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Page 8A FAITH East Oregonian Friday, May 13, 2016 STANFIELD Beneit event to support Ugandan orphanage By TAMMY MALGESINI East Oregonian A Stanield couple is putting their talents to use to raise money to support an orphanage in Lira, Uganda. Scott and Kelly Zielke are heading up a concert fundraiser to help with a sustainable chicken farm at Otino Waa Children’s Village. The project provides food for nourishment and teaching skills in caring for the chickens. Additional eggs will be sold to help sustain the program. The fundraising event features a band of local musicians, including Kelly Zielke (vocalist/songwriter), Scott Zielke (rhythm guitar), Nicolas Pando (drummer), Paul Eaker (bass), Mark Douglass (keyboard) and vocalists Denise Eaker and Maria Hurty. The concert is Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Stan- ield Baptist Church, 310 E. Wheeler Ave. Donations will be accepted. Also, Bob and Carol Higgins of Bend, founders of the orphanage, will share during the event. In addition, artwork created by inmates incarcerated in several Oregon prisons will be available for purchase through Visions of Hope. The nonproit organization raises money to help support the children and widowed house- mothers at Otino Waa. The Zielkes learned about the needs of Otino Waa Children’s Village during a missionary trip in 2013 with other members of the P ENDLETON F IRST C HURCH OF GOD First Service 8:30 AM • Second Service 10:30 AM /12 SW 2/ TH SI. 541-276-1894 www.fcogpendleton.com P eace L utheran C hurch 210 NW 9th, Pendleton ELCA Photo contributed by Scott Zielke Residents of the Otino Waa Children’s Village in Uganda participate in classroom learning. A beneit concert event to provide support for the village is Sunday at the Stanield Baptist Church. Stanield Baptist Church. The couple has been active in church through Bible studies and leading worship music over the years. However, participating in the mission trip, Scott said, further impressed on his heart about the importance of reaching out. “When I learned more and more about the orphanage, it seemed to be the right thing to do,” he said. “It wasn’t just another Bible study, it was actually going out and doing something.” In addition, Kelly said the Bible in James 1:27 implores people to minister to widows and orphans. Supporting Otino Waa, she said, offers an opportunity to impact both. With approximately 300 children, residents of the orphanage are divided into groups with eight kids. Serving as house moms, widows from the community care for the “family units.” Rather than looking to adopt the kids out, Kelly said the mission of the orphanage is to provide the children with tools to survive and thrive. “The focus is to make them future leaders in their own country by educating them and giving them the skills to be self-suficient,” she said. “They also learn about God and his love and mercy.” The couple, along with Judy Weidert of the Athena First Christian Church, will head to Uganda June 23 through July 7. The trio plans to take books to help stock BRIEFLY Nazarene church hosts yard sale HERMISTON — A yard sale to raise money for a 2017 summer mission trip is planned this weekend at Hermiston Church of the Nazarene. The public is invited to shop for bargains and help support the church’s missionary effort. The yard sale is Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church, 1520 W. Orchard Ave, Hermiston. For more information, contact 541-567-3677, hermistonnaz@gmail. com or visit www. hermistonnazarene.org. Former atheist to speak at church HEPPNER — Spike Psarris, a former engineer in the United States’ military space program, is the special speaker at the First Christian Church in Heppner. The public is invited to hear Psarris as he shares about his transformation from being an atheist and an evolutionist to a creationist and Christian. The presentations are Sunday at 9:45 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. at 293 N. Gale St., Heppner. For more about Psarris, visit www. the library at the children’s village. All types of books are needed for kids in kinder- garten through 12th grade. People can help support that effort by donating new or slightly used educational books, biographies, craft books and other publications that the kids can read for enjoyment. For more information, call the Zielkes at 541-571-8153. For more about the children’s village, visit www.otinowaa. org and for the inmate art program, visit www.visions- hope.org. ——— Contact Community Editor Tammy Malgesini at tmalgesini@eastoregonian. com or 541-564-4539 Grandfather of the Church Concert tour includes outreach to needy P PENDLETON — A gospel and country music concert featuring Ed and Lajay Dailey will also serve to accept donations for the homeless and others in need. As part of the Wayfaring Stranger Small Places Tour, the Daileys will perform Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Pendleton VFW, 1221 S.E. Court Place. Admission is free, but donations of non-perishable food items, hats, socks, personal care items and blankets are encouraged. The donations will be distributed locally through food banks and to people that are homeless, including through veteran’s groups and Project Warm-Up. Dailey has been the host of Legends of Country, a syndicated radio show, for 20 years. His latest album, “Wayfaring Stranger,” will be available for purchase at the concert. Proceeds from sales will go to nonproit groups that help the homeless. For more about the concert event, call 541-377-0221. For more about Dailey, visit www. facebook.com/ed.dailey.37. The pope in no way signalled during a 75-minute conversation with the sisters that the church’s longstanding prohibition on ordaining women priests will change. But asked during a question and answer session if he would be willing to create a commission to study whether women could serve as deacons, Francis said he was open to the idea, according to the National Catholic Reporter and Catholic News Service, which were in the audience. The publications quoted Francis as saying: “I accept. It would be useful for the church to clarify this ques- tion. I agree.” Francis noted that the deaconesses of the early church weren’t ordained as they are today. But he said he would ask the Congre- gation for the Doctrine of the Faith to report back on studies that have been done on the issue, Catholic News Service said. 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 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 Community Presbyterian Churc h 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 Worship: 10 AM Sunday School at 11:30 astor Paul pulled up his not apply to them.) I have two weddings trouser legs to show me to perform in the summer, his new knees. and so I asked Pastor Paul “They look like zippers, if he would like to stand don’t they!” he exclaimed in on his new knees on proudly. those occasions when I will They did indeed. The be away and take those healed pink scars of such services. His eyes dramatic surgery lit up and he said did indeed look like yes. I asked my zippers. From six congregation the inches above to six following Sunday inches below the and they said yes. A knee cap. done deal! I know Pastor Paul, the that my people miss retired pastor of him and he misses Good Shepherd Colin them. Lutheran Church, Brown On Wednesday who had endured Comment this week I irst met agonizing years two of the young of worn-out knees people I will be performing and had retired because of that service for. I went their torture, had now been gifted with two new joints of through the people who will be attending the wedding. space-age metal on plastic and was enjoying a pain-free The bride will have her father and her stepfather existence at long last. He walk her down the aisle. It is bounded up the stairs to a very gentle and kind way show me the contents of the of recognizing the honest rooms above. I followed, truth of the complexity slowly, with my natural stiff of humanity and their knees. relationships. With his new freedom he I remember Jesus came up to visit me at the speaking to the Samaritan church last week and give woman in John 4: “He me a tour of duties he had said to her, ‘Go, call your performed there: books of husband and come here.’ parish records, locations of clerical equipment, his daily The woman answered and said, ‘I have no husband.’ rhythms and visitations. Jesus said to her, ‘You have He also kept up the supply correctly said, “I have no cabinet with its list. It is a husband;” for you have had good thing to know about, ive husbands, and the one as I had assumed that toilet whom you now have is not paper supply somehow your husband; this you have managed itself. It would said truly.’” Jesus knows. He be a terrible thing to lose a loves all of them anyway. congregant because of this Pastor Paul may have left, omission. but he is like a grandfather Pastor Paul told me to our church, so is Pastor that our church was an Wes, also retired. Both of amalgam of folk from other these men have not just denominations who had received a place at the table visited and stayed. I liked of the church, but also a that quality, too. It enlarged place in the hearts of all us and gave us more open those who share its life of ears. The relationship between faith. They are the patriarchs a church and its pastor is like of our church. I believe that churches of whatever a love affair, and for both denomination must celebrate the pastor and his lock — a parting, for whatever reason, the fathers and mothers of its many years. is a grieving. The usual My next wedding will view, held by some church be that of my own son, organizations, is that a Matthew, to Kylene, on July pastor should stay away 31. Having been boyfriend once having left and allow a new formation to take place. and girlfriend for six years, this will be a delight for me. I think that is unnatural, Although the responsibility wrong and very unwise. makes me quake in my Human relationships vicar boots a little bit more. including these are to be I will probably have to have respected and honored, my family dynamics piece and revisited (in most of my initial counseling cases) in celebrations of of them done by another remembrance. (Of course there are some pastors, as we pastor, as I am not exactly an independent eye here. know, who have dishonored ■ their profession, their church Colin Brown is pastor of and themselves who, as the Good Shepherd Lutheran Bible says, are wolves in Church in Boardman. sheep’s clothing. This does 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 OPEN HEARTS – OPEN DOOR 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 BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR creationastronomy.com. Pope says he’s willing to study whether women can be deacons VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis said Thursday he is willing to create a commission to study whether women can be deacons in the Catholic Church, signaling an openness to letting women serve in ordained ministry currently reserved to men. Francis agreed to the proposal during a closed- door meeting with some 900 superiors of women’s religious orders. Deacons are ordained ministers but are not priests, though they can perform many of the same functions as priests: preside at weddings, baptisms and funerals, and preach. They cannot, however, celebrate Mass. Currently, married men — who are also mostly excluded from the Roman Catholic priesthood — can serve as deacons. Women cannot, however, though historians say women served as deacons in the early Church. 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