Standing in the Gap for Oregon

Deschutes County, Oregon The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:34 NIV While there might be some disagreement about which counties to include in the Central Oregon Region, Deschutes is not debatable. In many ways it IS Central Oregon. The county seat, Bend, is the major population center of the area. With a population of over 100,000, it ranks as the 6 th largest city in the state and growing fast. Deschutes County Earlier we touched on some of Bend’s history, including some early churches , but of course there is always more to explore. One story I recently found is both interesting and touching, (thanks to a blog post by Kelly Cannon-Miller, the executive director of the Deschutes Historical Museum) and ties in with some of the history of the Japanese Americans in Oregon, that we looked at earlier. In the mid-1920’s there were several Japanese American fam...