P o r t l a n d / O b 'c r v v t
PO U T L A N D
Mt Olivet holds revival
Reverend John 11. Jackson,
P aa tor of M t. o liv e t B aptist
C hurch, announced tlie te -
glnnlng of M t. o liv e t’ s Ninth
Annual Revival Services.Sep
tem ber 24 to S ep tem le r 29,
The Mount o liv e t B aptist
C liu rch w ill le g ln Its Ninth
Annual Revival Services Sep
tember 24 th - s e p te m le r 29th.
S ep tem le r 24th the service
w ill le le ld Ht 11(00 a.m .
and 5:00 p j n . I In 5:00 p jn .
service w ill In a Youth Ves
per P rogram w ith in r tic lp a -
tlng youth ch o irs of 0 « are a.
Monday through F rid a y se r
vices w ill be lield at 7:30 p jn .
I In E vangelist lo r tlie Re
viva l Services w ill In D r .
M .C . W illia m s , M in is te r of
New Hope B aptist Church in
D enver, C olorado,
T in public is Invited to
attend.
CU in
CHURCH
DR. M . C , WH LIAM S
Food furthers fellow ship
In tier new book F D liD FOR
FELLOW SHIP
COOKBOOK
A nt lunette Kuamanlcb Hat
fie ld , who lias entertained in
a g o vern or’ s and senator’ s
home and hosted two U.S.
P re sid e n t’ s w ives, shares le r
’ ’ se cre ts’ ’ of group e n te r
tain in g.
In 140 illu s tra te d
pages Pie wife oi Oregon
Senator M a rk O. H atfield
te lls how to make tlie m ost
out of social a c tiv itie s , es
p e cia lly in the church.
Aware of t ie alienation that
is present in many ch u rcle s
and f a m i l i e s , Antoinette
w rite s in t ie introduction to
Pie book, “ F ellow sh ip in tie
e a rly Church meant getting
togePier fo r tie (urpose of
sharing and sustaining each
o th e r , . . Today we seem to
have lecom e so fo rm a lize d
in o u r w orship that some
tim es we wonder if tie fellow
ship which sustained tbe early
C liurch has teen lo s t.”
H e r book contains many tips
on Pie cre a tive use of food
in bringing (euple together
and helping them to share
w it: snother.
l i e took is d is tille d ex
perience gained in her years
as an active church mem ber
and entertaining which in
cludes tem g ch a in : ar, of tie
F ir s t I ady’ s p ra y e r I reak-
fast fu r M rs . Lyndon J oh:.sun
and geneial chairm an of tie
luncheon given by Pe senate
wives tu r M rs . R ic la rd Nixon
in |97o. ste as authored two
le s t selling cookbooks, one
which is now in its fifth p r in t
ing.
P is e
■: j A .M .
C o rn e r of d tl Ave snd S kid m o re
sundav W o is lu p il: 0 0 A„W.
C h ris tia n Youth F ellow sh ip o:00 B > 1,
(2nd arxl Fourth sundaysj
Rev, f homas strayhand, M in i s ta r
Her
latest
book,
FDOT
along w ith menus and recipes
geared fo r medium and large
groups and tips on how to o r
ganize food preparation fo r
m axim um enjoym ent of a ll
, a rtic ip a n ts . 1 able arrange
ments and in stru ction s on how
to set up an e ffective lu ffe t
are included with suggesti..-s
on when to use the::.. Re-
cepes are indexed.
F< R F I . L L i W s H Il’, a rra n g e d
in
24 ''a ro u n d -th e -c lo c k ”
sections, is fu r both tle g o u r -
•
sections co ve r every s itu a
tion from snacks fo r p re
schoolers in Sunday school
to the wedding d in n e r. Sug
gestions
on how to use a
p a rtic u la r event o r a ctivity
m eaningfully
are
included
Vancouver Ave. First Baptist Church
313« 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
“ The Church With A H e a rt-F e lt W elcom e“
WOULD YOU B E LIE V E *
— An Irre g u la r stretch of
gra vel, concrete chunks, up-
rooted liv e s , stinking muck,
and trash tliat w as once called
Irv in g s tre e t In W ilk e s -B a rre ,
Pa.?
-- A house sunk so leep in
lo cally
by
Portland O.I.C.
O pportunities
In dustrialization
Center
N . E. Union
Avenue
H eld a t
M e m o ria l Coliseum
Everybody
««C an
Bob Hope, Duke Ellington, Johnny
Mathis, Lionel Hampton, Nancy
Wilson, Ramsey Lewis, Ricardo
Montalban, Rita Moreno, Sammy
Davis, J r , Vikki Carr and many
more, in a closed circuit television
spectacular celebrating National
O.I.C. Day, October 11,1972.
I ickets on sale at theC ollseum , I.lo y d C e n te rM e ie r and I rank,
lic k ts : J HUM) - $5.00 - $2.50
High School and under:
$2.00 (o r $5,00 seats
$1.00 fo r $2.50 seats
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ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH
by Lonoar 1 M . P e rrym a n
Portland O. I, C ,
. I,
(L’tx Chiniti of pour
¿bow
M ethodists aid flood victims
4401
S e p te m b e r
OHS E M EH
Religion in the News
Sponsored
I h nr d a y ,
a hole P a t you an see only
its roof at ground le v e l'
— A b O -y e a r-, Id man with
six heart attacks, a mortgage
on his m u d -fille d home and
facing $28,tHio in re p a ir f ill s
who says, ” ( d course I ’ m going
to r e lu ild . I he L o rd was good
to me: I ’ m s till a liv e ."?
— A
fou r-ch urch
c irc u it
where m e n d e rs Irom three
churches have ome for two
months to clean up, ami to
le lp run a feeding station fo r
100 flood v ic tim s da ily in tie
fourth church that was under
w a te r fo r 9b hours ’
- - A school teacher fro m KXJ
m ile s away who took a load
of supplies to flood v ic tim s
and stayed six weeks to d ire c t
volunteer re lie f operations le -
cause "1 lik e try in g to help
le o p le who feel Cod lias a le n -
doned th e m ."
Dues tliat s tra in c re d ib ility ?
Perhaps not. However, i t ’ s not
what the average I nited Metho
d ia l hears about every day . Put
those are ju st a tiny traction
of the overwhelm ing facts of
natural disa ste r, human suf
fe rin g . hope and C h ris tia n love
thiat make up the story of
W ilk e s -B a rre .
Kingston and
northeastern P e n n s y l n a n la
towns ravaged alm ost beyond
d e scrip tio n by pie June floods.
What are United Methodists
doing in response to tlie m u lti
b illio n d o lla r catastrophe in
five Eastern states ($2,000,000
000 in tlie W ilk e s -B a rre v ic i
nity alone)? A catastrophe that
brought $4,313,000 in damage
and loss to pastors, other
church w o rke rs, th e irfa m llie s ,
church tu tld in g s, parsonages,
homes fo r the aging, a school
and oth er p ro p e rty — not to
m ention uncounted m illio n s in
losses to church m e n d e rs In
homes, possessions, jobs ami
s e c u rity . M ore Pain$2,000,000
of the loss was in the Wyoming
United M ethodist Conference,
m o stly around W ilk e s -B a rre .
The United M ethodist Com
m ittee on R elief (UMCOR).
charged by t ie 1972 General
Conference w ith a mandate for
re lie f/re h a b ilita tio n In the U.S.
as w ell as overseas disasters,
moved Into action along with
many other agencies.
The program at West N anti
coke C a lvary I nited M ethodist
Church now feeds about 100
le is o n s a day, though e a r lie r
m ore tlain 500 meals a day
w e re served, lie estim ated that
17,000 meals have leen p re
pared since the center opened
a week a lte r Pie flood, which
meant only a m atter of days
a fte r w a te r receded fro m tlie
lu i Id lug Its e lf.
Rev. LeRoy
W . F lo h r and Pie Flood R elief
C om m ittee said the program
has meant m ore Pian iusi three
goixl meals a day fo r residents
of flood-dam ared homes In tlie
v ic in ity .
People have used
m ea ltim es as an opportunity to
share
personal experiences
du rin g and a fte r pie flood, pro
viding a “ real psychological
lift,”
Lite National D is a s te r Fund
gra n t, said the Flood R elief
C om m ittee, mean9 people w ill
“ not be forced la ck into th e ir
kitchens to prepare food te fo re
P e kitchens have been | n e r l y
cleaned and sanipzed, or before
fu ll u tilitie s lave teen re
s to re d ."
I lie feeding center is only one
example of bow pastors and
m em bers of churclies in Pie
W ilk e s -B a rre region, and in
a ll floud areas, organized im
m ediately to le lp v ic tin s.
lin e vignette n a y suffice.
F ir s t United M ethodist Church
in Kingston, ore of p e strong
est
in
W yo m in g
C o n ference
(o v e r 1,000 m em b ers', la J put
up a tew building 13 years ago
a fte r a lir e destroyed a fu n n e r
plant, on Ju re 23 tie church
along with m ore Pan 9o pe r
cent of Kingston (on a f it !
flood
plain d ire c tlv
across
” I ' e Pood was a g re a t eco-
from W ilkes-1 a rre went under
e v e le r,’
when Pe bus'iuelanna R iver G om m er, and Pie cen ter has
be ame a Iiv e -tn ile -w id e lake, leen serving ch ild re n of flood
lie
m in is te r,
t ie
Rev. v ic tim s , (Hior, m iddle class
C harles F . Cum m er, J r . , re and
w e ll-to -d o .
"E v e n
if
turned im m ediately a fte r t e yo u 're a fam ily p a t ’ s w e ll off,
floud re.ed ed .
I l.ougl w ater when F a t'e r has to go I ack to
had teen KJ feet deep in b e w ork and M e tie r faces Pe
sanctuary, and though, a le a u ti- Heart-1 reaking task of trying
lu l pipe organ and other e ,uip- to restore a m u d -fille d house,
ment w ere sodden and damaged, some! ody has to Lake care of
the m in is te r decided the churcl the ch ild re n .
1 la t is w le re
should go into service Im our day-care program comes
mediately. W ithin a m atter of m. <if coures, we w ill pro
days, a day-care center which bably get ta ck to ou r o rig in a l
Pie church had ujera te d r in - cliente le, tu t a ew bridge of
c ip a lly fo r ch ild re n of low - understanding among persons
income fa n n ie s was Lack in of dnfere.-it economic levels
o je ra tio n .
(inly now it was can 't help but have .‘ een built
d iffe re n t.
5828 N.E. 8th
A. Lee Henderson, Minister
288-5429
Ellis Casson, Associate Minister
Zest of Life
Church School
9;45 u n
11:00 am
Morning Worship
W ed
W ed
Noon — me Hour o f Power
Prayer & Class M eeting
...
12:00 noon
7:30 pm
Nursery Core Provided
By C a rn e g ie ’ H a p p y ” Pullen
W e are m aking our N eighborhood A B ro therhood"
■ THE SIX DAYS OF C R EA-
T lo N — how long were those
days?
T h is is a question
P a t 'a s ta llie d theologians,
B ible students, and scie ntists
f o r thousands of yea rs. How
long were the days of C re a
tion?
"In
the
beginning God
created the heaven and the
e a rth ,”
says
Genesis 1:1.
1 la t is a com pact sentence
to encompass a ll that has
happened
in leaven and
e a rth — in t ie cosmos— since
Atom I.
But when did G reat ion be
gin; and how long a tim e did
the process take? We o ffe r
no
conclusions,
tu t only
clues.
l i m e did not just teg in
6,000 years ago; no r a m il
lio n , no r a hundred T llllo n
years ago.
S cientists have
had to struggle against great
handicaps w ith atomic clocks,
caibvn dating m ethixls and
o th e r means, and have not
come anywhere near a un
animous fig u re of how long
tim e has existed, o r even
how long tie earth has stood.
T lie earth and moon show
unm lstakeable
evidence of
having hung In the sky, hu rt
ling as guided m is s ile s , o r
'space capsules’ around the
sun fo r some b illio n s of
yea rs, ra ttie r than a mere
few thousand years: as some
B ib lic a l chronologists c la im .
lin e clue is that perhaps
God created the universe In
two states: one stage having
taken any num ber of hundreds
of b illio n s of years before Pie
six days of C reation specified
In Genesis I tegan, This Is
only a theory, but one worthy
of consideration, offered by
some p ra c tic a l and logical
theologians. L e t us consider
the f lr y t two verses of Gene
sis I,
“ In
the
(«ginning God
created the heaven and the
e a rth ,”
"A n d the earth was w ith
P.e sun un til the fo u rth day.
out fo rm , and void; and dark
In the C reation account God
ness was upon the face of
was speaking sp e c ific a lly of
the deep.
And the S p irit of
the tw en ty-fo ur hour day:
God moved upon tlie face of
“ Ih e evening and the m orn
the w a te rs .”
T his long and
ing were the fou rth day.”
alm ost in fin ite process may
Gen. 1:19, The B ible scholar
have teen going on fo r un
wonders how these things can
accounted b illio n s of years
be. In the scheme of C rea
before God began to reckon
tion so many conditions fo r
the six days of C reation as
the elaborate scheme and web
s je c ifie d in the rem a ind er
of life , so greatly dependent
of the chapter.
upon each other, and upon
That God took uncounted
p re va ilin g ideal conditions,
eons to create the vast uni
the C reation as we know it
verse, probably in rough, un
m ust have been cast Into pe r
finished fo rm , before begin
fe ct form w ith a rem arkable
ning to count the specific six
de g re e of s lm u lta in ie ty . So
days of C reation In Genesis I,
many conditions favorable to
does not do vigilence to the
life , and life subsistence,
B ib lic a l account.
It would
m ust have come into e xis
m erely mean we m ust adjust
tence alm ost instantaneously.
o u r lim ite d concepts of tim e
Can lo gica l C h ris tia n s he-
Rev. John H Jockson
to an in fin ite ly longer tim e
Phon« 284 ,9 5 4
lleve th is -1 What method of
M inu ter
9 am
scale. Another question the
Sunday School
C re atio n that fits a ll the facts
N.E. First ond Schuyler
Morning Worship
11am
lo gica l m ind asks is. "W h a t
can a C h ris tia n o r an un-
Portlond, O re.
5pm
Vesper
was God doing durin g the I l
te lie v in g scie n tist con trive?
lim ita b le span of tim e ’ ” But
God could produce as much—
Let us enarr to v o rth tp and d tp a n to m *
He does not need to answer
o r a ll- o f C re atio n He wanted
that
question
unless
He
to in six days'
chooses.
Y et, Jesus said,
“ The C o m fo rte r, which is the
Holy Ghost, whom the F ather
w ill send In my name. He
shall teach you a ll thin gs,”
John 14:26, T here fore such
knowledge
is
accessible
through Pie S p irit.
If we consider the six days
of Creation which God speci
fied as beginning when He
saxl, “ L e t there be lig h t:
and Piere was lig h t . . . and
God divided the light from
Pie darkness.
“ And God called the light
Day, and the darkenss He
called N ight. And the evening
and the m orning were the
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f ir s t day.’ ’ Gen. 1:3-5.
If
we look at the problem In
Church school and Bible class:
10:45 a jn
Pits way it takes a great
g
Sunday m orning w orship:
7:00 p jn .
w eight of c re d u lity off tie
g
Sunday Evening w orship:
7:00 p jn .
m inds of the Agnostics and
■
Wednesday Evening p ra ye r:
8:00 p jn .
skeptics, and the C h ris tia n
a
F rlday W o rsh ip Service:
doubters.
a JERRY HARRIS, Chairm an, I rustee Board
R EV. JuHN PARKER, Chairm an, E ld e r Boar, ■
By the Geiiesis account of
C reation God did not create
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