On the south side of the property along Tillamook Avenue is a terraced garden where weekly peace vigils are held before Sunday evening worship services.  The garden is also used for formal and informal dinners and social gatherings.

A  Peace Pole  in the garden bears a peace message in four different languages. It is one of tens of thousands of such poles which have been planted in more than fifty countries throughout the world. The Peace Pole project began in Japan more than 30 years ago--a chain reaction effort designed as a symbolic response to the deadly nuclear chain reaction which took so many lives in Hiroshima. Our Peace Pole was a gift in about 1988 from then Portland City Commissioner Mike Lindbergh.