Friday, November 11, 2016
East Oregonian
FAITH
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Operation Christmas Child
sends thousands of gifts overseas Community
By TAMMY MALGESINI
East Oregonian
More than 200 shoeboxes
were filled with gifts as part
of a Nov. 5 packing party
for Operation Christmas
Child at the Stanfield Baptist
Church.
“It was a great event,”
said Barb Wattenburger,
collection coordinator in
Hermiston.
Church member Carol
Frink, also a Hermiston
businesswoman,
helped
organize the event that
assists in spreading the joy
of Christmas to disadvan-
taged children in war-torn
and poverty-stricken nations
around the world. Opera-
tion Christmas Child is an
outreach ministry of the
international Christian relief
organization
Samaritan’s
Purse. People are invited
to fill shoebox-sized boxes
with toys, personal hygiene
items, school supplies and
other gifts for the recipients.
National Collection Week
is Nov. 14-21. Drop-off
locations are available in
Pendleton, Hermiston and
Milton-Freewater.
In 2015, Pendleton donors
gave 1,086 shoeboxes and
Hermiston supporters gave
a whopping 1,725, said Fay
Smith, Operation Christmas
Child regional media coor-
dinator.
The concept is simple,
Smith said: Pack gifts for
either a boy or girl of a
designated age group in a
standard-size shoebox, add
a shipping label, provide $7
per shoebox to help defray
shipping costs and take
it to a relay center during
National Collection Week,
Faith Center Church
Worshiping God
Loving People
108 S. Main • 276-9569
Sunday Worship 10:30 am
Sr. Pastor,
Ray O’Grady
pendletonfaithcenter.org
F IRST C HRISTIAN C HURCH
(D ISCIPLES OF C HRIST )
215 N MAIN • PENDLETON
Sunday Worship: 10:40a
Bible Class: 9:30a
Offi ce 276-5358
M-F, 8:30-12:30
ELCA
Area residents participate in a shoebox-packing party Nov. 5 at the Stanfield Baptist
Church. The gifts will be distributed through Operation Christmas Child to needy
children across the globe.
When and where to drop your shoeboxes
Calvary Chapel
1909 S.W. Athens Ave.,
Pendleton
Nov. 14-15, 17-18; 4-6 p.m.
Nov. 16, 21; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Nov. 19; 7:30-9 a.m. & 4-6 p.m.
Nov. 20, 1-3 p.m.
Denise Skeen, 541-377-2103
which runs from Nov. 14-21.
Gifts can include small
toys, clothing, a stuffed
animal, toothbrushes, soap
and washcloths. Prohibited
items are anything liquid or
breakable, war-themed toys,
chocolate and vitamins.
It
involves people of
all ages — including youth
and adult service groups,
businesses, private schools,
churches, retirees, individuals
and families, Smith said.
New Hope Community Church
1350 S. Highway 395,
Hermiston
•Nov. 14-19, 21; 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
•Nov. 15, 17; 5-7 p.m.
•Nov. 20; noon-2 p.m.
Barb Wattenburger,
541-626-3159
And, it’s happening across
the United States, Canada,
Australia, Finland, Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, Japan,
New Zealand, Spain and Great
Britain. In 2015, a total of 11.2
million shoebox gifts were
collected worldwide, including
8.7 million from the U.S.
Anyone can contribute a
box for Operation Christmas
Child. For uniformity in
packaging and distribution,
items must be placed into a
Milton Seventh-day
Adventist Church
1244 N. Elizabeth St.,
Milton-Freewater
•Nov. 14, 16, 18; 3:30-7:30 p.m.
•Nov. 15, 17, 19; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
•Nov. 20; 1-5 p.m.
•Nov. 21; 9-11 a.m.
541-938-3066
shoebox-sized container.
More information, guide-
lines for shoebox gifts and an
option for people to virtually
“Build a Box” is available
at
www.samaritanspurse.
org/occ. Also, Smith can
be reached at smith_fay@
yahoo.com.
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Contact
Community
Editor Tammy Malgesini at
tmalgesini@eastoregonian.
com or 541-564-4539
AP Photo/Chuck Burton
North Carolina Gov. Pat
McCrory speaks to sup-
porters at an election rally
in Raleigh, N.C., Wednes-
day. The race between
McCrory and Democrat
Roy Cooper remains too
close to call.
won
the
governorship
by 500,000 votes in a
blowout the same year
President Barack Obama
was re-elected, was losing
by 5,000 votes out of nearly
4.7 million cast. In 2012,
McCrory received 170,000
more votes than Republican
presidential nominee Mitt
Romney. This time, he trailed
Donald Trump by 63,000
votes.
McCrory could still win.
There are tens of thousands
of provisional ballots that
have to be examined to deter-
mine whether they are valid
and can be added to the vote
tallies. Counties don’t have
to submit their final results
until Nov. 18.
North Carolina debated,
passed and signed the
bathroom bill in a one-day
special session in March. The
measure, known as House
Bill 2, requires transgender
people to use restrooms in
Letter to the president-elect
ear President-elect
Oval Office when wrenching
Trump,
decisions with no apparent way
Many congratula-
out face you. When natural
tions on becoming our new
disasters of unimaginable
President-elect. I expect you
complexity challenge you, God
may be as surprised as the
will be at your side. He will
rest of us are. I spent the day
place his wisdom in you, as
after in a daze, feeling that
well as your sense of justice. I
everything had changed.
think your ability to delegate,
Colin
I am a firm believer in
as well as the friendship of
Brown
providence. There is a call
your friends and their loyalty
Faith
in the presidency, perhaps
to you, will help and be of
more unique than most. Like
great comfort. You have made
being ordained, this time is a time of
friends of enemies already and this is
separating the past from the future.
good, because the fight that comes to
Whoever you were before, whatever
you will also come to them and your
you thought before and whatever you
alliances will also be of God.
thought you were or would become are
Your qualities of strength and, let
going to go away.
us be honest, passion and bluster will
You are now lifted up on the
enable you to persuade a scattered
shoulders of a nation of many complex- Congress. Your ability to ride the
ions and beliefs. Your character is laid
perturbations of stress will be supported
open on a sacrificial slab of service.
and increased. God will bless you.
God himself is raising you up. God
You are called to be a great, good
often calls the least expected. You won’t man. Not a sinner with hidden flaws.
become a saint out of it, but the destinies They are behind you now. You are
and souls of many will be affected by
called to be the very best image of
you. No more will you inhabit a circle of your true self honed in the mind of
just friends; you will inhabit a sphere as
God. But something very large and
large as the world. In a way, you rise to
demanding is coming your way, bigger
the highest level you can be.
than an economy, more essential than
The only things that you can
anything seen before. I don’t know
fire will be your darkness and your
what it is, but the Holy Spirit whispers
self-interest (and this is all of us, not
to me that you will hear and that you
just you.) When you have faced the
will obey.
fight that will of necessity come to
Go forth, Mr. Trump, be made holy
you, which has been readied for your
by this fight with possibilities and your
encounter, you will discover the great
own self, because it is that too. I will
force that God has put inside you to
pray for you. I will pray that you be
help the people in the times of their
made as great a human as possible,
greatest need. You will raise a sword of worthy of a portrait on a mountain, a
truth to fight the injustices that hurt the president of beloved memory. Make it
poor. This is why the poor have come
so, good sir!
to you and sought you out.
■
I understand that you are a
Colin Brown is pastor of Boardman’s
Presbyterian. I welcome that you
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on
have that comfort and can kneel in the
Locust Road.
schools and government
buildings that correspond
to the gender on their birth
certificate.
The law also leaves out
gay and transgender people
from state anti-discrimi-
nation protection. And it
disallows local measures that
offer protection.
The national backlash
began immediately. Char-
lotte lost the NBA All-Star
game. The NCAA and
Atlantic Coast Conference
pulled basketball tournament
games out of North Carolina,
a punishing blow in a state
where college basketball is
practically religion. Bruce
Springsteen and other stars
canceled concerts. Busi-
nesses like PayPal stopped
expansions or moves.
9:30
Sunday
Worship
9:30
am am
Sunday
Worship
10:30 am Fellowship
11:00 am Sunday School
& Adult Class
~Come and be at Peace ~
Contributed photo by Barb Wattenburger
BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR
D
210 NW 9th, Pendleton
Join us Sundays
Trump Train may leave NC governor behind
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) —
The Trump train that carried
Republicans to victory
all over the South may
have left one car behind in
North Carolina — Gov. Pat
McCrory, who trailed by a
few thousand votes Thursday
in a still too-close-to-call race
that played out amid anger
over the state’s transgender
bathroom law.
The law limiting LGBT
rights appeared to have a
substantial role in the Elec-
tion Day contest between
McCrory, who signed the
measure and vigorously
defended it against boycotts
and other protests, and
Democratic
Attorney
General Roy Cooper, who
called for its repeal.
McCrory, who in 2012
P eace L utheran C hurch
WWW.FCCPENDLETON.ORG
Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church
Saturday Services
Pendleton
1401 SW Goodwin Place
276-0882
Sabbath School 9:20 am
Worship Service 10:45 am
Community
Presbyterian Church
on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday
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
Join Us
On Our Journey
With Jesus.
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
Scripture, Tradition and Reason
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
N.E. Gladys Ave & 7th, Hermiston
Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672
We are an all inclusive Church
who welcomes all.
Family service 9am Sunday
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
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
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
BRIEFLY
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
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
Aglow welcomes
healing harpist
WALLA WALLA — Laura Larson
will be the featured speaker during the
Nov. 12 meeting of the Walla Walla
Aglow Community Lighthouse.
Larson will share about her
healing journey with the Lord. She
also will minister by playing the
harp prophetically; the instrument is
specially tuned to bring peace and
healing to listeners.
The group will meet from 10
a.m. to 12:30 p.m., which includes
lunch for a freewill offering, at 305
Whitman Court. Those attending
should park near Arby’s and use the
south entrance to the building at the
corner of Isaacs and Ash Street.
For more information, contact
Kathy Owsley at 509-540-2684 or
Lora Sykes at 509-540-0212.
Faith Center offers
Thanksgiving meals
PENDLETON — Faith Center
Church is once again offering
Thanksgiving meals to 25 needy
families in Pendleton.
The free meal includes a frozen
turkey, ham, potatoes, canned
vegetables, margarine and a gravy
mix. Families that would like to
receive a free meal must call the Faith
Center Church office at 541-276-
9569 and leave a message to sign
up. Church personnel will call those
who leave a message to confirm your
meal.
Meals will be distributed to those
registered on Tuesday, Nov. 22 from
6-7 p.m. in the church foyer, 108
S. Main St. Remember, only those
who have registered and received a
confirmation call will receive a meal.
For more information, call Pastor
Ray O’Grady at 541-276-9569.
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
10:00am
Wednesday Bible Study
6:00pm
Youth Classes:
Nursery - 6th grade Sun & Wed
Jr & Sr High Discipleship Program Wed
FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM
SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM
712 SW 27 TH ST.
541-276-1894
www.fcogpendleton.com
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 earth is but one country
and mankind its citizens.”
Devotions Sundays @ 11am
Investigate Religion Class
7 pm Thursdays
Everyone invited!
1015 SE Court Place
(541)276-9360
www.pendletonbahais.org
To share your worship times
call Terri Briggs 541-278-2678