by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jan 28, 2012 | Community, Community Service, Gratitude, Kids, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, SW Weekly, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news
(Originally written for The Oregonian SW Weekly section, print edition Saturday, January 28, 2012) West Linn Girl Scout Troop 42682 packed 9,477 pounds of onions at the Oregon Food Bank before the holidays. Seven Girl Scouts along with friends, family and leaders...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jan 18, 2012 | Adventure, Children, Community, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, School Days, The Extraordinary Ordinary, West Linn news, Youth
So, my twins and I are up late watching the snow accumulate as God is blanketing the street and the house and the yard in a blanket of soft white. And the twins who are 14 say, “Mom, it’s really sticking and there must be an inch at least and they will at...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 16, 2011 | Adventure, Children, Culture, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Muse Student publication, Parenting, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, The Extraordinary Ordinary
I celebrate life. I celebrate building sand castles on slow silver and blue-sky days and seeing my children hanging out with one another. I celebrate decorating the Christmas tree with family and friends where every ornament tells a story. I celebrate big monuments...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 7, 2011 | Authors, Christianity, Communication, Community, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Faith. Culture. The Arts Connection, Life, Live the Questions, Rolling Hills Writing & Culture Connection, Writers Connection-, Writing
The Faith & Culture Writers Connection monthly meeting is set for Thursday Dec. 15 at 7 pm in the East Atrium at Rolling Hills Community Church. Writers Connection is a literary arts ministry designed to encourage, inspire, and network published and aspiring...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 30, 2011 | Christianity, Christianity Today, Church, Community, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Parenting, Portland, This is Our City- Christianity Today
If John Canda had to credit one person for his faith and wide-reaching impact in Portland, Oregon, he would point to Grace Collins, a German Christian woman who ran Grace Collins Memorial Center, the daycare Canda attended while growing up in the 1960s on the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 18, 2011 | Authors, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Multnomah University, Muse Student publication, Portland, Writing
Several years ago I was at a Willamette Writers Summer Conference and I met David Kopp who was a speaker on Christian publishing at the event. Dave is an editor with Multnomah Publishers as well the past faculty adviser for the student newspaper at Multnomah...
