by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 14, 2011 | Community, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, Refugees
Published in the print edition of the SW Weekly Oregonian, May 14, 2011 Sixty-four members of the 2011 senior class at Westside Christian High School are kicking off a school-wide initiative called Senior Leadership projects, with an Exhibition Night from 7-9 p.m....
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Apr 26, 2011 | Authors, Communication, Community, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Faith. Culture. The Arts Connection, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Oregonian stories, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, Refugees
Published online at oregonlive.com April 25, 2011 Published print edition of The Oregonian April 26, 2011 By BY CORNELIA SEIGNEUR , Special to The Oregonian Gabe Lyons-Photo by Joey Ivansco Though Gabe Lyons grew up in a Christian family in Lynchburg, Va., and has...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 3, 2010 | Community Service, Culture, Faith, Gratitude, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Refugees, Writing
When I blogged about the experience I had at a local café in Portland where my daughter and I were having a quiet conversation with a Portland Police officer before we were interrupted by the café owner, who asked the police officer to leave, I never dreamed that the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 22, 2010 | Community Service, Culture, Gratitude, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Refugees
My daughter and I were looking forward to a nice lunch at the Red and Black, a vegan cafe in southeast Portland, two days before she was to return to school in Germany. Having a vegetarian daughter makes for great eating adventures. I had heard about the southeast...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Mar 23, 2010 | Children, Church, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Moms, Parenting, Refugees
I am not the state. I am not a foster care home. I am a mom. So many thoughts surround having a 15-year-old injured boy that is not my son live in our home for a while. Originally, we took him in to live with our family in order to keep him safe and to make sure he...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 19, 2009 | Community Service, Culture, Faith, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Refugees
Yesterday we took over a Christmas tree that we had cut down in the Mount Hood National forest to our Sudan friends in north Portland. They are refugees, a family of 9, who live in north Portland apartments. The mom, Tifiso, was so excited to get her tree into her...