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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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HOME AS OF
JULY?, 2002
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(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.
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