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Locai CfuircA ‘“Makes A ‘Difference" In Northeast Tort Land
In c e le b ra tio n o f the n a tio n a l
M a ke A D iffe r e n c e D a y , the
C h u rch o f S c ie n to lo g y C e le b rity
C e n tre presented the N o rth e a s t
E m e rg e n cy Food P ro g ra m , and
o utreach a c tiv ity o f the E cu m e n
ic a l M in is trie s o f O re g o n , w ith a
d o n a tio n o f m ore than $ 3 3 0 fo r
th e ir In fa n t N u tr itio n P rogram
th is w eek. T he c h u rc h also d e liv
ered several bags o f m e n ’ s c lo th
in g the P o rtla n d P o lic e D e p a rt
m e n t’ s Sunshine D iv is io n fo r d is
tr ib u tio n to men n e e d in g s tu rd y
w o rk c lo th e s .
C reated and run n a tio n a lly
by U S A W eekend and the P o in ts
o f L ig h t F o u n d a tio n , M ake A D if
ference D ay is an annual event
w here c itiz e n s are c h a lle n g e d to
jo in hundreds o f thousands o f
oth e rs across the n a tio n w ho w ill
“ make life b e tte r fo r o th e rs .”
C y n th ia H a ll, a s ix -y e a r em
p lo y e e o f the N E E m e rg e n c y
Food P ro g ra m (N E F P ), said the
P rogram p ro v id e s packages to an
average o f 30 fa m ilie s w ith in
fa n ts every m o n th . Packages c o n
ta in baby fo rm u la , fre sh m ilk ,
and o th e r fo o d s p e c ific a lly de
sig n e d to m eet the n u tr itio n a l
needs o f c h ild re n u n d e r the age
o f six . “ W e h e lp a lo t o f la rg e o r
co m b in e d fa m ilie s h e re ,” C y n th ia
stated. “ W e once had a fa m ily o f
17 p e o p le -tw o parents and 15
k id s —com e in .”
make aoifferehce day
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C o n tra ry to the m a jo rity -h e ld
o p in io n , c lie n ts w h o co m e to
N E F P lo o k in g fo r a ssistance are
fu ll- tim e w o rk in g p e o p le , w hose
are to o m uch to q u a lify fo r fo o d
stam ps. “ O ne o f the m ost c o m
m on th in g s we hear is I m ake
$ 5 .0 0 per m o n th to o m uch fo r
W h ile it was acknowledged that
there is an element o f drug use in the
lives o f fam ilies N EFP services,
C ynthia felt strongly that low wages
and high liv in g expenses are the
main causes o f people not being able
to come up w ith basic expenses. “ I
d o n ’ t th in k most people know how
expensive it is to m aintain a house
hold these days,” C ynthia com m ent
ed. “ B oth parents w o rkin g means
day care costs, w hich are extrem ely
spiritual re lie f to the m aterialistic
West in a new book spelling out her
creed.
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“ I f we are tru ly going to revert
the dow nward spiral our society is
In “ A Simple Path,” , the 85-
year-old Albanian-born nun explains
her simple, undoubting faith and o f
fers a five-point guide to getting c loser
to God.
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The book, written by Canadian
Lucinda Vardey, is based on a series
oftaped interviews with Mother Teresa
and quotes nuns and helpers working
for her global charity organization. It
is divided into chapters on prayer,
faith, love, service and peace.
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high. T w o o r three kids in fu ll tim e
day care pretty much wipes out these
peoples’ m o n th ly income, before
M other Teresa gives advice on
how to achieve each, g iv in g exam
ples from the w ork o f her charities,
abandoned, the sick, the orphans,”
explains one o f her w orkers.
treated. They are hungry fo r our love.”
But she is clear that w hile the
poor may be human beings, they are
also the embodiment o f Jesus C hrist
Pope John Paul, speaking in
Rome after the M illio n M an March
in Washington underscored racial
problems in the U nited States, saying
he hoped the country w ould never be
tom apart by race, class and religion.
The Pope dedicated the address
at his weekly general audience to his
trip to the United States earlier this
month, during wh ich he urged A m er
ica to live up to its ca llin g as a m u lti
cultural nation o f freedom and op
portunity fo r all.
“ I admire this impressive mosa
ic o f cultures and I pray that it w ill
never be tom apart by confl icts caused
by differences o f class, race and re li
gion,” he told thousands o f people in
St Peter’ s Square fo r the audience.
“ The United States is being chal
lenged to strengthen those truths and
values on w hich the country was
M other Teresa also blames want
o f love fo r the ills o f the West.
“ The greatest disease inthe West
today is...being unwanted, unloved
and uncared for. We can cure physi
cal diseases w ith m edicine but the
o n ly cure fo r loneliness, despair and
hopelessness is love,” she says.
and her purpose in serving them is to
serve God.
Random House. p u b lis h e ro f“ A
Sim ple Faith,” hopes it w ill match
the success o f Pope John Paul I l ’ s
“ Crossing the Threshold o f Hope,”
w hich sold tw o m illio n copies w ith in
“ We are not social workers, not
nurses o r doctors, we are religious
sisters. We serve Jesus in the poor.
We nurse H im , feed H im , clothe
H im , co m fo rt H im in the poor, the
a week o f publication in October
1994. It said the book w ill answer
critics who say she should try to
change the w orld ratherthanjust heal
its wounds.
John PaulAddresses T1S.
WEEKEND
In p a rtn e rsh ip with
w hich include c h ild re n ’s homes and
d ig n ity and to be treated as we are
ra p id ly descending, we need to root
DOING GOOD
A ID S hospices as w ell as the famous
home fo r the dying in Calcutta.
She talks w ith compassion and
sympathy o f her w ork w ith the poor:
“ They are hungry not o nly fo r food,
they are hungry to be recognized as
human beings. They are hungry for
w in te r u tility b ills and rent are even
considered.
C h u rc h sp o ke sp e rso n , A n g ie
“
Divide
founded and w ithout w hich a genu
ine democracy cannot prevail,” he
said.
and her male friend.
F o llo w in g the m a rch a b ip a r
tis a n g ro u p o f C o n g re s s m e n
The march o f nearly 1 m illio n
black men near the U S. C apitol was
organized by N ation o f Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan who preached a
thunderous sermon portraying A m er
ica as a white supremacist society
urged P re s id e n t B il l C lin to n to
a p p o in t a c o m m is s io n on race
re la tio n s .
D uring his trip , the Pope said
equality was as much an issue in the
U nited States today as it was
during the C iv il W ar fought more
than a century ago o ve r states’ rights
and slavery.
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may mention soul and s p irit more
often than, say, those by Dean Koontz,
mountainside. He is being hunt
ed. A liza rd like beast the size o f a
whale lurks nearby. It eats people.
S o m e th in g new fro m M ic h a e l
Crichton?
they tap deep into the current stream
o f Am erican anxieties, te llin g stories
o f righteous individuals confronted
by corrupt institutions like the go v
N ot quite. Here is what Dr.
Benson does next. He prays. “ N ow ,
Lord, Y o u 'v e helped me so far,” the
frightened scientist begins.
and sauces, tuna, stews, d ry beans
and cheese. S e ve ra l d o n a tio n s o f
green beans and ric e have co m e
in a lre a d y , m a k in g o th e r v e g e ta
b les o r canned m eal ite m s in
g re a te r need. Cash d o n a tio n s are
a lso w e lc o m e .
B e in g a s u p p o rte r o f p ro
gram s th a t p ro v id e s o lu tio n s fo r
those in need, th e C e le b rity C e n
tre has been ru n n in g a m e n ’ s
c lo th in g d riv e fo r the P o rtla n d
P o lic e D e p a rtm e n t’ s S u n s h in e
D iv is io n in N o rth P o rtla n d . B e
in g the ra re st o f d o n a tio n s , D i v i
sio n re p re s e n ta tiv e L yn n T a y lo r
said the c lo th e s w o u ld be g iv e n
to hom eless men lo o k in g fo r o r
b e g in n in g m anual la b o r jo o s o r
tr y in g to g e t o f f the streets.
action novels: Charles Colson, the
Watergate figure who now runs a
prison m inistry, and Pat Robertson,
founder o f the C hristian Broadcast
ing N etw ork.
This lite ra ry trend is the latest
example o l the s k ill entrepreneurial
believers have shown in taking sec
ular ideas and g iv in g them a s p iritu
al tw ist fo r a religious marketplace.
shirts w ith evangelical slogans,
ch ild re n ’ s videos w ith cartoon B i
ble stories and many other products
have found consumers who want
their entertainment leavened w ith
inspiration.
W h ile the C hristian th rille rs
U nited States remain fa ith fu l to its
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can race relations.
Heavy racial strains in the U n it
ed States have been highlighted by
the march and by the trial o f football
legend O.J Simpson, a black hero
vocation as a nation founded on the
p illa rs o ffre e d o m , virtue, hospitality
and the defence o f life ...”
V v rtla u h (Observer
Call 288-0033
C o ls o n ’ s b o o k , “ G id e o n ’ s
I orch,’ w ritten w ith Ellen Vaughn,
tells the story o fa harsh federal crack
dow n on anti-abortion groups, the
response o f a ruthless and opportu
nistic president to anti-abortion v io
lence. A peaceful pastor is caught up
in the governm ent’ s sweep; a secu-
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la rly inclined attorney general has a
crisis o f faith.
Robertson, in “ The End o f the
A ge,” w rites o f nothing less than
events leading to the Second C om
ing o f Christ. A fte r a meteor strikes
Los Angeles, a w ealthy couple flees
to the desert, jo in s a B ib le study
p rin tin g o f 175,000 copies and j
R o b e rtso n ’ s 2 75,000 copies by i
W ord Publishing, a subsidiary o f I
ogy
C olson’ s book has had a first
N ashville-based Thomas N elson
Inc., w hich has priced each book at
$22. But those numbers pale beside
the 530,000 copies W ord has p rin t
ed since September o f “ The Oath.
“ When y o u ’ re w ritin g C hris- j
tian th rille rs, you have to be very
m in d fu l o f yo u r readership,” said
Peretti, considered the dean o f the
genre. “ I never put any swearing in
m y books.’
E x p lic it sex is d e fin ite ly out,
too, and gory violence is kept to a
m inim um . But a character’s s p iritu
al transform ation is essential. “ C on
version is always in there,” Peretti
said, “ i f o nly by im p lica tio n .”
Mt Olivet
Baptist Church
8501 N. Chautauqua Blvd.,
at Willis Blvd.
acquitted tw o weeks ago o f m urder
ing his form er w ife, a white woman,
Worship Services 8:00am & 11:00am.
Church School 9:30 to 10:30am,
Bible Study, Wednesdays, 10:30am & 7:00pm
Radio M inistry each Sunday, 8:00am on KBMS
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Dr. James E. Martin, Senior Pastor
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years, he retired in 1980.
S urviving are his w ife , M in n ie ; sons, Earl A. Sr. ofP ortland and Dennis
L. o f Clackamas; daughters, Patricia L. C lark and Susan J. Fox, both o f
Ilw aco, Wash., and Karen M . W in k le r o f M ilw a u k ie ; brother, Earl A o f
Sacramento. C a lif.; 12 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren
Sunday S ch ool 9.30am
M orning Worship 10:45am
Evangelistic Service 7:30pm
Tuesday Pastoral Teaching 7 :00pm
N E F P is m o s tly in need o f
fresh p ro d u ce and m ilk , pastas
nouncing personal sin; a ll feature
m ajor characters who p u b lic ly em
brace a born-again faith in Jesus
Since August, tw o evangelical
Protestant lum inaries better known
fo r th e ir other w orks have published
P o n tiff was concerned about A m e ri
SUNDAY
are donated to a designated non
p ro fit service agency. T his year’ s
Supermarket Saturday is fo r N ovem
ber 18.
group and converts; the A n tich rist |
slips into the W hite House.
Christ.
Mr. Fox died N ov. 2 at age 73.
He was bom June 12, 1922, in Washougal, Wash
A veteran o f the U.S. A rm y during W o rld W ar II, he received three
Bronze Stars, a S ilve r Star and a Purple Heart. A resident o f Oregon fo r 30
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an annual event run by Safeway stores
where a percentage o f the d a y’s sales
conservative c ritiq u e o f abortion
rights or M ain Street clergy m em
bers who w ould shy away from de
called C hristian th rille rs, in w hich
p o tb o ilin g adventure is com bined
w ith a d is tin ctly conservative th e o l
®bituarp - Charles B. Fox Sr.
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ernment, the news media o r law en
forcement. O ften, the books o ffe r a
The scene is from “ The O ath,”
a novel by Frank E. Peretti, a form er
Pentecostal m inister. It is part
o f a new, lucrative genre loosely
The 75-year-old Pope told his
audience he was p raying “ so that the
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A lb in a M in iste ria l A llia n ce , the U r-
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ild life biologist Steve
Benson
is alone and unarmed on a m o o n lit
torn by racial hatreds.
The Pope made no specific men
tion o f the march but aides said dur
ing the Oct. 4-8 trip to N ew Y ork,
New Jersey and Baltim ore that the
FAITH TEMPLE CHURCH
out the psych o -b a b b le fro m our
schools and return to the actual edu
cation o f the next generation.” Mann
challenged N EFP that the Church,
through the restoration o f m oral stan
dards in our society, w o u ld put them
ban League and the NE N e ig h b o r
hood Association, NEFP also p a rtic
ipates w ith the M artin Luther K in g
Safeway in “ Supermarket Saturday,”
fe w e s t Tfmtters Cast Spirituali Twist
A service was held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1995, in W illam ette
N ational Cemetery fo r Charles B Fox Sr., a flo o r covering contractor.
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c a tio n system s are no lo n g e r the
h a lls o f le a r n in g ’ th e y on ce
ca n n o t change y o u r e n v iro n m e n t
and th a t w h a t “ fe e ls g o o d ” d e te r
m in e s the d iffe r e n c e b e tw e e n
rig h t and w ro n g .”
Mother Teresa Publishes SpiritualQuide
A fter decades o fh e lp in g the poor
in India, M other Teresa is sending
p ro g ra m s such as N E F P to d a y
fro m 10 ye a rs ago. “ C u rre n t e d u
w e re ,” M a n n stated. “ In ste a d , b i
za rre p s y c h ia tric th e o rie s , such
as those d e s c rib e d in the in fa
m ous b o o k, T h e B e ll C u rv e , have
m ade th e ir w a y in to o u r sch o o ls,
fo r c in g on o u r c h ild re n absurd
ideas th a t s k in c o lo r has so m e
th in g to d o w ith IQ , th a t you
wages are s im p ly n o t enough to
c o v e r basic liv in g expenses, but
fo o d s ta m p s ,’ “ C y n th ia re p lie d .
T h e y ’ ve also observed m any fa m
ilie s m o v in g in to g e th e r to re
duce re n t and u tilit y b ills .
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