West Coast Pastors The Hardest Mission Field in America
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No One Is
Coming for Us

The neighborhood the church planters flew over. The ZIP code that didn't make the strategy deck. No one is coming for us—but God is with us, and the gospel compels us. So we stay.

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Hard Work in Hard Places

The opening conversation from our first Portland gathering. No conferences are flying out here. No one is writing books about our cities. So we sat down and started talking about what it actually takes to pastor on this coast.

Cody Cannon · 52 min · February 2026
Rainy Portland street lined with tent encampments
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"The city that looks empty of the gospel is not empty of the gospel. There are seven thousand who have not bowed. We may not be able to count them yet. We stay until we can."

Cody Cannon — Of All Places, Portland Gathering

The Mission

We Stay. So We Build.

God has a pattern. He picks the town no one is watching. He sends workers where no foundation exists. He tells exiles to build in the city they did not choose. West Coast pastors building up West Coast churches. Hard work in hard places.

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