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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1971)
PORTLAND/OBSERVEK Thursday M ar. 18, 1971 Œljr C burri) of Pour until faunin Cboitt R e lig io n im i II i ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH Corner of 8th Ave and Skidmore » » » Tid Bits for Living Bethel schedule usher day Sunday Worship 1 1:00 A.M. Christian Youth Fellowship 6 :0 0 P.M. The season before E a ste i,th is season, which coincides with the coming of spring is fille d with promise and expectation. It is hard to conceive how anyone can live through the Lenten season and observe it and not believe in Easter. This is the season when w inter is passing away. There are a few dying gasps of winter but nothing big nor alarm ing at this time of year. If you would b u t look around you - you can tell that something is going to happen. A fte r all the Rev. T . L . Strayhand __ rain in Portland it is little wond they c u t the dead and dying e r that the grass is s till so green branches from the shrubbery be and even the w i l d unattended cause they know something is flowers are peeping up out of the going to happen very soon. ground. The t r e e s are loaded Since we are so sure spring is with early buds just w aitingfor coming and w inter is passing the right tim e. This is the season very few would ever stop to when we k n o w something is wonder w h a t happens when you coming. As you drive through the doubt it and do not prepare fo r it. community you can see people Lenten season is the season of preparing fo r that which is com preparation fo r Easter. Some ing. There seems to be no doubt thing is going to happen, are you in anybody’ s mind that s p r i n g getting r e a d y fo r it? Have is coming. People are optism is- you prepared the soil fo r it? Are tica lly preparing th e ir lawns for you cutting away the dead branch spring, they have their r o s e es so your life can grow with it? bushes ready fo r the warmth of Something w lli happen to you if spring to hasten the budding and you are ready fo r it, the Season blooms for the rose city festival. of hope. Two A Penny The B illy Graham film ’ ’ Two A Penny ” is going to be shown in 23 theatres throughout the great e r Northwest Area during the last week of M arch. In our area it w ill be shown at the Eastgate - Theatre, March 24-30. As this film has been shown in citie s a- cross the country, many people have responded to the invitation to com m it th e ir lives to C h rist. The group w ill need approximate ly 100 counselors to deal with the people who respond to the invita tion at the Eastgate Theatre. James Swanson, Counseling d ir ector said, Mwe like fo r you to in vite members of your church, who have counseled in a B illy Graham Crusade, to meet w ith us at a Counselor B riefing Session to be held at the Temple BaptistChurch N E 7th atC lackam asSt.,M ar. 14 1971 at 2:00 p.m. To serve as a counselor or as an advisor , you must attend this meeting fo r instructions on procedures. WE NEED YOUR HELP 1 If you have questions call 2347329 Project Equality The Board of P roject Equality of the Northwest has approved an Oregon steering committee to d ire ct the project work in this state. Members w eredrawnfrom churches supporting the pioject agencies dealing with employ ment, and businesses concerned about equal employment opport unity. The steering committee w ill meet quarterly, and w ill elect an executive committee to work with the Portland staff on a month-to-month basis. iMembers of the steering com mittee are: C liffo rd Danielsand Rev. Richard P arker, Methodist Commission on Race and Religion Rev. C ollins, Catholic Social Action commission; Andrew Huck feldt, Catholic Archdiocese; — Bruce Smith and Rev. L a rry Byers, Presbyterian Synod; Rev. Gene Ross, United Church of C h rist convention; Phil Blank, Temple Beth Israel; Rev. Ted C r o u c h , Oregon Council o f Churches. Rev. Sam Johnson, Albina M in iste ria l Alliance; Tom Sloan, Tektronix and Portland M etro politan Human Relations Com mission; Ira Blalock, Mulnomah County Community Action Agency George Rankins, Concentiated - E m p lo y m e n t Program; Buzz W illitts , New CareersiChalm ers Jones, Oregon State Employment Division; Ken Johnson, P a c if ic Northwest Synod of L u t h e r a n Church in Am erica; and Marlene Bayless, Unitarian U niversalist d is tric t. MCKINNEY TEMPLE CHURCH OF G 0 0 IN CHRIST f (2nd and Fourth Sundays) Rev. Thomas Strayhand, minister By REV. ’L L STRAYHAND Bethel A.MJE. Church, 5828 N.E. 8th A v e ., schedules annual Usher’ s Day services, Sunday, March 21. 1971 A t 5:30 P.M. Charles Jordan, a member of Bethel AJW.E. Usher Board and the Steward board, also D i r e c t o r o f Portland’ s Model C ities w ill be the speaker. M r. Jordan, is a strong Lay speaker and has s t a t e d on a number of ocassions“ TheChurch which does not recognize our young people and fa ils to meet th e ir problems w ill be a dead church in the very near future. - The 70 are quite different from the 60’ s. We must reckon with the transition. The public is in vited to Bethel fo r 11:00 A.M. & 5:30 P.M. AME clergy man join* S.S. 9 :3 0 A.M. □ w e l l and School hx Community ST. ANOREW'S CATHOLIC CHURCH 2 ÍI4 4 2 » « 0 6 N . t . A IS M IA K V IM T tA M M F R M P O K R A N O . O K G O H » 7 2 11 » * O O C O O H L D K XXY M o tto * » 0 0 am Hymn. 1 0 :3 0 I 12 0 0 pm F a * M o tt . Chao ST. PAUL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST oncQ M F A Rodney _ _ . . . m « i.H < r Phone 2 8 7 -7 0 ^ 8 2 8 5 V N.B. o a n .y j C fa it at, M Sunday School 9 45 A.M . Worship Service 1 2 :0 0 Noon YPW W 6 3 0 P M. Evening W or.hip — Sunday, Tuesday, Friday 8 0 0 P.M. The Friendly Church - You ore only o Stronger once Methodist £f i. •O ^ çtfc'lANT c h U/f£ So 5828 N.E. 8th 288-54291 A. Lee Henderson, Minister Ellis Casson, Associate Minister Church School ................. Morning Worship Wed. Noon — The Hour of Power Wed. Prayer & Class Meeting Nursery Care Provided 9 :3 0 A M. 10:45 A.M. 1 2:00 N O O N 7 :0 0 P.M. "W e are making our Neighborhood A Brotherhood" ! 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 Sunday School Church W orth p YPWW Evening Worship THE R E V . C H A R L E S S. ; SPIVEY, a clergyman of the AME Church has Joined the W O R L D Council of Churches s t a f f in Switzerland, as g e c r e t a r y of the WACC’ s program to combat racism . The Rev. Spivey, a vice chair man of the Consultation ofChurch Union, has been executive direc tor of the National C o u n c i 1 of Churches’ Department of Social Justice since 1967. P rio r to that post, he was d e a n of P a y n e Theological S e m i n a r y at W ilberforce U niversity. 9 30 1 1 45 6 30 « 00 A M AM P.M P.M. The Temple That W ekom ot AS Notions A Night In Arabia AUTHENTIC ARABIAN BUFFET Che ¿Wount Olivet baptist 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 9 o.m. 1 1 o.m. 5 p.m. DINNER DELICIOUS AND SPICY A DISPLAY OF ARABIAN COSTUMES CULTURE AND M USIC _ BAZAAR GIFT ITEMS Let us enter to worship and depart to serve. DONATION $1.50 Children under 12, 76£ Time 4:30 until 7:30 p .m . Sat. March 20, 1971 Allen fem ple CME Church 4236 N E 8th Maranatha Evangelistic Center 1 2 2 2 N.E. Skidmore Phone 2 8 8 -3 7 0 0 — 4 0 3 5 Sunday School M orning W o rthip Evening Worship "Unusual Sarvicas with an Unusual Paopla bacausa of an Unusual Christ" Hour Power — W ed Friday Y o u lh O Porno Reverend Wendell Wallace Pastor 9 15AM 10 45 A M 7 00 P.M 7 00 PM 7:30 PM Vancouver Ave. First Baptist Church 3138 N. Vancouver Ave. Phone 282-9496 Sunday School Morning Worship 9 :0 0 A.M. 1 1:00 A.M. Dr. O.B. Williams, Pastor ^ S e rv m g ^ h ^ ^ rw iG i^ C itj^ S a v m g th ^ In n e ^ M a n "
