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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1972)
POHTLAND PonU nd/objcrver O HSEHTEH Religion in the News J o n y Sibley (le ft,. Charles Evan«, and P e rry Pleraon study Indian artifacts at the Oregon Historical Society Museum In preparation for trip to Canada. Students of the St. Andrew’ s Summer Tim e Program earned money for a flve-<l.y ,r|p ,o Canada by helping with community clean up, flx-up and palnt-up projects. Council of Churches names associate director r I I I I ♦ ♦ I I ♦ » I I i tlon until July of 1970, when he became D irector of the „ Center fo r Urban Encounter M r . Page belongs to or la a member of the board of: Portland C ity Club, Portland A rt Association, National Campis M lnlstets Associa t io n , National Association of Ecumenical Staff, National Association for Higher Edu cation, American Civil L ib er ties Union. Portland Youth Advocates, Disciples Peace Fellowship, Fellowship of Reconciliation and the M u lt nomah Athletic Club. In 1967 M r . Page m arried Sandra F re y e r, a Portland g irl, who teaches school In the txislness education de partment of Cleveland High School. M r. Page Is the moderator of the weekly television pro gram entitled ' ’Collision Course” which can be seen each Sunday at 2:00 p jn . on KCW -TV (Channel 8). In making the announce- ment, M r. Hughes stated that the Council of Cliurches has been involved in a six-month process of developing p rio ri ties and that M r . Page's re sponsibilities reflect the out come of that process. Also, as we move ahead to the creation of a new ecumenical instrument, of the bringing together of the Slate council and metropolitan Council of Churches, M r . Page w ill be assigned additional respon sibilities. grants awarded t he Interrellgious Founda tion for Community Organi zations has made grants of nearly $100,000 to community organizations In the United States and African liberation moveinenra. D irecto r D r . Lulcus Walker said the grants "emphasize the unity In the common struggles of Black A m eri cans and the African people.” Granta of $4,000 each went to the Mozambique Liberation Fund and the Joint organiza tion of the Zlmbadwe African National Union and the Z lm - bedwe African People’ s Union. Other recipients Included: Committee fo r a United Newark; Boston Black United Fund; Institute of the Black World; Malcolm X Univer sity, Greensboro, N .C j Lea gue to Improve the Com - $3.50 a child per day AMA Fam ily D a y /N ig h t Caro 4635 N.E. 9th 288-5091 J 3i •«)* BO< H » AiMr A at* Mint*« ,ai»»*« K X ’ .AHO X I Û i * » » / ' • * Goao*» . > air Mm««» • 00 »<• ’•»•>*»« 'O X IX «... Ch*» ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH b,>. Corner ct 8th Ave snd Skafmore Sunday vv 01 ship 11:00 AJM. C h ris tia n Youth F ellow sh ip b:00 P jv l, (-’rxl arxl Fourth Sundays) bev Thomas btrayhand. M in is te r >0 A,.\l. a< Vancouver Ave. First Baptist Church 3138 N. Vancouver Ave. Phone 282-9496 Svndoy School 9 :0 0 A M Morning Worship , 1-00 A M Dr. O.B. WWiaau, P u ter " T h , CVireh W it, A Haar—F a it Walcema” - a * yAethodisf 4 5 ( 2 8 N.E. 8th A. Lee Henderson, Minister Politics (Continued from page 2) the convergence of these forces that makes It possible for us to deploy our forces In such a way that “ hands that picked cotton can pick P resi dents.” But the other Issue is that they w ill also pick the C h air men of Congressional Com mittees and w ill decide who runs the party of their choice from day to day when the calls come In from the court house and often the White House, clearing some con tract or some project tor some Congressman's dis trict; or giving sanction to a Judicial appointment or redlining some disapproved federal sinecure. In other words they have a say about tunning the party too. As 1 have stated time and again . . . there are 500,000 (one half million) unre gistered black voters In Chi cago. In fifty crucial cities blacks comprise more than 30 per cent of the population and in 16 of these cities over 50 per cent. We have estimated 6 m il lion blacks are unregistered. If Gary, and the Black P oli tical Convention had any meaning at all It was again, that hands which once picked cotton can now pick P resi dents. Ihe challenge. If upheld (arxl we have reason to be lieve that It w ill be upheld In substance) w ill determine that those previously ' left out" In the selection and slat ing process, w ill be brought In. Perhaps It la the one clear mandate from a national party that as Democrats, It Is most Interested In demo cracy, not the Democratic party label. t I I i I I I ♦ I I CARE FOR BABIES IN YO U R HOME. Cbinrtj of Dour Cboia 2 8 8 -5 4 2 9 C otton, Associate Minister n DAY CARE MOTHERS munlty, Chicago; American Indian Movement Center, M in n e a p o lis ; Mexican- American Unity Council, San Antonio. (E d ito r’ s note: The Demo cratic National Convention up- help the challenge, unseating M ayor Daley and his entlre59 member delegation.) Zest of Life By C a rn e g ie " H a p p y " Pullen Ovurch School Mocn.ng W orihip Wed Noon — in« Hour of Power Wed Prayer & Clots Meeting 9.45 , m ll;00 am 12:00 noon 7:30 pm Nurtery Core Provided W e ere m e h m g o u r N e ig h b o rh o o d A B ro th e rh o o d " ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■•■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Doea God have a body? Wall, think about it for a while. In the beginning Cod said, " l et us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion.” Gen. 1:26. “ And the Lord appeared unto him (Abraham) in the plains of M am ra: and he sat In the tent door in the beat of the day; “ And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and Io, three men stood by him; and when be saw them, he ran to meet them . . . and bowed himself toward the ground and said, ” ’M y Lord, If now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. " ’ Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves un der the tree. ” ‘ I w ill fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall peas on; for therefore are ye come to your servant.’ "And they said, ’So do, aa thou hast said . . .’ "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave It to a y ixing man; and he hastened todreas It. "And he took butter anil m ilk and the calf, which he had dressed, and set It before them; ami he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat . . . "And the Lord said unto Ab raham, ’Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, ’Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?’ ’ " ’ la there anything too hard for the LonJ7 At the time appointed , w ill return to thee, according to the time of life. Pa?c - CX*«* or-d A N O t r w $ C A T H O iiC CMU1CM $T R«v. T. N. Stava l'uor and David Claim a asiat with construction project. Klchard Hughes, executive director of the Oregon arxl G reater Portlarxl Council of Churches, anouuced today the appointment of the Rev- etend Rodney I. Page as Associate D irecto r of the G reater Portland Council of Churches. P rio r to being named associate d irecto r, M r . Page was for the past two years D irecto r of the Center for Urban Encounter, a delegate agency of the GPCC. and prior to that. M r . Page was Carri es M inister at Kolnonla House, located at Portland State l.nlverelty, fo r over seven years. M r . Page’ s responsibilities for the Council w ill include Continuing Education. C hris tian Education, C rim in al Jus tice System, Communications, and Public Education. M r . Page attended Drake University, the University of Chicago, and Texas Christian University. He holds the Bachelor of A n s and Bachelor of Divinity degrees. After graduating from T .C .U M M r . Page came to Portland, O re gon to become the Associate M inister of P lrs t Christian Church and the Campus M inister at Portland State University for tie Christian Church (Disciples of C h rist). M r . Page served in this posl- ÿ I Be true to thyself I was reading In a book a while back talking about how the Christiana fight amoung themselves. We get the wrong idea about fight. We go around fighting one another. We have heard that • Christian must fight. So we pick up against our neigh bor. But as Christians we sre called to a ministry of reconciliation. This m inistry is not simply to ourselves, as peace In the church, along way from that. As long as you are a child of Cod’ s there N offa will be trouble In the church. Jesus has said ’ ’F o r my name sakes, there will be trouble.” But we must learn to fight as Christians, we must leam plines. 1 refer to the wrest to fight In the church like ling and contending that goes Christians, you see, because on among us in church, and *e are called to fight like haa from the beginning. Paul Christians In the world. The writes to the Corinthians purpose of our learning thia Church ( I Cor L L :I8 -I9 ) about in the church la to equip us the divisions among the for our m inistry in the world. Church. How can an unreconciled Paul was not surprised to church m inister to an unre find divisions and factions. He conciled world7 it is not was concerned that their com that we must sente all our ing together as a church was differences In the church be not for the better but for the fore we can venture forth in worse. This teaches us that a ministry of reconciliation. we are not made in the image But we must bo toughened of one another we don’ t see more fo r battle than most of eye to eye all times. But us are today. We liave lea med * e at Christians don't have how to avoid conflict and con to fall out and fight one troversy. We must now leam another. When these dif to engage in It. Not simply ferences come we get tougher for ourselves, but for tough and tougher. We can stand ening ourselves in places nose to nose fo r days and where we are to weak, so days and never see eye to short, so wrong. eye. ButinCod's work, James S tu n doesn’ t try to make states: "How can two walk to a bad man bader. He just gether unless they agree.’ ’ makes him think what he ia So as long as we travel doing is not bad. He makes widely, move from job to job, him think shortcoming is a go off to college and m ilitary cool thing to do at this point. service, there w ill be more Not to do more wrongs but and more conflict. "W omen’ s when we do wrong to justify L ib ” and "Generation gap’ ’ what we are doing with a describe other developments right mind. that increase conflicts and Toughening our ministry— confrontation. But as C hris But how7 Our question falls tians when we pray con naturally into three parts: tinually, work hard, and fight (1) What does it mean to fight7 hard, we w ill lind ways of (2) In Church; (3) Like Chris getting Cod’ s promise over tians. We w ill take up «I to the unsaved not seeing eye today. to eye all the times, but being When we suggest that we able to work with people and learn to fight, we certainly for people, living a life that do not mean fisticuffs, we you can show God in you; are not called to train In box not fighting among one ing, wrestling, karate, judo, anotber-but fighting Sin on or any other physical discl- all hands. Thunday July U , » 7 2 and Sarah shall haves son.“ ’ your body snd your spirit, Gen. 18:1-5, 7-8, 13-14. Bible which are God’ s ." lC o r.6:19- history attests to the truth of 20. this account. But be who obeys not The Apostle Paul wrote oi C h rist’ s words Is not a servant Jesus, " In Him dwelleth all of C hrist, but a servant of Sa the fullness of the Godhead tan; fo r he that serves not bodily.” Col. 2:9. Cod’ s w ill semes Satan. And Jesus Himself said, "Know ye not, that to whom "Believest thou not (hat I am ye yield yourselves servants In the Father, and the Father to obey, his servants ye a re to In me. The word s i speak unto whom ye obey." Rom. 6:16. you, 1 speak not of myself; but “ Wherefore when He Com the Father that dwelleth in me. He doeth the works. eth Into the world. He saith, 'Sacrifice and offering thou "B elieve me that I am In the wouldst not, but a body hast Father, and the Father In me; thou prepared fo r m e.' " Heb. or else believe me for the very KM. works sake.” John 14:10-11. "Now the body is not for for ” 1 and my Father areone." John 10:30. nication, h it for the Lord; and Che Lord for the body.” I Cor. One might say, God has a 6:13. "W e look for the Savior Rev John H. Jockton body because He has C hrist’ s Phone 284 1954 body: . . . who shall change our vile Minuter 9 o m Sunday School body that It may be fashioned It la very logical that a man N.E First ond Schuyler Morning Worship 1 1 am like unto His glorious body.” who builds an automobile fac Por bond. Ore Vttper 5pm P hil. 3:21. tory and produces millions of Give thy body to God, that It automobiles w ill also have an L t t UB e n B r r t o v o r t / u p a n d d t p a ^ t t o " r u t . may be said, "Cod has a body, automobile of his own; even for He has my body.” though he owns airplanes, yachts and other conven iences. As Rev. M . J . Divine some times said, "God is Just as ef fective with a body aa without a body." Yet God owns all bodies. And what about our own bodies? God did not sell the bodies of men to Satan; but Sa tan stole them away by theft anl stealth and by deception. But Christ sacrificed His body as a ransom, to redeem the bodies of men; If they w illa c - ! cept His words and plan, by j obeying Him . | _ Pastor Bible Class 9:15 am Bible Study Hour Tue pm "Know ye not that your body I Bible Training School 9 :1 5 ,m Chufch Office 288-7241 la the temple of the Holy Ghost ■ 1 Sunday morning worship 11 am Fouth O ffice 288-7243 Brayer 1'uwer which is In you. which ye have j ■ ■ Evening worship 7 pm Wed 7 pm to 8 pm of God, and ye are not your | ■ » a . Youth Meeting F r l 7:30 pm own. | ■ R e v e re n d W e n d e ll W a lla c e Pastor ■ " F o r ye are bought with a AI1 th in g » new in 1 9 7 2 • price; therefore glorlfyCodln Mcuut Olivet Kaptist Church ; .222 n . T s w " S " C e n te r la a im a a RM RNH»l>888B8aBBBIUU8UI8IB8IRuuaia J
