Standing in the Gap for Oregon

  Yamhill County Therefore with joy will you draw water from the wells of salvation . Isaiah 12:3 We are taking a little detour from our review of the North Coast counties to visit one of the oldest counties in the state: Yamhill . It isn’t that much of a detour since Yamhill, when originally established in 1843, extended from the Willamette River to the Pacific Ocean and from the Columbia River to California. As other counties were created it grew smaller but remained a coast county until Tillamook County took a piece of it around 1887. The county seat originally was Lafayette , but later was moved to McMinnville, which is the largest city in the county. Second in size is Newberg, also the home of George Fox University, a school established by and for Quakers (The Religious Society of Friends) in 1891. It has over 4,000 students and is the largest private university in the state, and highly regarded. I was once accepted into a graduate program at George Fox but had to drop tha...