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Gina Ochsner is set to speak at Oct. 19, 2017 Writers Connection!

Gather with us for  Writers’ Connection Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 at 7 p.m. at Oak Hills Presbyterian Church (5101 SE Thiessen Road, in Milwaukie, Oregon). This is our first quarterly meeting of the calendar year! We will hear from Gina Ochsner, who teaches writing and literature at Corban University and with Seattle Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA program. ochsnerGina

Gina is the author of the short story collection The Necessary Grace to Fall, ngtfwhich was selected for the Flannery O’Connor Award and the collection People I Wanted to Be PIWTB Both collections received the Oregon Book Award. In 2010 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight. Her latest novel entitled The Hidden Letters of Velta B was released in July 2016; the paperback edition will be released this summer. To find out more about Gina, please visit Gina Ochsner

Oak Hills Presbyterian Church is located at 5101 SE Thiessen Road in Milwaukie, Oregon!!

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A.J. Swoboda to speak at April 20, 2017 Writers Connection

It is an honor to welcome  AJ Swoboda back to Writers Connection Thursday, April 20, 2017. The meeting will be held at Oak Hills Presbyterian Church in Milwaukie at 7 p.m.

AJ Swoboda crop 2-2Dr.  A.J. Swoboda is a professor, author, and pastor of Theophilus in urban Portland, Oregon. He teaches theology, biblical studies, and Christian history at George Fox Evangelical and Fuller Seminaries, including a number of other universities and Bible colleges. He is also the lead mentor of a Doctor of Ministry program on the Holy Spirit and Leadership at Fuller Seminary. In addition, A.J. is the founder and director of Blessed Earth Northwest, a center that helps think creatively and strategically around creation care issues in the Pacific Northwest.

A.J. is the author of The Dusty Ones (Baker), Tongues and Trees: Toward a Pentecostal Ecological Theology (JPTSup, Deo), and Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology (Baker Academic). You can follow him on Twitter @mrajswoboda.