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FAITH Friday, July 8, 2016 East Oregonian Page 7A BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR Fireworks, faith and formation M y wife’s birthday is July 4th, which means that everybody’s attention is focused on that, rather than her successful aging process. One year we drove up to Canada to concentrate on her birthday — where she found that, yup, they had the ireworks there too. This year our neighbors, who are the center of a large family, had accumulated a mass of delightfully Colin entertaining Brown explosives at their Faith house, and the larger family had brought an amazing collection of ordnance to explode from different places (I believe from adjacent states). As I drove up to my driveway a small girl launched a hand-held rocket at my car, which arced over the hood in pink ire and other streaks of ire arced towards the house opposite. The huge thud-thud of M-80s ricocheted up and down the street. My dogs and cats found bunkers in the house under the furniture as the detonations followed for a couple of hours. Their ears, I noticed, all lifted BRIEFLY Mission hosts weekend revival MISSION — A revival meeting kicks off tonight in Mission and continues through the weekend. “Let My People Go” begins Friday with a 7 p.m. service followed by dinner at the Mission Gym/July Grounds, 73310 July Grounds Lane. The special guest speaker is Easton Aguilar of Warm Springs. Saturday’s event begins with dinner at 4:30 p.m. and a service at 7 p.m., also held at the Mission Gym/July Grounds. The Sunday service is at 2 p.m. at the Mission Assembly of God Church, 47328 Shortmile Road. Snacks will be served afterward. There is no charge for the event, said Vivian Shaw, because salvation is free. For more information, call Shaw at 541-969-7248 or 541-969-8512. Film highlights faith, freedom BOARDMAN — A story of family, faith and freedom will be screened during Movie Night at the Church. A grieving father, who lost his son on the battleield, challenges his fellow citizens to take back the freedoms they have lost in “Last Ounce of Courage.” The 2012 drama is rated PG. The public is invited to the free viewing Saturday, July 16 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 more information, call 541-481-9437. Presbyterian Preschool accepts registrations PENDLETON — The Presbyterian Preschool has openings for the 2016-17 school year. The 3-year-old program focuses on getting children accustomed to being a school atmosphere. In addition, it teaches colors, shapes and number recognition. The 4-year-old class builds on those skills and focuses on literacy in preparation for kindergarten and beyond. In addition, there are opportunities for parents to get involved — from volunteering in the classrooms to helping with special events and fundraisers. For more information, contact 541-276-7681, pendletonpresbyterianpreschool @gmail.com or stop by the Pendleton First Presbyterian Church, 201 S.W. Dorion Ave. ——— Friday’s faith page features local, national and international faith-related news. Send information about local faith-related news and events, including concerts, special speakers and activities to community@eastoregonian. com or drop off to the attention of Tammy Malgesini at 333 E. Main St., Hermiston or Renee Struthers at 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton. Call 541-564-4539 or 541-966- 0818 with questions. up with each boom as they looked at me for reassurance that they would weather the storm. In my former country, ireworks day is on November 5th, also known as “Guy Fawkes Day,” when a Royalist, who tried to blow up Parliament, was burnt at the stake. So, there, everybody makes bonires, and puts a “Guy” on top of it, essentially a scarecrow made out of Dad’s old clothes stuffed with newspapers and sometimes ireworks. While this human like igure is torched, in the dark and cold evenings of November, ireworks are lit, sparklers glitter in the darkness, sausages and baked potatoes are cooked on the ire, and steaming mugs of hot chocolate are quaffed as we celebrate the demise of Mr. Fawkes. I guess the thing that these two events both have in common is a celebration of our freedoms. The freedom to vote for who we want, the freedom in our persons and our faith, and the freedom to be left alone. These are all precious freedoms that make our lives tolerable. I spoke about the Apostle Paul at Church last Sunday, July 3rd (not exactly the busiest church weekend of the year), and was reading from his letter to the Galatians. It was Paul’s most conlict-illed relationship with a community. Not many people know that Paul’s letters are the earliest created writings of the New Testament (around the 50s) whereas our traditional Gospels were composed later. The earliest Gospel, of Mark, was written in about the year 70. The Galatians, at the time, were giving Paul a headache because they were trying to integrate practices from the predecessor Jewish faith into their community, ceremonial calendars and such like. Paul was the caretaker of the faith in that he went to each of the communities of the early Christian movement and kept them all in line with his own witness and his own knowledge from revelation. Without him, we would not have the solidity of faith that we have today. Although we have multiple churches, our faith, in the main, is such that there is not so much difference as there could be. I wish we could have ireworks for St. Paul at church each year and light up the sky. ■ Colin Brown is the pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Locust Road in Boardman. Pope taps Chicago archbishop for key bishop advisory panel VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has named Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich to be a member of the powerful Vatican ofice that vets bishops’ nominations, signaling he wants a key pastoral voice involved in the selection of U.S. church leaders. Francis in 2014 had hand-picked Cupich to lead the Chicago archdi- ocese in his irst major appointment for the U.S. church. Cupich is a moderate like Francis and replaced the late Cardinal Francis George, who had been an aggressive defender of orthodoxy. Cupich now will be a member of the same Vatican advisory board where a staunch American conservative, Cardinal Raymond Burke, sat for years until Francis removed him. In another sign of Francis’ esteem for Cupich, he tapped him as a special appointee to attend Faith Center Church Worshiping God Loving People 108 S. Main • 276-9569 Sunday Worship 10:30 am Sr. Pastor, Ray O’Grady pendletonfaithcenter.org P eace L utheran C hurch 210 NW 9th, Pendleton ELCA Join us Sundays 9:30 Sunday Worship 9:30 am am Sunday Worship 10:30 am Fellowship Refreshments 10:30 am 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 Church 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 Worship: 10 AM Sunday School at 11:30 Antonio Perez, Pool Photo via AP, File In this Nov. 18, 2014 ile photo, Archbishop Blase Cupich, proceeds through Holy Name Cathedral during Cupich’s Installation Mass at Holy Name Ca- thedral, in Chicago. his recent synod on the family. Francis has said he wants to reform the way the church selects its bishops, who wield enormous power in running church affairs and interpreting church doctrine at the local level. Currently, local bishops propose names to the Vatican ambassador in their country, who then sends possible candidates onto Rome for review. But Francis — the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — experienced irsthand how the process can be manipulated by ideologi- cally driven interests, with several of the future pope’s candidates blocked when he was the archbishop of Buenos Aires. Vatican: No jurisdiction over journalists in leaks case VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican court declared Thursday it had no jurisdiction to prosecute two journalists who wrote books based in part on conidential documents exposing greed, misman- agement and corruption in the Holy See, ending a trial that drew scorn from media rights groups. The court did convict a Vatican monsignor and an Italian public relations expert for having conspired to leak documents, but cleared them of having formed a criminal asso- ciation to do so. A ifth defendant, the monsignor’s secretary, was absolved of all charges. The verdict was an embarrassment to Vatican prosecutors, who had accused journalists Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi of conspiring and putting pressure on the three other defendants to get the information. Prosecutors had accused the three of forming a shady, secretive criminal organization that conspired to reveal coni- dential Vatican documents. In the end, the president of the four-judge tribunal, Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre, asserted the Vatican had no jurisdiction over the journalists and ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to show that any such criminal organization existed. Speaking in the name of Pope Francis, Dalla Torre prefaced his sentence by insisting that the freedom of the press was enshrined in the Vatican legal code and that freedom of thought was “guaranteed by divine law.” Fittipaldi and Nuzzi wrote blockbuster books Community last year based on Vatican documents exposing the greed of bishops and cardinals angling for big apartments, the extraordi- narily high costs of getting a saint made, and the loss to the Holy See of millions of euros in rental income because of undervalued real estate. The documentation had been compiled by a pontiical commission ordered by Francis to gather information about Vatican inances to make them more transparent and eficient. Monsignor Lucio Vallejo Balda, the reform commis- sion’s No. 2, admitted in court that he gave Nuzzi 85 passwords to pass- word-protected documents. He denied the journalists threatened him and put the blame of feeling pressured on Francesca Chaouqui, the communications consultant who was also a member of the commission. The court convicted Vallejo of passing docu- ments to the journalists and sentenced him to 18 months in prison. While clearing Chaouqui of actually passing documents, the court found her guilty of conspiring with Vallejo and sentenced her to a 10-month suspended sentence. The ifth defendant, Nicola Maio, was cleared. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone would appeal. Chaouqui, who recently gave birth, had said she would have gone to prison, babe in arms, rather than appeal a conviction or ask for a papal pardon. Publishing conidential information is a crime in the Vatican, punishable by up to eight years in prison. The journalists are Italian and had challenged the Vatican’s jurisdiction to prosecute them. Prosecutors had asserted jurisdiction over them anyway, but the court rejected that argu- ment. It declared it had no jurisdiction since Fittipaldi and Nuzzi were not Vatican public oficials and the alleged crime didn’t take place on Vatican territory. In fact, in the sentence, Dalla Torre recalled that the 2013 Vatican law that criminalized publishing reserved information only applied to Vatican public oficials exercising their oficial jobs, suggesting that the law will not be applied in the future to ordinary journalists operating outside of the Vatican City State. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and other media watchdog organizations had criticized the trial and called on the Vatican to drop the charges, saying journalists must be allowed to do their jobs without fear of repercus- sions. They praised the deci- sion but said the trial never should have gone forward. “Their trial cast a chilling effect on covering the Vatican,” said Nina Ognianova, Europe and Central Asia program coor- dinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. “By writing these books, we repeated that they just exercised their right to provide information in the public interest and should not have been treated as criminals in a state that supposedly respects media freedom,” said Pauline Adès-Mével, head of the Reporters Without Borders’ Europe desk. 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 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” 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 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 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 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 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 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 Sunday Worship 10:00am Wednesday Bible Study 6:00pm Youth Classes: Nursery - 6th grade Sun & Wed Jr & Sr High Discipleship Program Wed Overcomer’s Outreach Tuesdays at 6:00pm - Annex A Christ-centered, 12-step Recovery Support Group Sharon Miller, Pastor 401 Northgate, Pendleton 541-278-8082 www.livingwordcc.com To share your worship times call Terri Briggs 541-278-2678