August 8, 1990- The Portland Observer-Page 3
• Portland Observer
RELIGION
S c rip tu re o f the ‘Week,
I PETER 4:12-16
Paradise Church Celebrates Pastor’s Twenty-First Anniversary
by Mattie Ann Callier-Spears
The congregation of the Para
dise Missionary Baptist Church will
celebrate its pastor’s 21st anniversary.
Beginning August 8 and continuing
through and including Sunday, August
12, Paradise will hold special services to
celebrate it's pastor’s anniversary. The
festivities will commence on Wednes
day, August 8 with guest speaker, Rev.
J. Myers, pastor of Union Baptist Church-
Longview, Washington and music from
the Union Baptist Church choir.
Thursday, August 9, the guest
speaker will be Dr. Joe S. Hardie, pastor
of St. Mark Baptist Church. The music
will be provided by choirs from New
Testament COGIC, Rev. Bower, pastor;
Everlasting Baptist Church, Rev. Willie
Pride, pastor from Vancouver, Wash
ington; New Hope Missionary Baptist
Church, Rev. Walter Smith, pastor.
Friday, August 10, the guest speaker
will be Rev. Chester Staples, pastor of
Greater Faith Baptist Church. The music
will be provided by the choirs from
Macedonia Baptist Church, Rev. Virgil
Allen, pastor and Greater Faith’s choir.
Sunday, August 12, at the 10 a.m. wor
ship service, the special guest speaker
will be 14 year-old Jam es Smith, J r.
from Shreveport, Louisiana. He has
been preaching for five years. At the
3:30 p.m. worship service. Dr. O.B.
Williams will close-out the four days of
celebration, which exclaim the theme:
“ The Gospel Preacher’’ Jeremiah 3:15.
Rev. Raymon Edwards will emcee the
afternoon of worship and praise. The
special music will be rendered by four
choirs: Logan Community Choir, Esta
cada, Oregon; Mt. Calvery COGIC,
Bishop H.B. Daniels, pastor; Provi
dence Baptist Church, Rev. Eugene Boyd,
pastor; Fellowship Missionary Baptist
Church, Rev. Johnny Pack, IV, pastor.
Rev. Robert C. Hill came to
Portland from Shreveport, Louisiana,
where he was bom and raised. Shre
veport holds many memories for him.
For it was there that he met and married
his lovely wife. They attended the same
grade school, Central Elementary School,
the same high school, Booker T. Wash
ington Senior High School, and even the
same church, Springhill Baptist Church,
where Mrs. Hill was the lead soprano, in
the church.
In 1951, they were married. To
this union, six children were bom -three
girls and three boys: Gracie, Ruby,
Anita, David, Charles and Terry. They
were doubly blessed with twelve grand
children.
Rev. Hill came to Portland,
opened a barber shop which is located
on Northeast Seventh and Knott and
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being led by the Lord, opened the doors
of his church on North Williams Ave
nue, where the Miracle Temple is pres
ently located. He remained there for
several years until the Lord led them to
purchase the present building.
Rev. Hill attended Grambling
University for two years until he had to
drop out due to his father’s illness. He,
then, worked very hard to help ends
meet, he had to become the man of the
house and comfort for his mother. After
coming to Portland, he attended
Multnomah School of the Bible for three
years and Southern Baptist Seminary
for one year.
Now, the pastor of Paradise
Missionary Baptist Church, Rev. Robert
C. Hill serves as the first Vice Modera
tor of the Union District Association and
the first Vice President of the Sunday
School BTU National Congress. He is
also a member of the Home Mission
Board of the National Baptist Congress
of America.
When Rev. Hill first began his
ministry, here in Portland, he could be
seen ministering to the down and outs on
Union Avenue. As they sat or laid on the
ground by the store on Failing, he would
go by every day to bring them the Word.
He would say, “ You know? That both
ers me to see those men out there like
that and nobody stopping to give them a
helping hand. These are the very people
that we need to be reaching.” Some
time he would take one home or would
take someone to the hospital. It had
gotten so that they would expect to see
him each day. And when he didn’t
show, they were sorely disappointed.
Many of those men recovered due to
Rev. Hill’s persistence and are now
helping others to make that same climb
out of the much and mire.
That tall, skinny, country boy
from Shreveport came to Portland and
made a definite difference. It wasn’t
easy. B u t-h e didn’t stop until he got
results.
* * * * * * *
Elsewhere in the community,
Rev. and Mrs. Donald T. Frazier cele
brated their second year as pastor and
wife of the Mt. Sinai Community Bap
tist Church, located on Northeast Sixth
and Prescott Streets.
Born in Portland, Oregon, Re v.
Donald Tyrone Frazier is the son of Joe
Frazier (deceased) and Cecile Frazier of
Milner, Arkansas. Rev. Frazier married
the former Febecca Ann Dixon on Feb
ruary 26,1971. They are the parents of
three children: Velynn, 16; Angela, 12;
and Donald, Jr., 7. Rev. Frazier ac
cepted the Lord’s call and preached his
first sermon on March 9,1980 under the
pastorship of Rev. Emanuel Warren. Rev.
Frazier was ordained December 11,1983
and was elected assistant pastor. On
May 28,1988, he was elected successor
to the retiring Rev. Emanuel Warren.
Rev. Warren could be heard saying, “ I’ve
retired from the pulpit but not from serv
ice.”
Rev. Frazier was installed July
1, 1988. He is active in the community
and is called on often to provide leader
ship on issued impacting our commu
nity. Rev. Frazier is currently enrolled
in the Masters program at Western Con
servative Baptist Seminary.
When asked about his ministry,
he stated “ My sincere desire is to be the
Minister that God wants me to be. There
is no higher call than to be a servant of
the Almighty God. All praise to him
who is directing this ministry. I want to
take this opportunity to thank my wife
Rebecca and my children for their prayers,
patience, and support of this ministry.
M l Sinai has a definite purpose in this
community. God will manifest his power
and purpose as we prepare for the har
vest. I thank God for Mt. Sinai. We have
grown in grace in numbers through this
time o f preparation. We are truly A
CHURCH W ITH A M ISSION. A n d -
I am a pastor with a message. (I John
1:5) And this is the message we have
heard from him and declare to you: God
is light; in Him is no darkness at all.”
The celebration began August 2
and continued through and included Au
gust 5. Many churches, choirs and their
pastors helped to make the celebration a
spiritual success.
*******
Greater St. Stephen Missionary
Baptist Church, Rev. Robert E. Houston,
Sr., pastor, will celebrate its sixth year
anniversary celebration August 15-19.
1990. Rev. Derrick C. Bosley, o f Se
attle, Washington, will close-out the cele
bration at the 11 a.m. worship service
and the 3 p.m. worship service.
*******
Beginning August 12,1990, M l
Olivet Church will hold its 8 a.m. wor
ship services in the STONETOW ER
CHURCH located on N.E. 30th and
Sandy. Listen to KBMS every Sunday
morning at 8 a.m. to the teaching and
reaching ministry of Dr. James E. Mar
tin, senior pastor of Mt. Olivet Church.
All other Mt. Olivet activities will con
tinue to be held at the 116 N.E. Schuyler
location. For more information, call
284-1954.
*******
On August 19,1990, a special Anniver
sary Service will be held at Morning Star
Baptist Church in honor of Rev. J.G.
Myers. Come out and help celebrate!
Expressing Yourself as a Christian
Excerpted from the A. Lee Henderson book, Your Church and You
“ For as the body is one, and
hath many members, and all the mem
bers of that one body, being many, are
one body, so also is ChrisL
“ For by one Spirit are we all
baptized into one body, whether we be
Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or
free and have been all made to drink into
one Spirit.
“ For the body is not one
member, but many,: Corinthians I: 12:12,
13,14
Dr. Paul Tournier who was a
physician in Geneva, Switzerland, as a
psychotherapist participated in meetings
of the Ecumenical Institute in Switzer
land. They were concerned with Chris
tian faith and medical practice.
He enjoyed Dr. Theo Bo vet’s
story of the pastor who asked his young
people in catechism class, “ What is
religion?”
“ A young boy immediately
answered, “ Religion shows the things
we must not do.”
Dr. Tournier says we shouldn’t
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be surprised at such an answer that may
surprise us.
“ For most of our people today
to be religious means to make a continu
ous effort to be good (like a little child)
and to keep oneself from everything
forbidden.
“ How far we are from the Bible!
Let’s re-examine the great men of the
Bible. What do you find? Assassins,
liars, jealously-blinded characters, trai
tors, puffed-up snobs, adulterers, rebels,
and prostitutes. Don’t me wrong; I’m
not advocating sin; what I am trying to
say is that the religion which the Bible
presents is not a moralistic system.
Religion therein means to seek God and
his grace with utter passion. Moralism
is simply seeking oneself, that is pre
tending to be able to know both good
and evil. It means eschewing every
occasion of error, by virtue of scruple
and self-expression. Taken to its logical
end, it simply means that we do not need
either God or his grace.
“ We can recognize in this fear
of making an error the very legalistic
and childish mentality of which we have
spoken above. Moralism, in fact, con
stitutes an infantile regression within
the churches.”
What is Tournier proposing?
Is he against “ morality” ?
Not at all! He is warning us
against imposing judgments upon our
selves or society in a legalistic con
demnation before we open ourselves to
an expression through God. Because
now he shares a salient truth;
“ Show me someone, anyone,
who better affirmed himself that (sic)
the Apostle Paul! The self-denial re
quired by the gospel is not at all a with
drawal into a truncated life o f perpetual
childhood. Self-denial is the renuncia
tion o f a self-directed life, for the very
purpose of attaining a far greater full
ness under the direction of God.”
It is for the psychotherapist Paul
Tournier that life with God becomes the
greatest adventure imaginable!
He tells us that the “ new birth”
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of which Christ spoke to Nicodemus
includes the Freudian concept of ‘ ‘be
coming adult” and the “ Jungian” con
cept of “ integration.”
And it does mean even more as
Jesus says it himself. It is the Kingdom
of God; it is eternal life.
Indeed, we are urged to express
ourselves as Christians by a metamor
phosis of mind, body and spirit through
our worship.
The drama of the eastern relig
ions swept up many seekers who had
grown tired of the moralizing preach
ment and demoralizing activities of those
involved in the established churches of
the Judaic-Christian persuasions.
But many of these prodigal
wanderers are finding their ways back to
their roots, and to a refreshed religion.
A refreshed religion is made so by the
energetic influences inside the church...by
you, to begin with, and by those who
pledge themselves to always surge for
ward in the vanguard of tomorrow’s
needs.
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