of Samhain, when the energies of souls and ancestral energies are easily accessible for transformation. This entire year is one for massive spiritual growth. So it may just be a continuation of clearing, alignment and manifestation for you. In this ceremony, support your body and spirit to receive a direct experience.
With a strong container and thorough marriage of shamanic healing and sound, call on ancient guides, rhythms, ancestors, and the Great Mystery to clear what no longer serves you. Prepare by bringing something for the altar and wearing comfortable clothing. Join Amy Kimmick of Temple Medicine Healing and Madeline Leigh, Mistress of Sound of Shady Pines Radio, for this powerful gateway experience. Open pathways for your deepest intentions to take root.
With divine guides and multidimensionality over the years, accessing this infinite, beautiful portal of awakening will be effortless. You will attune to your true nature.
Join Rabbi Cantor Eyal Bitton for a musical journey through Moroccan and Sephardic synagogue traditions. Through live demonstration, audio and video examples, we will explore the distinctive sounds of nusach, tefillah, Torah reading, and Haftarah chanting, comparing Moroccan and Sephardic traditions with Ashkenazi ones. Come listen, learn, and discover the sacred logic behind the melody.
Questions? Email Mel!
Presenting the sights, sounds and sensations of the season, The Grotto’s Christmas Festival of Lights is the largest Christmas choral festival in the world. The festival features nearly 160 indoor holiday concerts performed by many of the region’s finest school, church and civic choirs. Offering a family-oriented blend of traditional celebration and serene reflection, the festival theme captures the special season of hope that Christmas brings to many thousands of families across the Pacific Northwest.
The Festival of Lights is a walk-through event, and visitors can expect to walk approximately a quarter of a mile. All entertainment areas are either indoors or tented; however, visitors should dress accordingly for the weather. Rubber-soled shoes, warm socks, gloves, and ear coverings are recommended, especially on colder nights. The average festival visit lasts between 60 and 90 minutes. Visitors wishing to hear a specific concert should arrive 30 to 45 minutes before the scheduled concert time.
Get ready for a sweet and festive time at our Gingerbread Bash! Come dressed in your favorite ugly Christmas sweater and join us for a fun-filled celebration as we decorate gingerbread mangers, play exciting games, sip on delicious hot chocolate, and enjoy the joy of the Christmas season together!
Most importantly, we’ll discover the true meaning of Christmas as we learn about Jesus and celebrate the greatest gift of all, His birth!
Tickets are only $10/family. We hope to see you here on Friday, November 20th at 6:30pm!Mantra, music, and storytelling to awaken the heart. Sacred Dharma is a Pacific Northwest kirtan-fusion jam band. At its core, they facilitate the devotional practice of chanting Sanskrit mantra. The music is colored by world influences ranging from Indian classical to jazz and psychedelic rock, enhancing the mood so that each repetition of the Name can awaken the heart.
Led by Sitaram Dass with Jeanette Kangas on tabla, Clark Stacer on bass, Lance Jordan on guitar, and a rotating selection of some of the PNW's finest musicians.
Sitaram Dass (he/him) spent several years serving his beloved teacher Ram Dass on Maui, where he was shown the path of Bhakti, the yoga of service and devotion to God. He is an author, teacher, kirtan singer, and spiritual counselor. As the director of the Sacred Community Project, he works to provide affordable, free, and donation-based offerings as a praxis of Sacred Community.
$25 Advance / $30 Door
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
A Celebration of Life for Dr. Stephen Dow Beckham will be held on Sunday, November 1, at 1 p.m. in Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, with a reception to follow in Stamm in the Fowler Student Center.
The service will also be livestreamed and can be accessed here:
https://lclark-edu.zoom.us/j/81094563724
Join the Portland Insight Meditation Community (PIMC) every Sunday morning for a welcoming, community-centered meditation practice rooted in the Insight (Vipassana) tradition.
Each weekly gathering includes periods of guided and silent meditation, a Dharma talk or reflection, and time for inquiry or community sharing. The program is led by a rotating group of teachers, including PIMC’s resident teachers, visiting guest teachers, and—on some weeks—experienced community members in peer-led formats.
Sunday mornings at PIMC are designed to be accessible to both newcomers and experienced practitioners. Instruction is offered in a clear and inclusive manner.
The CNS Sisterhood would like to invite all women and those who identify as women to participate in their Interfaith Group. This group brings CNS members together with women of other faiths to learn, grow, and create opportunities to develop friendships. CNS Sisterhood Interfaith group meets most first Wednesdays of the month at 7:00pm. Please see each individual event for the accurate date.
To register, or for more information, please contact Michelle Imori-Goldenberg.
A night of Connection a Night to bring us together. With a community meal, inspirational story, m usic, art and collaboration on designing the Moreland Presbyterian Christmas Pageant! Registration Required https://morelandprespdx.breezechms.com/form/KidsConnect2026
Bridget Spain becomes a Bat Mitzvah during Shabbat Morning Service; Mazel Tov!
KJV Acoustic Christian Music will host Jesus and Friends: An Evening of Acoustic Christian Music from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on the second Friday of each month at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1309 Franklin St., Vancouver. Attendees will hear modern Christian music performed on acoustic instruments. Admission is free but donations are encouraged.
Come hang out with Cantor Bitton and CNS Men’s Club for pizza, salad, beer, camaraderie and discussion! Come meet new friends, eat some pizza, have a beer, and maybe learn something!
Join our clergy and educators for a monthly conversation that will deepen your connection with our traditions while engaging in real talk about practical ways to bring these observances to life in your own home. We’ll start with texts that explain the roots of our rituals and then branch out with interesting and creative practices and innovations throughout time.
Plum Blossom Zendo meets 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays on the first floor of Vancouver United Church of Christ, 1220 N.E. 68th St., Vancouver. There is Zen meditation, a dharma talk and discussion time. For more details, see zendust.org/vancouver/.
Join us for a Cantor Shabbat! Cantor Green, guest Cantor Marshall Portnoy, and our congregational choirs will lead us in prayer on Friday, November 6.
Marshall Portnoy is the Cantor Emeritus of Main Line Reform Temple in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. He has served two congregations full-time in his career: Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1971 to 1994; and Main Line Reform Temple from 1994 to 2018. A graduate of Yale, Cantor Portnoy was invested both by the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Hebrew Union College. His two-volume work, The Art of Cantillation, now in its third edition, has for more than twenty-five years brought the skill and the joy of reading Torah and Haftarah to tens of thousands throughout the globe, and regularly remains among the most popular volumes of Behrman House Publications. His musical works are widely performed throughout the United States, and he is the recipient of frequent commissions. Of his CD Songs of Renewal, Debbie Friedman wrote, “Thoughtful and gentle, mindful and kind, this loving soul takes the listener, with every note he sings, to a place of hope and calm.” This is the only CD by another composer for which Debbie Friedman wrote liner notes.
The Marshall Portnoy Anthology was recently published by Transcontinental Music Publications. It contains thirty-four pieces, many familiar but in new arrangements for solo voice and duets (including “Meditation”,“I Still Believe” “God Bless This House” and “Birth is a Beginning”), many previously unpublished (“Reckoning,” “Od Yishama,” and “Miracles”), as well as songs for children (“Our Sukkah is a Little Hut,” “The Four Questions,” “Eitz Yafeh” and many others)..
Cantor Portnoy is the founder and President of the Bloom Jewish Music Foundation, which dispenses funds each year for the composition and performance of new Jewish music. He is also widely acknowledged as the music scholar who “cracked the code” to Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations.
Contacts: Kirsten Marsh and Alice Lewis
First Sunday: Christian Harmony Third Sunday: 2025 Sacred Harp (Green) Book
After Shabbat morning services, grab your kiddush lunch from downstairs & join your friends in the Olds Family Youth Lounge for a casual hangout. Play boardgames, build puzzles, or just gab away the early afternoon in good company.
(no registration required)
Spiritual reading, meditation, and follow up sharing. Open to all. Meets every Monday from 8 – 8:30 p.m. on Zoom. For more information, email Katie R.
Randall Hall Athletics Classroom (R201) Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 12 – 1pm Student clubOpen to students, staff, faculty, and visitorsRefreshments providedWeekly gathering for fellowship and Bible discussion
Join with us to sit together in silence. Bring more peace and joy into your life, increase mindfulness, and develop more perspective. First Thursdays and third Thursdays in the Channing Room (A101) from 12:30 – 3:00 p.m. This is a drop-in group. Any silent sitting practice is welcomed and no prior meditation experience is needed.
Join VFW Post 12140 for a Veterans Day ceremony at Foothills Park in Lake Oswego, featuring the dedication of a new Woody Williams Foundation Gold Star Families Monument. We will honor America's veterans, recognize military families, and remember the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.
The ceremony will include the presentation of the colors, the national anthem, an invocation, remarks from local veterans, and participation from community organizations that serve veterans, military families, first responders, and the broader community.
Please join us for this meaningful tribute to our fallen heroes and the families who carry their legacy.
SA Group will meet in the library and SANon will meet in the Garden Room every Sunday evening unless otherwise noted. Groups are renting our spaces.
Grab some lunch at Kiddush and bring it upstairs for Tea & Talmud! Teens ages 12–18 are invited to hang out with friends, enjoy good conversation, and explore Jewish texts and traditions together in a relaxed, welcoming space.
Please contact Ocean Jasso for information about this class.
Meets in the conference room at the back of the Parish Hall.
Brotherhood and bagels… what could be better?
5:30-7:30pm, every Sunday Contact: Irene, [email protected]
Calling all 3rd–5th graders! Join us for Ashrei Club, a fun and welcoming space to connect with friends, explore Jewish prayers and traditions, and build community together. Come hang out, learn something new, and enjoy some Shabbat time with your Neveh Shalom friends!
Email Meg for more info.
Join us in supporting our Heroes, First Responders, Active Military, Veterans and Wounded Warriors at this year’s 25th Annual . . .Clark County Prayer Breakfast.
Hilton Vancouver WashingtonVancouver, WA Wednesday, November 18 • 7 AM – 9 AMOur Vision – Inspiring Clark County residents to honor, encourage and support each other.
Our Mission – Residents, businesses and organizations honoring, thanking, and praying for our community leaders and those that serve and protect us.
Become a Corporate Sponsor ($250 to $5,000)to allow us to keep the breakfast pricing down as well as providing funds for our speaker honorariums, travel, overall promotional efforts and providing tickets for those in uniform.
Download the 2026 Sponsorship Info Packet HERE
Download the 2026 Sponsor Those In Uniform Sheet HERE
This prayer breakfast is served by a dedicated volunteer committee of civic and business leaders who are committed to insure the success of each year’s program. Join the Steering Committee at anytime, wherein we meet on the 3rd Thurday of each month from 11:30am-12:30pm at the Royal Oaks Country Club (for no-host lunch). ALL funds are used solely for this annual prayer breakfast. Thanks for joining us in supporting this important annual event.
Get ready for a fun-filled evening of fall-themed games, laughter, and friendship for kids ages 11 and under. Kids will discover that of all the things we can fall for in life, nothing compares to falling in love with Jesus!
“We love because He first loved us.” — 1 John 4:19
🍁 Sign up today to reserve a spot for your child(ren)
Prayer in Motion: All are welcome to join Kevin Holmes for Wu Style Tai Chi, a gentle exercise that helps with balance. Includes meditation.
We know it’s a little early to start planning for summer… but our friends from URJ Camp Kalsman will join us at Mishpasha Minyan to share a little sunshine and let us know more about their sleepaway programs!
Please contact our Music Director, Dan Resch, if you are interested in participating in the choir.
To email Dan, click here.
Simcha Kabbalat Shabbat Services
Friday | 6:15pm
Stampfer Chapel
Livestream available here.
This Mass is celebrated on the first and third Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Mary.
Click here to join us on livestream, or join us in person in our Sanctuary:
1211 SW Main St
Portland, OR 97205
Stay afterward for our Social Hour, where we mingle and build community.
PLEASE NOTE: Masks are welcome in our sanctuary but not required.