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Portland Observer Thursday. February 28. 1978
’ NAACP meets
Ma. Teria Hall Pittman will speak at
the Portland Branch NAACPs member
ahip campaign kick-off meeting on Sian
day, February 26th at 4:00 p.m. at
Mt. Olivet Church.
Ma. Pittman is the NAACP special
consultant in planning for the national
convention that will be held in Portland
in June and is in the City thia week to
facilitate planning.
Ms. Pittman has been a staff member
of the Western Region since 1952 and
before that served as Bakersfield Branch
president for ten years. She was the first
president of the Northern Area Confer
ence of Branches (California).
A social worker by profession. Ms.
Pittman is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley.
Portland Rranch President Reverend
John Jackson urges the public to attend.
Calendar
Lincoln's AU-City guard. Kathleen H art, leads the (ardin al
offense in last Friday's 61-23 rout of short-handed Jefferson.
Ikemocrais Karen Parker and Carmen Scott occupied the bench
during the regular season finale. K K Battles sat out much of
the game in sym.iathy for her idled mates
Jefferson .«laved the last 2:20 of the game with four ,(layers,
due to the seated Parker and Scott, and foul problems for the
_ stalwarts.
The game was over in the o tening
ateo, however, as the Cardinals aliened for 20 unanswered
Lincoln- high scoring Karla Neu wert ir r pares to accompany
H art s onslaught and Jefferson enthusiasts beguile the “Oboer
ver" camera. {Photos: Terry Riddell!
Hughes Memorial gains new pastor
Until the beginning of the 70s decade
the Hughes Memorial United Methodist
Church enjoyed many years as a strong
Christian institution in Portland's North
and Northeast communities.
Located
close to the heart of Portland's most
volatile mixture of Black and white, the
church predictably reflected the anger
and fear that touched Portland during the
urban unrest of the now labeled violent
sixties.
The result was a racial split. Since 1970
the church has had no full-time Pastor.
The diminished congregation and visiting
Pastors from the Ecumenical Parish
maintained the essentials of survival.
Through faith and prtience they achieved
a goal recently. Toe church has a new
Pastor.
Reverend Ausl n Ray appreciates the
difficulties whic* the Hughes Memorial
congregation h «s endured.
He also
understands tb it some of the alienation
of both Black rad white members of the
community v ill never be completely
dispelled.
And. whik some would consider racism
to be a weal aess to a church, as it was. in
fact, in F jghes' past. Ray sees the
strength a Hughes’ future to be the
leadershi’ the church takes in under
standing ind aiding the members of its
community when racial, social, economic,
or religious problems threaten.
The church should not mirror the
problems of society. Ray says, it should
lead its people in overcoming those
problems.
"The ministry has to go out from the
church, get into the community where
people are experiencing hell on earth,
poverty, degrading circumstances.
“We have to minister to the total
person regardless of who, where, or
whatever his condition might be.
“I feel it's absurd to think of helping
people spiritually without doing some
thing about their economic, social, and
personal troubles," said Ray.
Ray doesn't underestimate the diffi
culty of the racial mix of his community.
Nor does be expect quick miracles at
Hughes. But he clearly identifies race
relations as a primary vehicle whereby
Hughes can lead the community.
“We must get away from the Black and
white stereotype. That is the church's
crisis of today. That's the community
crisis. Blacks move in. whites move out.
Blacks don't feel comfortable in a white
church. Whites don't feel comfortable in
a Black church.
February 27 - Sabin Community Aaooc.
Maranatha Church. 1222 N.E. Skidmore,
7:90 p.m. Guest Speakers: Nick Barnett,
Metropolitan Human Relations Commis
sion on the Neighborhood Mediation
Project: Officer Bloom. Police Bureau,
will give a crime report; Community
School report.
Feb. 27. Bolar Citiseas lm;>rovemeat
Assoc. Cal) 248 4575 for location. 7:30
p.m. Fair Share housing.
Feb. 28th King Neighborhood Assoc.,
King Neighborhood Facility. 4815 N.E.
7th, 7:90 p.m. Dission of Union Avenue
Plan.
March 1 - Portland Development l o o
mission hearing on Union Avenue Urban
Renewal project. 4815 N.E. 7th Avenue.
Martin l.utber King Scholarship F und
of Oregon will sponsor three plays at the
University of Portland on Feb. 28 begin
mng at 8:00 pm at Maco Hunt Center for
Performing Arts. “Godspell". directed by
Dan Martin; "Soul Gone Home" and "Just
Be Simple" by Langston Hughes and
directed by the Flooney Theatre Com
pany. Also. "I've Been to the Mountain
Top" will be presented at PSU. Park
Theatre at 8:00 p.m. A Fashion Show and
Disco Dance will follow.
M omen in Transition Project will begin
its first senes of workshops oiTFeb. 27th
for women who are undergoing changes
in role identification such as divorce,
separation or widowhood as well as
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Reverend Austin Ray is the Hughes Memorial United Methodist Church s new
Pastor. Reverend Ray is in his second month at Hughes. He comes from the United
Theological Seminary in Dayton. Ohio.
"And racism is as prevelant among
Blacks as whites. The Black must admit
there’s just as much prejudice in me as in
my white brother. We have the same
problem at Hughes as at predominantly
white congregations.
"But alienation shouldn't exist among
God’s people," said Ray.
Ray puts much of his hope for Hughes'
future in the youth of the Hughes'
community. He acknowledges that the
institutionalized racism which many older
Blacks experienced have left scars that
are permanent, that to break the racism
of some would break the person.
“There is more hope for the youth.
There is still a chance for them to be
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