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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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