Standing in the Gap for Oregon

Landis Cabin, Lane County, OR Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; But you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. Isaiah 60:18 Lane County, named after the first Oregon Territorial Governor, Joseph Lane, is governed by a five-member Board of Commissioners including Jay Bozievich, Pat Farr, Joe Berney, Laurie Trieger, and Heather Buch. The County Sheriff is Clifton G. Harrold . The presiding judge of the Lane County Circuit Court is Debra K. Vogt. The county seat is Eugene. Lane County, and Lane County alone, is the West Region of Oregon. That seems fitting as the large county stretches from the Cascade Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, forming the southern border of Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties. It makes up the southern portion of the Willamette Valley and contains one of the state’s most populous cities, Eugene, as well as forested wilderness to the east, rich farmland in the valleys, and o...

Franklin Church, Lane County, OR And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. Ephesians 5:11 Lane County, just below Linn, Benton, and Lincoln to the north, stretches all the way from Deschutes County in the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west. It is the fourth most populous county in Oregon at 379,611 population in an area of 4,620 square miles. It was established in 1851 and named after Joseph Lane, the first governor of Oregon Territory, appointed by President James K. Polk. Most of the population is around Eugene, the county seat, located in the mid-northern portion of the county. A large expanse of the eastern portion of the county is the Willamette National Forest, a part of the Cascade Mountain range.  Agricultural lands dominate the middle portion with the Eugene-Springfield area being one of the largest urban areas in the state, after Portland and Salem. About an hour to the west of Eugene is the coast with tourist destinations ...

View from Mt. Pisgah in Lane County Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; But you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.  Isaiah 60:18 The thought of Lane County automatically leads to thoughts of Eugene, one of the population centers of Oregon. It rivals Salem in population, so is either the second or third largest city in the state, depending on your source of information. The county itself has about 77 people per square mile, and is the fourth most populated county in Oregon. It was established in 1851 and carved, like many of Oregon counties, out of parts of others - in this case Benton and Umpqua. It was named after Oregon Territory’s first governor, Joseph Lane. Over the years there have a been a dizzying number of changes to the county’s borders. Basically, the changes made it much smaller – it once went all the way to the California border – but also extended it to the Pacific...