PORTLAND/OBSERVER T hursday, Feb. 25, 1971
The Parsons Pen
©X Churri) of Dour
£1,01«
by A lfred L HENderson
“ There
Is
something new
going on, a radical re-appiaisal
and her relationship with the
world
in
general and with
blacks In p a rticular.
A new language...
A new hair style...
A new handshake...
A new or renewed anger and
anguished...
(here is a ground
swell
from the
bottom declaring
Justice now.”
The style of life as we have
known It has changed making
new demands upon
our view
ol the m in is try . No
longer
can
we
see it as
a static
re a lity
of
traditional form s.
It has been
suggested
that
modem man has come of age
The awesome responsibility of
his “ new found” re a lity is both
a blessing
and a curse. It is
then necessary that the m inis
try , if it is a m in istry, par-
ticipate in the dymnamic real
ity of encounter
and struggle
to give both inspiration
and
direction to
the new thrust
of community life , (here is
a price to be paid by the modern
churchman.
1'he s p irit
of
the modern technologically o ri
ented world relegates to the
trash heaps ceremony without
service, tradition without mean
ing, prayers without legs, faith
without works. The c ris is of
our
m in istry in
Protestant
Am erica is tw o-fold. We have
lost the power of the protes-
tant principal to
be c ritic a l
and transform ing as suggested
by Paul
T illic h In his book
"T H E
PROTESTANT ER A "
to be c ritic a l and t r a n s
form ing” . We must look at
ourselves as painful as the view
in honesty suggest, the march
of events suggests when I was
a child 1 spake as a child, but
Tid Bits for Living
Bjr REV, TX._STRAYHAND “
Solve this little puzzle and
you may have the answer to
most of your problems.
Whxn you arx txxptxd to takx
a Sunday off, and you thinkthat
thx absxncx of onx pxrson ....
won’ t xakx too xuch diffxrxn cx..
at church, you placx your xin -
is tx r in thx saxx position as a
fxllow trying to fypx with two
kxys xisstng. Hx can xakx sub»
stitutions just as wx havx donx,
saxx as whxn hx has all thx
xxxbr
xxxbxrs of thx congrxgarion ?
C hurch C arnival
That is rig h t.
A l l e n Temple
C M E Church’ s youth w ill—
have a carnival at the church
on Saturday, February 27, be -
g in n in g
at 4:30 p.m. They
promise to make this one of the
most exciting carnivals of the
year, cake walks, white elep -
hant sale, side shows where
you see yourself on the screen,
fortune telling, refreshments of
all kinds. Come prepared to en
joy yourself, get in the carnival
mood. Youth carnival w ill not
come to Portland again.
O w ec t, a n d School te r C o— unity
ST ANDREWS CATHOLIC CHURCH
2(1 4429
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7O9TLANO. O9EGON 97211
« V GO9DON L DKXEY
M o,.— 9 00 a— M,—n. 10,30 am Chou
12 OO pm Fa* Mm,
ST PH ILIP S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N.E. Knott Street at Rodney Avenue
Telephone 2H7-2O12
Rev. L.O. Slone Vicar
SUNDAY SERVICES
Holy Communion
Sunday School
Holv Communion
7 45 AM
9 :3 0 AM
6 :0 0 PM
Holy Communion
' (First ond Third Sunday») I I 0 0 AM
Morning Prayer
(Second ond Fourth Sunday») 1 1:00 AM
Wednesdays 4 Holy Doy»
when 1 became a man (in a
modern world) 1 put away child
ish things.
Our
institution,
galvanized and protected by its
unique h isto ricity must not be
lieve that it canmescape its own
responsibility-"putting its house
in o rder.”
The
A . M . E.
Church was born out of the ges
ta lt
of oppression.
Richard
A llen, prophet and pragnatist
was relevant to the predicament.
The edodus from our cliurch
and the lack of the pilgrimage
to It may attributable to the fact
that we have become patty to
and a participant
in the in
stitutional form which caused
Richard Allen to walk out of
St. George Church- across town
from where we meet
today.
185 years later we are, stand
ing
now on the cutting edge
of a nation constantly polarized
between blacks and whites, a
presidential
commission vali
dating a disease that sickens
our society—"w h ite and black
racism .”
The church at Philadelphia,
in order to save herself, must
recapture what she found in
the birth pains in her original
d e live ry. The call to relevance
is both
prophetic
and prag
m atic. In simple terms it is
more than adding up members,
cutting up d is tric ts , electing
Bishops.
Is the s p irit of God
once
again let loose in
the
w orld. It is more than add
ing up members.
It is not
bargain basement, cheap class
activity m irro re d in
political
v!ctriolics(nam e calling). It see
the challenge as the chance to
redeem
itse lf.
It sees the
nemaces in the nature of our
deeds here and now "th e judg
ment of God upon us” .
We
must be great because oui God
is great.
Our members are too few,
our budget
too
short, o u r
imagination
too narrow and
and
our
s p irit too hungry
What then must the m inistry
be about? Engage
the world
as
Allen dreamed in an en
te rp ris e of finding the church
ST. PAUL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
N 1
M ,-
J.C. F.— . Min.—
Sunday School
9 :4 5 A.M .
Worship Service
, 2 : 0 0 Noon
YPW W
6 :3 0 P.M.
Evening Worship — Sunday, Tue»day, Friday 8 :0 0 P.M
The Friendly Church - You are only o Stranger once
M allory Avenue Christian Church
126 N.E. Alberta
Rev. Dale A. Stitt, Pastor
Church School
9:45 A.M.
Morning Worsh.p 11:00 A M.
ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH
Corner of 8th Ave and Skidmore
S.S. 9 :3 0 A .M .
Sunday W orship 1 1 :0 0 A .M .
Christian Youth Fellowship 6:0 0 P.M. (2nd and Fourth Sundays)
Rev. Thomas Strayhand, minister
HUGHES MEMORIAL CHURCH
United Methodist
Cor. N.E
Phone 2 8 8 4 3 7 3
Rodney & Foiling
O rd n ary Peopte tngogw l
In Ex'roordtnory Work
EVERYONE WELCOME
Richard J. Parfcar, M inutar
,0 9 N
FIRST A.M.E. ZION CHURCH
Skidmore Street
Reverend L.J. Thompson, Pastor
Phone 2 8 7 -4 7 7 4
9 :4 5 A M.
11 :0 0 A M
Sunday Schoo)
Morning Worship
Highland United Church of Christ
Highland Community Center
4635 N X 9th Avenue
Rhone 244-5440
Rev Samuel Johnson, Pastor
Sunday Breakfast
Sunday School
Morning Worship
8 :3 0 A.M .
9 :3 0 A.M .
1 , 0 0 A.M,
MCKINNEY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
1737 N.E Alberta
Office 2 8 2 -8 5 2 2
Lobby 2 8 4 -9 0 7 5
Bishop W.L. McKinney, Minister
9 30AM
1 1 45 A M
6 30 P M
8 00 PM
Sunday School
Church W o rth y
YFW W
Ev«n<rsç WortNp
T b . Tampka That W t k o r w t AU Nattons
c H u ff c
in
th e streets and m in iste r
to the s p irits of our constituency
the rejected an disbelievers.
Let
those who dare to serve
engage the world with cour
age and meet the world with
conviction
and pay the cost
A frican
Methodism w ill live
o r die
to
the degree that it
meets
this mission here and
now.
The fly sat upon the axle-tree of
the chariot - wheel, and s a id ,
what
a
dust
do I raise!
Francis Bacon, Essays
(Quoted from Aesop)
unlit iiiiiir tannili
5 8 2 8 N.E. 8th
2 8 8 -5 4 2 9
A . Lee H enderson, M in ister
Ellis Casson, Associate M in ister
Church School ........................................................... 9:30 A.M.
Morning Worship ...................................................... 10:45 A M.
Wed. Noon — The Hour of Power ................... 12:00 N O O N
Wed. Prayer & Class Meeting .................................. 7.00 P.M.
Nursery Care Provided
”We are making our Neighborhood A Brotherhood”
Maranatha Evangelistic Center
1 222 N.E. Skidmore
Rhone 288 3700 - 4035
"Unusual S t r v ic n M ilh art Unusual
Paopla bacausa o l an Unusual Christ'
Sunday School
Morning Worship
Evening Worship
Hour Power — W ed
Friday Youth O Rama
Reverend W end ell W a lla ce , Pastor
9 15A M
10 45 A M
7 00 P M
7 00 P M
7 30 P M
Che Oieuut Olivet Hupt ist Church
Rev. John H. Jackson
Minister
N.E. First and Schuyler
Portland, Ore.
Phone 2 8 4 -1 9 5 4
Sunday School
Morning Worship
Vesper
Ijtt us enter to worship and depart to serve.
9 a.m.
, 1 a.m.
5 p m.