J uly 23, 1997 • T he P ortland O bserver
P age B4
Ministry
transfers
recovery
program
Collection drive to /teip
needy kjds gear up
You can help 1,000 needy
Portland area children, ages 5-
17, feel confident and equipped
to go back to school this year by
d o n a tin g new c lo th in g and
school supplies to The S alva­
tion A rm y’s annual “ New Gear
for the School Y ear” program .
New back-to-school items are
needed, including clothing, shoes,
backpacks, lunch boxes and school
supplies.
Specific needs include clothing
for teens in larger sizes as well as
gift certificates and monetary dona­
tions.
To help, drop by Salvation Army
collection locations August 1-24 at
the following retail centers:
Beaverton Mai I, Clackamas Town
Center, Lloyd Center, Mall 205,
Pioneer Place Shopping Center, and
all Les Schwab Tire Centers in the
tri-county area and Vancouver
For more information, call The
Salvation Army at (503) 234-0825.
Central City
Concern assumes
new management
Women for Sobriety
group grows to second
meeting place
Women for Sobriety, a support
group for women recovering from
addictions, now has two groups avail­
able to women in the Portland area:
At Providence Cedar Hills Plaza,
10300 S.W. Eastridge. Room 3, the
meetings are Tuesdays 7-8:30 p.m.;
and at St Vincent Hospital, 9205 S.
W Barnes Road, in the main
hospital’s second floor, the meet­
ings are Saturdays 9-10:15 a.m.
Providing more than 200 groups
nationwide. Women for Sobriety has
offered weekly meetings in Port­
land since 1993.
WFS is a non-profit organization
which utilizes a discussion format
to provide support based on the
program’s philosophy, which cen­
ters on issues of women’s self-es­
teem. In a small-group setting, mem­
bers learn about the disease of alco­
holism, and how to form healthy life
and thinking habits.
Not a twelve-step program, WFS
offers a philosophy of 13 State­
ments. such as (#1): “ I have a life-
threatening problem that once had
me,” and (#12): “ I am a competent
woman and have much to give life.’
Emphasis is on growth and on the
present: participants learn from the
past, plan for tomorrow, and live
today
Meetings are lead by peer mod­
erators who have been certified by
Women for Sobriety's national of­
fice in Quakertown. Pennsylvania.
Women are invited to tall for
further information or literature
(Karen, 235-0647, or Cindy, 524-
3282), or simply to attend a meet­
ing. A $2 donation is requested at
each meeting.
Christ MemorialChurch to eypand
Zhrist Memorial Church seeks to
»and its Drug and Alcohol Out-
ch Program and build a new Fam-
and Community Center
Christ Memorial's JADA (Jesus
ainst Drugs, alcohol & other
rms of Addiction) program seeks
■each more people in North/North-
it. JADA is an outreach ministry
the Christ Memorial Church in it's
th year of existence.
The groundbreaking event for the
w Family and Community Center
is held on Saturday July 12, 1997
11:00am, located at 1552 N.
illingsworth St. in addition, the
iDA Ministry has launched a fund
ising effort for a half million dol-
rs renovation to the church to ac-
impany a family and community
inter.
Rev. Tate, JADA executive direc-
ir, explains how the North/North-
ist community faces obstacles such
as broken homes, economic insecu­
rity, crime, gangs and inadequate role
models. He says, “We wish to de­
velop a facility where children, youth,
adults, seniors and single-parent fami­
lies can be brought together to teach
and learn positive values which can
be passed on throughout a struggling
community."
Family and individual needs will
be met through.concurrent experi­
ences such as various educational
curriculums, activities, tutoring, child
care, mentor programs, racial recon­
ciliation forums, support groups, art
drama and other recreational pro­
grams.
The vision is for both single and
two-parent families to have a place
to go together, and have their so­
ciological, educational, spiritual
and recreational needs all met while
simultaneously enhancing family
values.
The Bronx Mass Choir.
:e of
The sound is effortless, but the
vocal dynamics of this youth-ori­
ented choir that is a force to be
reckoned with on New York s choir
scene, was no shorage of hard work
for director Roger Hambrick. De­
spite the intricate musical and vocal
arrangements, jazz/hip hop-infused
contemporary-traditional mix, and
trademark mass volume, it is it’s
spirituality that the Bronx Mass
Choir prides itself on.-it’s success
measured in the life-changing testi­
monies of those who have been
moved by their music.
A young man strung out on crack
who testified that he came to a con­
cert and has been drug free since. A
jewish man who while walking by a
record store, saw their poster and
being from the Bronx, was drawn to
pick it up. Today, he is a “jew for
Jesus.”
"Changing lives is what the Bronx
Mass Choir is all about,” reports
Hambrick “Alot of choirs can sing,
but those testimonies are what lets
us know our ministry is not in vain.”
Indeed the 25-member strong
choir ranging in age from 14-45)
was borne outofministry. Hambrick
teamed up with Eric McDaniel to
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Obituaries
SALARY NEGOTIABLE
Elder Frank Martin Sr.
Frank Martin Sr Was bom in
Tampico, Old Mexico on May 30th
1912. He was the only child of Os­
car & Hattie Martin.
Hewas raised in the church His
formal education was received in
Old Mexico and Clairmore. Okla­
homa
Frank elected to leave home at
the early age of sixteen to pursue a
career in professional music. Within
a year Frank was employed profes­
sionally in a night clubs.
In July 1941 Frank Martin &Ealer
LaViolet were joined in Holy matri­
mony. To that union six children
were born.
Frank was in active duty in World
War II and advanced to the rank of
Corporal before his honorable dis­
charge. After Franks discharge from
the Military he enrolled in Kansas
City Conservatory of music.
He completed studies in the ar­
eas o f piano technology music
theory and construction of stringed
instruments. Which permitted him
to build guitars, violins and various
types o f stringed instruments.
Frank appeared in the original
version o f “Gone With The Wind ”
form the choir in 1980, with their
chance meeting late one Sunday
evening on a New York subway Both
had just attended nightly services at
the Institutional Church of God In
Christ
"Having shared the same dream
of starting a choir in the Bronx and
hav ing a workshop for young people
of different denominations, we in­
stantly became friends." Hambrick
recounts. "Then Eric asked his fa­
ther Bishop Allen McDaniel if we
could hold an Interdenominational
Youth FellowshipConferenceat this
church and he said yes ”
The management of the Addic­
tions Recovery Association (ARA)
program has been transferred from
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
to Central City Concern.
ARA includes two northeast Port­
land programs: Letty Owings Cen­
ter, a residential treatment program
for chemically dependent pregnant
and parenting women, and Sunrise
Place, an alcohol and drug free tran­
sitional housing project for parenting
women in recovery.
Letty Owings Center was the first
program of its kind in Oregon when
it opened in 1989 and has prov ided a
vital service to a previously unde­
served population, graduating 475
women and their children since its
inception. Sunrise Place, a 10-unit
project opened in 1996, has served
15 women and their children
As a result of ARA’s commit­
ment to serve the unique needs o f its
clients, 112 babies have been born
drug-free in its programs.
The innovative and effective con­
tinuum of care that ARA has devel­
oped fits well with Central City
Concern's approach to providing
solutions to hopelessness and
chemical dependency.
Central City Concern has been
working to break the cycle of hope­
lessness since 1979, through own-
ing/managing 1,042 units of low in­
come housing, running the Hooper
(Detox) Center and CHIERS van,
the Portland Addictions Acupunc­
ture Center, and a jobs program.
Central City Concern’s resources
and expertise in developing alcohol
and drug free housing will assist
ARA to find solutions to the current
shortage of safe, affordable housing
for its graduates and their children.
With the addition of ARA, Cen­
tral City Concern now has 280 em­
ployees and a budget for 1997-98 of
$11.1 million
crank Martin Sr.
His part was a none speaking cameo
appearance and was paid $5.90 a
day. Which he boasted "Was good
money back in those day"! Frank
was recognized for his excellence
in his music by receiving a record­
ing contract with Capital Records.
In 1957 Frank came to Portland
from KansasCity, Mo Bringing with
him the Frank Martin Trio
He played night clubs such as
The Desert Room, The Tropicana
Club, King Surf Resort in Depoe
Bay & Top of The
Cosmo, just to name a
few.
In the early sixties
Frank gave his heart to
the Lord after becom­
ing ill unto death in his
home
After the Lord de­
livered him from this
illness he moved his
B-3 Hammond Organ
into Eber Tabernacle
Church which is now
Open Door House of
Prayer Founded by his
wife Ealer Martin.
There he surren­
dered his musical talents and played
faithfully for the Lord. Frank has
been recognized for the past 35 years
as a small business proprietor, pi­
ano tuner and repair, ministry in
Music & the Word.
Frank opened his home to the
homeless and outcast of society.
His mission provided food for the
body & God’s word for the soul
He will be greatly missed by his
family, friends and loved ones.
Leaves to cherish his memory:
Wife Overseer Ealer Martin,
Children: Pastor Clarence D. Mar­
tin Sr., Apostle Hillary Martin, Patt
Martin-Isom, Bishop F. E Martin,
Eugene Martin Sr., Delbert Lee
Martin There are 22 Grandchildren
and 3 1 Great-grandchildren.
Jerry E. Allen
July 12, 1940 - June 29, 1997
Funeral service were held Monday. July 7, 1997 at Good Samaritan
Church of God. 1737 NE Alberta. Portland. Oregon.
Born in Lubbock, Texas, he came to Portland in i 942 and was raised and
educated here Interment in Rose City Cemetery.
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ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH
PORTLAND, OR
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