Standing in the Gap for Oregon

Strawberry Mountains, Grant County, OR Sing praises on the harp to our God, who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. Psalm 147: 7-8 Grant County, named after General Ulysses S. Grant, is the fourth least-populated county in the state. It is home to part of the John Day Fossil Beds and the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness. The county seat is Canyon City but the major town in the county is John Day, once considered the epicenter of the Oregon gold rush in eastern Oregon. Now the rural town is a popular outdoor recreation spot and tourist destination. Like a handful of other eastern Oregon counties, Grant County is still governed by the County Court system with Judge Scott Myers as the County Judge and Jim Hamsher and Sam Palmer as the Commissioners. Todd McKinley is the County Sheriff. Grant County, OR The county was established in 1864 out of parts of Wasco and Umatilla Counties. You can read more about the early...

Fox Community Church, Grant County, OR Sing praises on the harp to our God, who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.” Psalm 147:7-8 We are still in the Northeast Region of Oregon, which includes Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Grant, and Baker Counties. We are going to take a closer look at Grant County, which includes the city of John Day. The County seat is Canyon City. Grant is an amazing place, home of the John Day Fossil Beds, the site of a major gold rush in the 1860’s that transformed the area, and the location of Strawberry Mountain Wilderness, among other scenic locations. We looked at a lot of Grant County history here . Grant County population is 7,233 which places it at the 4 th least populated county in the state. On May 10 th , the City of John Day voted to disband the city police department, which was established in 1952. The Sheriff’s Office has assumed responsibility for the cases and files for the Cit...

St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Canyon City   I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable and precious things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory and splendor,’ says the  Lord  of hosts.    ‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the  Lord  of hosts.    ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the  Lord  of hosts, ‘and in this place I shall give [the ultimate] peace and prosperity,’ declares the  Lord  of hosts.” Haggai 2: 7-9 AMP I read an article recently on gold and God’s view of it. The beauty of gold, the fact it doesn’t tarnish, gives us a taste of heaven when we find it here. With our damaged human nature, however, the God-given value of gold can become twisted into an obsession: gold fever. The first gold strike in eastern Oregon was in Grant County, at Whiskey Gulch near what became Canyon City,...