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Thursday. June 10. 1976
Allen Temple features revival Day camp registers girls
Camp Fire Girl day camp opens at
Camp Tolinda on July 19th. All girls who
are between the second and eighth
grades are invited to attend one of the
eight day sessions at camp.
Girls do not have to belong to Camp
Fire to attend day camp.
Each two-week session operated from
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through
Thursday each week. Girls learn art and
nature crafts; they learn about the
out doors and they learn games and
singing.
The cost for an eight day session is
$6.25 for non members of Camp Fire.
Members pay as little as $4.25 for
Allen Temple C.M.E. Church, 4236
N.E. 8th Avenue, will hold its Bicenten
nial Summer Revival June 21st through
25th. Preaching each night by the Rev­
erend Jesse L. Douglas of Kansas City,
Missouri. Services will begin each night
at 7:30 p.m. with guest choirs and mini­
sters and members of various churches of
the city participating.
Reverend Douglas is returning to
Portland after a very successful Revival
Service here last year. He is a native of
New Orleans, Louisiana and was educat­
ed in the Public schools of New Orleans,
attended Dillard U niversity and Lane
College. He received the B.D. Degree
from Phillips School of Theology, Atlanta.
Georgia and the Doctrate of Ministries
The Christi Crux Chorale of Concordia College will conclude its year long tour with a
Home Concert on July 1st. The concert is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. in St.
Michael's Lutheran Church on Northeast 29th and Dekum.
Under the direction of Professor Dale Fisk, the ten member group of former
Concordia students have spent the last fifty-four weeks performing over 230 concerts in
the Western United States. Performances were given as far away as Kansas.
Wyoming. New Mexico, and Colorado. By July 1st the Chorale will have travelled
over 35,000 miles.
While there was no eei program for the 280 concerts, included in the repertory of
the group are sevcial "Biblical" musicals, folk songs, traditional and Gospel hymns,
and contemporary choral anthems.
The ten former Concordia students are: Joel Keller. Becky Gieschen. and Janie
Rudnick of Portland, Oregon: Debbie Lucht of Molalla. Oregon; Gary Magnuson and
Debbie Gosswein of Los Angeles. California; Cindy Krause and Marty Sipply of
Federal Way, Washington; Larry Gross of Kennewick. Washington; and Jim McCrum
of Longview, Washington.
The public is invited without admission charge.
School.
He served as the president of the
M ontgomery, Alabama Im provem ent
Association, served on the Mayor’s Com­
mittee on Youth Employment, Birming­
ham. Alabama, ran for a seat in the House
of Representatives in the state of Ala­
bama. He is now president of the Kansas
City C.M.E. Ministers' Association, trea­
surer of the M inisters and Laymen's
Council of the C.M.E. Church. He is also
pastor of Jam ison Memorial Temple
C.M.E. Church in Kansas City, Missouri.
He is noted as oe of America's out
standing gospel preachers and one of the
nation's top rated Gospel Singers. He has
appeared in concerts throughout the na
tion and served as a soloist to the World
Methodist Conference on Evangelism in
Dallas. Texas in 1974.
JESSIE L. DOUGLAS
Allen Temple Church invites you to
share in this revival service in this Bicen­
tennial year recapturing the spirit and
fervor of the Black church throughout
American history. Old fashioned prayer
service at 7:00 p.m. with Choirs taking
their places at 7:30 p.m. each night.
Participating guest choirs will be from
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Morning Star
Baptist Church, Vancouver Avenue First
Baptist Church. New Hope Baptist
Church. St. Mark Baptist Church and
Allen Temple C.M.E. Choirs will be
singing as host choirs each night. Every
one is welcome. Ministers from the va­
rious churches will be participating in the
service.
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Black Catholics join hands
Black Catholics from San Diego, Los
Angeles. Seattle and Portland meeting
last Saturday, June 12th, in Seattle
explored together the concept of Black­
ness and how they can get it together"
within the Catholic Church.
There were 172 registered partici­
pants. including ten Black Catholics from
two Portland parishes - Immaculate
Heart and S t Andrew - who attended
the National Black Lay Catholic Caucus
regional conference sponsored by the
Seattle Black Catholic Lay Caucus at
Holy Names Academy.
"Black is everywhere. Black is beauti­
ful. a beautiful concept," the Reverend
Giles Conwill, associate pastor of St. Rita
in San Diego, said in his keynote address.
The young, dramatic priest spoke on
“The Concept of Blackness” and fre­
quently reminded his audience that Black
is beautiful and Blackness is a positive
concept.
He pointed out such images as the rich
Black earth, a Black horse running free.
Black puppies in a window as vivid
examples that "Black is Beautiful.”
Father Conwill’s remarks were fre­
quently met with expressions of approval
from his listeners as applause, “Amens",
greeted his remarks.
“The color of
everyone's shadow is Black. Don’t speak
to me of weakness in the concept of
Blackness," Father Conwill said.
He charged that those who claim the
church should not be involved in political
and social issues are blind Biblically and
are sticking their feet in their mouths.
The tall, slender priest said that the
question which should be asked was:
"What right does the church have to
remain silent?”
“A new race of people, a new race of
Christians is arising and they are called
Black Catholics," he said. Father Conwill
added that there are anti-bodies in the
Body of Christ that work against secu­
larism, prejudice and discrimination.
Father Conwill said that the anti­
bodies in the Body of Christ are alive and
well, that they are Black anti-bodies who
are identifying those transpants of pre­
judice and discrimination and “are work­
ing in the Body of Christ to purify it."
He said “Black Catholics are about the
job of auditing the Catholic Church" and
would continue to be disturbers of the
peace, “just as Christ was.”
Brother Joseph Davis, S.M., Executive
Director of the National Office For Black
Catholics, Washington, D.C., said “the
presence of a Black organization within
the church is as natural and as normal as
the presence of any other organization.”
He added that Black Catholics “are
contributing not only to our own indi­
vidual clarity and understanding, but to
the growth, progress and strenghtening
of the organization itself."
“Black people w ithin the Catholic
Church have organized in order to have a
greater impact on the church, create a
climate more conducive to our full parti­
cipation in the church and to improve the
relationship of the church to the Black
community."
He said that the experience of many
Black Catholics in trying to deal with the
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Church Phone: 281-0163
Sunday School
8:15 a.m.
Radio Broadcast K.G.A.R. 1550 AM
10:00 a.m.
Consecration
10:40
Morning Worship
11:00 a.m.
Evening Service 2nd and 5th Sundays 7:30 p.m.
Communion 1st Sunday
5:00 p.m.
Wed. - Family Prayer Meeting
and Bible Study
7:30 p.m.
Fri. - Bible Class
7:30 p.m.
Prayer and Pastor Phone: 281 6476
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Black Catholics from Portland joined with those from San Diego, Loe Angeles, and
Seattle last Saturday at a conference in Seattle. The Portland Black Catholics are, left
to right, first row, Harold Sibley and Gail Washington, both from St. Andrew Parish;
second row, Eadie Roland, Immaculate Heart Parish; Father Giles Consill. keynote
speaker and associate pastor of St. Rita Pariah, San Diego; Clara Johnson. Immaculate
Heart; and Ida Shepherd, Immaculate Heart; top row are, Samuel Jackson III, Amy
Powell, Lynne Fortson, Samuel Jackson. Jr., and Clifford Campbell, all of Immaculate
Heart. (Photo Roger Yockey)
church was frustrating and there was
also a need to determine the extent to
which Black Catholics are represented
among the policy and decision making
bodies in the church.
Brother Davis cited the following sta
tistics: there are only four Black auxiliary
Bishops out of 305 Bishops in the United
States and no Black ordinaries; 225 Black
priests out of 56,000 priests in the U.S.;
171 Black religious brothers out of 9,000
and 700 Black religious women out of
143,000 women religious.
He also charged that there was practi
cally no Black professional employees of
the Catholic Church in national, diocesan
and local offices.
“This absence of Black representation
and practices responds to neither our
needs, our culture or our progress as a
people. Our reason for organizing within
the church is to affect change in this
situation," he said.
The objective of Black Catholics within
the church listed by Brother Davis as "to
bring about positive transactions be­
tw een ou rselves and the Catholic
Church."
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Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Sunday Worship 11:00 a.m.
Christian Youth Fellowship 6:00 p.m.
(Second nd Fourth Sundays)
Reverend Thomas L. Strayhand, Minister
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Church School
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two-weeks.
The registration fee includes milk each
day. Each girl provides her own sack
lunch. An occasional cook out is planned
by the girls.
Free bus transportation to camp will be
provided for the first two-week session
only. July 19th through the 29th for those
children who have no other transporta­
tion to camp.
Camp Tolinda is in Northwest Port­
land. near Germantown Road. Parents
wishing to register their daughters for
day ramp should call the Portland Area
Camp Fire Girls: 224 7800 and ssk for
Ruth White.
He said that the presence of a Black
organization within the church is as
natural and as normal as the presence of
any other organization. He concluded:
“Because of the very positive value which
it offers, not only to us as Black people,
but to the church as well, it (a Black
organization within the church) should be
welcomed, encouraged and supported as
fully as possible.”
Brother Davis referred to the Black
Catholic organization as a gift, an oppor
tunity and a valuable tool. "We have
been entrusted with a valuable tool
capable of changing completely the status
of Black Catholics in the church. It holds
out potential not only for us. but will set
the climate for generations to come," the
National Office For Black Catholics exe
;utive director, said.
James McConduit, of New Orleans,
who is president of the National Black/
Catholic Caucus (NBLCC), called for a
national agenda for Black Catholic orga
riizations with active involvement in such
ireas as housing, health care, education,
iood and nutrition, crime and prison
reform, senior citizens' projects, voter
education and unemployment.
“What Black people need is solutions to
our problems and we had better get
control of our destinies,” McConduit said.
Bishop Elect Joseph A. Francis, SVD,
auxiliary of Newark, New Jersey, at­
tended the conference and those attend­
ing that what Black Catholics want is
self-determination, viable options, and to
contribute their cultural richness to the
Catholic Church.
Black Catholics from Portland attend-
,ng the conference were Gail Washington
and Harold Sibley from St. Andrew
Parish; Samuel Jackson. Jr., Samuel
Jackson III, Amy Powell, Clara Johnson,
Ida Shepherd, Lynne Fortson, Eadie
Roland, and Clifford Campbell, all from
Immaculate Heart Parish.
Father Bertram F. Griffin, Pastor of
St. Andrew, and Roger Yockey, a mem
ber of St. Andrew also attended the
conference.
There was discussion at the Seattle
conference concerning the forming of a
Portland Black Catholic Lay Caucus and
there will be further discussion soon.
Gail Washington attended a meeting
thia week in Oakland, California, of the
Black Catholic Concerned Collection
which is taken up annually in various
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Each choice bears the imprint of
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