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Page B4 ÿlortlauù ©bacruer fes R eligion IL Local Church Touts Changing Demographics continued from Front the day, plus an opportunity to learn more about programs o ffered at the church. O n Sunday, M ay 19, a celebratory message will beof- fered by A U CC pastor Rev. Lynne Sm ouse Lopez during worship that begins at lOa.rn. A children’schurch and Sun day school are offered at the sam e time for preschool, el em entary, middle and high school students. “ A in sw o rth in the C ity ,” w ill clo se w ith a traditional birthday party after w orship fea tu rin g c a k e s and b e v e r ages fo r a sm all donation. tau ran t on S w an Island. T o a tte n d , call 5 0 3 -2 8 4 -8 7 6 7 to p u rch a se tic k e ts b e fo re the d e a d lin e o f M ay 13. T he fo llo w in g d ay , the co m m u n ity festival w ill in clude a “C om m unity W alk” to ex p lo re the c h u rc h ’s h is to ric C o n c o rd ia n e ig h b o r hood. S ta rt-u p tim e is b e tw een 9 a.m . and 10 a.m ., with the start and finish at the church. A barbecue lunch follow s from 11 a.m . - 3 p.m . E nter ta in m e n t a n d c h ild r e n ’s events are slated throughout c&f Happy Mother's Day New Hope Missionary Baptist Church 3725 N. Gantenbein Avenue Portland, Oregon Pastor Robert C. Jointer 50lh Year Anniversary “Year of Jubilee” Leviticus 25:10 “A Golden Past, A Golden Present and A Golden Future ” Schedule of Events M ay 18th R eunion C hoir C oncert • The Joy of God’s Call The Joy of G od’s Call to be a Multicultural Church is the theme of a three-day event tak ing p la c e at A u g u sta n a Lutheran Church, 2710 N.E. 14th Ave. and Knott on Thurs day, May 9 through Saturday, May 11. The seminar will focus on A u g u sta n a ’s g ro w th as a multicultural congregation dur ing a time of renewal over the past six years. During that time Augustana has grown fromjust over 200 members to over 500, with close to 30 percent of the new members being African American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian, and Middle Eastern. On Friday, from 7-9 p.m., the celebration will include a key note by nationally acclaimed speaker Sean McMi Uan, as well as music by the gospel group The Disciples in Song along with M arilyn K eller, Issac Trimble, Paul Torgerson, Bill Deiz, Dr. Robert Gashi and friends. All are welcome. For more information call Pastor Mark Knutson at 503-288-6174, or visit the church’s web page at www.augustana.org Family Gathers for Memorial 6: pm A festival drawing on Mexican culture fills Waterfront Park over the weekend. photo by D avid P i . echl /T he P ortland O bserver Cinco de Mayo Celebrated PO RTLA N D , Ore. (A P) — Revelers packed into Gov. Tom McCall W aterfront Park Sunday to celebrate the C inco de M ayo Festival, the c ity ’s 18th fete on the M exican holiday. A m id the singing, dancing and eating, about 500 people took tim e for a M ariachi M ass, part o f the four-day festival sp o n so red by the P o rtla n d - G uadalajara Sister C ity A sso ciation. Ibeth H ernandez, a Benson Tech junior, skipped services at her regular place o f w orship to attend and film the M ariachi M ass. “It’s very religious,” she said. “The whole C inco de M ayo cel ebration, th at’s my culture. 1 am full M exican, so this is som e thing I can do to kind o f con tinue w ith know ing my culture, know ing about my culture.” C inco de M ayo, or M ay 5, m arks the day 4,000 M exican soldiers defeated a French army o f 8,000 at Puebla, M exico, in 1862. The day is not M exico’s Independence Day. The hourlong Mass was cel ebrated by John G. Vlazny, arch bishop for Western Oregon, from an elevated stage flanked in front by large bouquets of colorful calla lilies and, on one side, a framed picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint o f Mexico. V lazny, who spoke in Span ish throughout the M ass, said in a brief interview afterward that his w ords were intended to up lift and provide strength in the Services & Guest Speakers May 19'" Pastor A nthony H arris 11:00 am James Moore Bible Fellowship Community Church, Sacramento, California M ay 19,h Pastor Robert H ouston 3:00 pm New Hope Friendship Baptist Church San Diegp, California May 20^ Pastor Raymon Ed wards 7:00 pm True Vine Missionary Baptist Church Portland, Oregon May 21“ Pastor Johnny Pack IV 7:00 pm Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Portland, Oregon May 22nd Rev. Walter Brown 7:00 pm N.E. Community Foursquare Church Portland, Oregon May 23rd Pastor A.B. Devers 7:00pm W est End Baptist Church San Antonio, Texas May 24“’ Pastor A.B. Devers May 26th Pastor Robert C. Jointer May26“’ Pastor A.B. Devers 7:00 pm 11:00 am 3:00 pm You do not want to miss this special event. Let the celebration begin! Augustana Lutheran Church Invites the Community to Celebrate The Joy o f Being a Multicultural Church Friday, May 11th 7:00 pm Keynote by nationally acclaimed speaker Sean McMillan, founder of the Simba Circle program for African American Youth with the music o f the Disciples in Song, Marilyn Keller, Isaac Trimble, Paul Torgerson, and friends S u n d a y W o rs h ip 8:30 & 11 am, 1:30 & 6 pm Rev. W.J. Mark Knutson, Rev. Ramona Soto Rank NE 1 5th & Knott 288-6174 www.augustana.org 31 ■ A private fam ily gathering was held Feb. 3 in Phoenix, Ariz. in honor o f Jam es B. M oore, commemorating the anniversary o f his death. He w a sb o m July 20, 1936 in M ississippi, the oldest son of Boston and Katie B. M oore. He was raised in Portland, grad u ated from W ashington High School and jo in ed the Air Force. Jam es was a long tim e resi dent o f San Francisco. A fter re tirem ent, he located to Phoenix, where he enjoyed his favorite sport, golf. He is survived by his wife, Jean; three children from his first mar riage, Jamie Moore o f Vallejo, C alif., Tracey M arable of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Barry Moore of Long Beach, Calif.; tw o step children, Danny Burgard andTerrie Wolf; three brothers, Sandy Moore and John Frank Moore of Portland and Henry Moore of Los An geles; a sister, Rosie Johnson of Portland; seven grandchil dren, and a host of nieces and nephews. W orsh ip w it h u s a t th e : Worship Opportunities A Services Sundays Sunday School: 9:45 AM Morning Worship: 11 AM Evening Worship: 6 PM Wednesday .Family Training Hour. 7PM Sr. Pastor Bishop Samual M. Irving 5 5 2 2 N. A lbina P o r tla n d , O regon Wednesday Evening Bible Studies »7217 Now Held at 2149 N. Williamette * 5 0 3 283-1035 Please call fo r information orcounciling. Former Bolivian Leader Dies (AP)— Former President Hugo Banzer, a one-time dictator who led Bolivia to democracy and helped wipe out cocaine produc tion, died of a heart attack Sun day. He was 75. The two-time president, who was forced by cancer to resign from office last Augustus likely to be remembered both fondly and with distaste. Supporters say he did more to strengthen Bolivian democracy than any o f his predecessors and his efforts to sharply reducing coca cultivation won him praise in W ashington. Critics, however, contend the former dictator never lost his authoritarian streak, con tinuing to abuse human rights and failing to help the Andean nation's poor, Indian majority even as an elected leader. A political survivor, the U.S.- trained soldier overcame 13coup attempts while he was dictator from 1971-78, leading a regime accused o f widespread human rights abuses. After the era of Latin American dictatorships ended, he rein vented himself as a democrat, run ning in every election in the 1980s and 1990s, before finally winning the presidency in 1997. Banzer died Sunday morning surrounded by his family in Santa Cruz, a tropical city in eastern Bolivia, after waking up in pain Under Banzer's U.S.-backed Dignity Plan, the army in recent years wiped out 106,000 acres o f coca in the Chapare, once one o f the world's largest illegal coca-growing areas. around midnight, said his doctor, Freddy Terrazas. A cigarette smoker, Banzer was diagnosed in July 2001 by doctors at W alter Reed Army Medical Center in W ashington with lung cancer that had spread to his liver. He underw ent chem otherapy treatments in Washington. Banzer was bom May 10,1926, in Concepcion, a sleepy ranching town in Santa Cruz province. Bound foracareer in the military, he went to the Bolivian Army Military High School in La Paz, graduating as a cavalry lieuten ant. His lengthy relationship with the United States began when he was sent to the U.S. A rm y’s School of the Americas in Panama. He received more U.S. training at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1960. After commanding the 4th Cavalry Regi ment in Bolivia for several years, he was sent to W ashington as a military attache. In 1964, Banzer was appointed m inisterofeducationandin 1969, he became director o f the military academy, a prestigious post he held until dismissed in January 1971 by leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres. U.S. to Help Caribbean Fight AIDS C h u r c h o f G od (C le v e la n d T e n n e s s e e ) afterm ath o f Sept. 11 and, most recently, in light o f the revela tions o f sexual abuse in the Rom an C atholic Church. “The Scriptures today talked about hum an sadness and suf fering, and I related it to some of the hum an sadness and suffer ing that w e’ve experienced this year,” V lazny said. “The whole incident in New York w ith the terrorism , and now the scandals w ith the church: the em barrass ment, the hum iliation. “W hy is this happening to u s? ’ people w ould say. ‘W hy terrorism , why scandal day?’ And I w ould say, ‘W ell, you know, it happens to us. I t’s part o f the human condition. T here's good and there’s evil, and som e tim es evil touches our lives.” t A lliin a C h ris tia n L ife C e n te r I M ay 0 8 ,2 0 0 2 OCR NEW CHURCH HOME AS OF JULY?, 2002 1 (A P)— The United States will send health experts to help Carib bean governments fight the re gional spread o f H IV /A ID S, Health Secretary Tommy Thomp son sa id late la st m onth. “We are here today to extend to you and the Caribbean, the hand of partnership as we fight" against AIDS, Thompson told more than 20 Caribbean health ministers and other officials at a one-day con ference. The meeting, sponsored by the United States, focused on patient treatment and care, training health personnel, and co llab o ratio n among donor countries to fund programs. Thompson said experts from the Atlanta-based Centers for Dis ease Control would travel to the Caribbean to work with regional officials. The United States will help the Caribbean get funding from the non-governmental organization including the Global HIV/AIDS Fund, to which the United States has so far pledged $500 million and proposes to give $1.1 billion next year, Thompson said. The U.S. Agency for Interna tional Development has already offered $20 million to the Pan Car ibbean Partnership to combat HIV- AIDS infection, he said. “Most Caribbean countries are unable to provide adequate ac cess tocare and treatment," Denzil Douglas, prime minister of St. Kitts and Nevis said, citing a lack of money, skills and technology. Though the infection rate in the United States has declined, it has increased in the Caribbean, Douglas said. The statistics exclude Cuba, where extensive treatment and prevention have kept infection rates low. I
