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FAITH
East Oregonian
Friday, May 27, 2016
MILTON-FREEWATER
Jesus take the reins
Community
Youth Bible camp
includes rodeo skills
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
OPEN HEARTS – OPEN DOOR
After attending several
faith-based rodeo camps last
year, Nicole Aichele was
determined to bring one to
the local area.
A member of the Walla
Walla
Valley
Cowboy
Church,
Aichele
has
competed in barrel racing
and other rodeo events and
wrangled in enthusiastic
support to organize the
Walla Walla Valley Cowboy
Church Rodeo Bible Camp.
Laura Chatelain said
church members had kicked
around the idea for several
years, but were hesitant as
they didn’t have a church
facility to offer the camp.
However, Aichele rounded
up support and the group
secured the Pioneer Posse
and Junior Show Grounds
in Milton-Freewater for the
event.
Youths ages 13-18 are
invited to register for the
camp, which includes an
opportunity to develop and
improve rodeo skills through
professional
instruction.
No prior rodeo skills are
required.
“We want youth to receive
Jesus as their personal Savior
and be encouraged to deepen
their personal relationship
with Christ,” Chatelain said.
“They will have the oppor-
tunity to worship in small
groups and to learn and
discuss what it means to give
God the reins of their life.”
Campers will have an
opportunity to choose from
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Nicole Aichele, Walla Walla Valley Cowboy Church Rodeo Bible Camp team leader,
competes during the 2014 Ellensburg Rodeo. Registration is open for the faith-based
camp for youths, which includes rodeo instruction, games and Bible study lessons.
team roping, breakaway,
barrel racing, pole bending,
goat tying, calf roping, chute
dogging, general cowboy
skills (with or without horses)
and roughstock events —
saddle bronc, bareback and
bull riding via simulators
only, no live animals.
The camp, which includes
overnight accommodations,
is Sunday, June 19 through
Thursday, June 23 at the
Pioneer Posse and Junior
Show Grounds, 84575
Highway 11, Milton-Free-
water. The cost is $100
per person. Some partial
scholarships
may
be
available to those in need.
For those bringing horses,
there’s an additional $15
groundskeeping fee. Partic-
ipants do not need to have
their own horse.
In addition to rodeo skills,
the camp will include meals,
games, activities, group
Bible studies and worship
services. The faith-based
focus, Chatelain said, comes
from Romans 12:1-2 —
Give God the Reins.
The camp’s mission is
to expose youths to Christ
and encourage them in
growing their relationship
with the Lord — in addition
to helping them with rodeo
event skills. Participants will
be taught by individuals who
have experience in rodeo and
have a heart for Christ.
A camp rodeo will be held
on the last day. Buckles will
be awarded based on rodeo
performance,
instructor
review and team leader
review.
For more information or
to register, visit www.wall-
awallavalleycowboychurch.
com/rodeo-bible-camp.
html. For questions, contact
wwvccrodeobiblecamp@
hotmail.com or 509-301-
0808.
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Contact Community Editor
Tammy Malgesini at
tmalgesini@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-453
BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR
The tendrils
of growth
be one of those
characters myself
every day, often
unsuccessfully.
here are
Our minds are
tendrils of
haunted by that
growth in
which is not close
the gardens of
to God, hidden unto
God. Mike, our
ourselves.
mid-life seminarian,
Colin
Can we consider
presented his plan
Brown
those sad people
for an adventure of
Comment
under the bridges?
evangelism in the
Can we reach out to
parks over summer
the lost teenagers who have
to our church council,
left their parents to escape
conducting a service of
cruelty? Can we consider
worship and prayer for
the many people who suffer
those who likely will not
quietly with mental illness
ind their feet within the
who torment themselves
steps of the church. I hope
with their own internal hall
you ind him and join him
of mirrors, imagining a
if that category might be
world of persecution and
yours.
loneliness? Can we reach
Also, his son Markus
out to those who do not
and fellow youth group
live in Christ’s presence?
member Larissa received a
Can we reach out to those
new video projector from
who live lives of grinding
church council donations
poverty, the aliens in our
to launch a movie night.
midst?
The attendance at church
Pastor Bill, who is pastor
pulsed up last weekend,
of the Baptist Church here
exceeding the number
in Boardman, told me that
of bulletins — and there
he and his Wednesday night
is a sense of difference.
prayer group pray for me
Breaches in continuity can
every week. I am glad of
be good or bad. All change
this, even as the evil spirit
is controversial, even
waits to shatter plans and
simple things.
hopes, creating discord,
The Holy Spirit is
miscommunication and
beginning to sizzle a little
twisted thinking. I pray for
under the surface. I am
my fellow churches too,
beginning to feel it as a
but I need to start a prayer
workout of sorts. I had no
group like Pastor Bill’s to
expectation of what might
create a group of prayer
happen and still don’t.
warriors at Good Shepherd
But my main aim is to
Lutheran Church able to
preach the good news of
share common foci of
Jesus Christ above all else.
prayer.
Nothing else matters than
One of my young
for my lock to know that
congregants (a 15-year-old
they are wholeheartedly
lad with ministerial
loved by God in whatever
ambitions) came with me
situation they ind
after worship to Richland
themselves.
Lutheran Church for their
One of my old mentors
70th birthday celebration.
a long time ago, a Jesuit
Some 300 people gathering
called Bill Zuelke, looked
to celebrate this amazing
at me keenly and said,
unity, full of music, light
“Can you answer me this:
and joy. Our church will be
‘What is a Christian?’” My
like this one day, in a time
mind raced as to possible
not far off.
answers.
■
Bill didn’t wait. He
Pastor Colin Brown
looked at me even more
from Good Shepherd
keenly and said, “A
Lutheran Church on Locust
Christian is he or she
Road in Boardman invites
whose heart is broken by
you to join us at 11 o’clock
those things that broke
on Sunday morning with
Jesus’ heart.” I have never
coffee and tea afterwards.
forgotten this. I strive to
By COLIN BROWN
The Limey Pastor
L’Osservatore Romano/Pool photo via AP
Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib, right, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar
Mosque, shakes hands with Pope Francis during a pri-
vate audience in the Apostolic Palace, at the Vatican,
Monday.
Pope embraces Al-Azhar imam
in sign of renewed relations
VATICAN CITY (AP)
— Pope Francis on Monday
embraced the grand imam
of Al-Azhar, the prestigious
Sunni Muslim center of
learning,
reopening
an
important channel for Cath-
olic-Muslim dialogue after a
ive-year lull and at a time of
increased Islamic extremist
attacks on Christians.
As
Sheik
Ahmed
el-Tayyib arrived for his
audience in the Apostolic
Palace, Francis said that the
fact that they were meeting at
all was signiicant.
“The meeting is the
message,” Francis told the
imam.
The meeting came ive
years after the Cairo-based
Al-Azhar froze talks with the
Vatican to protest comments
by then-Pope Benedict XVI.
Benedict had demanded
greater
protection
for
Christians in Egypt after a
New Year’s bombing on a
Coptic Christian church in
Alexandria killed 21 people.
Since then, Islamic attacks
on Christians in the region
have only increased, but the
Vatican and Al-Azhar never-
theless sought to rekindle
ties, with a Vatican delegation
visiting Cairo in February
and extending the invitation
for el-Tayyib to visit.
BRIEFLY
Ione announces
baccalaureate
IONE — The public is
invited to participate in A
Blessing on Our Seniors.
The 2016 Ione High
School baccalaureate is
Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the
Ione Community Church,
375 E. Main St.
The graduation ceremony
is Friday, June 3 at 7 p.m. in
the gym at Ione Community
School, 445 Spring St.
Baptist church sets
movie night
BOARDMAN — A
family action movie with
humor and love will be
screened during Movie Night
at the Church.
The public is invited to
watch “Last Flight Out”
Saturday, June 11 at 6
p.m. at the First Baptist
Church, 200 Willow Fork
Drive, Boardman. There
is no admission charge.
Refreshments and popcorn
will be available for purchase.
For more information, call
541-481-9437.
Presbyterian
women set spring
social
PENDLETON — The
Presbyterian Women’s
end-of-the-year social and
meeting is coming up.
With a theme of Sowing
Seeds of Kindness, the casual
gathering is Monday, June
13 at 6 p.m. at the Pendleton
First Presbyterian Church,
201 S.W. Dorion Ave. Those
planning to attend are asked
to bring a potluck salad to
share. Dessert and drinks will
be provided.
For more information,
contact fpcp@
pendletonpresbyterian.com or
541-276-7681.
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
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
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
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”
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
T
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
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
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
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