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S eptember 13, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver
Tort [and Christian To Upgrade fttfdetics
Providing additional and im ­
proved athletic programs for its grow­
ing student body and meeting its
neighborhood's growing need for
additional facilities for community
teams and events was the goal o f
Portland Christian Schools when it
presented Meyer Memorial Trust
with a proposal for renovation o f its
high school track and fields last April.
In August, the trust approved
the school’s proposal and awarded
$350,000 toward completion o f the
$500,000 project.
The renovation, which is slated
for completion next August, provides
for a new all-weather track to replace
the current cinder track, lights for the
football and practice fields, moving
and re-sodding baseball, football and
soccer fields and other improvements.
“ PCS was founded with the idea
in mind that every area o f instruction
and activity should instill in our stu­
dents the ability to succeed with oth­
ers cooperatively, ethically and with
integrity,” said PCS Athletic Direc­
tor Rich Remsburg. “ Athletic partic­
ipation is not exception to this rule
and in fact, is one o f the most effec­
tive and crucial tools for teaching
these values to our students and the
hundreds o f other children in our
community who use our facilities
and jo in in our summer programs.”
About 15 community groups,
comprised o f hundreds o f children
and adults, use the PCS high
school
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tack and fields yearly. These groups
include the Oregon Youth Soccer
Association and Parkrose L ittle
League Baseball. As well, due to the
growth o f its student body in recent
years, PCS High was advanced by
the Oregon School Athletics Associ­
ation from A A to A A A status, in­
creasing the level o f competition for
PCS student athletes.
These circumstances combined
to push the school’s a bility to meet
the needs o f tits students and the
surrounding community almost to its
lim it last year.
In gaining grant approval, PCS
officials convinced the school’s trust­
ees that the proposed renovation
could
be completed 111 in t * a
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short amounts and time and would
open up new areas for use for PCS
students and the community.
Phase one o f a two-phase project
w ill create a “ Community Fitness
Center.” This project is in fulfillm ent
o f the school’ s Master Facilities Plan
and addresses a recommendation by
one o f the schools’ two accrediting
organizations, the Northwest Asso­
ciation o f Schools and Colleges.
Portland Christian Schools is a
non-denomination, private Christian
school, with classes ranging from
daycare through grade 12 and a study
body o f approximately 900 students
on three campuses, two in Portland
and one in Vancouver.
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A local junior high school dis­
plays huge hallway banners reading,
“ Respect and Responsibility— We
Can Do It Together.” Respect, this
year’s theme, is meant to pervade the
multi-ethnic school. (Last year com­
passion and caring took the lead.)
A t the annual back-to-school
night, our principal took a few m in­
utes to explain the theme to us par­
ents, then turned the program over io
the cheerleaders. They illustrated
respect by lip-synching a bump-and-
grind rendition o f Aretha Franklin’s
song o f the same name. A t the final
beat, they turned around, bent over,
flipped up their cheerleader skirts,
and displayed the word RESPECT,
spelled out on pieces o f paper pinned
to their bottoms.
I nudged my wife: “ I don’t think
they’ ve completely grasped the con­
cept.”
Which is rmiglZy what 1 thought
when I learned o f the existence o f a
movement in the public schools to
teach ch i Idren vi rtuous character. Are
educators, I wondered, really ready
for this?
Still, the very existence o f the
c h a ra cte r-e d u ca tio n m ovem ent
catches your attention. For some time,
public schools have been saying that
values are no, part o f their curricu­
lum. It is news when a substantial
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group in public education says, “ Yes,
they are.”
I have on my desk a brochure
from the Character Development
Foundation in Manchester, New
Hampshire. Intended to attract teach­
ers to a one-day seminar, it proclaims
boldly, “ You can teach kids to be
smart & Good!” Good is defined in
language typical o f the character-
education movement) by the traits o f
self-control, respect, responsibility,
honesty, courage, caring, courtesy,
and friendship. Character edu­
cation claims to teach old-fashioned
values to kids who are not getting
them at home.
It would be hard to be against
such an undertaking. Surely it is part
o f a school’s jo b to help parents turn
their children into decent, responsi­
ble, moderately polite human beings.
Yet it is also hard to entrust character
confidently to the s a tr; people who
embraced the values education o f
Planned Parenthood.
In Washington, D C., I attended
a national conference put on by a
coalition o f organizations called the
Character Education Partnership.
Most o f the several hundred people
in attendance were schoolteachers or
school administrators, cheerful and
energetic people who were launch­
ing character-education programs in
local schools all over the country, or
Presenting
The Harvest Crusade
Don't miss this opportunity to see and hear
this man o f GOD teaching and preaching on the Word
Our Theme
‘E vent ^Features Dinner,
Music, Eas bio ns
Greater Faith Baptist Church, 931 N. Skidmore, is hosting a dinner,
musical and fashion show on Saturday, Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. at the Holiday
Inn at 8439 N.E. Columbia Blvd.
Tickets are $25 per person, $45 per couple or $300 per table o f 12.
For more information, contact Clarence Dorn Sr at 253-9474 or
direct inquires to the church at 287-4345. There w ill also be a raffle for
door prizes and cash as well as a trip to Jamaica.
COME AND SEE
Date: Oct. 4 thru 6, 1995
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Place: First A.M.E. Zion Church 4304 N. Vancouver Ave.
Portland, OR.
cS7/ dddwing lEM riiicry
K enneth Wayne Wilson
Workshop each day.
Evangelist Reverend Dr. Norman Howard Hicklin
Director of The Dept. of Evangelism
of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Renown author of, Witnessing to Zion’s Leadership
sponsored by the
Oregon-W ashington conference
and Cascade District Boards o f Evangelism
of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
M y dad hustles for money.
M y dad has a job.
M y dad M y dad kills people.
M y dad saves people.
M y dad gives me money.
M y dad gives me love.
M y dad has lots o f girls.
M y dad has a wife.
M y dad doesn't care about life
M y dad has an important life.
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The Board and S taff o f the
UREA TER FAITH CHRISTIAN CENTER
North Portland Bible College
CHURCH OF OOD IN CHRIST
is plea sed to announce
a ribbon cutting ceremony, ■
Sunday, Sept. 17 at 3:30 p.m.
in honor o f the opening
o f their New Facilities
at 4905 N. Vancouver Ave.
(at Humboldt.)
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Invites You to Worship with Us!
Sunday Morning 11:30am
103 NE Morris St., Portland, OR 97212
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resented, as were many smaller plac-
es.
To be concluded next week.
3 he LifeChange Program ofthe Union Gospel Mission in Portland is
one o f the 10 national winners o f the Samaritan Award by the Acton
Institute for the Study o f Religion and Liberty.
The awards are designed to honor Am erica’s private charitable efforts
that work voluntarily to solve the country's social and economic problems.
From nearly 700 entries, the Union Gospel program was selected
based on the results it produces, the cost to achieve them, innovation and
potential for on-going success.
LifeChange offers homeless, substance-abusing men and women and
a place to live, counseling, vocational training and employment opportu­
nities. In return, residents work eight hour days, attend school and maintain
sobriety.
As a Samaritan Award winner, Union Gospel w ill receive a $1,000
grant and go on to compete for an additional $10,000 grant in national
competition.
GREATER ST. STEPHENS
Piano/Organist
Needed for area church
Please call
287-3608/281-6575
Carrie or Helen
Join us in celebrating
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thinking about it. Some very large
school systems, such as those from
Baltimore and Saint Louis, were rep-
‘Union (jospeC Mission
‘Wins Samaritan A w ard
Sunday School - 9:30am
Sunday Morning Worship Service - 11:00am
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
WELCOME TO THE NEWLY REMODELED!
ALBINA CHRISTIAN LIFE
LOCATED AT
5522 N. ALBINA AVENUE
PORTLAND, OREGON 97217
PH. 283-1635
BISHOP SAMUEL M. IRVING, PASTOR
SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR ALL AGES
9:46 A.M.
SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP CELEBRATION!
11:00 A.M.
SUNDAY EVENING HOUR OF POWER!
6:00 P.M.
WEDNESDAY EVENING:
WORSHIP & PRAISE!
FAMILY TRAINING HOUR
7:00 P.M.
Everybody is saying:
“ I T 'S L IV E !”
MUSIC • SPECIAL GUESTS • REFRESHMENTS
Come and praise G od with us
fo r what He has provided. v
M y dad thinks about k illin g himself.
‘Kenny'' 1979-1995
M y dad thinks how to make him self better.
I don’t care about my dad.
I love my dad.
Everyone is not the same.
by Kenny Wilson
age 16
Portland, Oregon
A loving son, brother,
andfriend.
We’ll Miss You.
106 N. Killingsworth St.
Come and enjoy Christ centered Praise and Worship
And
The anointed Preaching/Teaching ministry of our Pastor,
Rev. H. Bernard Ings, Jr.
Order of Services
Sunday School - 10:00am
Morning Worship - 11:30am
Sunday Evening - 6:30pm
Tuesday Evening - 7:30pm
Prayer/Bible Study
1st A 3rd Friday • 7:30pm
Evangelistic Service
O NE SERVICE C O U LD CHANGE
Call 288-2919.
Mt Olivet
Baptist Church
8501 N. Chautauqua Blvd.,
at Willis Blvd.
Worship Services 8:00am & 11:00am.
Church School 9:30 to 10:30am,
Bible Study, Wednesdays, 10:30am & 7:00pm
Radio Ministry each Sunday, 8:00am on KBMS
A Teaching Church With A Reaching Ministry
Dr. James E. Martin, Senior Pastor
(503) 240-PRAY
YOUR ENTIRE LIFE
FAITH TEMPLE CHURCH
4224 S.E. 62nd Avenue
(between Powell & Foster)
Portland, Oregon 97206
SUNDAY
Sunday School 9:30am
Morning Worship 10:45am
Evangelistic Sendee 7:30pm
Tuesday Pastoral Teaching 7:00pm
F R ID A Y
Evangelistic Service 7:00pm
D A IL Y
Prayer 12:00pm & 6:00pm
(503) 774-5470
PASTORS: Bishop Robert Simpson, Jr. • Dr. Ida M Simpson
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