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the passed over
and forgotten
by D avid P lcchl
T he P ortland O bserver
M ichelle H ollins had been on
drugs for m ore than h a lf o f her
lifetime.
O ne cold afternoon in C hicago,
som eone handed h er a flier about a
church that w as devoted to saving
troubled lives through a com m it
m ent to Christ.
H ollins d id n ’t think m uch o f it,
but held on to the little piece o f
p aper anyw ay.
O v er the course o f the next three
m onths she w o u ld occasionally
take the flier o u to fh e r purse, glance
at it, then bury it again, preferring
the m ind num bing high o f drugs to
the cold slap o f reality.
B ut one day, after w aking up to
the w ailing o f her tw o so n s’ ig
nored cries, she decided to do som e
thing.
H ollins called the num ber on the
flier.
“ I w as tired o f being on drugs,”
she said.
T he m an on the phone told her
she d id n ’t need anything - except a
little w illingness to change.
“T h ey described it as a spiritual
b oot cam p,” H ollins said.
A few w eeks later, she w as on a
bus to Portland and determ ined to
turn her life around.
W hen Hollins arrived in the ‘City
o f R o ses’ she m et P astor Erskine
Sias and his w ife, P astor Roxanne
Sias, w ho m anage the Portland
branch o f V ictory C hurch.
Both are former drug addicts who
n o w run a m inistry and tw o ‘resto
ration h o m es’ com m itted to the
service o f ‘the passed o ver and
fo rg o tten .’
E rskine and Roxanne help m any
people recovering from drug and
alcohol addiction.
H ollins had been to 13 different
tre a tm e n t c e n te rs, b u t n o th in g
seem ed to w ork until she found
Christ.
“ It w as alw ays conditional,” she
said. “ H ere, they o nly w ant you to
know Jesus.”
Hoi lins said she has found safety
and stability in this house com m it
ted to G o d ’s love. She is drug-free
and telling others about w hat V ic
tory C hurch has d one for her.
“T h ey accepted m e into their
hom e, and they d id n ’t know an y
thing about m e,” she said. “E very
thing about this hom e is about
Je su s,”
Erskine and Roxanne are com mit
ted, caring pastors, dedicated full
tim e to the teachings o f the bible.
Michael Ward has been attending Victory Outreach Church for over six months. “I put my past
behind m e ," he said. “I came here and I am happy.’
PHOTOSBY
D avid P lechl /
T he P ortland
O bserver
Victory Outreach
Church members
Tilden Blackbear,
Terry McBee,
Richard Crook
and Michael
Ward listen to a
sermon by
Pastor Erskine
Sias.
“W e run this church like a fam
ily,” E rskine said. “ Seven days a
week.”
Parishioners in recovery stay in
one o f the two ‘restoration hom es.’
G uests are expected to rise early,
pray often, and stay clean and sober.
— Pastor R o xann e Sias
P astor E rskine bases his life and
m inistry solely upon the w ord o f
God.
“People ask m e - ‘ D on ’ t you ever
get tire d o f doing church?” ’ Erskine
said. “ I say no, because I never got
tired o f doing d ru g s.”
Roxanne says she finds it a jo y to
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those things w eigh heavy on y ou.”
Roxanne said she prefers to w ork
in tw o ’s, ju st like the disciples.
“I f M ichelle has a desire to use
drugs, I can stop and pray w ith her,
and lead her back into the presence
o f G od,” she said.
Roxanne tells the w om en that
recovery is possible and the rew ard
o f s o b rie ty is w ell w o rth th e
struggle.
“ I know w here I’ve been, I d o n ’t
w ant to go back there,” she said o f
her past riddled w ith drug addic
tion. “ W hen 1 realize I d o n ’t have
that craving anym ore - it is an aw e
som e feeling.”
H ollins w ants desperately to be
back in the life o f h er sons, but for
now she is taking care o f the chil
dren that com e through the doors
o f the church.
“ 1 pray everyday to be the w om an
and m other I should b e,” she said.
H ollins spends m uch o f her tim e
in bible study, fund raising for the
church and talking to people about
Jesus.
“T hanks to V ictory,” she said. •
“ M y heart no longer resides in m is
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“But when you com e to know Christ,
We know what s right and wrong,
yet we continue to do things we know
are wrong. But when you come to
know Christ, those things weigh
heavy on you.
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T E R E S A ‘H IG G S ’ C U R T IS passed aw ay on Dec. 5 at the age o f 44.
C urtis, a Portland resident, w as b om on M arch 2 8 ,1 9 5 8 in V ancouver,
W a. She w as a self-em ployed highw ay flagger and hom e care giver.
Survivors include her husband, D onald C urtis, tw o daughters, Jessie
W ilcox and Jenny Steinbach, her parents, M ax and E lizabeth H iggs, six
brothers, D avid, Larry, D ennis, Steve, Brian and D onny H iggs. C urtis
w as preceeded in death by her sister, M arianne H iggs. A m em orial w as
held on Dec. 14 at K illingsw orth Little C hapel o f the Chim es.
A N N A M A R IE V E F F passed aw ay on Dec. 5 at the age o f 74. She w as
b o m on Aug. 26, 1928 in L eavenw orth, K ansas and had lived in the
Portland area since 1976. V e ff retired from service in the arm y and w as a
hom em aker. She is survived by her son, Frederick T hom as V eff, four
daughters, Valerie Barnes, Cinderella Muniz, Rochelle Myers and Michelle
C orona, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. M em orial
services w ere held at K illingsw orth Little C hapel o f the C him es and all
rem em brances can be m ade to the C ancer Society.
G R E G ‘S K IP P Y ’ S C A R B O R O U G H d ied Dec. 11,2002 afte r a long
stru g g le w ith m u sc u la r d y stro p h y . F u n eral se rv ic es w ill b e held
T h u rsd ay , D ec. 19 at II a.m . at St. P aul C h u rch o f G o d in C h rist,
lo cated at N o rth e a st R o d n ey an d S tan to n . H e w as b o m on N ov. 7,
1962 in P o rtlan d , the son o f N am an an d M ary S carb o ro u g h . He
atten d ed H ig h lan d E lem en tary w h ich is now M artin L u th er K ing. He
en jo y ed cars, d raw in g and b ein g w ith his fam ily and frien d s. He
en jo y ed alm o st a n y th in g th at a p erso n w h o d id n ’t h av e a d isa b ility
w o u ld do. H e leav es to m ourn tw o d a u g h te rs, L ak iesh a an d T y iesh a;
a sister, E ln o ra; tw o b ro th ers G eo rg e an d G ary ; th ree h a lf sisters,
S ele n a P o sto n , T u y n a S carb o ro u g h an d D em etria S carb o ro u g h ;
g ra n d p a re n ts N am am and Z em la S carb o ro u g h ; an d sev eral au n ts,
u n cles, co u sin s, n ie ce s, n ep h e w s an d m an y b elo v ed frien d s.
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