Our Church, Our Parish

​We are a sacramental community: our holy table is the center of our common life.

Our worship reflects the theology of The Episcopal Church: we worship with our bodies and all of our senses (stand and sing, sit and listen, turn to your neighbor, smell the coffee, share your treasure, enjoy a holy meal, pray and sing some more). We take ordinary things like bread and wine, and ordinary people like you and me, and our children, grandchildren, and grandparents, and make them holy through prayer, song, and story. We draw from ancient stories and from everyday encounters with the holy and the unholy.

Here at St. David’s we are also blessed with a huge extended family in the many people who use our building each week. We like to think this extended family is as much a part of St. David’s as the people who were baptized here 50 years ago or married here 40 years ago. Our extended family reflects the values of our Anglican tradition – creativity, diverse spiritual practice, community life, justice, creation care – as well as the values and ethos of our inner Southeast Portland neighborhood.