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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
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tlon until July of 1970, when
he became D irector of the
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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 -
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A. Lee Henderson, Minister
Politics
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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.
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CARE FOR BABIES
IN YO U R HOME.
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C otton, Associate Minister
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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
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12:00 noon
7:30 pm
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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body because He has C hrist’ s
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body:
. . . who shall change our vile
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body that It may be fashioned
It la very logical that a man
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Morning Worship
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like unto His glorious body.”
who builds an automobile fac
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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 -
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cept His words and plan, by j
obeying Him .
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