episode 66: Sunia Gibbs

Episode 66 Sunia Gibbs

UMC pastor at The Groves in Portland, Oregon. Born in South Korea and raised in Minneapolis, Sunia arrived in Portland to work with the Assemblies of God campus ministries at Portland State University. Through the United Methodist church, Sunia became a church planter and worked at restoring and renewing and rooting the church in the neighborhood. 

We cover a lot of ground with Sunia in this conversation:

• A methodology for church life: It is the impulse toward justice, a strategic organizing of the church that is part of a larger strategy of sustained movements of justice in Portland”

• The experience of living in different cities and interacting with differing cultures: “Former assimilators make the best interpreters.”

• Reflections of pastoring through the pandemic: “There is no return to normal…we are changed forever.”

• Check out Sunia’s performance of There is a River from the Parish Collective.

Sunia Gibbs with from the Parish Collective, performs: There is a River

Links to Parish Collective and to the upcoming Inhabit Conference

Link to The Groves Church