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Page 8A FAITH East Oregonian Friday, June 24, 2016 BRIEFLY Living Faith gets set for adventure HERMISTON — Children ages 3-12 are invited to explore what it means that Jesus is the light of the world. Cave Quest: Following Jesus features songs, crafts, games, goodies and dramas. The vacation Bible school is Sunday, July 10 through Thursday, July 14 from 6-8:30 p.m. at Living Faith Church, 1611 Diagonal Blvd., Hermiston. Kids don’t have to attend the church to participate in the activities. In addition, transportation can be arranged. For more information, call 541-567-4486. Community P eace L utheran C hurch 210 NW 9th, Pendleton ELCA Join us Sundays 9:30 am Sunday Worship 9:30 am 10:30 am Sunday Fellowship Worship 11:00 am Sunday & Adult Class 10:30 am School Refreshments ~Come and be at Peace ~ on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday Autumn Parry/Daily Camera via AP The Dalai Lama points to a helmet gifted by Boulder Mayor Suzanne Jones during the morning session of his lessons at the Coors Event Center at the Uni- versity of Colorado-Boulder in Boulder, Colo. on Thursday. Faith Lutheran announces combined service Dalai Lama preaches safety PILOT ROCK — Rev. Doug Wagley will conduct a special service of Faith Lutheran Church at the Pilot Rock Community Presbyterian Church. The morning worship service is Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at 222 S.W. Third St., Pilot Rock. Music will be led by Denise Owen. Also, an evening service is at 5 p.m. As part of the Faith Lutheran outreach, Wagley has been leading Sunday evening service since Mid-April at the Pilot Rock Community Presbyterian Church. Although Faith Lutheran usually meets Sunday mornings for a Bible class and worship at the Pendleton Red Lion, this Sunday the congregation will meet at the Pilot Rock church. Transportation will be provided for anyone who needs a ride. The regular schedule will resume Sunday, July 3 with a Bible class at 9 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. in the Oregon Trail Room at Red Lion, 304 S.E. Nye Ave., Pendleton; and an evening service at 5 p.m. at the Pilot Rock Community Presbyterian Church. For a ride to Sunday’s service or more information about the ministries of Faith Lutheran Church, call Bob Wright at 541-276-6549. BOULDER (AP) — The Dalai Lama told a crowd in Boulder on Thursday that people should not try to impose their religious beliefs on other people. He also says religion can offer forgive- ness and ways to reduce aflictions. According to the Denver Post, the spiritual leader from Tibet urged compassion for other people and a global Don’t miss the boat for VBS PENDLETON — All aboard, children in kindergarten through sixth grade are invited to participate in Ocean Commotion: Diving into Noah’s Flood. Kids won’t want to miss the boat during the vacation Bible school, which starts Monday from 5:30-8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 3202 S.W. Nye Ave., Pendleton. The program continues nightly through Friday, July 1. The free activities are open to all children, regardless of church afiliation. For more information, leave a message at 541-276-7590 or visit www.pendletonbaptist.com. awareness that could make the world more peaceful. During his visit to teach lessons at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Dalai Lama put on a bicycle helmet given to him as a gift from Boulder Mayor Suzanne Jones, saying the helmet is a symbol of protection people need as they struggle to make a better life. BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR Faith Center 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 Worshiping God his weekend I am preparing without my notes and tell stories the irst of two summer that make people remember. Back in weddings, for Rachel Orinda, California, at Holy Shepherd and Adam. So Pastor Paul, in Lutheran Church, my mentor was his newly-kneed person, will Pastor John Valentine who was be taking service this weekend inishing his doctorate in the topic of and will be rejoicing with the creating memorable sermons. I was congregation this reunion of sorts. lucky enough to observe him use his He will be doing the same thing techniques to do this. Colin on July 31 when I wed my son Jesus told parables. Parables are Brown Matthew to his bride, Kylene. very comfortable stories written for Faith Thank you very much the age. Basically a parable Pastor Paul! is a story which is analogous Our seminarian in to the spiritual point that you training, Michael Smith, want to make. It is Parabolic, will be by the Marina Park like the curve of a boomerang in Boardman, on Saturday in light, — going out and preaching, (I believe at around and coming back to 4 p.m.) on the Sunday the thrower’s point. It is a lectionary texts, so folks good way of not confronting on vacation won’t need to the authorities, whether be be guilty about missing they Pharisees or Romans, any church. Not that they but carefully avoiding need to feel guilty. I would their squawk buttons. It welcome anyone to drop appears that Jesus, who by to connect in Christ’s was a Tekton — that is to rejoicing and give Mike say a craftsman like his a support in his work. earthly father, Joseph the His delivery is clear, Carpenter — may have been and he speaks happily a frequenter of Sepphoris, the without notes and clearly Decapolis city that was built understands the power and on the Roman model. His grace of the Lord he serves. grandmother, Saint Anna, reputedly lived The following week when I return I will there, and in that city he may well have be bringing water that I gathered from the been a performer as well as a carpenter River Jordan, at Bethany by the Jordan, of buildings that included theaters and back in 2006, where there is a spring and set design. Thus his comments about which is now considered to be the actual “Hypocrites” which means “actors” — baptismal site of Jesus. I want to mingle referring to the elite who liked to put on a little water of the Jordan with our home shows of humility and penance. river, the Columbia. The site that Mike The use of the parable still works very picked for his service looks quite a lot like well for a preacher, not just in telling a shoreline on Galilee not far from the Ein the original parable, but using modern Gev Kibbutz where I stayed, on the Eastern experience to map to ancient experience is shores of Galilee. It will make a good place still quite effective. A parable also reveals to mark in my memory as a prayer spot and itself to match the level and maturity of think of Jesus wandering quietly, talking the listener. I am still amazed how after with the Father. Prayer spots are good. all these years, parables keep lipping into This week, in my wedding week, I will different meanings and keep becoming pay a visit to the Comedy Club in Salem, more and more alive. where I have performed both improv and ■ stand-up at the Capitol City Theater. It Colin Brown is pastor of Boardman’s was an essential piece of my work at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Locust beginning, learning to be able to speak Road. T ‘Hypocrites’ mean actors, referring to the elite who like to put on shows of humility and penance. embrace of policies that could isolate Muslims in America is extraordinary for a candi- date assured of his party’s presidential nomination. The proposals have been roundly dismissed and criticized by many Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan. Civil libertarians, Muslims and others also have strongly disagreed, arguing that proiling is unconstitu- tional and often constitutes unlawful discrimination based on race, religion and other factors. Law enforcement should remain allied with groups that might have helpful infor- mation, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in an interview that aired Sunday. “It is very important for to us maintain our contacts within the Muslim community, because, often, individuals, if they’re from that community and they’re being radicalized, their friends and family members will see it irst. They will see activity irst. And we want that information to come to us,” Lynch said on CNN’s “State of Union.” Trump’s statements are consistent with his other, long-expressed views on how to stop terrorism in the United States, including a temporary ban on foreign Muslims from entering the country until the U.S. can igure out “what is going on.” But he’s intensi- ied his approach since Omar Mateen carried out the worst mass shooting in modern American history on June 12 at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. Forty-nine people were killed in the attack, which stoked a mix of fears about terrorism, guns and violence against gays. Mateen’s motive isn’t clear, but a letter from the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, said Mateen wrote on Facebook that “real Muslims will never accept the ilthy ways of the West.” He also pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, his ex-wife said he was mentally ill and his father suggested that gays had angered him. Trump’s response to the tragedy was, in part, a pointed confrontation with Muslims, whom he singled out for knowing where terrorists are and not turning them into authorities. In the same speech, he also expanded his ban on Muslim immigration to include people from regions with a history of terrorism. On Sunday, Trump also said the government should investigate mosques in the U.S. in much the same way the New York Police Department’s Demographics Unit spied on Muslims and mosques around the city with help from the CIA. The group assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed, iniltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques and monitored sermons, The Associated Press reported in 2011. Under Mayor Bill de Blasio, the NYPD announced it had abandoned the program following lawsuits and complaints. “You do (it) as they used to do in New York prior to this mayor dismantling” the program, Trump said Sunday. Loving People 108 S. Main • 276-9569 Sunday Worship 10:30 am Sr. Pastor, Ray O’Grady 541-567-8441 pendletonfaithcenter.org Community Presbyterian Church Seventh-Day Adventist Church 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 Worship: 10 AM Sunday School at 11:30 Parabolic Relections Trump: U.S. should consider proiling Muslims WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is suggesting the United States should “seriously” consider proiling Muslims inside the country as a terrorism-ighting tool, the latest example of the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting increas- ingly backing positions that could single out a group based on its religion. “We really have to look at proiling,” Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” ‘’It’s not the worst thing to do.” The presumptive Repub- lican presidential nominee added that he “hate(s) the concept of proiling, but we have to use common sense” over “political correctness.” Trump’s proposal runs counter to Justice Department policy, which explicitly prohibits proiling on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity and national origin. That proiling ban applies not only to federal agents but also to local law enforcement oficers who participate in federal task forces. Trump’s increasing NEW HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH Saturday Services Pendleton 1401 SW Goodwin Place 276-0882 Sabbath School 9:20 am Worship Service 10:45 am First United Methodist 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 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 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 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” 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 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... 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