FAITH
Friday, August 19, 2016
East Oregonian
Lawyer’s
prayerful
Facebook
posts draw
warning
DALLAS (AP) — A
Texas defense attorney
is being told to refrain
from revealing details
about ongoing trials in his
prayerful posts on social
media.
Attorney Mark Grifith
asks online for God’s
providence and says he
prays before and during
a trial. He often invokes
his clients as part of his
prayer.
Judges in separate
cases in Ellis County,
south of Dallas, have
warned him about post-
ings that reveal details of
court proceedings.
One post on the
Facebook page for Waxa-
hachie-based Grifith &
Associates says, “I see
God, directing me in
my ights for justice. I
see God in everything,
including my clients.
They
are
scorned,
chastised, maligned and
cast aside. These are the
people Jesus sought out
and helped.”
Another post reads,
“The jury simply needs to
see the heart of my client,
because that is where the
grace of God resides.”
In response to the
posts, one of the judges
has approved a motion by
District Attorney Patrick
Wilson that attorneys
“refrain from making
extrajudicial statements
related to evidence of this
trial, including electronic
media.”
But Grifith argues
court restrictions could
amount to an infringe-
ment of his constitutional
rights.
“All I’m posting on
social media is that I’m
an attorney who prays
before trial and prays
during trial,” he said,
according to a transcript
from a court hearing last
week. “Now, to restrict
me from doing that, I
believe the state is asking
the court to sanction a
violation of my First
Amendment
right,
freedom of speech and
also freedom of religion.”
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Aleppo Media Center via AP
In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist
group Aleppo Media Center, a child sits in an ambulance after being pulled out of a
building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday. Syrian opposition activists
reported an airstrikes on the al-Qaterji neighborhood in Aleppo late Wednesday.
Aleppo boy’s photo shocks world
By PHILIP ISSA
Associated Press
BEIRUT — The Russian
military said Thursday it was
ready to back a U.N. call for
weekly cease-ires for Syria’s
contested city of Aleppo, as
haunting footage of a young
boy’s rescue from the after-
math of an airstrike shook
global media.
The image of the stunned
and weary-looking boy, sitting
in an ambulance caked with
dust and with blood on his
face, captured the horror that
has beset the war-torn northern
city as photographs of the
child were widely shared on
social media.
An hour after his rescue,
the badly damaged building
the boy was in completely
collapsed.
A doctor in Aleppo iden-
tiied the child as 5-year-old
Omran Daqneesh. He was
brought to the hospital, known
as “M10,” on Wednesday
night, following an airstrike
by Russian or government
warplanes on the rebel-held
neighborhood of Qaterji, said
Dr. Osama Abu al-Ezz. The
boy suffered head wounds but
no brain injury, and was later
discharged.
Rescue workers and jour-
nalists arrived shortly after the
BRIEFLY
Baptist church plans yard sale
BOARDMAN — A beneit yard sale will
help with building a play area at the Boardman
First Baptist Church.
Donations for the sale, which is planned
for Labor Day weekend, are being accepted.
People are encouraged to clean out their
closets, get rid of outgrown sports equipment
and other items that are no longer wanted or
needed.
Items can be dropped off at the church by
Thursday, Sept. 1 at 200 Willow Fork Drive,
Boardman. The sale will be held Sept. 2-3.
For more information, call 541-481-9437.
School sales help shoebox
program
Back to school sales is a perfect time
to begin collecting items for Operation
Christmas Child, according to Fay Smith,
media coordinator for Tri-Cities/Eastern
Oregon region.
An outreach ministry of the international
Christian relief organization Samaritan’s
Purse, it provides shoeboxes illed with gifts to
disadvantaged children across the globe.
In 2015, more than 18,060 shoeboxes were
collected from donors in the area stretching
from Tri-Cities/Walla Walla through most of
Eastern Oregon. They came from individuals,
businesses, youth and adult service groups,
private schools, medical and dental ofices,
and churches of many denominations. The
2016 goal is 20,000 shoebox gifts.
National collection week is held in
November each year. For more information,
visit www.samaritanspurse.org/occ.
Hermiston church collects
school supplies
HERMISTON — People can help students
in need in the community by donating school
supplies to the Connections Overlow.
Hermiston Church of the Nazarene will
accept donations through Sunday Sept. 4,
which will be distributed to local families.
Basic items needed include No. 2 pencils,
erasers, loose-leaf notebook paper, crayons,
glue sticks, spiral notebooks, child-size
scissors, pocket folders, colored pencils and
markers, pink pearl eraser, boxes of tissues
and antibacterial wipes.
For more information, contact 541-567-
3677, hermistonnaz@gmail.com or visit www.
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strike and described pulling
victims from the rubble.
“We were passing them
from one balcony to the
other,” said photojournalist
Mahmoud Raslan, who took
the dramatic photo. He said he
had passed along three lifeless
bodies when someone handed
him the wounded boy. Raslan
gave the child to a rescue
worker, who rushed him to the
ambulance.
Eight people died in the
strike, including ive children,
according to a doctor who
gave only his irst name,
Abo Mohammadian. Many
doctors working in Aleppo’s
opposition areas do not give
their full names for fear of
reprisals against their relatives
in government areas.
A nurse who treated Omran
said “he was in a daze.”
“It was as if he was asleep.
Not unconscious, but trauma-
tized — lost,” said Mahmoud
Abu Rajab.
Medical workers feared
internal injuries, but an X-ray
and an ultrasound revealed his
wounds were supericial. Abu
Rajab stitched up the child and
wrapped his forehead and left
eye in a bandage.
Omran’s three siblings,
ages 1, 6, and 11, and his
mother and father were also
rescued from the building.
None sustained major injuries.
“We sent the younger chil-
dren immediately to the ambu-
lance, but the 11-year-old girl
waited for her mother to be
rescued,” said Raslan, adding
that the woman’s ankle was
pinned beneath the rubble.
In the video posted late
Wednesday by the Aleppo
Media Center, a man was
seen carrying Omran away
from the chaotic nighttime
scene and into an ambu-
lance. Looking dazed, the
boy ran his hands over his
blood-covered face, then
wiped them on the orange
ambulance chair.
The powerful imagery
reverberated across social
media, drawing to mind the
anguished global response to
the photos of Aylan Kurdi, the
drowned Syrian boy whose
body was found on a beach in
Turkey and came to represent
the horriic toll of Syria’s civil
war.
The ighting has frustrated
the U.N.’s efforts to fulill
its humanitarian mandate,
and the world body’s special
envoy to Syria cut short a
meeting Thursday of the ad
hoc committee — chaired by
Russia and the United States
— tasked with deescalating
the violence so that relief can
reach beleaguered civilians.
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Singing new songs,
inding the melody
1350 S. Highway 395,
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Sunday Worship Services
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9:00 & 10:45 am
Spanish- Pastor Genaro Loredo
9:00 & 10:15 am
Classes for kids during all
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For more information call
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Methodist
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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
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Scripture, Tradition
and Reason
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Grace Baptist Church
555 SW 11th, Hermiston
567-9497
Nursery provided for all
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6:00 pm
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Pendleton
Service of Worship - 10:00 am
Children’s Sunday School -
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Fellowship - 11:00 am
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241 SE Second St. Pendleton
(541)276-3809
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Wednesday Holy Communion Noon
Weekly Adults Spiritual Life Group
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CHURCH
T
he newly reconstituted
apply to the Beatles as well as
worship committee gathered Prince and Elvis. This should be a
about the church ofice
comfort for many of us. Music is
eternal.
table, blue and green hymnals
My own background of
scattered akimbo in front of us and
sheets of paper scratched inkily
church music came from an
with titles and numbers. While
English education at irst, where
most of everyone else was
our regular schools had
attending the fairs that
church-like services every
had bloomed in the towns
morning with mandatory
around us, our group had
attendance. I had attended
come together on Sunday
from the age of ive to
afternoon to select likely
the age of 19 years. It’s
hymns for the texts we use
hard for a free-thinking
in our worship service for
American to conceive
the months ahead.
of such a thing, but it
Colin
Among us were Mike,
certainly trained me in
Brown
a seminarian in training,
much of the range of the
Comment
who has been putting
traditional hymnals. My
on services in the park.
encounters with music
He had recently put on
in American churches
his irst Spanish services in the
have mostly been with these
park, which has garnered him
familiar songs that low in our
good and hopeful results that
blood on both sides of the sea like
had encouraged him no end.
memories of lost loves.
There was Josh, our powerhouse
Between us, we looked
15-year-old who was going to
through our cheat sheets from
be playing football the next day,
Sola Publishing that identiied the
who has a call himself to serve the Bible texts for the months ahead.
ministry. There was Phyllis, who
The decision was to allow the
in our church is a representative
committee to select the hymns
of the abundance of God, and
that corresponded with all but the
provides tabletops of food for the
Gospel texts. As pastor I would
congregation and has a glorious
do my best in the week ahead
sense of detail. Then there was
to select a hymn with the aid of
Kathy, our piano player, who
the Holy Spirit for our Gospel
has been playing for our church
stories. This process of sermon
for many years. She bore the
composition is extraordinarily
knowledge of what hymns people
mysterious to me — I have begun
have an afinity to, and also what
to treat it as an approach to the
they know and remember.
mouth of the divine himself,
Nothing disconcerts a
marked with fear. It has become a
congregation so much as an
process akin to wrestling with God
unfamiliar tune or words that have that leaves me trembling. So the
hymn for the Gospel reading will
never sounded in their presence
before. Although, I suspect, when
not be clear until we get to that
Sunday, and truthfully maybe not
they get to their heavenly reward,
they may have to get used to new
even then.
things, as I suspect Bach won’t
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have given up his passion for
Colin Brown is the pastor
composing just because he “made
of Boardman’s Good Shepherd
it.” I suspect that this also will
Lutheran Church on Locust Road.
Saturday Services
Pendleton
1401 SW Goodwin Place
276-0882
Sabbath School 9:20 am
Worship Service 10:45 am
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
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FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM
SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM
712 SW 27 TH ST.
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Devotions Sundays @
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