OCTOBER 18, 2019, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
Countryside welcomes new pastor
Keizer outdoors writer
self-publishes book
Countryside,” he said.
BY LAUREN MURPHY
Jordan and his wife, Megan,
Of the Keizertimes
On Oct. 1, Countryside recently celebrated two years
Christian Church welcomed a of marriage and are moving to
new worship pastor, Jared Jor- Keizer from Beaverton at the
end of Octo-
dan.
ber with their
For the past
1 0 - we e k - o l d
10 years Jordan
son, Malachi.
has been lead-
“The closer to
ing music in
Target the bet-
different capac-
ter,” he said,
ities at different
since his wife
churches; he
loves to shop
has been play-
ing music for
— Jared Jordan there.
Some of Jor-
13 years.
dan’s interests
J o r d a n
moved to Oregon from east outside of work and family in-
Tennessee in 2016 to be the clude: competitive swimming,
worship director for a small which he did in middle and
church called Bethany. “I was high school, good coffee and
their worship director for three music. “Music, of course, is a big
years before God called me to part of my life as I am constant-
Keizer resident
G.I. Wilson, a vet-
eran fi sherman and
writer, has collect-
ed a number of
his columns into a
self-published book,
Bear Crushes Dad.
Wilson won fi rst
place in the humor
category of the Ex-
cellence in Craft
competition at the
annual Northwest
Outdoor
Writers
Association confer-
ence earlier this year.
Wilson is a former
outdoors columnist
for the Keizertimes.
Bear Crushes Dad is available now at Salon Paradise in
Keizer and Readers Guide in West Salem or through Wil-
son’s email at gijowilson@q.com.
“I knew this was
the place God
was calling us
to be.”
Submitted
Jared Jordan with wife, Megan, and son, Malachi.
ly listening, discovering and ap-
preciating all the various genres
and sub genres it has to offer,”
he said.
Jordan and his family en-
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A Keizer City Council
work session that had been
slated for the Tuesday, Oct. 22,
at McNary Oaks Mobile Villa
has been canceled.
A representative of the
property management cited
scheduling confl icts, but the
tour of the park may be re-
scheduled.
Keizertimes reporting on
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repair and other issues at the
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