(1) Has she no friends with guts?
(2) Has she no pastor?
My nephew is a pastor in an organization that seeds and grows new churches in the Pacific Northwest, domestic missionaries. Apparently there are relatively few churches in that part of the country. You can travel mile-after-mile without seeing a church. It seems odd when on the East Coast we have a church of one faith or another on every other corner.
Correct, AFIK. The people who settled out there by and large were very private, and wanted no Bible-thumper to interfere with each person's lifestyle and personally conceived morality by exposing it from the Sacred Desk. That's why their forebears and current migrants now have left the East, Midwest, and South. They just want to be left alone.
We support in Montana a missionary who has twice been deliberately burnt out of his church, and is expecting it again anytime. But he had grit, and the Lord behind him.
There's no guilt, and no shame out there, except to break your word. I suspect you'd find a lot of libertarian survival-of-the-fittest types out there, as you might expect the dispatcher in question to say: "Root, hawg! er die." The Northwest is surely just as ripe for the gospel as the most alien place on the planet, but they don't seem to recognize it -- yet.
I know I'm going to take some hits on this one, to which most of I will not answer. Support your missionaries out there, very particularly also to Utah, Idaho, and Montana.
BTW, it was the same way for the pioneers here in the East, before organized religion came in and the loners moved out. I'm a little like that myself--heritage.
Not really correct re churches. Southern Oregon (where Josephine county is located) is practically bible belt. Northern Oregon may be what you are thinking of. There are two lines in Oregon, North and South & East & West. Southern and Eastern Oregon are very conservative & very Christian.