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Natural continuity: Oak Street Church founder hands reins to successor

By Brenna Wiegand Breck Wilson, Silverton’s longest-running pastor, retired Jan. 1 after shepherding Oak Street Church for 40 years. John Friedrick is the church’s new pastor. Wilson made his way from Northern California to Alaska, part of the Evangelical Christian ‘Jesus Movement’ of the late 1960s and early 1970s. “At that time there were a lot of people hitchhiking and […]