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East Oregonian
Friday, October 21, 2016
Ugandan oficial to share about orphanage
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
A trio of Eastern Oregon
residents are excited about
ongoing projects at the Otino
Waa Children’s Village.
Scott and Kelly Zielke of
Hermiston and Judy Weidert
of the Athena Christian
Church returned to the
Ugandan orphanage this
summer to deliver supplies
and assist with launching a
sustainable chicken farm.
The project provides food for
nourishment and teaching
skills in caring for the
chickens. Additional eggs
will be sold to help sustain
the program.
The Zielkes learned about
the needs of the village
during a mission trip in 2013
with other members of the
Stanield Baptist Church.
Weidert also has been to the
orphanage previously.
The public is invited to
meet Rev. Dickens Anyati,
the Ugandan administrator
of Otino Waa, during a pair
of presentations in Stanield
and Athena. Anyati, a native
of Uganda, will speak
Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the
Stanield Baptist Church,
310 Wheeler Ave., and
Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the
Athena Christian Church,
458 E. Van Buren St.
Anyati will focus on
providing an update about
the chicken farm project,
which received its irst fowl
in June, Scott Zielke said.
Additional chickens were
purchased in August after
participants in the vacation
Photo contributed by Scott Zielke
Children from Otino Waa Children’s Village smile while
interacting with area missionaries during a summer trip
to Uganda. People can learn more about the orphanage
and projects to promote sustainability during presen-
tations Tuesday in Stanield and Wednesday in Athena.
Bible school at the Herm-
iston First Christian Church
got on board with a “Buy
a Chicken” project. The
group, Zielke said, collected
enough money to purchase
300 chickens, which were $2
each.
In addition, Anyati will
share about the vision
for Otino Waa. While the
purpose of his trip isn’t
fundraising, people that are
interested in sponsoring a
child at the village can get
information on how to do
that.
In 2002, Otino Waa
founders Bob and Carol
Higgins of Bend learned
a rebel group called The
Lord’s Resistance Army had
their sights on 78 orphans —
planning to abduct them near
Lira, Uganda. Missionaries
at the time, the couple were
involved with a water project
in the country.
The plight of the children
tugged on Carol’s heart-
strings and the couple sprang
to action. With the help of
local leaders, they were able
to rescue the kids and began
taking care for their basic
needs.
As the year progressed,
it became apparent that the
children needed longterm
care. In 2003, Otino Waa
Children’s Village was
created just outside Lira.
Rather than looking for
people to adopt the kids,
Zielke said the mission of
the orphanage is to provide
them with tools to survive,
thrive and become self-sufi-
cient. The hope is they will
become future leaders of
their country.
“We’re teaching the kids
to ish, we’re not just giving
them ish,” Zielke said.
Residents
of
the
orphanage — which now
number about 300 — are
divided into groups with
eight kids. Serving as house
moms, widows from the
community care for the
“family units.”
For more information
about the local presentations,
call the Zielkes at 541-571-
8153. For more about the
children’s village, visit www.
otinowaa.org.
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I preached that Sunday about
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persistence in wanting. We used the
text from Luke about the woman who
kept nagging a judge who neither
feared God nor man until she got
what she wanted, and we used the
text from the Old Testament about
God struggling with Jacob until Jacob
actually made God submit to him and
bless him. Strange texts that speak
something about the power God has
given us in our relationship with him.
Our father wants us to struggle for
what we want. We are God’s children
and this is our place to tend and
protect. We are sons and daughters of
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Pope canonizes Argentina’s ‘gaucho priest’
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope
Francis
canonized
Argentina’s
“gaucho priest” Sunday, bestowing
sainthood on the poncho-wearing
pastor with whom the irst Argentine
pope shares many similarities, from
a taste for mate tea to a dedication to
bringing the ministry to even the most
isolated people.
Francis honored Jose Gabriel del
Rosario Brochero along with six
others in a Mass before a crowd of
80,000 in St. Peter’s Square, saying
the new saints, “thanks to prayer, had
generous and steadfast hearts.”
“The saints are men and women
who enter fully into the mystery of
prayer. Men and women who struggle
with prayer, letting the Holy Spirit
pray and struggle in them,” the pope
said.
Also made into saints were two
Italian priests, Lodovico Pavoni and
Alfonso Maria Fusco, French martyr
Salomone Leclercq, French nun Elis-
abeth of the Trinity, Spanish bishop
Manuel Gonzalez Garcia and Mexican
layman Jose Sanchez del Rio.
Born in 1849 in the province of
Cordoba, Brochero was one of the
most famous Catholics in the Argen-
tina of Francis’ youth. He died in 1914
after living for years with leprosy that
he was said to have contracted from
one of his faithful.
Brochero was beatiied in 2013,
after Pope Benedict XVI signed off
on a miracle attributed to his interces-
sion. Francis moved Brochero closer
to sainthood soon after being elected
pope, and cleared him for sainthood
earlier this year.
At the time of Brochero’s beatiica-
tion, Francis wrote a letter to Argen-
tina’s bishops praising Brochero for
having had the “smell of his sheep.”
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The tapestry of Argentina’s “gaucho priest” Jose Gabriel del Rosario
Brochero hangs from the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica prior to the start of a
Canonization Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square, at the
Vatican, Sunday. The pope canonized Brochero on Sunday along with six
others in one of the inal big Masses of his Holy Year of Mercy.
That’s a phrase Francis has frequently
used to describe his ideal pastor: one
who accompanies his lock, walking
with them through life’s ups and
downs.
“He never stayed in the parish
ofice. He got on his mule and went
out to ind people like a priest of
the street — to the point of getting
leprosy,” Francis wrote.
A papal biographer, Austen
Ivereigh, says Brochero exempliies
Francis’ idea of a priest.
Among the parallels shared by
the two Argentines is Brochero’s
spirituality, which is deeply rooted in
the Jesuit spiritual exercises dear to
Francis. Francis, who like Brochero
adores his mate tea, has exhorted
his pastors to travel to far-lung
peripheries to minister to the poor,
as Brochero did on his trusty mule
Malacara.
Argentinians, many waving lags,
made the journey themselves to Rome
to see Brochero elevated to saint-
hood, including Argentine President
Mauricio Macri and his wife.
“Our saint, he took all that he
had off in order to go ahead and in
order to help people, in particular the
poor ones, especially in the middle
of mountains,” said Patricia Elena
Zabala, from Villa Gobernador Galvez
in Argentina. “He went there with a
mule. That’s why he’s represented
riding a mule, going along villages
and helping people.”
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