Portland is quickly becoming a place of every tribe, nation, and people. In some areas up to 20 percent of the population consists of foreign-born residents. The opportunity for a global impact from your front door step is unprecedented.

Portland is also made up of long-time neighbors from White, Black, Latino, and other ethnic backgrounds. However most of these communities and their churches are isolated from one another. More than 15% of the population lives in poverty. African-Americans and Native Americans are twice as likely to live in poverty as their White and Asian neighbors.

Portland has the fourth highest divorce rate and is ranked the number one unhappiest and most depressed city in the U.S.  Portland, a place once known as a “city of churches” has become known as the “city of the unchurched”. We tend to believe it more as a city of the “over-churched” or the “de-churched.”

The Red Letter Church seeks to respond to the call of Jesus Christ to abide in him and to spread his love throughout the city of Portland by embracing a non-ethnocentric fellowship that breaks down racial divisions; by reaching out to young men, the least-churched of all, to see them raised up as warriors for God’s cause in our generation; and by cultivating sub-churches which meet in high-context home settings throughout the city.