FAITH
Friday, October 28, 2016
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PENDLETON
Soup Supper benefits mission projects
East Oregonian
Delicious
homemade
soups are featured during
the 33rd annual Presbyterian
Women’s Soup Supper.
The menu includes clam
chowder, chicken noodle,
vegetable beef, and a gluten-
free vegan tomato-basil soup.
They will be served with
bread, relishes, beverages,
and homemade desserts.
The event is Friday, Nov.
4 from 5-7 p.m. in the Rogers
Fellowship Room at the First
Presbyterian Church, 201
S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton.
The cost is $8 for adults or $3
for children under 12. Addi-
tional homemade noodles
and tins of cookies will be
available for purchase.
People are invited to
browse the large variety
of fairly traded crafts from
developing countries before
and after the dinner. Among
the items are toys, musical
instruments, crèches and
jewelry. People also will
find a selection of coffee and
chocolates.
The unique and inno-
Community
P eace L utheran C hurch
210 NW 9th, Pendleton
ELCA
Join us Sundays
9:30 am Sunday Worship
9:30 am Sunday Worship
10:30 am Fellowship
11:00 am Sunday School & Adult Class
~Come and be at Peace ~
on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday
F IRST C HRISTIAN C HURCH Faith Center Church
(D ISCIPLES OF C HRIST )
215 N MAIN • PENDLETON
Contributed photo
The 33rd annual Presbyterian Women’s Soup Supper is Nov. 4 at the First Presbyterian
Church in Pendleton.
vative products celebrate
the diverse gifts of arti-
sans around the world.
Through the purchase of
products, people help in
providing food, medicine,
housing and education for the
artisans and their families. In
addition, it helps with steady
employment, skills training
and an opportunity for a
better future for residents of
developing nations.
A selection of coffee and
chocolate also are for sale.
The Fair Trade Craft Sale
continues Saturday, Nov. 5
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Proceeds from the event
supports church and mission
projects work locally, nation-
ally and across the globe.
For more information, call
541-276-7681.
Sunday Worship: 10:40a
Bible Class: 9:30a
Offi ce 276-5358
M-F, 8:30-12:30
WWW.FCCPENDLETON.ORG
NEW HOPE
COMMUNITY CHURCH
BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR
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
Wanting what we really, really want
Community
Presbyterian Church
S
everal weeks ago I gave a
see that the world is abundant
sermon on persistence in
beyond measure and is full
wanting, asking God for
of extraordinary possibilities.
what we want. Not just for what
God’s love is magically
we want, but what we really,
fulfilling and uses the gifts of
really want. It was inspired by
the people to come together to
lectionary texts on that theme of
make dreams real. We are all
persistence, about the parable of
carriers of God’s will.
the widow with the unjust judge
I got a phone call this week
Colin
and the Old Testament story
from
a pastor whose call is to
Brown
about Jacob wrestling with God.
act as a link with pastors in
Faith
Most of us feel so unworthy
training in Madagascar and they
of God’s love that we shy away
are reaching out to our church
from moving towards our goals, as
to help them with their goal. This is a
if by so doing we offend him by our
goal that our former Pastor Paul was
ambition. Yet, as my former spiritual
behind, and our church worked with
director said to me, this deepest desire
them before, and I will work with our
we feel in ourselves is God’s will
congregation to continue that mission.
moving within in us. God’s love is such What seem like difficulties between
that if we ask for what we really, really
disparate levels of income may actually
want and persist we will get his help.
make it possible for little churches
What he wants for you, is what you
like our church on the hill to make a
really, really want. Really!
difference that will be truly enormous
The enemy of the human always
in that area of the world.
wants you to feel that you are a trouble
Do not be afraid of asking for
to God, that what you wish for is a
what you want. When you begin to
nuisance and a bother and that you
receive what you want, don’t be at
should settle for your lot (and if you
all surprised at how it happens and
are thinking I am talking about you, I
becomes real. The Lutheran theologian
certainly am). If we look around we can Dietrich Bonhoeffer said that God’s
will can be felt as many wills working
within us. There is a great freedom
that allows us to choose and follow the
calling or wanting that we feel in us as
the loudest and most insistent of our
wishes. It is a great mistake to limit the
power of God working within us and
settle for what we consider likely or
most possible, because it is the power
of the call, the Power of Christ’s calling
within us that draws us forth. This is
unlimited.
I watched a movie about Mother
Theresa’s life work, a movie called
“The Letters,” the other day. Juliet
Stevenson plays the early saint
discerning her call and struggling with
all the forces that opposed her calling.
I highly recommend that you watch it
to see what is striving and driving in
you, where God is wrestling with you,
and consider where and when your
innermost soul is being called forth to
do the work that you are wanting to
do with all your being, which is of the
Father.
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Colin Brown is the pastor of Board-
man’s Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
on Locust Road.
A pair of local churches are offering safe fun on
Halloween.
The Fall Family Festival & Trunk or Treat is Monday
from 5-7 p.m. at Hermiston Church of the Nazarene, 1520
W. Orchard Ave. The event offers fun for the whole family,
candy and hot dogs. For more information, call 541-567-
3677.
Also, the annual Crossroads Trunk of Treat is Monday
from 6-8 p.m. at Crossroads Community Church, 350 N.W.
Sherman St., Stanfield. People are invited to decorate their
cars or trucks and hand out candy to kids. It also features
hot chocolate, warming pits, a bouncy castle and slide, if
weather permits. For more information, call 541-449-3434.
Church women unite during World
Community Day
MILTON-FREEWATER — Randy Grant of the Milton-
Freewater Downtown Alliance is the guest speaker during
the upcoming Church Women United meeting.
Everyone is invited to attend Friday, Nov. 4 at 1:30
p.m. at St. Francis Catholic Church, 925 Vining St.,
Milton-Freewater. In addition, they will celebrate World
Community Day.
For more information, contact Helen Richartz at
helen_jack@columbiainet.com or 541-558-3969.
Ring Praise sets Pendleton concert
PENDLETON — Phyllis Tincher on hand bells and
Sean Rogers on piano will perform at the First Presbyterian
Church in Pendleton.
Through hymns and contemporary praise songs, the
Ring Prise ministry shares about the saving grace of Jesus.
Also, audience members will have an opportunity to ring
the bells during the concert.
The free event is Saturday, Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. at the
church, 201 S.W. Dorion Ave, Pendleton. Donations will
be accepted. In addition, albums released by Tincher and
Rogers will be available for purchase.
For more information, call 541-276-7681. For
more about the Ring Praise Ministry, visit www.
ringpraiseministry.org.
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
Loving People
108 S. Main • 276-9569
Sunday Worship
10:30 am
Sr. Pastor,
Ray O’Grady
pendletonfaithcenter.org
Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church
Saturday Services
Pendleton
1401 SW Goodwin Place
276-0882
Sabbath School 9:20 am
Worship Service 10:45 am
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”
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
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
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
Service of Worship - 10:00 am
Children’s Sunday School -
10:20 am
Fellowship - 11:00 am
www.pendletonpresbyterian.com
Equality reconciliation theme of movie
Trunk or treat provides Halloween fun
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
-Presbyterian Church (USA)-
201 SW Dorion Ave.
Pendleton
BRIEFLY
PENDLETON — A movie dealing with racism and hate
in the 1970s at Woodlawn High School and the spiritual
awakening of its football team will be shown Sunday at
Grace Baptist Church.
“Woodlawn” is an inspirational film that highlights
the life of Tony Nathan, who played for the school in
Birmingham, Alabama, before turning pro. The film
addresses not only the racial tensions of the 1970s but also
themes of unity, equality reconciliation and faith.
The movie will be shown Sunday at 3 p.m. at the
church, 2809 S.W. Goodwin Ave. There is no admission
charge.
For more information, call Rev. Alan Chapman at
541-276-3031.
541-567-8441
Worshiping God
Open Hearted...
Open Minded
Join Us
On Our Journey
With Jesus.
Scripture, Tradition and Reason
Family service 9am Sunday
N.E. Gladys Ave & 7th, Hermiston
Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672
We are an all inclusive Church
who welcomes all.
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 United
Methodist Church
Pendleton/Hermiston
Dusan Vranic/National Geographic via AP
This Wednesday photo, shows the moment workers
remove the top marble layer of the tomb said to be of
Jesus Christ, in the Church of Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
Experts uncover hidden
layers of Jesus’ tomb site
JERUSALEM (AP) — In
the innermost chamber of
the site said to be the tomb of
Jesus, a restoration team has
peeled away a marble layer
for the first time in centuries
in an effort to reach what it
believes is the original rock
surface where Jesus’ body
was laid.
Many historians have
long believed that the orig-
inal cave, identified a few
centuries after Jesus’ death
as his tomb, was obliterated
ages ago.
But an archaeologist
accompanying the resto-
ration team said ground
penetrating
radar
tests
determined that cave walls
are in fact standing — at
a height of six feet and
connected to bedrock —
behind the marbled panels
of the chamber at the center
of Jerusalem’s Church of the
Holy Sepulchre.
“What was found,” said
National Geographic archae-
ologist Fredrik Hiebert, “is
astonishing.”
The work is part of a
historic renovation project
to reinforce and preserve
the Edicule, the chamber
housing the cave where
Jesus is said to have been
entombed and resurrected.
It is the centerpiece of one
of Christianity’s oldest
churches and one of its most
important shrines.
“I usually spend my time
in Tut’s tomb,” said Hiebert
about the Egyptian pharaoh
Tutankhamun’s burial site,
“but this is more important.”
National Geographic is
partnering with Greek resto-
ration experts to document
the work.
A 12th-century building
sitting
on
4th-century
remains, the Church of the
Holy Sepluchre is the only
place where six Christian
denominations practice their
faith at the same site.
The Edicule was last
restored in 1810 following
a fire, and is in need of
reinforcement after years of
exposure to humidity and
candle smoke. A hulking iron
cage built around the Edicule
by British authorities in 1947
for support still stands, but is
not enough.
Renovations at this holiest
of spots require mutual
agreement by the church’s
various custodians, and that
is notoriously hard to secure.
The denominations jealously
guard different parts of the
site and often object to even
the slightest of changes.
FAITH LUTHERAN
CHURCH
in Mission for Christ LCMC
Bible Study.........9:00 AM
Sunday Worship......10:30 AM
352 SE 2nd Street, Pendleton
Sunday Worship 9am
541-276-2616
Worship Broadcast on
KUMA 1290 @ 11am
191 E. Gladys Ave,Hermiston
Sunday Worship 11am
541-567-3002
Worship Livestream at
herfumc.com
Open Hearts, Open Minds,
Open Doors
Rev. Dr. Jim Pierce, pastor
Red Lion Hotel
( Oregon Trail Room )
www.faithpendleton.org
FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM
SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM
712 SW 27 TH ST.
541-276-1894
www.fcogpendleton.com
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
Tuesday at 6:00pm - Annex
A Christ-centered, 12-Step
Recovery Support Group
Pastor Sharon Miller
401 Northgate, Pendleton
541-278-8082
www.livingwordcc.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
To share your worship times
call Terri Briggs 541-278-2678