FAITH
Friday, August 5, 2016
East Oregonian
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Funeral held for French priest slain by
Islamic State attackers during Mass
Community
ROUEN, France (AP) —
The archbishop of Rouen,
leading Tuesday’s solemn
funeral Mass for an elderly
priest slain a week ago by
two extremists, said the Rev.
Jacques Hamel tried to push
away his attackers with his
feet, saying “go away, Satan,”
remarks that underscored the
horror of the murder at the
altar that touched a chord
throughout France.
Hundreds of priests and
bishops illed the sumptuous
Rouen cathedral along with
many hundreds more people,
including Muslims who have
joined in the grieving since
the murder of the 85-year-old
priest, slashed by his
attackers while celebrating
morning Mass.
Hamel’s grisly murder
sent shockwaves that went
beyond his humble work as
a small-town parish priest,
touching other faiths and all
of France. It came less than
two weeks after 84 people
were killed in an attack by
a hurtling truck in Nice on
a crowd of Bastille Day
revelers.
“Evil is a mystery. It
reaches heights of horror that
take us out of the human,”
Archbishop
Dominique
Lebrun said during the
two-hour Mass.
“Isn’t that what you
AP Photo/Michel Euler
A man holds a religious lealet showing the priest
Jacques Hamel during his funeral mass, outside the
Rouen cathedral, Normandy, Tuesday.
wanted to say, Jacques, with
your last words, when you
fell to the ground? After you
were struck by the knife,
you tried to push away your
assailants with your feet
and said, ‘Go away, Satan.’
You repeated it, ‘Go away,
Satan.”’
With those words, Lebrun
said, “You expressed ... your
faith in the goodness of
humans and that the devil put
his claws in.”
Roselyne Hamel, the
priest’s sister, told the crowd:
“Let’s learn to live together,
let’s be workers for peace.”
Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve, also in charge
of faiths, was among those
Schools receive request for
after-school ‘Satan Club’
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
(AP) — After-school reli-
gious clubs appear to be the
next venture of a national
group that sought to install
a statue of Satan outside
two state capitols to protest
Christian monuments on
public grounds.
The Satanic Temple
contacted nine public
school districts across the
country this week seeking
to start after-school Satan
programs. In all but one
district, religious clubs
are operated by the Child
Evangelism Fellowship’s
Good News Clubs, in which
students can study the Bible
and pray, according to
temple co-founder Lucien
Greaves.
Several districts contacted
by The Associated Press said
they were reviewing the
group’s request and noted
their facilities were available
to community groups.
Mat Staver, founder of a
Christian legal aid group that
has represented the Child
Evangelism Fellowship, said
Greaves’ organization was
illegitimate and an “atheist
group masquerading” as
religious. Greaves described
Satanism as an atheist
philosophy whose believers
“feel it provides everything
a religion provides to be
legitimized as such.”
The Satanic Temple,
which is based in Salem,
Massachusetts, and has
chapters in several states,
said it wants to counter
well-funded fundamentalist
Christian
organizations
that it believes are eroding
the separation of church
and state in public schools.
Greaves said the after-
school program would
show “that people can be of
different religious opinions
and still be moral, upright
people.”
BRIEFLY
Aglow speaker challenges Christians
WALLA WALLA — Cliff Baker, founder of Mighty
in Spirit Ministries, is the guest speaker for the upcoming
Walla Walla Aglow Community Lighthouse meeting.
Baker focuses on challenging church members and
helping Christians grow. Everyone is invited to hear him
share Saturday, Aug. 13 at 10 a.m. at Whitman Court, 305
Ash St., Walla Walla. A freewill offering will be taken for
the event, which includes lunch.
Aglow, which started in 1967, is an international
organization that seeks to minister to its members and
share God’s word in the community. In addition to the
regular monthly meetings, there are weekly prayer groups
and Bible studies.
For more information, call Lora at 509-540-0212,
Kathy at 509-540-2684 or visit www.ecwaglow.com.
Convoy of Hope reaches out to needy
RICHLAND — Free groceries, health services,
haircuts, family portraits, veteran services, job services
and a hot meal are offered to people in need during
Convoy of Hope.
The event is Saturday, Aug. 13 at 10 a.m. at Columbia
Park, Richland, Washington. In addition, a Kids Zone will
provide jump houses and other organized activities. The
event is expected to last into the afternoon while supplies
last.
More than 40 public services agencies, including
dozens of local churches, will distribute backpacks for
children, shoes for families, information about housing
and offer prayer support and counseling to those who
want it. More than 1,200 volunteers help with the event.
The event is sponsored by local groups in connection
with Convoy of Hope, a faith-based outreach founded in
1994 and headquartered in Missouri. Last year’s Tri-Cities
event served more than 6,500 people.
Volunteers are still welcome to participate. A
volunteers’ rally will be held Friday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m. at
Faith Assembly Church, 1800 N. Road 72, Pasco. Also,
volunteers will gather the day of the event at 7 a.m. in the
park’s band shell for instructions and assignments.
For more information, contact 509-586-6101,
dayofhopetricities@gmail.com or visit www.convoy.org/
tricities.
Christian church ires up barbecue
HERMISTON — The public is invited to the annual
community barbecue at the Hermiston First Christian Church.
Pulled pork and hot dogs will be served Sunday from
5-7 p.m. on the lawn at the church, 775 W. Highland
Ave., Hermiston. The free event will include games and
activities. Also, kids will have an opportunity to beat the
heat on a slip and slide.
For more information, call 541-567-3013 or visit www.
hermistonirstchristian.org.
attending the Mass in the
cathedral, which dates from
the 12th century. Hundreds
of people watched the cere-
mony on a big screen outside,
under constant rain.
Lebrun, celebrating the
Mass, extended thanks to
Catholics attending the
service but also to “believers
of other religious faiths,
in particular the Jewish
community and the Muslim
community, very affected
and already decided to unite
for: ‘Never again.”’
Lebrun invited people to
return to churches on Aug.
15, the day celebrating the
Assumption of Mary, to
express that “violence will
not take over in their hearts.”
On Sunday, dozens of
Muslims in France and Italy
attended Catholic Masses as
a gesture of interfaith soli-
darity following the attack on
the priest.
The Islamic State group
claimed responsibility for
the attack, in which the
priest, two nuns and an
elderly couple were held
hostage before the assailants
slashed the priest’s throat
and seriously wounded the
other man. Another nun at
the Mass slipped away and
raised the alarm, and police
shot to death both attackers
as they left the church.
Tuesday’s
ceremony
was organized under tight
security, and the burial was
private.
Meanwhile,
several
cities and towns across the
country have decided to
cancel traditional August
ireworks shows and other
outdoor summer events,
citing security reasons. After
Nice, Avignon and smaller
French towns cancelled
their ireworks displays and
authorities in Marseilles
called off an air show by
the renowned Patrouille de
France scheduled for next
week, an event that draws
crowds of more than 100,000
people every year.
BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR
Marrying millennials;
praying for politicians
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
P eace L utheran C hurch
210 NW 9th, Pendleton
ELCA
“You will
be the
promise
of love
fulilled.”
Route work
pays for my
children’s
activities.
Worshiping God
~Come and be at Peace ~
Loving People
108 S. Main • 276-9569
Sunday Worship
10:00 am
Sr. Pastor,
Ray O’Grady
on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday
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NEW HOPE
COMMUNITY CHURCH
Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church
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
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
Saturday Services
Pendleton
1401 SW Goodwin Place
276-0882
Sabbath School 9:20 am
Worship Service 10:45 am
First United
Methodist
Church
Pendleton/Hermiston
352 SE 2nd Street, Pendleton OR
Sunday Worship 9am • 541-276-2616
191 E. Gladys Ave, Hermiston OR
Worship Broadcast on
KUMA 1290 @ 11am
Sunday Worship 11am
541-567-3002
Worship Livestream at herfumc.com
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
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”
I
t wasn’t an ordinary
forged. The bride’s mother
wedding. In the seminary and father shedding tears
we might have called
over her happiness and the
it post-modern, framing
wave of tears that circled
the service in a context of
the gathered congregation.
modern fairy stories.
If angels could only
The bride had the
bottle the miracle of
theme tune from
wedding tears and
“The Hobbit” movie
a love that renews
playing as she came
itself from the heart
into view. When the
of God, it would
married couple left,
bathe the world in
the tune was the
peace.
theme from “Jurassic
A small postscript.
Colin
Park.” The wedding
I hope and pray that
Brown
cake was a pyramid
the political ire that
Faith
of doughnut holes
is burning will be
and my son, the
quenched by
groom, Matthew,
waters of hope
the Harry Potter
and promise. In
look-alike, had a
our religion we
miniature Harry
are all one in the
Potter look-alike,
Body of Christ,
Jack, as ring-
powered by
bearer. Kylene,
the Holy Spirit,
the bride, was
and whether
radiant. I looked
Republicans or
around at the
Democrats, or
100 or so people
other, we are
and realized that many
tied to the will of a Father
of them were about to be
who loves us, all of us, and
related to me. Jack and Ella
who made all of us. We
(the lower girl) were now to cannot allow our house of
be cousins of mine.
holiness to be divided. We
I read from the Apostle
cannot vote for those things
Paul. You know:
that conspire against God’s
“If I speak in the tongues love for us. We must learn to
of men and of angels, but
grow together in the forest
have not love, I am only
of God’s making. This is his
a resounding gong or a
will.
clanging cymbal. If I have
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the gift of prophecy and
Colin Brown is pastor of
can fathom all mysteries
Boardman’s Good Shepherd
and all knowledge, and if I
Lutheran Church.
have a faith that can move
mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing. If I give
all I possess to the poor and
surrender my body to the
lames but have not love, I
gain nothing.”
My sermon was about
growing together, like
the trees of the forest,
branches clashing together
and growing old together.
Behind me I had the
backdrop of the magniicent
forest of Champoeg Park,
overlooking the water.
I said: “Like trees
planted side by side you
will start by bumping into
each other, curling your
branches around each other.
There will be the sound of
timber bumping into timber.
From time to time you
will compete for sunlight,
water and soil — but over
the years you will grow
yourselves into each other,
your branches weaving
shade and green coolness for
Become an
your children, your relatives
and your friends. In 50
East Oregonian
years you will be entwined
Carrier.
together, as one mighty tree,
old, gnarled, strong and
211 SE Byers Ave.
beautiful beyond all youth
Pendleton
can do. You will be the
or call:
promise of love fulilled.”
541-276-2211
I love wedding sermons
and those subject to them.
1-800-522-0255
I love the birthing of tears,
tears of great hope and
promise at a future being
Faith Center 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
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
FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM
SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM
712 SW 27 TH ST.
541-276-1894
www.fcogpendleton.com
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
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
Sunday Worship
10:30 AM
Mid-Week
Children & Youth
~
Weekly Adult Life
Groups
1711 SW 44th St.
541-276-6015
www.pendfmc.org
To share your worship times call
Terri Briggs 541-278-2678