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Church Ministry Celebrated
A rea residents are invited to a
celebration honoring Rev. Dr.
Leroy H aynes Jr. and his spouse.
Rev. H elen H aynes, both o f the
A llen T em ple C hristian M ethod
ist E piscopal C hurch, for their
com m itm ent and dedicated ser
vice to the church and Portland
community.
Special events w ith dynam ic
guest speakers are planned at the
church, located at 4236 N.E. 8lh
A ve., over three days beginning
Friday, June 21 at 7 p.m. w ith P as
tor H.B. Daniels o f D aniel M em o
r ia l COGIC.
O n S aturday, June 22, Pastor
M elvin Bailey o f B ethesda Chris-
tian Church, will address the Allen
T em ple congregation at 6 p.m.
On Sunday, June 23, Dr. H.
I^eon W illiam s, pastor o f M iles
M emorial CM E Church in Tacoma
w ill serve as guest speaker during
a 4 p.m. cerem ony.
New Rules on Priest Abuse Supported
(A P) — Portland A rchbishop
John V lazny says new rules to
p rev e n t a b u se in the R om an
Catholic church are a positive step.
Vlazny returned yesterday from
the U.S. C onference o f B ishops in
D allas, w here bishops adopted a
policy that w ill rem ove m ost
priests who m olest children from
church work.
V lazny says in O regon, there
are plans to create a local review
board to m onitor com pliance with
the policy.
T hat board will be m ade up o f
both clergy and lay people.
H e says donations to the Port
land A rchdiocese have dropped
since the nationw ide reports of
priest abuse.
T he A rchdiocese o f Portland
is still facing dozens o f claim s
brought by plaintiffs w ho say they
w ere abused by priests in the 1950s
and 1960s.
Several local plaintiffs say that
the D allas policies, w hile a start,
are not com prehensive enough.
O ne o f the plain tiffs, C liff
W egner, says the Rom an C ath o
lic church is still m ore focused on
protecting priests than its parish
ioners.
Christian Center Plans Youth Service
A se rie s o f ch u rc h e v e n ts
geared to youth are scheduled
this sum m er at M allory A venue
Christian Center, 126 N.E. Alberta.
The activities are scheduled
under the banner “G od in the
H ood,” starting w ith a “Y outh in
C harge” service at the church on
June 28 from 9 p.m. to m idnight.
O ther youth evening services
will include skating events at Oaks
P arkonJuly 1, July 22 and Aug. 26.
A youth service at the church
on July 26 will feature the Shabach
C h o ir from Seattle, hosted by
D eacon H erm an and N ike G reen
o f S alv a tio n an d D eliv eran ce
C hurch o f G od in Christ.
T he sum m er activities c o n
clude with a beach trip, scheduled
Aug. 9-11.
World Travelers Embrace Baha’i Faith
A Portland area couple w ho
sailed around the w orld five years
ago, will show slides and tell sto
ries o f their trip on Friday, June 21,
at the Portland Baha’ i Center, start
ing at 7:30 p.m. T he C enter is at
8720 N. Ivanhoe, ju st o ff the St.
Johns Bridge.
C lint and Sarah E ckstein left
A nacortes in their 45 foot sailboat
in A pril 1997. T hey w ent south to
Los A ngeles and then w est across
the Pacific, stopping at m any o f
the islands. It w as at R oratonga
Island that Sarah said they first
learned about the B a h a'i Faith.
T he m eeting is free and no co n
tributions are requested o r ac
cepted.
E v ery o n e w h o w ish e s can
bring a contribution o f non-per
ishable food for the O regon Food
Bank. Socks and blankets are also
being collected to give to ho m e
less people.
For more inform ation, call 503-
289-6331, or 1 -800-22-U NITE, or
visit the
P o rtlan d B a h a ’i w eb site at
w w w.pdx-bahai.org.
FULL GOSPEL PENTECOSTAL CHURCH PRESENTS:
CONVENTION 2002
"¿ quipping ¿/ he C hurch
. / or tHE i?lST C entury ”
Featuring:
Speakers
That
Have
Traveled
Across
The
Nation
Bishop GG Bloomer Pastor Cheryl Brady
Durham, NC
Durham, NC
Bishop A.A. Wells
Presiding Bishop
of F.G.P.C
ALSO APPEARING: SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST
LOCATION: At Maranatha Church 4222 NE 12th Avenue,
Portland, OR 97211
DATE:
June 19th-22nd, 2002-7:00PM
TIM E:
Doors Open At 6:30 PM Nightly
Approaching The 21st Church With Character And Integrity
Daily Empowering Seminars Starting At 9:30AM
For rpore information please contact: 503-287-2223
W o r s h ip w i t h u s a t t h e
Albina
C hristian
Life C enter
C h u rc h o f God
(Cleveland Tennessee)
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 lb in a
P o r t la n d , O re g o n
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Please call fo r information or counciliny.
Wednesday Evening
Bible Studies
Now Held at
2149 N. Wllllamctte
OUR NEW CHURCH
HOME AS OF
JULY 7,2002
Saint Padre Pio was
endowed with many
spiritual abilities:
bilocation, prophecy,
healing, the power to read
men's hearts, the gift of
tongues, and the
fragrances which emanated
from his open wounds.
Pope Grants
Sainthood to
Padre Pio
(A P) — Struggling against
w ilting heat, Pope John Paul II
declared the m ystic 20th cen
tury m onk Padre Pio a saint on
Sunday to wild cheers from one
o f the V atican’s biggest crowds
e v e r— hundreds o f thousands
o f pilgrim s w ho jam m ed St.
P eter’s Square and the nearby
streets.
Many pilgrim s arrived hours
before the 10 a.m . cerem ony to
secure a seat. T hey w aited as
the tem perature clim bed to
w ard a forecast 91 degrees and
high hum idity m ade the air suf
focatingly heavy.
P adre P io, w h o se hands
were said to have bled for years,
w as considered the first priest
in centuries to show signs o f
the stigm ata — the hand, foot
and side w ounds Jesus suf
fered w hen crucified.
A ccused by som e o f being
a fraud and scorned by m any in
the Vatican, P io — aC ap u ch in
m onk w ho died in 1968— nev
ertheless attracted a huge fol
low ing in Italy and abroad. His
1999 beatification drew one o f
the V atican’s largest crow ds
ever.
John Paul, w ho early in his
p rie sth o o d o n ce jo u rn e y e d
from Poland to have his co n
fession heard by Padre Pio, is
the m o n k ’s leading adm irer in
the R om an Catholic hierarchy.
O nly a few decades ago, the
V atican scorned Pio, and at one
point the C hurch ordered him
silenced for years.
But in recent years its saint
m ak in g co m m ittee has a p
proved the m iracles needed for
Pio to progress dow n the path
to sainthood.
Cuba to Declassify
Cuban Missile Crisis
Documents
(AP) — Cuba will declassify
secret g o v ern m en t d o cu m en ts
about the Cuban missile crisis dur
ing an international conference in
O ctober marking the 40th anniver
sary o f the event that put the world
on the brink o f nuclear war.
V ice P resident Jose Ram on
Fernandez, w hoorganized a sim i
lar conference last year on the Bay
o f Pigs invasion, provided no
details about the docum ents in
announcing the conference.
E ntitled “T he C risis o f O cto
ber: A Political V ision 4 0 Years
Later,” the O ct. 11-12 conference
in C uba is expected to include
people from the U nited States and
the form er Soviet Union.
M ost R ussians associated with
the 1962 crisis have died, but sev-
e r a l o f th e la te P r e s id e n t
K ennedy’s advisers are living,
Fernandez said. He said confer
ence organizers are studying the
possibility o f taking participants
to sites related to the crisis in the
H avana area.
T he C uban m issile crisis “w as
the m ost dram atic episode o f the
C old W ar,” said Fernandez.
Follow ing several tense days
o f negotiations with W ashington,
M oscow w ithdrew the w eapons
w ithout consulting w ith H avana
— a m ove that enraged Fidel
C a stro 's governm ent.
Diversity Embraced
Diversity is celebrated on the streets o f
Portland Sunday during the annual Gay
Pride parade, drawing participants in
ornate costumes.
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v D avid P lechi TT he P ortland O bserver
Creating a Vision for
Killingsworth Corridor,
Community members and city planners share a vision for the
future o f the North Killingworth corridor as they move past the
hedges hiding Jefferson High School from the street. The group
discussed the possibility o f opening up the face o f the school to
create a more inviting atmosphere.
P hoto by D avid P lbchi TT he P ortland O bserver
con tin u ed
fro m M etro
street.
“W e should show everybody
w hat Jefferson H igh looks like,”
Roberts said.
T he school’s facade is cu r
rently hidden behind shrubs that
loom o ver sidew alks and crow d
foot traffic.
N eighbor M arcia W einstein
do esn ’t w ant the character o f the
corridor to turn in to another North
w est 23rd A venue.
“M ak e it P o rtla n d ’s secret
gem ,” W einstein requested.
Safercrosswalks. Underground
u til itie s . A m o re a t tr a c t iv e
streetscape.
Suggestions kept com ing and
city planners kept sketching.
A local artist paused to co n
sider the potential.
“I ju st hope w hen it com es to
im plem entation,” he com m ented,
“they w o n ’t forget w hat w e have
said here.”
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American Red Cross
T he O regon Trail C hapter o f the A m erican Red C ross will offer a
class called “W hen I’m in C h arg e” at Sabin E lem entary School at
4O13N.E. 18,h in Portland on June 21, from 12 p .m .- 2 :3 0 p.m. This
2.5 hour course is intended to train children ages 8 to 11 how to
respond to and be safe in “hom e alone” situations. Call to register
at 503-280-1440 or go online t o w w w .redcross.pdx.org.
Business After Hours Networking
The O regon A ssociation o f M inority E ntrepreneurs will be having
their regular “ B usiness A fter-H ours” N etw orking on T hursday,
June 20, from 5 p.m. - 7 :3 0 p.m. There will be a buffet featuring three
types o f ethnic food and a no host bar. This is a chance to m eet key
contacts from the business and governm ent com m unity. C all to
R S V Pat 503-249-7744 or go o n lin e to w w w .oam e.org.
Kaiser Permanente Hike
T o help people learn to identify what N orthwest plants are potentially
harmful, Kaiser Permanente is sponsoring a free hike on Saturday, July
27 called “Sinister Plants o f the Columbia Gorge.” The hike starts at 8:30
a.m. at Kaiser Permanente ’ s Rockwood Medical Office, 19500S .E. Stark
St. and then carpool to the Gorge. Call 503-813-4820.
New Seasons Barbeque
T he N ew Seasons M arket in C oncordia will be having a delicious
barbecue to support Z enger Farm , a unique urban education center,
encom passing both farm and w etland. Funds will be used to expand
the existing sustainable farm and add an education and jo b training
center. The barbeque benefit will be held on Saturday, June 29 and
Sunday, June 30, from 11 a .m .-5 p .m . Call 503-288-2323.