SON Update Report

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Name: SON Update Report
Date: December 28, 2025
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!   We are so honored to know YOU, to work with some of you and to Dream about 2026 together!
 
The last six months have been off the charts, amazing!  Earlier in 2025 (on Wed, Jan 29), we reconnected with Dr Bill Manduca at the launch of our new 24/7 Prayer - Garden Space PDX in Old Town / China Town (at the newly remodeled office building & event space that City Team Ministries purchased and made into their new outreach center for men).  Later in the summer, we asked Dr Bill to join us for our weekly Saturday morning (7-9am) SWAT (See What Agreement Transforms) Team Prayerwalks (in person & on zoom) and to volunteer at our new Smart Oregon Solutions (SOS) – Technology Innovation Center at our historic Lloyd Center Mall in NE Portland.
 
Dr Bill has a Doctorate in Strategic Leadership from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA and our weekly planning sessions have given us insights into the massive SON-Ship-Yard that Father God has been building throughout the greater Portland/Vancouver metro area.  Throughout the past 25 years, I’ve been asked by various local and national leaders, as to what our focus has been, wherein I told them, that I felt like Noah, building an Ark (a place of protection, provision & propulsion), wherein a massive flood “Kingdom Reign” was coming, something our world has never experienced, and it would propel us out to the nations with Healing and DiscipleShip!   
 
Dr Bill also shared with us that he has been hearing, “As in the Days of Noah” and that this year, Father God said, “I’m releasing the Song of Noah”, which means that now ALL the connections and resources that we need for our assignments will begin to come to us, just as “God brought all the animals to Noah!” Boy has that happened, time and time again this year and The Best Is Yet To Come!  He also saw the City of Portland, as a traumatized, tattooed, pierced woman in a yellow sundress with combat boots on, wherein our Father was giving her a huge bouquet of red roses, with all the Thrones removed & her name is Sharon, like the Rose of Sharon!  As we worked, week after week, at the SOS-TIC, our Father drew our attention to the Lloyd Center Mall’s “Reimaging Community” promotions on the wall, across from our center, wherein for the past 7 years, there has been an actual picture of Sharon in her redeemed state.
 
As we move into more of America’s 250th Celebrations, with massive Next Great Awakening events being planned throughout our nation with the White House Faith Office, our overall Vision and Mission for Serving Our Neighbors remain the same . . .
 
Our Vision - to see a movement of SONs advancing the peace & prosperity of our communities!
Our Mission - to connect, equip & engage SONs to achieve a greater community impact through strategic partnerships!
 
For "ALL of creation is waiting, longing, crying out, for our Father to reveal, the full beauty, of who His SONs really are!"  Rom 8:19

For the past quarter of a century, Serving Our Neighbors (SON) has been demonstrating . . .
  • who the real SONs are (they know our real Good Father),
  • what the real SONs say (they speak the Words of our Good Father),
  • what the real SONs do (they follow the Ways of our Good Father) &
  • what the real SONs have (they steward the Wealth of our Good Father). 
We all know that the lack of good fathers, is the core issue to the breakdown of every facet of society & culture in our communities, cities & nations around our world, wherein Serving Our Neighbors is all about Family (His Kingdom) & real families establishing more real families for generations to come!  Since the only solution to this FatherLESSness IS FatherFULLness, Serving Our Neighbors is actively bringing this solution (SonShip) to the marketplace and to faith, business & government leaders (male & female), one encounter at a time, as well as corporately through strategic initiatives & projects.  Everyone is born as an Orphan, from our real Father (Life Source), and we all live as Orphans, until we have reconnected with our Good Father, let Him heal our broken, bruised & shattered hearts and make us into His SONs (male & female). For only SONs can become good fathers & mothers, who will create more good SONs that will father & mother their generation to raise up good SONs, who will father & mother their generation or so on.  

Once we really know our real Good Father & have heard His Voice say, "You're My BeLoved SON & I'm so pleased with you" then we will live FROM Love, rather than FOR Love & we will be Serving Our Neighbors FROM His approval, rather than FOR His approval.  Yes, the longing of ALL of creation is to see our Good Father's SONs who serve, so that He can Heal Our Land through US, His SONs!

Throughout 2026, we plan to begin our new video podcasts, “Father Loves You Today!” in our new studios at our US Digital Office in Vancouver, which will begin to build a global audience of SONs using FatherLovesYou.com to share the new Gospel Tract that George La Du wrote, “The Greatest Love Story!” which then leads new Believers to PapaLovesMe.com, so that they can grow deeper into their own relationship with our Father, becoming more like Jesus, His Son and walking in the fullness of His Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Sonship!
 
As SON encourages all SONs to start every morning with Prayer (Vertical Agreement in hearing what God our Father wants where we Live, Learn, Work & Play), followed by Care (Horizontal Agreement in what God our Father shows us to Be, Say & Do in our Neighborhood, School & Worklife) and then Share (planting Seeds of Hope & Love in the hearts & minds of others, when we are asked to share our Faith in our Father & His Son), we must also have Revival AND Reformation movements working together, so that we don’t lose the coming Billion+ Harvest of Souls AND we are beginning to see strategic & significant Transformation of our Nations’ Society & Culture into our Father’s Kingdom Family & His Will to be done, on earth as it is in heaven!  For the past 25 years, the NET has been cast over the nations, but NOW is the Time to begin pulling the ROPE that will bring this NET together, wherein the backdoor to All Spheres of Influence is the Family and the backdoor to Families is NOT today’s sickcare, but real Biblical Healthcare.
 
For Revival, we are continuing to serve & work strategically with Chris & Stephanie Overstreet of Compassion To Action, in organizing massive outreach events throughout the greater Portland metro area & across America (in partnership with the Next Great Awakening coalition working with the new White House Faith Office).  More will be shared, as things develop in the coming weeks and months.
 
For Reformation, we’re continuing to serve & work strategically with Patrice & Gina Tsague of the Nehemiah Entrepreneurship Community in promoting their Biblical Entrepreneurship & Young Biblical Entrepreneurship programs, their new Nehemiah Business Life Cycle Course, their annual (in person) Best Practice Business Conference in SE Asia & their annual (online) Nehemiah Business Summit.  We are now hosting our monthly Nehemiah NW Connect Meetings in the Mirror Lake Room at US Digital, since the Lloyd Center Mall is closing, being leveled and rebuilt over the next 5 to 8 years into a new Smart Neighborhood, as part of Portland’s new Smart City Initiatives with Smart Oregon Solutions, a renewable energy company that Patrice Tsague, Bill Gibbons & Colonel Jeff Williams created to support Nehemiah, as well as other non-profit ministries, such as SON, via their SOS Global Foundation! 
 
Please continue to pray for, financially support and listen to Worship 24/7 (which is now being heard on 96.3 FM in the greater Portland / Vancouver metro area & 15 other FM stations across our nation, as well as on-line and on-mobile in 212 nations & territories) as it is now officially a part of the Hope Media Group family in Houston, Texas.  Also pray for our 25th annual Clark County Prayer Breakfast (at the Vancouver Hilton in November) as we select a Keynote Speaker & Corporate Sponsorships, as well as a group of local business leaders and pastors work towards relaunching our Portland Good Friday Breakfast, hopefully on Apr 3, 2026 or on Mar 26, 2027.
 
Finally, in 2020 we released “The Case For The Marketplace Catalyst”, which is the future replacement for the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest and will become of a part of the new US Christian Chamber of Commerce, that Ford Taylor, Patrice Tsague, Chuck Proudfit and other marketplace ministry leaders created in 2023 and this year is their 2nd Business Expo & Global Conference in Orlando, April 22-24 with Krystal Parker & More.  Pray with us for God’s timing in relaunching The Marketplace Catalyst (TMC) & our monthly TMC-Business Development Group Forums, as well as our weekly TMC-Influence Builder Groups, our annual Marketplace Summits and our SON Institute (SONi), a new AI platform that is now possible to build out!
 
Please pray about partnering with us via a monthly donation to SON or having your business become a Corporate Sponsor (wherein you would write-off your investment as a marketing expense) and we can help you grow your organization!  You can setup a monthly donation ($1K, $500, $250, $100 or $50) via the PayPal button on the front page of our website, www.ServingOurNeighbors.org or you can make a one-time donation of any amount via this PayPal Link.  Help us to avoid service charges by mailing a check to PO Box 90784, Portland, OR 97290, using Venmo (@servingourneighbors) or CashApp ($servingourneighbors).  

Shalom!



 
James Autry   Facebook   503-515-5647
Executive Director & Community Collaborator
PO Box 90784, Portland, OR 97290
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