PORTLAND/OBSERVEK Thursday M ar. 18, 1971
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ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH
Corner of 8th Ave and Skidmore
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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.
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ST. ANOREW'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
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ST. PAUL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
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Sunday School
9 45 A.M .
Worship Service
1 2 :0 0 Noon
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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.
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5828 N.E. 8th
288-54291
A. Lee Henderson, Minister
Ellis Casson, Associate Minister
Church School
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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"
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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.
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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
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