ANNOUNCEMENTS

October

Our Christmas Craft and Bake sale is coming up on November 30 and December 7th. If you would like to contribute your artistic or baking skills to benefit the Center, please take one of the flyers in the Information Room and sign up to make something. Please join us as a maker, baker, or shopper!

At the conclusion of the October 12th 11:00 service, there will be a brief presentation about the Craft and Bake sale.

A General Membership Meeting will immediately follow this presentation. Among the items to be discussed is the potential relocation of Portland Center, based on the results of our survey earlier this year, and the nomination process for Managing Council positions, along with other updates. All are invited and encouraged to attend.

The parking lot will stay open until 1:00 p.m. to accommodate the Membership meeting.

We have a wonderful opportunity to serve Master and this Center on this coming Saturday October 18th, our fall Day of Service. There is a sign-up sheet in the Information Room so we can make sure we order enough food for the vegetarian lunch. We will be sprucing up the inside and outside and can use all your helping hands. There is an optional meditation beginning at 9:30 a.m. The work starts at 10:00 a.m. Hope to see you there!

Check your email for the e-Newsletter which provides highlights of recent and upcoming events.

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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.

The Book Room has received copies of the 2026 Wall Calendar and Engagement Calendar. We also have a fresh supply of the newest SRF publication, Solving the Mystery of Life. Please stop by and pick up your copy.

Volunteering at Portland Center is a wonderful addition to one's sadhana, or spiritual practice. The Flower Committee is seeking creative and dependable volunteers to help with the flower arrangements that are an integral part of Portland Center Inspirational and Commemorative services. Would you like to learn a new skill or expand your current flower skills? You may speak with someone serving today or fill out a Volunteer Application in the Foyer.

We encourage everyone to read Portland Center’s current e-newsletter, which contains important and inspiring information. You may sign up on our website or fill out a form at the Newcomers Desk, if you aren’t already receiving it.

Portland Center's website now includes a new 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.

A reminder that our chapel is open every Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 9:30 for silent individual meditation. As this is not a conducted meditation, one my come and go at any time.

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.

Also, those who wish to stay in the chapel a little longer to enjoy the meditative atmosphere generated during the morning 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 the Information Room, to preserve the silence of the chapel. Thank you for your consideration.

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.