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Page 8A FAITH East Oregonian Friday, April 29, 2016 HERMISTON Trinity Lutheran celebrates 75 years Community By TAMMY MALGESINI East Oregonian A weekend-long celebra- tion will feature a special dinner, the opening of a time capsule and a re-dedication service at Trinity Lutheran Church. Afiliated with the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ, the Hermiston church invites the public to join them as they celebrate 75 years of ministry. The dinner, which costs $20 per person, is Saturday, May 7 at 5 p.m. at the Hermiston Conference Center, 415 S. Highway 395. The evening will include several speakers, presenta- tions, music and a peek at the contents of the church’s time capsule, which were placed in the building’s cornerstone in 1946. Several former pastors will be in attendance, including Rev. Wesley Sack- mann, who will preach during the re-dedication service Sunday, May 8. Rev. Rodney Mruk, who has pastored the church since September 2004, will preside during the service, which begins at 9 a.m. at 485 W. Locust Ave., Hermiston. After the Sunday service, people are invited for a time of refreshments and fellowship. Hermiston’s Trinity Lutheran Church, which was initially associated with the American Lutheran Church, was founded in 1941. The church building, Mruk said, was dedicated in November 1946. The congregation met at another location in town prior to erecting the building on Locust Avenue. While conducting research about the church’s history, Mruk said they discovered the formation of Sunday Services AM Celebration - 10:00am • AM Kids Place - 10:00am The Connection - 6:00pm Groups for all ages: Adults, Children, Youth, & College Thursdays Celebrate Recovery - 6:00pm • Celebration Place - 6:00pm Other Groups Available Weekly For more info visit WWW.PENDLETONFIRST.COM 1 911 SE Court Ave • 541-276-6427 • Assembly of God Church P eace L utheran C hurch 210 NW 9th, Pendleton ELCA Join us Sundays 9:30 am Sunday Worship 9:30 Worship 10:30 am am Sunday Fellowship 11:00 am Sunday School & Adult Class ~Come and be at Peace ~ on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday NEW HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH EO ile photo Rev. Rodney Mruk, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, invites the public to join the Hermiston church as they celebrate 75 years of ministry. a congregation may have began as early at 1911. A pastor from a Pendleton Lutheran church led services in Hermiston and Echo. When Mruk starts his 13th year at the church this fall, he’ll be the longest serving pastor of the congre- gation. Among the changes during Mruk’s tenure has been an increase in member- ship — the church currently has about 150 members — particularly with younger members. Also, the congre- gation discontinued its asso- ciation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America in 2010, which the church had been afiliated with since 1980. When Mruk and his wife, Linda, arrived with three school-age kids, it doubled the number of children in the services. “It was signiicant at the time,” Mruk said. “We regularly have more than 30 children in services now.” Mruk and the church leadership said it’s important to welcome children and include them as part of the church community. Each week, Mruk invites kids to gather at the front of the church as he presents a short children’s sermon. The continued vision for the church, Mruk said, is to minister to the congregation, to the community and to encourage growth with the next generation prior to passing the reins onto them. “Our focus has continued to be to preach repentance and forgiveness of sins, the whole word of God — both law and the gospel — and to care for people through all stages of life,” Mruk said. “And, that’s what small churches do.” To make a dinner reser- vation during the 75th anni- versary, call 541-567-6471. For more information about the church, search Facebook for “Trinity Lutheran Church LCMC” or visit www. telchermiston.org. ——— Contact Community Editor Tammy Malgesini at tmalgesini@eastoregonian. com or 541-564-4539 BRIEFLY 1350 S. Highway 395, Hermiston Sunday Worship Services English- Pastor Dave Andrus 9:00 & 10:45 am Spanish- Pastor Genaro Loredo 9:00 & 10:15 am Classes for kids during all services For more information call 541-567-8441 Faith Center Church Worshiping God Loving People 108 S. Main • 276-9569 Sunday Worship 10:30 am Sr. Pastor, Ray O’Grady pendletonfaithcenter.org Seventh-Day Adventist Church Saturday Services Pendleton 1401 SW Goodwin Place 276-0882 Sabbath School 9:20 am Worship Service 10:45 am Community Presbyterian Churc h OPEN HEARTS – OPEN DOOR 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 Worship: 10 AM Sunday School at 11:30 www.graceandmercylutheran.org Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. (Nursery Provided) Fellowship, Refreshments & Sunday School Check Out our Facebook Page or Website for More Information 541-289-4535 Tom Inch, Pastor Grace and Mercy Lutheran Church, ELCA 164 E. Main St. / P.O. Box 1108 Hermiston, Oregon 97838 Grace Baptist Church 585 SW Birch, Pilot Rock, OR 97868 (541) 443-2500 prbconline.blogspot.com Sunday School: 9:30 am Worship Service: 10:45 am Kids’ Club: 6:00 pm Wednesday Services: Youth Group: 7:00 pm 555 SW 11th, Hermiston 567-9497 Nursery provided for all services Sunday School - 9:30 AM Worship - 10:45 AM 6:00 pm Wed Prayer & Worship - 7:00 PM “Proclaiming God’s word, growing in God’s grace” Motivational speaker offers seminar PENDLETON — Ken Gaub will present his free “Soul Winning Seminar” Sunday from 6-8 p.m. at Faith Center Church, 108 S. Main St., Pendleton. The award-winning motivational speaker is offering a training opportunity that is making a difference in helping people start a lifestyle of winning others. The presentation is described as funny, powerful and transformational. A love offering will be taken. Gaub also will speak during Faith Center’s Sunday worship service at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call Rev. Ray O’Grady at 541-276-9569. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini Rene Brulhart, president of the Vatican Financial Infor- mation Authority, right, lanked by Tommaso Di Ruzza, director of the Vatican Financial Information Authority, shows photographers a copy of the Vatican inancial oversight report, as he arrives for a brieing at the Vati- can press room, Thursday. Vatican crackdown on tax cheats lagged in oversight report VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s inancial watchdog said Thursday it received 544 reports of suspicious inancial transac- tions last year, a three-fold increase over 2014, thanks in part to beefed-up efforts to lag potential tax cheats who are using the Vatican bank to hide money. In its annual report, the Financial Information Authority said it passed 17 cases on to Vatican prosecutors for follow-up investigation, up from seven a year earlier. In December, European evaluators urged prosecutors to actually bring charges in some of those cases since no indictments have been handed down. Since 2011, 34 out of 900 suspect transactions have been forwarded to prosecu- tors for possible follow-up. The Vatican in 2010 created the inancial watchdog to comply with international anti-mon- ey-laundering norms and in a bid to shed its image as a inancially shady tax haven whose bank has been embroiled in scandal. In its report, the agency stressed that the spike in suspicious transactions wasn’t the result of increased money-laundering activity, but rather the natural result of the closure of bank accounts at the Vatican bank and new efforts to comply with tax reporting obligations in Italy and the U.S. The effort at greater inancial transparency has extended beyond the initial scope of compliance with anti-money laundering norms to implementing internationally accepted accounting standards across the Holy See’s fragmented departments - part of Pope Francis’ effort to reform the Vatican bureaucracy. The tortured process has been on sharp display in recent weeks after the Vatican signed, and then suspended, an auditing contract with Pricewater- houseCoopers. The Vatican said the suspension wasn’t due to any reluctance to submit to “adequate” auditing measures, but rather because of issues about the “meaning and scope” of the PwC contract and how it would be implemented. The suspension, though, laid bare an increasingly public battle between the two centers of power in the Vatican: the secretariat of state and the new secretariat for the economy, headed by Australian Cardinal George Pell. Pell had enlisted PwC to do the audit, and co-signed the contract, even though the Vatican has its own auditor general. His ofice issued a statement saying he was “a bit surprised” that the secre- tariat of state suspended the contract but was conident the PwC work would soon resume. National Day of Prayer celebration planned in Pendleton PENDLETON — The National Day of Prayer, which is celebrated the irst Thursday each May, will be featured in a celebration in Pendleton as part of the “Wake Up America” event. The main theme for the 65th annual event focuses on the question “Why pray for America?” Pendleton’s event is Thursday, May 5 from 7-8 p.m. at Faith Center Church, 108 S. Main St. The prayers will be led by pastors Ray O’Grady of Faith Center and Arron Swenson or Cornerstone Community Church. The event is free, and all ages are encouraged to attend. For more information, call O’Grady at 541-276-9569. Day of Prayer event set for May 5 HERMISTON — Area residents are invited to participate in the National Day of Prayer during a free event in Hermiston. The non-denominational gathering is Thursday, May 5 from 6:30-8 p.m. at Armand Larive Middle School, 1497 S.W. Ninth St. The service includes prayer time for the each of the seven “pillars of society”: government, the military, the media, the business community, educational institutions, churches and families. Organizer Rob Lovett said people of faith feel the nation is at a “critical point” and it’s important to pray for guidance for the country’s leaders. Worship music by the New Beginnings praise team will be interspersed throughout. In addition, the service will be broadcast live by La Ley 99.5 FM radio with Spanish translation. For more information about the National Day of Prayer, visit www.nationaldayofprayer.org. St. Johns Episcopal Church All People Are Welcome Scripture, Tradition and Reason Family service 9am Sunday Gladys Ave & 7th Hermiston Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672 First United Methodist Church 352 SE 2nd Street Pendleton, OR 541-276-2616 Sunday Worship 9am Open Hearts, Open Hands, Open Doors Facebook: www.facebook.com/ FUMCPendleton Services are broadcast every Sunday on KUMA-1290 AM @ 11am Rev. Dr. Jim Pierce, pastor FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -Presbyterian Church (USA)- 201 SW Dorion Ave. Pendleton Service of Worship - 10:00 am Children’s Sunday School - 10:20 am Fellowship - 11:00 am www.pendletonpresbyterian.com Open Hearted... Open Minded Redeemer Episcopal Church 241 SE Second St. Pendleton (541)276-3809 www.pendletonepiscopal.org Sunday Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Wednesday Holy Communion Noon Weekly Adults Spiritual Life Group All Are Welcome Com e m eet Jesus a t PEN D LETO N BAPTIST C HU RC H 3202 SW N ye Ave Pen d leton , O R 541-276-7590 Su n d a y M orn in g W orship 11:00 AM Su n d a y Bible Cla sses 9:45 AM Su n d a y Y ou th Grou p 6:00 PM M on . Com m u n ity W om en ’s Stu d y 9:30 AM & 6 PM Aw a n a K id s Clu b (K -6th gra d e) W ed M en ’s Stu d y 6 PM M O PS m eetin g the 1st Thu r of the M on th 6 PM FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM 712 SW 27 TH ST. 541-276-1894 www.fcogpendleton.com FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH in Mission for Christ LCMC Bible Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 AM Sunday Worship . . . 10:30 AM Red Lion Hotel ( Oregon Trail Room ) www.faithpendleton.org SUBMIT FAITH NEWS Friday’s faith page features local, national and interna- tional faith-related news. Send information about local faith-related news and events, including concerts, special speakers and activities to community@eastoregonian. com or drop off to the attention of Tammy Malgesini at 333 E. Main St., Hermiston or Renee Struthers at 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton. Call 541-564-4539 or 541- 966-0818 with questions. “Soul Winning Seminar” Ken Gaub is coming to Pendleton Faith Center Sunday, May 1st 6:00pm 108 S. Main St. BAHA’I FAITH “The Unity of All Mankind” Pendleton Baha’i Center at 1015 SE Court Place Devotions Sundays @ 11:00am; Everyone invited! (541) 276-9360 visit us at www.pendletonbahais.org To share your worship times call Terri Briggs 541-278-2678