McKenzie Valley Presbyterian Church

05/19/2025

Will our church continue to stream worship service? In our May 2025 session meeting we discussed issues around streaming, privacy and copyright. While the privacy and copyright issues are not related to each other, they are both related to streaming, so the discussion included all three issues.

Here are the issues that came up:
1) Because we stream the worship service, we are only allowed to stream music to which we have usage privileges.
MVPC pays to have privileges to a lot of worship music. But it is not all music -- for instance, it does not include the music in student piano books.
Our church secretary does research for each piece of music in each service to ascertain that we have rights to it. We pay the secretary to do this work.
If we did not stream services (or the music portion of services), we would not have to:
* do the copyright research on musical pieces, or
* pay for the usage privileges that we are paying for now.

2) Some congregation members are concerned about privacy, and do not want to appear in streamed videos. This can be addressed either by:
* Those people remaining silent during services, or
* Changing our approach to streaming, by, for instance:
* Stopping and starting the video (for different parts of service, including music) or
*Eliminating the streaming entirely

3) We started streaming because of COVID. Is there sufficient reason to continue streaming?

If you would like to participate in a discussion of these issues, please send email to Nancy Ashley, Clerk of Session for McKenzie Valley Presbyterian. [email protected]

12/04/2023

03/16/2023

Competitive ping pong at McKenzie Valley Presbyterian Church, for the whole community.

Ages 18-88, men and women. Every Tuesday, 7-9 pm. 88393 Walterville Loop, just east of Walterville (although Google Maps indicates the city as Springfield -- weird.)

By competitive, we mean that most will be playing with the intention of scoring points. There is likely to be a range of skill levels -- come check it out!

Bring your own water bottle.

Reino (rhymes with keen-o) Huttala would love it if you contacted him ahead of time, but if you want to just drop by, that's ok too. (541) 525-3053.

02/22/2023

An opportunity to memorialize people, and support the rebuild of the Vida McKenzie Community Center, as our church has been doing.

06/18/2022

We at MVPC will pray for you, along with others!

Request a prayer!

Prayer boxes like this one are available for you to drop a slip of paper with your prayer request. The requests will be collected regularly, your request disseminated, and people will be praying for you!

Prayer boxes can be found on the porches of these locations:
➡️ Food pantry building behind McKenzie Bible Fellowship church, 45061 McKenzie Hwy, 1 mile west of Vida
➡️ Cascade Relief Team office in Blue River -- right across the street from where Meyer General Store used to be.
➡️ Living Water Fellowship Community Building, 52353 McKenzie Hwy, Blue River.

If you would like to put a prayer box on the porch of your organization, let us know -- we have a few more!

Hosted by the Spiritual and Emotional Care Committee of the McKenzie Valley Long Term Recovery Group.