McComas Ministry

We’re in the midst of hosting our second spring break here in Portland. As I write this staff and students from University of Montana are on campus at WSU-Vancouver, Portland Community College-Sylvania and Portland Community College-Rock Creek. They are sharing their faith and seeking to surface leaders for a future movement of students on those campuses. I on the other hand am home sick with possible strep throat…ugghhh.

The first week of Spring Break we hosted was a smashing success. Almost 30 staff and students joined us. They shared their faith a ton, served the city and helped launch movements on a number of campuses. At the end of the week was some of the coolest sharing time from Spring Breakers, including a freshmen from Montana who lead a person to Christ in downtown Portland. Life’s being changed while engaging the city!

Here’s our group enjoying Pioner Square in downtown Portland!

Here’s some spring breakers immersed on the MAX (light rail train)

We’re hosting students from Washington State, Montana State and University of Montana for Spring Break this year. We’re gonna have lots of fun, but don’t worry we’ll put these guys to work too. We’re trusting the Lord that the extra manpower would boost the existing movements plus launch in a few new places too. Pray for the logistics of hosting potentially 50-80 students!

This years conference was an amazing time in the Word, worshiping, a day of outreach, fellowship and training times. Our newsletter and the video below do a great job telling more about the conference. Some other highlights of our time there were:

- Our new team was able to all be together for the first time. We are all in transition in some way this spring but it was fun to spend time together, talk about the future ministry of Portland and pray for the Lord to begin moving in new ways in the city.

- We had our first team time with students from the Portland area that came to the conference. It was encouraging that there were 4 students because there has been no staff on the campuses for almost 2 years now but also a bit disheartening because there are 100,000 students in the city who need to be reached. There is  much work to be done and we are trusting God to raise up hundreds of students who want to be involved in the ministry and serve the Lord in the city in the future.

Portland Metro Students

We had students text in one word or short descriptions of what they thought of the conference. Here are some of  the responses we received:

Answered prayer, Impacting, Revival!, Amazing!, Go!, Grace, Refreshing, Awesome, Life changing, Eye opening, Stretching, Genuine, Pivotal, Healing/Freeing, Transforming, Awakening, Powerful, Relationships, Seek God, Worship, Indescribable

We just finished our annual Winter Conference in Portland, Oregon. It was a fabulous time of calling students (and staff) to venture into the deep with Jesus (Luke 5). Check out the final video for the conference…it gives you a great picture of what the conference was like.