I don't live anywhere close to Portland, but I would make the trip if I thought I had anything to say that could help you... The only thing I could possibly say of any use would be seeing kids dragged off to the bathrooms at every other meeting to get a spanking for acting up and it being condoned by the congregation (although there were apparently some anonymous calls made to child services that people were getting up in arms about lol)... But that was my congregation in another country... Anything else I could say would relate to doctrine or something of that sort.. (If I had bothered to get baptised at some point, I was already fully trained to be an elder... I would be right now, except for the whole, you know, not being in service much in 5 years, or the whole not going to meetings thing... :P) If you want explanations on beliefs or training or something I could help, but there's probably somebody closer by?

*shrug* Anything I can do, mate, as long as it'll be of some use