Ok, I've gone to Abundant life for about 10 years now, and my family has found it to be a caring, loving church that really tries to reach out to people in our community and help them. It's a church that believes that the message of the Bible can help people, and so they want to share this.... "Abundant (full) life".
Honestly, I don't write a lot of reviews, but somehow I came upon the first and only review for the church and after reading that person's negative opinion I felt that I had to set the record straight. There's probably 3000 people that are part of this church and they stay because it's great. I'm not a pastor (I teach at Multnomah), but I'm friends with most of them, and I can say with certainty that the church is not just run by two guys (they have a board of elders and 30-40 employees).
They are always collecting food, socks and other things for needy folks in the area, and I was shocked to read the other reviewers comments. Honestly, if you know the guys, you know that they are caring people, they work long hours and they live modest lives (I've been in a few of their houses).
It's unfortunate that the other reviewer did not get as much prayer and financial support as he was looking for, (I think they actually have a team of people that prays for all requests, so that one charge surprises me). But that review felt like sour grapes. I suppose it's all free speech and the readers must use their discretion in discerning what is true.
I'll put my name down so that you know I'm just an attender. Rob Hildebrand read more