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Baptists hold
29th Annual
Communion
The Union District Baptist
Association will hold its 29th A n
nual Session beginning July 1st,
to July 8th, 1984 The Annual
Communion service, July 1st, of the
16 area Baptist Association chur
ches, will be held at the Providence-
A rle la Baptist Church, 4815 S.E.
64lh A ve., at Foster Road, one
block south, approximately 15 to 20
minutes from N. Williams Ave. The
Dr. O B. W illiam s will bring the
Communion Message.
REV. EUGENE BOYD. JR.
All other services, including the 7
O.m., Monday night musical, will be
held at the Vancouver Ave. 1st Bap
tist Church. The host pastor is the
Rev. Eugene Boyd, Jr.
The public and all Christians are
invited. There will be dynamic
preaching, singing, and wonderful
fellowship.
The African Methodist Episcopal
Church will bring together 20 to 30
thousand people from 29 countries,
tc attend the 42nd Quadrennial
Session of the General Conference
in Kansas City, Missouri. The week
long conference en titled , "Jesus
Christ — Master D eveloper" will
begin July 8th and extend through
July 15, 1984. Bishop F M . Reid,
Program Planner for this General
Conference, has included on the
agenda, all phases of church life and
Black community development
The General Conference is com
prised o f the Council of Bishops,
the executive head o f the Church
and the ruling body; General O f
ficers elected by the membership;
the General Board and some 1,500
delegates from the C h u rc h ’ s 18
Episcopal districts, who are official
representatives o f the A .M .E .
C hurch. In addition to being a
m ajor religious gathering, the
General Conference is one o f Black
America’s most significant events,
with programs and activities
designed to promote sp iritu a l,
educational, economic, organiza
tional, and political development.
Also on the agenda are several
major cultural activities, including
presentation o f a mass choir o f
1,500 voices, and the play,
R ichard A lle n — A n Apostle o f
Freedom
Preconference activities will be
held Sunday, July 7th. These ac
tivities are sponsored by the Fifth
Episcopal
D is tric t— the
host
district— and will include a banquet
featuring the Reverend Jesse L.
Jackson.
The African Methodist Episcopal
Church has over 3 million members
in the United Slates, A fric a , the
Caribbean and the northern section
of South Am erica. The F ifth
Episcopal District is presided over
by the Reverend H
H a rtfo rd
Brookins. The district consists of 17
slates, including H aw aii and
Alaska.
Sanctuary to get new elevator
After 55 years of service, carrying
millions o f visitors. The G rotto's
elevator w ill receive a body Iran-
planl and begin life anew. The Fred
Meyer Charitable Trust has granted
the Grotto, The National Sanctuary
of Our Sorrowful Mother, $150,0(X)
" fo r the purchase and installation
of a new elevator.”
It is the largest gift to date in the
Vision o f Peace capital campaign,
according to David Burkhardt, cam
paign executive director of the $4.5
m illion appeal to restore and pre
serve The Grotto.
The elevator was built in 1929,
five years after The G ro tto was
dedicated. It has been in continual
use since it first began operation.
Providing the only public access to
the upper level grounds from the
lower level grounds, the elevator
operates daily from 9 a.m . to 6:30
p.m . weekdays and until 7 p.m .
weekends during the summer. In the
winter, the hours are from 10 a m.
toS p.m.
The elevator requires an operator
and when pilgrims want a ride, there
is a bell they can ring to summon the
operator. Summer is when most
visitors come to The G ro tto . The
4th of July week is a peak time and
usage o f the elevator is heavy. The
old elevator, due to its slow speed
and lim itations on load, cannot
handle all o f the visitors in some
peak periods.
THE M O U N T OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH
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10 00 A M Baptism Fourth Sunday
11 00 Communion Each First Sunday
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Oregon Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention National. Oregon.
Portland Ecum enical M inistries. A m erican Bible S o ciety. M b M
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Sunday School 9 30am
Sunday Worship 11 00am
Christian Youth Fellowship 6 00pm
(second and fourth Sundays)
Elonza J. Edwards (Pastor)
We are featuring the
Hour of Power
A Community Firstl
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reclaimed. heelings miracles. right her« in
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Morning
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St. Vincent's
loses program
The St. Vincent de Paul Child
Development Center offers more
than just day care to its prim arily
low income, minority, single parent
clientele.
Its services include such in
novative programs as a remedial
speech and language program, now
in its ninth year. The program
provides language and hearing
screening
and
audiological
assessments early enough to inter
vene before learning problems
develop.
This program is only one of the
services which will be cut at the St.
Vincent de Paul Child Development
Center the end of this month, due to
a 13,8% decrease in United Way
funding. The loss o f the $20,158
represented by that 13 8% cut
means that the center will be forced
to entirely eliminate its two-year old
program (w ith two teachers and
twelve children) and raise all fees
15% ($1 a day per child). Because
parents' incomes are so low, direc
tor Tom Tison speculates that as
many as twenty children may have
to leave the center.
You are Invited to a Revival
July 8-13, 1984 • 7:30 P.M .
“ Consecration to Christ“
Sunday, July 8th
“ Only“
11:00 A .M .-2:30 P.M.
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Robert James. Evangelist
Jania« Lord Winchester married John Aaron Bradford Saturday,
Juna 23rd, at the Northeast Portland home of her mother, Corina
Winchester. The Reverend George Hawkins officiated. Lewis Loren
Winchester is the father of the bride. John Arthur and Joe Anna
Bradford are the parents of the groom.
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
C h u te n ° ’ C b 0 ,t
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phone-
Contact Bill Hunter: 8:00 a m. 4:30 p.m. M F 249 5511.
After 6:00 call 775 3055 Leo Brown 289 1961
Witness for peace persists despite setbacks
by Robert Lothian
The war being waged against
Nicaragua by right-wing rebels
financed by the C IA has displaced
I5O,(MX) Nicaraguans, according to
the leader o f a religious develop
ment organization speaking in Port
land recently.
"These people are suffering,
losing their homes, their crops, their
livestock, and then being thrown in
to new communities,” said Gustavo
P arajo n , a Nicaraguan Baptist
minister and head of C E P A D , the
Protestant
Com m ittee
for
Development Aid.
P arajon said his organization,
which
represents 62 church
denominations in Nicaragua, has
helped 30,(XX) victims o f the war
with housing, food, clothing,
training and setting up agricultural
co-ops. The committee, which was
set up Io aid victims of the 1972 earth
quake, receives much of its financial
aid from church organizations in the
U.S. and Europe.
The government does what it can
but is hard-pressed due to the war,
which is escalating, he said. A force
of 600 contras recently surrounded
and occupied the northern town of
Ocatal, he said, in one of the largest
attacks so far. They burned grain
silos, a lumber m ill, construction
equipm ent, and they killed two
workers at a radio station which
they also burned, he said.
P arajon said the health clinics
and workers are targeted by the
contras, as are schools. "They killed
GUSTAVOPARAJON
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
one of out health workers on the
18th of D ecem b er," he said. " In
our program all o f the health
workers on the border live in fear."
American Christians in the W it
ness for Peace program helped clean
up after the contra attack at Ocatal,
and (heir help was much ap
preciated, he said. Witness for
Peace members live in areas
threatened by contras, acting as a
shield between the contras and
Nicaraguans, and Parajon says the
strategy works. " T h e area where
they are has not been attacked.” he
said.
In spite of the war, Nicaragua has
made progress in public health since
the downfall of the Somoza regime,
according to Parajon " N o polio
has been reported in the last two
years," he said, because every child
age five and under has been in-
noculated Innoculations against
measles, diplheria and tetanus have
also been given, he said.
Parajon said that education and
land are two basics for improved
health. The country’s illiteracy rate
was reduced from 60% to l2 %
during the national literacy crusade,
he said, and many Nicaraguans who
could never a ffo rd land are
benefiting from the revolutionary
land reform program . They are
given small plots of land confiscated
from the huge estates o f the
Somozas and other rich families.
" Y o u can be pushing pills and
shots, but if you don’t have the land
to grow the food, you're not really
doing much," he said.
One health problem that will be
expensive and that will likely take
a long time to sove is making more
pure water available, especially ii
rural areas, he said "Nicaragua
does not have the resources to
develop a sophisticated water
delivery system,” he said, and it will
likely be many years before pure
water, as we know it in the U.S., is a
reality there, he said. Many
Nicaraguans suffer from gastro
intestinal infections caused by
water-borne parasites Dehydration
caused by diarrhea contributes to
infant mortality.
Nicaragua finds it hard to devote
necessary resources to public health
when it must defend itself against
the contras, he said. " It depends on
what you people do in the United
Slates."
Parajon said that Methodists in
Oregon and Idaho helped feed
2(X),(XX) Nicaraguans after the
revolution through their con
tributions to (he Church World Ser
vices Organization, and they have
been aiding Nicaragua in other ways
for seven years.
Parajon lived in the U .S. for 13
years and received a M aster's in
Public H ealth from H arvard in
1968.
He
said
that
most
Nicaraguans have the impression
that Americans know little about
Central America. "O u r message,"
he said, "is that people here in the
U nited States hear us and do
something to stop the aggression of
the U .S . government against
Nicaragua."
Listen to the Prove God Now Miracle Crusade Ministry each
Sunday morning at 8 A .M . on
K VAN Radio 1560 A M on the dial w ith
Evangelist W. Pritchett