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Page 8, Portland Observer, March 27, 1986 Support our advertisers LÏÏ©n@KT Send notice o fy o u r church activities and events to: Religion Editor, Portland Observer P O Box 3137 Portland O P 97206 à RELIGION UPDA TE ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH C o rn er of 8th and S kid m o re Sunday School 9 30am Sunday Worship 11 00am Christian Youth Fellowship 6 00pm (second and fourth Sundays! by Dee Armstrong Hihie History: Cloverdale. Miles f 1466 1356). an English Bible Translator bom at Coverdale, in Yorkshire completed the first Bible translated into Eng lish in 1535. Coverdale brought out his first translation o f the Bible "out o f Douche (German) and Latyn into Englishe. with a dedication by himself to Henry V III. ” this was the first complete translation o f the Bible printed in the English language Nearly all the O ld Testament was originally written in Hebrew; "the small E lo n ia J . E d w a rd « (P aa to rl A Public Service of the Portland Observer remaining portion was written Aramaic, sometimes called Synac. ” The New Testament was written in Greek, "the language used in letters and other writ ings Greek was the language understood practically everywhere throughout the Roman Empire, even in the remote provinces, and was recognized as the language o f the culture." This week’s U P D A T E with fo o d f o r thought "Study to show thyseif approved unto God. a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word o f truth. " — I I Timothy 2:15. Single« S em inar - Register March 29. 6:30 - 7:15 p .m ., $12 per person at Maranatha Church. 422 NE 12th; Friday, 7:30 9.30 p.m , Saturday, 9:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m Speakers Al Hopaon and Mane Trible. Subject: "Maintaining Stab* ity in times of Adversity .” Albina Ministerial Alliance 284 6023 J O H N S T A L L IN G S A S J E S U S M a ra n a th a C hurch W o m en 's Fellow ship - April 6, 11:30 a.m ., at 477? NE 12th Topic of the day: "God is moving by His Spirit with Signs and Wonders Following." Speaker will be Amelia Lanier N o rth P o rtlan d Bible College — Providing quality Bible education to equip Christian leaders for their ministries Spring schedule 1986: April 2 to June 15 — Tuesday, 6:30 ■ 9:30 Classes, Sunday School Success, instructor, Beth Nance; The Book of Romans, instructor, James Coleman. Thursdays, 6 30 9:30, New Testament Survey III, instructor Nathan Barnett; Defending the Faith, instructor Michael Lindsey Saturdays. 12 noon - 3:00 p.m ,. Old Testament Survey III. instructor Rick Danner. For more information please call 288- 7241 THE M O U N T O LIV E T B A P T IS T C H U R C H E First b Schuyler • 284 1964 "Son of Man" provocative "S on o f M a n ," a p ow erful, pro Sunshine Band C o n cert - Williams Temple. April 5, 7:30 p.m ., at NE Hancock. Featuring Martin Luther King School Choir and Emanuel Full Gospel Choir. Public welcome vocative dram atic treatment o f the last years in the life o f Jesus, opened last Friday. N ot a religious pageant, “ Son o f M a n " focuses on the ideas rather than the man — in particular, the message lo “ love your enem y.” There are three more performances scheduled for M arch 29, 30 and 3 1 « . Each perform ance will be followed by a symposium, “ H ard Q uestions," with speakers presenting historical, philosophical and theological insights into issues raised by the play. “ Son o f M a n ” will be presented at Sf. M a ry 's Academ y Theater, located at 1615 S .W . 5th A v e ., in Portland. C u rtain is at 7:30 p .m ., with " H a r d with group discounts also available. Ihcre is no charge for those wishing to attend only the symposium. Tickets are available at Evergreen Events. For reservations, call 242-1984 "S o n o f M a n ," which originally appeared on BBC television and on the London stage, was w ritten in response to increasing w orld tension and the threat o f nuclear annihilation. Dennis P o tte r’s Jesus is far from the gentle, ethereal man so often p o r trayed; instead, this is a tough, blunt Jesus, an angry G alilean peasant de termined to turn his ideals into reality. returned M arch 25 to E th io pia, where M o u n t O livet Baptist C hurch will be celebrating Maundy Thursday, April 4, 1995 at 7:00 p.m. A week o f prayer, liturgy and medita- Our SiwTowful Mother. Beginning with l*alm Sunday, March 31, The G rotto will host a number of I x i N m . worship service?, and events. They are: — Palm Sunday PnxesMon and Mavcs, on Sunday M arch 31. Meet fix procession pnor to masses in main G ro t to atea (weather permitting) Mass times arc 9 a m and 10:30a.m. — Daily Masses, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, at 8 a m. and noon. —On Holy Thursday, Apnl 4, Mass o f the U x d 's Supper will be held at 7:30 p.m . —TkxxJ Friday, Apnl 5, will be high- lighted by 3 hours o f reflection and prayer with Sr. Jose Hobday, 12 to 3 p.m. An evening service at 7:30 p.m. will include ( d eb rau on o f the Passion o f the Lord, Veneration o f the Cross and Communion. — O n Holy Saturday, Apnl 6, Easter Vigil Mass will be held at 9 p.m. —O n Easier Sunday, Sunrise Ecu menical Service will be held at 7 a.m. in the outdoor G rotto area, and Easter Masses will be at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. in the Chapel o f M ary. Call die Grotto, 254-7371, for further inform ation Easter Sunrise Service set The 25th annual Portland Easter the Bible, President Joe A ld n c h , and Sunrise Service will be held at M e m orial Coliseum Sunday, A p ril 7 from 6:45 • 8:00 a .m . This special event is free to the public (an offering a spectacular 400 voice Easter choir presenting Beethoven's “ H a lle lu ja h “ will be taken) and sponsored by the Portland Christian Laym en. pating in this magnificent choral group are choir members fro m nine This non-dcnom inational Christian service w ill feature the inspirational speaker fro m M ultno m ah School o f under the direction o f T o m M iller from W arner Pacific College. Partici Portland area schools, including Jef ferson High School. NEW Y O R K . N Y . — This Pass that home for centuries, are not only demonstrating that special spintual yearning fix Iy a d that is at the hear, o f Judaism, but the hunger fix frcedrxn B'nth and dignity that enobles humanity. celebrate the triumph and passage o f ErhH^nan Jews to hopeful and produc ts « new lives in Israel, “ we pray that the hearts o f the Kremlin oligarchs will he softened and the steel gales o f the Iron Curtain lifted.” The eight-day festival o f Passover begins al sundown April 5. Ih r lull text of the mes.sage follows. “ This I ’assover the story of the Exo dus frx mu Egypt is not just h a n g retold at sexfcr tables throughout the world but reined “Once again the Hebrew children have found an African country inhos they adjust to Israel, our thoughts cannot help but turn to thar and our coreligionists in the Soviet Un- kxi who arc held captive by the modem totalitarian representation o f Pharoah do other needed w ork. They are then paid in food, clothing and medicine, thus helping them to become more self-sufficient. months to assess the situation, study lin oligarchs will be softened and the sted gates o f the Iron Curtain lifted so that Soviet Jews can gun die Beta Israel m a hopeful and productive new envi ronment in the Jewish homeland “ Then our traditxxial Haggadah prayer, ‘Next Year in Jerusalem,* will be joyfully answered ” They superintendent w ill be in of educa Ethiopia two ing ways and means and sources o f getting more food and materials into the country, they will headquarter in A D R A has also set up more centers Addis A b ab a, and plan to come back briefly to the States in M a y , then re in southern provinces. Based in W ashington, turn to E th io pia to stay. W illia m Jensen, an O regon ( The three segments o f “ Holy Week: A W ay o f Living” are "T h e Day o f the las, Supper,” "T h e Day o f the Crua- fixuxi" and “ The IXiy o f the Resume- kxatxxi throughout Oregon including the Sanctuary o f O ur Sorrowful Mother and M adras Park in Portland, ( annon Beach, and Arago Sute Park Producer o f the senes is Robert R ila , Director o f ( ommumcations fix the Pixiland Arch diocese The programs are highlighted by hnef presentations by Archbishop Cor- ndius Power and Auxiliary Bishops man shall sec I he Corù M sm WS 12 M 8 00p m Noon Day Prayer Friday "The Pastor Speaks 7 30 p m Saturday Morning Prayer 9 00 a m S«xWv marrwig K M » A M S w te r KAAA 14BM M ÜW ooooooocooc JESUS WANTS YOU TO BE FREE fro m po verty, pa in , ftiikncss, diseases an d the d e v il’s power BRING THE SICK, EXPECT MIRACLES $' V • ; ï V presents A Healing and Evangelistic Crusade Portland Com m unity College Cascade Campus A uditorium 705 N. Killingsworth — Admission is Free A p ril 5, Fri. 7:00 p.m.; A p ril 6, Sat. 10:10 a m., 7:00 p.m. “ N o m atter w h o you are or w hat you r past, to G od you are so m e o n e .special an d H e se n t Jesus C h rist to p r o v e it!” E van gelist Mark G. H orton COME AND RECEIVE FROM GOD' Ad ventist minister w ho left fro m Leba non, O regon, in Novem ber. ,o help in the crisis situation in E thiopia and other A frican countries, now heads the A frica desk fo r A D R A . Archdiocese airs TV show ing the senes on a variety o f cable ide- vision systans throughout western Ore all tncn.f. holiness cational adm inistrative posts in O re gon since 1974, firs, as principal in Coos Bay, then in Portland as an technologist at the Portland Adventist M edical Center. The Office o f Communicaiions o f the Catholic Archdiocese o f Portland in Oregon has produced a ihret-par, tele vision senes fix Holy Week and is plac Evangelistic Worship been appointed acting principal. Blackwood has held Adventist edu secondary parochial schools. His w ife, Judy, has worked as a medical Because o f their 7 00 p m. vice-principal Lisa Bissell, w ho has ing for labor program where the peo ple dig wells, construct buildings and bon." A ll three programs were shot on “ W e pray (hat the hearts o f the Krem ground and the desperate need there at this tim e, he said he was asked lo come right aw ay. Replacing him at his Portland post to finish out the school year w ill be tion for the O regon Conference o f the church, which has 45 elem entary and D .C ., The Ark of Safety Church of God >uv in Christ back and better sanitation. A D R A conducts a food and cloth gon “ As this associate pressed countries. pitahle and arc forsaking it for the larxl o f promise. “ The Ethiopian Jews, crossing arid wastes to lease a la id that has been Because o f tion over the A D R A health educa tors w ho are leaching better health habits such as a more nutritious diet w orld-w ide agencies which distribute food, clothing, medical, educational and rehabilitation supplies in de the annual Passover message by Ken neth I Bialkin, national director, and Nathan Perimutter, national dircvtix, o f the Anti-Defamanon league o f H'nai The A D I leaders said that even as we technology. , 30pm Sunday Sunday School 9:15 a m Morning 11:15a m Worship 6 30pm Y .P .W W J * Me aHey ef f ie * - where he served variously as science considerable experience in agricultural Along with using the church's hos pital in G im bie and eight area medical clinics in Ethiopia as its central food and medical distribution centers, "A warm spirit of fellowship always" daughters, Jane and Janet, lived in Ethiopia between 1970 and 1973 be director o f Adventist Development which includes teaching the Ethio 84N.E. Killingsworth • 281 0499 have sustained very little interference in their aid program . The Blackwoods and their tw o and Relief Agency, International ( A D R A ) , in that country. pians how to farm and grow their osvn food. H e w ill also have jurisdic Tuesday Bible Band Thursday Choir Rehearsal YOU ARE W ELCOME TO W O R SH IP AT cooperation w ith Ethiopian govern mental agencies, the Adventist teams teacher, business manager, builder or principal at three schools. H e has Blackwood will he in charge o f the feeding program in starvation- stricken areas where A D R A has been involved for nearly three years. He will supervise the development effort 11 00 Communion Each First Sunday I Tuesday Friday A v e ., since 1979, has been called to A D R A ranks among the top seven Ethiopian Jews at exodus over the story o f the Exodus from Egypt “ is ikm just bang retold. . .but re lived'' by Ethiopian Jewry, according to head up an ongoing food and relief program o f the Seventh-day Advent ist C hurch. James E . Blackwood o f Boring, O regon, principal o f the Portland Adventist Academ y on S .E . 97th Prayer week planned non e. planned for Holy Week 1985 al The (« o tto , The National Sanctuary o f they previously spent four years, fo __________ The American Baptist Convention, American Baptist Churches of Oregon Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention: National, Oregon, Portland Ecum enical M inistries, A m erican Bible S o ciety . M .& M Board. DO Portlander leaves for Ethiopia A Portland educator and his w ife John H Jackson, Minister M Ed . M 0 9 X A M Church School 11 00 A M Congregational Worship 5 00 P M Vesper Service 10 00 A M Baptism Fourth Sunday Questions” follow ing the performance a, approxim ately 9:30 p.m . Tickets are $5 in advance and $6 at the door, Prayer U n a. for people who really care: 286-LOVE Classes m Beginning and Advanced Hebrew will be offered by the Jewish Education Association beginning April 1. Additional information may be ob tained by calling the Jewish Education Association Say You Saw It in The PORTLAND OBSER VER Paul Walderschmidt and Kenneth Stein er o f the Archdiocese o f Portland. In Better I w o r o g ] Johnnie Colemon addition, meditative “ music videos" fea ture reuxdings ot the Oregon ( alhoin Press Dramatic sequences portraying the events o f the I a s , Supper, the Ctru- One of the Most Dynamic Ministers of New Thought” afixKXi, and the Resurrection are p a - formed by a troupe o f mimes led by I «> Can now be seen in Remington. Rev. G ary Jackson, asso ciate pastor at St. H en ry Parish in Gresham is cantor. In aditimi to “ H oly Week: A W ay of o f Ijv u ig ," the Office o f Cixnmumca- txxis is also placing a four-part series entitled, "Forgiven,” produced by the Chicago Archdiocese The senes fea tures Cardinal Joseph Bernardin as host and moderator o f the programs CandinaJ Bernardin discusses various aspects o f the Holy Week season hefixe a live studio audience (heck your (a b le listings fix pro gram times and dates. PORTLAND KECH TV-22 WEEKLY ON SUNDAY 9:30 P.M. SEATTLE TVS & 32 ALSO WEEKLY IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANCELES, CMtCO, MODESTO, SANTA ROSA SOON NEW YORK, M IAM I ANO PHOENIX Reverend Dr Johnnie Colemon Dr. Johnnie teaches you how to have a better life starting right now, right where you are She will help you awaken to your only source, God who can change any situation in your life TUNE IN AND LEARN HOW Sponsored Dy jo h n n ie Cotemon M inistries P 0 Box 2865 Chicago Illinois 60604 <312! 487-0030
