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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
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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
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on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday
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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.
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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
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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
