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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.
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‘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
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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
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...
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
Come meet Jesus at
PENDLETON BAPTIST
CHURCH
3202 SW Nye Ave Pendleton, OR
541-276-7590
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Sunday Bible Classes 9:45 AM
Sunday Youth Group 6:00 PM
Mon. Community Women’s Study
9:30 AM & 6 PM
Awana Kids Club (K-6th grade)
Wed Men’s Study 6 PM
MOPS meeting the 1st Thur of the Month 6 PM
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
FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM
SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM
712 SW 27 TH ST.
541-276-1894
www.fcogpendleton.com
To share your
worship times
call
Terri Briggs
541-278-2678