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M ay 22, 1996 • T he P ortland O bserver
(few Church To (Be Constructed
A L T E R N A T IV E S
Defining The Age (Times) “Apocalyptic Hope”
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Sketch o f the new church to be constructed later this year on the corners o f North Emerson and North
Michigan.
B ishop A .A . W ells, Ph D.,
Founder and S en io r Pastor o f
Emmanuel T em ple C hurch an ­
nounced plans at the official new
church unveiling held May I Iththat
a new church will be constructed on
the corners o f North Emerson and
North Michigan in Portland. The
new facility will be a 30,928 square
foot sanctuary at a cost o f approxi­
mately $1,300,000.
Dr. Wells established the current
church, located at 1032 N orth
Sumner, in 1965. The new church
architect, Mr. Larry Abell, advised
that the new church will be a state o f
Tiarcfi Jo r Jesus
The 1996 Global March for Jesus
will take place on Saturday, May
2 5 th in th e hub o f o u r ow n
Metroplex, as well as in thousands
o f cities worldwide. Jesus will be
lifted up in extravagant praise, wor­
ship and prayer for twenty-four
hours, by millions o f people around
the world.
Ten million participated from
178 nations in the last global march
and more are expected this year as
we draw nearer to the 2,000th birth­
day o f our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ.
The goal o f the March For Jesus
is to call forth Christian churches
locally, nationally, and globally
from every tongue, tribe, and nation
to pray for their communities. Lo­
cally, for the last two years, repre­
sentatives from nearly every ethnic
group in the Portland Metroplex
have participated. H undreds o f
churches have responded to this
celebration o f praise and prayer
which exemplifies both diversity
and the unity in the body ofC'hrist in
this region.
As we come together this year,
we will again ask G od’s grace,
peace, safety, and prosperity to per­
meate our region. We will gather at
Pioneer Square afterwards to pray
for our city and region.
Assembly will begin at 9:00 A.M.
West Portland and Clark County
will assemble off West Burnside
near Park and Ankeny.
East Portland, and all others, will
assemble between S. W. 3rd and
S.W. 5th near Ankeny.
The March will begin at 10:30
A M. with both groups coming to­
wards Broadway where we will
merge and proceed south to City
Hall and back to Pioneer Square on
S.W. 4th.
For more information, contact
the March For Jesus office, 13231
SE Sunnyside Road, Clackamas.
Phone: 698-555 or 698-2466.
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the art building with a capacity to
hold 1,200 people.
New construction, which will
commence in late 1996, will be
under the direction Craftsmen For
Christ Construction company whose
specialty is building churches
throughout the U.S.
M argaret I saacs
All around us, we see and feel a
sense o f despair, a disbelief in the
future o f mankind, a suffering o f the
masses that surpasses the starvations
and homlessness of the great depres­
sion. Disease is rampant; drugs are
taking a toll which is severe among
young men and women; babes citi­
zen is hard to bear. Murders have
become so prevalent, that they seem
second nature; children killing chil­
dren, mothers slaying their young,
children killing parents and etc.. Wars
all over this world; earthquakes, fam­
ine, and this is just the beginning o f
the evil to come. These are the char­
acteristics ofjew ish-Christian apoc­
alyptic. Those who believe G od’s
Words recognize these signs as lead­
ing to a certain climatic moment.
Those who believe in a Divine Being
as the ruler o f all things, know that
the tragic events o f human history
must have been foreordained by him,
and that there is a di vine plan through
which these horrors o f history and
the present time will reach a climax,
and things will change utterly and
forever. If hereby and therein lies the
hope o f those who believe and this
hope sustains and maintains human
sanity.
Mark 13: 7-8,24-25: We have yet
to see the sun darkened, and the
moon fail to give light, and the stars
fall form heaven, and the powers o f
heaven shaken. When this happens,
those with hope, will not be alarmed,
We are living in the most demand­
ing period in all human history. Rare­
ly do we find people at home. Since
we desire all to have life in a peaceful
new world we are writing to all the
businesses in our area.
The New York Times o f January
26, 1995 stated “ In no previous age
have people shown so great an apti­
tude and appetite for killing millions
o f other people for reasons o f race,
religion or class.’’ Billions are swept
along with the greedy and violent
spirit o f the world. As a result many
o f us feel discouraged or weighted
down on occasion.
We can readily see the attitudes
mentioned at Second Timothy chap­
ter 3 verses one to five in the home,
at the work place at our place of
worship. Who can deny that these are
critical times hard to deal with. Daily
we come in contact with people who
are lovers o f self, lovers o f money,
lovers o f pleasure rather than God,
disloyal, no natural affection. Affec­
tion is often missing in the very envi­
ronment in which it should flourish-
the home.
Reports o f abusive treatment of
marriage mates, children, and even
the elderly parentsftpy^Jbecome dis­
turbingly common. Too many lack
human sympathy and feeling.
Jesus tells us to take courage and
do not be anxious over anything, but
in everything by prayer and suppli­
cation, along with thanksgiving let
your petition be made known to God
and the peace o f God that excels all
thought will guard your hearts and
mental powers by means o f Christ
Jesus. Philippians chapter four vers­
es six and seven. John chapter four­
teen verse twenty-seven.
In order to survive these last days
we must keep in mind that All These
problems are only temporary. It is
Gods will that you enjoy lasting hap­
piness under the best conditions in
wonderful surroundings.
This is no mere dream, for God
actually offers you the key to such a
happy future. That key is knowledge.
John chapter seventeen verse three.
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will our children develop character­
istics necessary for daily communi­
cation with others? In this present
time, those who live in hope o f a
return o f the Creator, God, will weep
and wail while this world rejoices;
you will sorrow now, but your sor­
row will turn to joy. You are sad
now, but God will return and your
hearts will be filled with joy, and
that jo y no one shall take form you.
any thing you ask o f Father God, he
will grant in the name o f Jesus. Lis­
ten, the time will come...in fact it has
come already....when believers will
be scattered, each going his own
w ay and le a v in g G od a lo n e .
But . those with hope in God will
find peace in him. In the world you
will have trouble, but be brave, saith
the Lord, I have conquered the world
John 16, John 17.
Avoid those who are slaves o f
their own appetites, confusing the
simple-minded with their arguments.
Keep your fidelity to Christ Be wise
in what is good and innocent o f what
is bad.
The God o f peace will soon crush
Satan beneath hour feet. Grace, the
gift o f our Lord Jesus Christ, will be
with you. All This Is What Scripture
Has Predicted And It Is All part O f
'The W ay’ The Eternal God Wants
Things To Be: So Saith The Lord In
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for then they will see the Son o f Man
coming in the clouds with great pow­
er and glory. He will send out the
angels, and gather his Elect from the
four winds, from the ends o f the earth
to the ends o f heaven. Mark 13:26-
27.
Those people who deny God, heav­
en, Holy spirit and all form sofChris-
tian religion, offer no proven hope,
no alternative to despair, no key to
the future o f mankind. They say: “ If
you are deceased, kill yourself or
al low someone else to take your I ife”;
They say: “ If you kill your parents,
neighbors, children or friends, we
will look into your childhood for
reasons and causes for this behavior,
and forgive and not punish’. They
say: "there is no God but man himself
and each person is a god unto him­
s e lf’; a poor god, certainly, who has
no power to give life or to heal a
diseased body, but a god, non-the-
less. They hate the idea o f a Supreme
Being, but again offer no alternative
hope.
Despite the variety o f the forms o f
expression, the hope itself is con­
stant for a climactic series o f events
th a t w ill lead to th e fin al,
eschatological intervention o f God
into hum an history, directly or
through intermediary figures.
IfG od isexpunged forourhom es,
our schools, our government and
other phases o f living, where then
does our hope lie? Where then will
survival attributes be taught? How
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