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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
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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
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8 00p m
Noon Day
Prayer
Friday
"The Pastor Speaks
7 30 p m
Saturday
Morning Prayer
9 00 a m
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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