Reflections

May
10

May Prayer Requests

Consider Joining the Compassion Connect Prayer Team

Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

May
04

Compassion & Authority according to Jesus

Reflections on The Gospels (Mark 1)

A contemplative look at Mark 1.  These are shared thoughts by the executive director, Milan Homola.  He is endeavoring to know Jesus more by becoming more familiar with the stories of Jesus from the Gospels.
Apr
30

Generosity & Hospitality

Loving when it doesn't feel easy

Alicia, who lives in one of the Apartment mission sites, shares with us the internal wrestling match of loving the undesirables.  She points to that reality in all our hearts: its easier to love those who are like us than those who make us feel awkward.  Neverthless Jesus calls us to a higher love.

Apr
30

My Frenemy

Why Busyness and I Are No Longer Friends

Recently the Lord has been opening my eyes to see one of the more deceitful enemies in my life: busyness. Taking a good look at my life, one could easily assume that I feel I have something to prove to myself or to the world, and that I seek to prove it with constant activity. Christ tells us that we should have abundant life, but the only abundance I see anymore is in the number of tasks I need to get done each day.  I don’t enjoy life; I just get through it.
Apr
25

Gospel Challenge

Can you hear these challenging words from someone who has a right to speak them?

This morning I faced a big question…a very big question. It was one of those moments in which I realized something so powerful, so life-changing, and so obvious, that felt like a complete idiot to have lived this long in life without realizing it. Unfortunately, this happens to me often. Sometimes, I become convinced that I must have known it once, and just forgotten….and forgotten that I forgot. At least, I hope that is what happened. In any case, I know it now. And it causes that question to haunt me...as it should.
Apr
14

Night Ride

Opening our eyes to protect trafficked victims.

After spending a night in a squad car, observing Portland police officers assigned to the sex trafficking division, I became more acutely aware of the plight of sex slaves, especially those below 18 years old. Because of this experience, I feel compelled to present my own perspective on this blight in our community.

Apr
02

April Prayer Requests

Consider Joining the Compassion Connect Prayer Team

Compasion Connect has a Prayer Coordinator (Karen Masulis).  (Every couple weeks) prayer update emails please join the team by emailing:

prayer@compassionconnect.com

Mar
14

The Pitiful Princess

When Status Quo Isn't Good Enough

Compassion Connect executive director shares his thoughts on a local business in his neighborhood.   The Pitiful Princess is a strip club that screams in our faces, as neighbors, that women are items to be taunted and flaunted in the 21st century.  What if we didn't settle for status quo in Portland, OR in 2012?