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July 16. 2008
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TD Jakes Ministries
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Portland, Oregon
OPEN TO
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Music Workshop, Concert,
And
"Driven to Extremes" is an exhibit o f mixed media art by Serena Barton and
Bonnie Meltzer showing from July 31-August 26, 2008. "Working Mother" by
Bonnie Meltzer is shown on the left and "Anne The Queen" by Serena Barton on
the right.
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Art Driven to Extremes
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Gospel Preaching
July 24 -27, 2008
Thursday & Friday - 6:30PM
Music Workshop
Saturday- 7:00PM
Minister Steve Lawrence
&
DaNell Daymon and Royalty
Of Seattle, Washington
Sunday-11:15AM
Minister Steve Lawrence
(Guest Soloist)
Host Church:
Highland Christian Center
7600 NE Glisan St. Portland, Oregon
www.highlandministries.org
Host Pastor:
Rev. Dr. W.G. Hardy Jr.
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For more information contact:
503.287.9567
Email: highlandcc@highlandminislries.org
Serena Barton interprets w om en’s stories
in oil and acrylic paintings, assem blages,
altered books, and encaustic collages. These
in c lu d e th e Italian R e n a issa n c e p o et
Veronica Franco and 17th century M exican
poet Juana de la C ruz becam e a nun, both
accussed o f heresy by the early church. The
verses o f both women delighted thousands
o f readers, yet both were accused of heresy
and brought before the dreaded Inquisition.
These stories, together with appearances
by the six wives o f Henry VIII, make a vivid
and lively show.
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Bonnie Meltzer, who usually uses com
puter parts for her mixed mediaconstructions.
has discovered "new" old objects to tickle her
imagination. Globes, battered books, boxes
and, yes, com puter parts make up a group of
small sculptures, many with wooden figures,
whose subject matter covers everything from
dating to global warming.
T he O n d aG allery is located in Portland
at 2215 N E A lberta Street. T he gallery is
o p en on T u e sd a y -S a tu rd a y , 11-6 and
S unday 12-4. O p en in g and a rtis ts 're c e p
tion is on July 3 1 ,6 -9 PM. G allery talk is
on A ugust 16,3 PM. C ontact A llan O liv er
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@o n d ag allery .co m for m ore in fo rm atio n
o r go to w w w .o n d ag a lle ry .co m .
Mexico Tackles Rising Food Prices
(AP) — Food m anufacturers have prom rising global energy prices, soaring food
ised M exico’s governm ent to freeze prices dem and in China and India and the use of
on more than 150 food products to help corn for ethanol production.
Calderon had elim inated im
families cope with rising costs.
port barriers on wheat, corn and
President Felipe Calderon an
rice in May, won an agreem ent
nounced last week that prices for
from rice farmers to sell theircrop
goods such as cooking oil, flour,
at 10 percent below international
canned tuna, fruit juices, coffee,
market prices and last year im
ketchup and canned tom atoes will
posed price caps on tortillas,
remain fixed until Dec. 31.
M exico’s staple food.
"This is a measure that will posi
He also a n n o u n c e d sm all
tively anddirectly benefit the finances
Felipe Calderon
monthly cash subsidies to 26 m il
o f m illio n s o f
M exicans," said Calderon. lion poor Mexicans, a quarter o f the popula
Hanked by representatives tion. Cash payments o f about 120 pesos
ofM exico’sbusinesscham- ($11.6) a month are expected to cost about
bers. “This reflects the com $433million.
M exico’s central bank said annual infla
mitment o f Mexican busi
nessmen to the country and tion rose to 4.95 percent in May, the fastest
pace in more than three years, led by the
to price stability."
The Mexican leader has swelling costs o f food oils, rice, wheat prod
blam ed high food costs on ucts and corn tortillas.
In Loving Memory
Mother Elizabeth Jackson
F u n eral se rv ic e s w ere held
Thursday, July 10, at Emmanuel
Tem ple Church for M other Eliza
beth Jackson.
She was bom July 9, 1919 in
Forest, Miss., the youngest o f six
children.
She started her career as an el
ementary school teacher and in 1942
moved to Las Vegas, Nev., where
she represented and helped pro
duce a building program for Las
V egas' Second Baptist Church.
In 1946, she m oved to Portland,
where she becam e an active, en er
getic m em ber o f A .M .E . Z ion
Church. There she worked on many
fundraising events and becam e a
main stay in the ch u rch 's m ission
ary departm ent.
I n 1 9 6 8 , Our I ,ord saved and ft I led
her with the Holy Cihost at Emmanuel
Temple Church. Her faith in God was
always based on the notable state
ment, "We walk by faith and not by
sig h t." She h elp ed o rch e strate
Emmanuel T em ple's first building
fund project and continued to serve
on church trustee board.
Her tough minded m anagem ent
skills and business acum en was in
I
i
essence the creed "L et’s w ork until
the jo b is com pleted, ju st give me
the ball and I’ll m ake the touch
dow n."
Her body may have becom e
weak; how ever her mind remained
as perpetually sharp as a steel trap.
Though her illness had kept her
dow n, she was determ ined to hold
on to G o d ’s word and promises.
A solid ex am p le o f h er “ give
m e the ball. O ur Lord a ttitu d e ,"
cam e during her resid en cy at the
E ld er P lace and P orthaven N u rs
ing H om e w here she w ould invite
all the resid en ts to the Sunday
church services held in the n u rs
ing hom e.
M other Jackson was a hero in
any o n e's eye. She did it with class
correctly, all according toO ur Lord.
She leaves to cherish precious
memories, her daughter Rosemary
(Alfred); son M ichael (Veronica);
grandchildren Al Jr., Caprice. Labrea
and M ariah; great-grandchildren
Alvin, Hunestee and Isrel; and a
h o st o f n ie c e s, n e p h e w s and
friends.
Arrangements by Cox & Cox
Funeral Chapel.