ANNOUNCEMENTS

September

Portland Center is now open 45 minutes earlier on Sundays, beginning at 9:00 a.m. for the Energization Exercises followed by a meditation service from 9:20 to 10:45. There will be a chant at 10:00 a.m. for those who want to enter meditation at that time.

Please mark your calendars for Sunday October 11th when Portland Center will hold a guided Visualization Session to ramp up our efforts for a new temple. More details will be coming in the weeks ahead.

Sunday School will resume September 6th. The fall term theme is the SRF line of gurus and the Cosmic Chant is “I Am Om”.

SRF is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the fall session of How-to-Live classes for children and teens, ages 9-17. The program will be held online between September 1 and December 12. To learn more and register please visit SRF website at Yogananda.org/youth.

We are resuming donations of imperishable food for Vestal School families and we would like to make a donation delivery the second week in September. Donations may be placed in the white box in the Information Room.

The Bookroom, Meditation Garden, and Lending Library in the Information Room are available after the 11:00 service on most Sundays.

Our chapel is available every Tuesday evening from 6:30-9:30 pm for silent open meditation, meaning you may come and go as your time allows. The silence and vibration of the chapel is conducive to deeper meditation and prayer.

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Sunday School resumes September 6th. Members can help by contributing your favorite pictures of the SRF Gurus from magazines and other printed materials, for the children to select from as they create artistic display boards. See Darden or any of the Sunday School teachers for more information. Sunday School resumes September 6th. Members can help by contributing your favorite pictures of from magazines and other printed materials, for the children to select from as they create artistic display boards. See Darden or any of the Sunday School teachers for more information.

Portland Center relies on the support of volunteers for all of its operations. Please consider ways that you may be able to support the Center, whether through financial donations, as a volunteer or both. If you are interested in volunteering or perhaps adding a few hours more per month to your service, our Volunteer Coordinator Paulette Fritsch is available to speak with you or you may fill out the Volunteer Application form in the foyer on the Portland Center website.

Our Lending Library in the Information Room is a valuable resource but can only be maintained when people write legibly in checkout binder. Please print carefully!

Our Portland Center Audio Visual volunteers are working on creating a live link from the Chapel to the Infant/Family Room so that parents can hear the Sunday Inspirational Service. An older camcorder with HDMI output capacity may make this possible. If you have an older camcorder that you’re not using, please speak with Ashu or Ed.

Those who wish to stay in the chapel a little longer to enjoy the meditative atmosphere are welcome to do so. We ask those who want to converse with one another after the service to kindly meet in the foyer or Information Room to preserve the silence of the chapel. Thank you for your consideration.

As a courtesy to those members who are allergic to fragrances, please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes, or scented hair products when attending services at Portland Center.

Thank you for supporting Portland Center with your skills and financial donations. If you would like to contribute online, you can send funds through Zelle to portlandcenterdonations@gmail.com or you may write a check. Checks payable to "Portland Center" will be deposited locally and support our Center's activities and expenses. Checks payable to "Self-Realization Fellowship" are sent to SRF headquarters in Los Angeles, to support SRF's worldwide activities. Checks may be mailed to our address at 356 NE 80th Avenue, Portland 97213.

Portland Center's website now includes a section about the history of the Portland Center of SRF, originally compiled by the late Kent Hathaway. Follow the Home page tab to the “Our Center” page.

Our Kirtan Group leads the Sunday morning services on the last Sunday of each month, beginning at 8:00 with the SRF Energization Exercises. You may also enter or leave during periods of chanting at 9:00 and 10:00.

If you know of people in need of healing prayers, you may submit their name in the prayer box in the Information Room. These names are submitted confidentially to the Mother Center, where they are prayed for by the monastics every day for three months. You may also request prayers on SRF’s website at www.yogananda.org.