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Berean welcomes
new Pastor
Religion in the News
Reverend W illie Peterson
of
B ible Way Church in
D a lla s, fexa s was welcomed
to the fu lp it of Berean Ba|>-
tts t
C lairch
on
Sunday,
N ovem ber 26th, to begin his
pastoiate th e re .
He is ac
companied
by
his
w ife,
G lo ria , and five childre n:
T e rry , S h a ro n d a ,
T oni,
Deborah, and W lJlie, J r .
An Address to teens
(> God. there lie stood at
the («ginning of a life only
to find 0 « f ir s t d o or had no
knob.
I prayed tle s e thoughts .is
1 drove home from a guy’ s
house
a few nights ago.
P raying Is out tle s e days
fait I do quite a tilt of It
somehow.
I had spent fou r
hiairs w ith three teen age boys
and th e ir Mom and Dad, two
of the teens of which Mom
and Dad left me and ,'a r y l
to talk a fte r tlie f ir s t hour.
D a ry l said he’ d trie d some
drugs fo r kicks, along w ith
some grass, hut the m ore 1»
Father Hengen
did tlie m ore he began to hate
h im s e lf.
(■erson you meet, eve ry la is l-
I asked why. "B e c a u s e ",
nessmsn and storekeeper and
1» said, ’ ’ tin ce you break
little kid between liere and
one rule. Its easy to s ta rt
downtown Is wearing a sign
breaking m o te ."
around ttie ir necks reading,
I said, " L ik e w hat.”
’ A neellrig me aw aiting a
lie said, “ L ik e stealing tie
you'. Include Mom and Da l
fa m ily car. o r tn o ie y from
In on th a t."
the house, o r busting up
Funny thing h a p p e n e d .
som elxxly’ s pro p e rty fo r tie
D a ry l called me up last night
t b r ll l. ”
and sakl, "Y o u know, this
I said, "E v e ry b o d y d ie s
w orld is w e ir d ."
It, why not y o u ."
I sakl. “ S h o o t".
He sakl, "B ecause a guy
He sakl, " I had a date
o r gal searches so hard to
this week and I became m ore
1» accepted by somebody that
interested in my gal than rue.
w le n ru le breaking starts,
fo r
once.
And
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acceptance gets fu rth e r away
and you le g In to hate you r
self and think you aren’t
w orth m uch.”
I sakl, “ C a ry l, what re a lly
turns you o n ."
“ Having people think I ’ m
O K " , lie said,
“ What people,” I asked.
He said, "T h e dopes 1 run
around w ith , m y folks and a
few oth er a d u lts ."
L e is u re is taken fro m tie
Greek w ord " s h a le " iro m
I said, “ Why don’ t you tr y
which ou r w ord " s c h o o l" is
som ething
fro m
now t ill
de rive d.
school, tle re fo re .
C h ris tm a s .
S tart that con*
» is a place of le is u re . J he
tageius disease called ’ loving
p e o p le '."
L a tin s had t ie word "n e e -
o tlu m " which is tte negation
" Y o u 'r e not going to feed
o! le isu re o r ease and. t le r e
me that Jazz « lo u t putting niy
fore, means tu s in e s s .
The
arm around everybody, are
yo u ’ " le asked.
use of t ie E ng lish w ord
"n e g o tia tio n s " fo r business
I sakl. " D a r y l, old fella,
is an apt d e scrip tio n of the
you figu re out tlie how. A ll
very denial of le isu re which
I can assure you Is that
is so necessary fo r the human
e v e ry lx d y you pass In the
m ind.
halls at school, every old
L e is u re is not idleness o r
incapacity, Isit a s p iritu a l
plemented a couple kids at
school on t lie ir clothes and
kJeas.
And I told my Morn
som ething I never te ll her.
'I love you’ ,’ ’
I asked what was w e lr f
about that.
He sakl, "P e o p le think I'm
OK a fte ra ll and | couldn’ t
see it hefore.”
E ve ryth in g today is 4 i rack
ste re o , snap t a i. charge card
and strobe lighted nights.
Hut trip p in g can le
lore
w ithout drugs; It's done by
stickin g you r foot out in front
of somebody. Blowing your
m ind can le done by that
fo rce
which makes rules
breaking redlculous - loving
people. Jesus knew that, lie
suggests In that c e rta in book
that it s p e rson ality s tre tc h
ing as can le .
I finished fry prayer my
frie n d 's phone c a ll: " F Hiding
doors w ith no knobs became
no p ro blem .
Be went
and bought a lunch of knobs
and [jut them on h im s e lf.
Thank you L o rd .
By F a tte r P a tric k Hengen
St. Andrew s Church
The Parson’s Pen
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1222 N t Skidmore
288 7241
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Sunday. Decem ber 3
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ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH
C o rn e r of 8(H and Skidm ore
Sunday School 9:30 aun.
Sunday W orship 11:00 aon.
C h ris tia n Youth f ellow ship 6:00 pun
(xecond and f-ourth Sundays;
Reverend I homas L . Strayhand, .M in iste r
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by C orine W inchester
T le Reveren ■ A lfre d I ,
Henderson, pa stor of Bethel
5.M .I . Church
l this week
that social aw reness among
c b u rc le s throughout this land
Is le c lin ln g steadily, and le
expressed disgust because
m ost church groups do too
much talking inste id of ad
dressing them selves to tte
needs of t 'e poor.
Reverend Hemlerson de
cla re d that even though the
chu rch’ s p rin c ip a l fat etion is
to save souls. it also has a
social re sp o n sib ility to the
poor.
“ T o tru s t in the Redeemer,
to obey Him fro m delight of
love, ami refuse to follow
any other teaching, is C h ris
tia n ity its e lf.”
| . w . Ned-
h u rst. The body of C h ris t’ s
teachings in the Gospel of
the Kingdom of God are as
a ph ysicia n’ s p re scrip tio n ,
ami not one ingredient can
1« le ft out. No m a n 's 's u g a r
p ill', but only C h r is t’ s pre
s c rip tio n , can enure men of
the fatal sickness of Sin.
church, lo t also w ith the
adult g e n e ritio n . "T h e y are
tire d of hypocris-. from the
adult g e n e ra tio n ." he ex
plained.
Henderson believes tl at the
solution of the poor rests
with
tte church. He ad
vocated p a t the W elfare am!
Vkar on Poverty would have
never been sponsore ' by the
federal governm ent if the
church had done its job.
Reveren 1 H en'erson. as-
t.
B e th e I y.M .i ,
Church fo u r years ago by
bishop H a rris o n J , Bryan;
said that p r io r tn his
king
over the church, u hai i'y
3d iressed Its e lf to some of
the problem s of the com -
mur, ity . " r here ■ ■ - llways
much
talking w thout ac
tio n s ." he note.:.
Reverend Henderson ex
plained that when he was
offered the assignm ent, he
hesitated to accept it re
cause no pastor wants to
leave Los kngeles.
" I had
I . '.
C< g -eation
m oving, and was no. looking
fo r new hea laches " He aid.
" I t was taith in God and m
the Bishop that made me
• em (he -.ew ■■ c en g e ."
’ Bethel Church, P o r tla n -.
is an opportunity fo r a broa 1
m in is t r y ," Hetsdereot said.
T am re a lly enjoying tie
opportunity to serve. It was
.'«cause o: Bishop B rya n t’ s
Godly u igement to send me
h e re .” he chuckled.
"I
do not wish to !e
re m e m le re I fo r my physical
eccomplfehmente,*'
Prayer of the w eek
In Thy presence, o God,
we hush o u r thoughts to s i
lence, we tu to r uur s p irits in
s in c e rity and w a it to teelonce
m ore tlie tides o* life ris e
w ith in uu r w aiting hearts.
U/r
J \eunt
Oluet Baptist Church
John H Jockton
M inuter
N É First ond Schuyler
Portland, O re
Phone 284 1954
Sunday School
Mo^nmg Worship
Vesper
UB BfUtr to UforB/up a rid d e p a r t to B true
Hender
son Stated, "h u t what I have
fo re fo r the s p iritu a l u p lift
my congregation an.: tie
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Hen erson hopes to build a
vouth center and to im ple
ment
t ’e
R etfel Church
m otto: "W e are m aking our
' eighborhoo: a b ro th e r 'i o
W ith
s u b sta n d a rd housing
and unem ploym ent so high re
urged the je o p le of ylbin.i
to not let C ongre-sw or it
L d itl
Green
f< rget
thai
blacks are a part of her is -
t r ic t too.
M rs . Green has
leen representing onlv p a rt
of her d is tr ic t.
T he V e
C itie s constituents h.av
ve-
forgotten, he conclu e .
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Vancouver Ave. First Baptist Church
313S N. Vancouver Ave.
Phone 282-9496
Sunday School
9 00 A M
, ]. qq
Motiving Worship
Church Dr. O. B. Williams, Pastor
‘ e dhurch with a .he art-fe lt w e lcom e "
Draw us close tu I lee , n :
hold us fast lest we go a s tr iv .
"vave us :ro m false choices
and poor judgment. Give us
tl:e g la ce arc good m a in e rs
of tte M a ste r.
Welcome
^Aethodisf
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Sunday, Decem her 3, 1972
Church of the Living God
A. Lee Henderson, Minister
j¡
5828 N.E. 8th
Sunday School 9:45 a j n .
Church Service
11:00 aun.
Evening Service
7:30 p jn .
Serm onette:
"W isdom is many things like liv in g fo r the day”
T u n Stafford - M in is te r of M usic
B eth el's His to Tacoma leaves 12:45 Sunday
Church School
M orning W orship
Noon — me Hour of Power
W ed Prayer & Clo»» Meeting
9:45 am
11:00 am
12:00 noon
7:30 pm
6401 N.E. 10th Avenue
Reverend T. N . N o ffa
N ix ie ,y Core Provided
" M A r n g our Neighborhood A B rotherhood'
'Come Alive'
Come to Jesus’
Church of
Co"’e Alive
the Living God
P.G. of T. Temple # 3
IIGHLANI
900 NE Ainsworth Portland, Oregon
Sunday School 9:45 aun.
T. U.
6:00 pun.
P ra y e r Service
J u n io r Church
M orn ing S ervice 11:00 a.m .
Evening Service 7:30 pu n ’
Wednesdays 7:30 pun.
F rid a y 7:30 pun.
Pastor Rev. S. Green 111
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CaoexA S
ST A N O S IW S CATMOllC CMUtCM
Social awareness
in churches declining
He
urge I
m in is te r s
and m o ra l quality of t ie soul.
throughout the country to lis
It has nottdng to do w ith ex
ten atten tively to tte eco
terna l fa c to rs .
nom ic and social c n of the
poor instead of g lo rify in g
Silence is something like
that w ordlessness which hap
them selves.
tens
le tween
lo v e rs .
\s
"I
am ¡u lly aware that
M a lte rh n k said. " I t is only
m ost pastors do not rea lize
before strangers that we m ust
that they h a v e social re
s je a k ."
spo nsibility
to th e ir flock;
1 rue le isu re is not an in
tu t 1 would ask that they
te rru p tio n
from
w o rk
a
re-exam ine th e ir conscences
coffee break o r a recess.
and fe g in to take the poor
L e is u re Is ihe capacity to
s e rio u s ly ,” he le clare d.
raise the heart ami m ind out
Reverend Henderson said
of t ie w o rk-a -d a y w o rld to
that young people today are
get In touch w ith Ihe s u (e r-
not only d isillusio ne d with
human life -g iv in g powers.
Throughout histo ry there
was land that was set up fo r
a tem ple, and that land was
regarded as holy.
So too.
there was a tune separated
from w o rk which also w is
related to t ie tem ple, o r
w o rsh ip . Hence tie seventh
day was the day of re s t and
w o rsh ip . As w orship passes
out of life , le isure becomes
By C arnegie " H a p p y " Pullen
im p ossib le .
As Baudelaire
w ro te :
"O ne m ust w o rk, if
not fro m taste, then at least
fro m d e s p a ir." W ork Is ac
EVERY "J O T AND T IT T L E "
of
C h r is t’s
In stru ctio n s'
cepted because it is less
boring than pleasure.
What does C h ris t re q u ire ’
He req uire s the fu lfillm e n t
Russia emphasizes "th e
w o rk e r” and not the person,
of " e v e r y jot and t it t l e " of
such Is one of the effects of
H is in s tru c tio n s '
It should
the denial of le isure fo r the
not be considered strange
that C h ris tia n s are expected
m ind and w orship, fo r re
m inding us that tlie whole of
to p e rfo rm a ll of C h ris t’ s
our being is not satisfied w ith
in stru ctio n s, eve ry jo t and
six days of p ro fit m aking.
tittle of them . God s t ill re
qu ire s
total obedience of
W here there is cu ltu re , there
men. (C h ristia n s), if they are
Is le is u re : and where there
Is le isu re , there Is w o rship .
to reside in His Kingdom
here on earth; even as He
Dostoevski has said. " A
req uire s the total obedience
m a n w lo hows down to nothing
of angels.
" T h y Kingdom
can never (w ar the bunlen
of h im s e lf.”
com e. Thy w ill be done on
earth, as it is in Heaven."
B elieving on C h ris t means
also le lle v in g on H is words
enough to do them . Believing
WELCOME T o
on C h ris t without le lle v in g
ST. M A R K ’S BAPTIST
in B is words, to do them,
CHURCH
is an em pty ami meaningless
H9 N, I-.. M o r r is
te lle f, and Is a colossal and
Sunday Service 9:15/11:00 a uti .
fatal deception.
I veiling S ervice 7:30 p.m .
" I f ye continue in (obey)
Reverend E dw anl W ild e r
m y w o n !, then ye are my
d iscip le s Indeed; And ve shall
know the truth and the truth
shall make you fr e e . " John
8:31-32, But not if you don’ t
obey.
" | f ye abide in me.
and my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye w ill,
and It shall be done unto
you.”
John
|5;7.
"T r u e
C h ris tia n s are commanded to
w ork gre at m ira c le s .” John
14:12.
MARANATHA CHURCH
Chow
Share
with
z Others
public
reception
fo r
the
Pete, »on« to give the com
me- ity an .pportum ty to meet
him and fus fa m ily .
Nover,d « r
Cbt Chimi) öf Boni
Reverend S ylvester Green
i l l . Pastor -,f tfceChurcl o f the
L iv in g God, p.c. of T , T e m
ple #1 announced the "G ran d
(ipentng ’ of t l« new church
G lid in g at 900 N . E . A in s
w o rth s tre e t on Decem ber 4,
J97? at the 11:00 a,m . s e rv ic e .
C onsecration services w ill
le field throughout fie c e m fe r
-'4th , at which tim e
the
church w ill be dedicated.
Pastor Peterson
is planning a
Zest of Life
’
I
Grand
opening
,<s
Reverend
Peterson
has
teen associate pastor, B ible
teacher, and C h ris tia n Edu
cation D ir e c to r . Be g ra d
uated from Southern Bible
T ra in in g School at D allas
B ible College and lias done
post
graduate
w o rk. His
w ile has heeri active in chit
d re n 's Bible classes, and in
the m usic m in is try of the
church.
Thursday
? k M AV
4635 N. E. 9th Avenue
Sunday School 9:00 a jn .
M orn ing Service 11:00 a jn .
B reakfast 9:00 - 10:00 a.m .
Reverend Samuel Johnson
Telephone: Evenings 287-5341