Portland Center
of Self-Realization Fellowship
ANNOUNCEMENTS
October/November
A summary of the results of Portland Center’s October 11 Visualization Session is artistically presented in the Information Room, along with several handouts to support realization of the vision.
If you are not yet a registered member of Portland Center, we hope you will consider participating in future decisions regarding our Center. Please sign up on the website using the Voting Member Registration Form.
Our Portland Center website now includes a donation page with links for supporting the Center and our building fund.
We would love to have your contributions of homemade crafts and baked items included in our holiday craft and bake sale on Sunday November 8th and 15th. If you're interested in participating by sharing your art, craft, or baking skills please sign up on the posted sheet on the wall in the Foyer.
On Sunday October 25th the kirtan group will lead the early meditations beginning with the Energization Exercises at 8:00 am and followed by periods of meditation interspersed with chanting at 9:00 and 10:00 am.
Sunday School for children ages 3 to 12 will be held November 1st.
We welcome your continued support of Vestal School with your donations of imperishable food as well as clothing and personal hygiene items. A list of useful items is by the donation table in the Family Room.
The Book Room will be open after the 11:00 Sunday service and has copies of the 2027 SRF engagement and wall calendars.
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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.
Our 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.
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 after services 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 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.