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T ‘DC{ Tiosts Qospet Concert Expand (To y igUt (Diabetes Gospel s best raised their voices to fight diabetes at "A Celebration o f Gospel,” held recently in Los Ange les. Proceeds from the concert w ill benefit the American Diabetes Asso ciation’s (A D A ) African American Outreach Program and the Black C hurch Diabetes Education Program. Blue Cross o f California was honored at the event for its sponsor ship of the Black Church Diabetes Education Program. The program coordinates efforts with 200 church es throughout Los Angeles, targeting 50,000 members. The goal o f the program is to create an awareness about the problem o f diabetes among African Americans as a community health issue that affects everyone. “ This was a special night for gospel fans,” said Carolyn Hairston, A D A 's outreach coordinator for the A fric a n A m e rican c o m m u n ity. “ Many ofthese performers have been personally touched by diabetes. They graciously agreed to help us by per form ing at the concert and jo in in g the fight against a disease that affects so many African Americans.” Gospel greats who donated ? 5 t h A — th e ir tim e and ta len t to the event included the C la rk Sisters, Rev. D a ryl C ole y, M e rry C la yto n , the S ta rlig h ts, N orm an H utchins and T on y W arren. Diabetes is the third leading cause o f death by disease among African Americans. Twice as many cases o f the disease surface in mem bers o f this ethnic group than in their white counterparts o f the saine age"? Beyond age 65, there are nearly three times as many cases o f diabetes in blacks as in whites, with the majority o f cases affecting women. The A m e rican D iabetes A s campus at 633 S.W. Montgomery. It sociation is the n a tio n ’ s leading is a non-profit organization dedicat v o lu n ta ry hea lth o rg a n iz a tio n ed to education regarding the world ’ s su pp orting diabetes research and religions, including Jewish, Muslim, education. It serves the entire by n n i v e n ^ p CELEBRATION«/------ y Phone 297-6100 to register YOUR " You have the right to remain faithful. Anything you say or do can be done w ith love to the glory o f God. You have the right to forgiveness o f sin. You have the right to an attorney [Jesus Christ] to stand before God to petition in your behalf. You have the right to know Jesus Christ died for your sins that you can inherit eternal life. You have the right to ask Jesus to forgive your sins, change your heart, and to receive your rights right now! <£t. ^/[anJz USafitLil CJuvuofi 103 NE Morris St., Portland, OR 97212 Sunday School - 9:30am Sunday Morning Worship Service - 1 1:00am Sunday School Teacher’s Meeting Tues - 6:30pm Bible Study Wednesday 6:00pm Prayer Meeting Wednesday - 7:00pm Church Phone Number 287-7457 We Invite You To Come And Worship With Us. The Church Where Everybody is Somebody And Christ Is All. Dr. Joe S. Hardie, Pastor FAITH TEMPLE CHURCH i 4224 S.E. 62nd Avenue (between Powell & Foster) i Portland, Oregon 97206 I SUNDAY Sunday School 9 30am Morning Worship IO:45am Evangelistic Service 7:30pm Tuesday Pastoral Teaching 7:00pm FRIDAY Evangelistic Service 7:00pm D A ILY Prayer 12:00pm 8t 6:00pm (503) 774-5470 PASTORS: Bishop Robert Simpson. Jr • Dr Ida M Simpson churches in St. Louis, but it was through the influence and encour agement o f her grandfather and two uncles, all active blues musicians, that she was first drawn to perform music outside o f the church. In the Fontella Bass was bom into the world o f gospel. Her St. Louis up bringing under the charge o f her mother, the singer Martha Bass who and With Advanced Registration - Childcare to age 11 Portland First Church o f the Nazarene 6100 SW Raab Road (Sunset Hwy at Sylvan Exit) V ictor V. Pierce; (503) 288-2959 P earl V ambrace Move over, world. FontellaBass is back. And according to the title o f her latest album, she’s “ N o Ways Tired.” Dealing with pain and confusion from a broken relationship? Portland First Church o f the Nazarene is offering a divorce recovery workshop “ Picking Up the Pieces & Starting Over” 6 Tuesday Evening Sessions A p ril 25-May 30, 7-9:00 Cost - $45 - includes handouts d churched and un-churched,” he said. S pring classes include: A p proaches to R e lig io n (P h ilo s o phy), W o m en ’ s S p iritu a lity and F e m in is t T h e o lo g y (W o m e n ’ s Studies), The B ib le as L ite ra tu re (E n g lis h ), The R e lig io u s R e fo r- m a tio n s o fth e 16th C entury ( H is to ry ), and L ite ra tu re and T h e o lo gy (E n g lis h ). Future classes in c lu d e C o s m o lo g ie s : Past and Present; L iv in g R e lig io n s o f the W o rld ; plus others that w ill e x p lore re lig io n and the e n v iro n and lay religious leaders from the community, administrators and fac ulty from PSU, M arylhurst College. University o f Portland, Warner Pa cific College and Western Evangel ical Seminary. I t ’s supported prim arily through grants and donations and through the mostly donated work o f its members. “ The make-up o f the center’s board o f directors underscores our b elief in diversity,” said Harder. “ In addition to scholars, university fac ulty and clergy, we have an artist, a professional clown, an insurance m ent, the fa m ily , gender and health. agent, a student, a housewife and a community organizer. Such variety guarantees that our exploration o f religions and issues is an adventure.” For more information, contact Harder at 226-7807. The center also sponsors a steady stream o f lectures and discussions. The center's 24-member board o f directions is comprised o f Port land Campus M inistry staff, ordained The Cf ospeiAccording To (Fontetta (Bass more than 800 a ffilia te s and lo ca l c h a p te rs in c o m m u n itie s th ro ug h ou t the U n ite d States. Formore information about how to develop a Black Church Diabetes Education Program, please call Carolyn Hariston, A D A at (213) 381 - 3639. Separated, Divorced? • • • • • Christian, Buddhist and Hindu. Center participants are dedicat ed to critical and scholarly inquiry into areas o f mutual interest within each o f the faiths. "R e lig io n s , re lig io u s oppres sion s and re a c tio n s fo r and against re lig io u s influences have pow ered im p o rta n t s o cia l and p o litic a l events th ro ug h ou t h is to ry ,” said Rev. P h il H arde r, president o f the center and an ecum enical m in iste r. Harder said there are current divisive social issues upon which religion and ethics have a bearing. "W e hope to explore these events and issues from a variety o f spiritual perspectives and to promote con structive dialogue and coexistence among fa iths and between the co m m un ity through the e ffo rts o f thousands o f v o lu n te e rs fro m ^ o r tta n i» ® b s e ru e r V The Center for the Study o f Re ligion at Portland State University recently received a $20,000 grant from the C ollins Foundation. The money w ill be used to cre ate new space for the center and pay for computers and internet access. The computer hook-up w ill pro vide a “ virtual library” with access to books and periodicals from all over the world and eventually to become a clearinghouse o f written materials and videos to respond to local and regional needs for the study o f re li gion. The center was opened in 1993 and is located across from the PSU .V “ There are a lo t o f people g e ttin g on the gospel boat, th in k ing it s a fad. I d o n ’ t have a ny th ing against them. I ju s t th in k i t ’ s som ething that should be fe lt by the person w h o ’ s s ing ing it. T h a t’ s what makes it pure. W hat comes from the heart reaches the heart.” ensuing years o f her early adulthood, Fontella would be invited to perform and record with such musical greats as Little M ilton, O liver Sain, Albert Fontella Bass" new gospel al bum on Nonesuch Records' Am eri King, M uddy Waters and Bobby was a protege o f W illie Mae Ford Smith and toured with the renowned McClure. She recorded for Ike Turn can E xplorer series, “ N o Ways C lara Ward Singers, and grandmoth er’ s label, Bobbin and ultimately Tired, is a joyous and roof-shaking er Nevada Carter, another signifi C hicago’s Chess Records, where celebration o f these musical roots. cant voice in gospel, found Bass hon “ Rescue Me” was first brought to life Backed by such headlining talents as ing her piano-playing skills at the age -- and to the attention o f the world. David Sanborn, W orld Saxophone o f five in funeral parlors, later ac But in the years follow ing, Bass, Quartet's Hamiett Bluiett, and Lester who had married trumpeter Lester companying and singing with her Bowie (now her ex-husband, amica mother and grandmother on tours Bowie in the early 1960’s and borne bly), Bass works a combination o f throughout the South and in church the first oftheir four children to come, vocal power and tenderness to heart became disenchanted with the record es nearer home. L ittle did she know warming and foot-tapping effect, business. She spent the 1970’s in then that twenty years later, in 1965, producing such highlights as “ Ever France and then back in St. Louis, she would record a smash R & B sin lasting Arms” , “ This L ittle Light o f continuing to perform in both loca gle, netting her a gold record and a M ine” , The album's title track and tions but focusing more on her family dizzying place atop Billboard Maga “ This Place I Call Home," which life and on the gospel music most zine’s pop and R & B charts. That Bass herself wrote. Said Bluiett o f strongly associated with it. “ Gospel single was “ Rescue M e.” But a lot his first collaboration w ith bass happened to Bass before the phe was something I ran away from, be (W SQ ’s 1994 album, “ Breath o f nomenal success o f the song, and cause I was raised on it,” Bass says, L ife” ), “ She came in and started sing even more has gone on in the thirty “ but I fin ally realized that music is ing Suffering with the Blues' at the years since. about emotion and feeling, and it D u rin g her teenage years, really doesn’t have anything to do Fontella Bass continued playing reli with labels... Gospel is music I know gious music and employed her con totally, and the music I ’m most re siderable instrumental skills as or laxed with. I can just sit down at the ganist and pianist for a number o f piano and really be creative. Lighthouse Church Of God In Christ . 8138 N Hudson Portland, OR 97203 (503) 283-3558 * Church (503) 283-0169 * Home Elder Tom Moore, Pastor piano, in perfect B flat. W ithout stop ping, she went to the piano and began accompanying herself, s till in per fect pitch. Everyone sat there with his mouth wide open.” The vocal a b ilitie s so e v i dent in her 2 0 ’ s have came to fu ll m a tu rity at 54; the flo u ris h in g range and the elevated expres siveness reveal an a rtis t c le a rly at the height o f her powers. “ They say it takes tw e n ty years,” she rem arks, “ to come in to w hatever career you get in to ... T h e re 's no substitute fo r e xpe rie nce .” A b o u t the num erous ongo ing request she gets fo r “ Rescue M e ” she says, “ I d o n ’ t m ind. I w o u ld n 't want to be where I am w ith o u t that song. .1 get that over .w ith . A nd then I do F ontella. R igh t now I w ant to w o rk ! Some singers my age are sung out. N ot Fontella. The voice is y e ty o u n g .” I <> \d \c rtis v in SLlic P o r t la n d ( D h s c rtirr . call (5031 2X8-0033. ¿/-Me T/ft/d C h € (if fl J b itM Î > f r o - , Tw o)/corn F a te h V ■ rjfic -, Sunday School 9:30 A.M. V fie n Sunday Morning Worship 11 ;45 AM. YPWW 6:30 P.M. Sunday Evening Worship 7:30 P.M. ■Tteu'tmpe .ïiM t - dfatday 4:0C-7:00fwn Tuesday Prayer/Bible Band 7:30 P.M. Friday Worship Service 7:00 P.M f 'Jn/tete/cry JO: 00am - 6: OO/tm "Come Unto Me All Ye That Labor And Are Heavy Laden. And I Will Give You Rest. Take My Yoke Upon You And L earn Of Me." Matt. 11.28-29 ¿808 We have a place tor you. Come fellowship with us! A Welcome Is Awaiting You! Mt Olivet Baptist Church 8501 N. Chautauqua Blvd., at Willis Blvd. W orship Services 8:00am & 11:00am. Church School 9:30 to 10:30am, Bible Study. Wednesdays. 10:30am & 7:00pm Radio M in istry each Sunday. 8:00am on K B M S A Teaching Church With A Reaching Ministry Dr. James E. Martin, Senior Pastor (503) 240-PRAY f eAio/t/tn Cf/iny ro .A /a tta y f la c h e n (JOS) ¿ 8 8 -5 2 4 6 ^ a u t .¿Missionary ^Baptist (Church 8101 N. Fiske Avenue • Portland Oregon 97203 Church Phone: 289-0147 • Study Phone: 289-1911 Sunday Service 10:45 Sunday School 9:30 Bible Study 6:00 Evening Service 7:00pm Pastor, Re. James C.E. Faulkner
