FAITH
Friday, July 7, 2017
BRIEFLY
Fun Factory
builds Biblical
learning
HERMISTON —
Kids are invited to attend
the Maker Fun Factory
vacation Bible school.
“Created by God:
Built for a Purpose”
is the theme, which
starts Monday, July 10
from 5-8 p.m. at the
First Christan Church,
775 W. Highland Ave.,
Hermiston. The program
continues nightly though
Thursday, July 13.
For more information,
call 541-567-3013 or
search Facebook.
Living Faith
plans kids’ rally
HERMISTON —
Children ages 3-12 are
invited to participate in a
faith-based kids’ festival.
Victory! The Ultimate
Pep Rally kicks off
Sunday, July 16 from
6-8:30 p.m. at Living Faith
Church, 1611 Diagonal
Blvd., Hermiston. The free
event continues nightly
through Thursday, July
20. Transportation can be
arranged.
Parents are encouraged
to register their kids at
www.winacity.com or by
calling 541-720-7808.
East Oregonian
Hobby Lobby accused of
hypocrisy amid smuggling case
By KELLY P. KISSEL
Associated Press
Hobby Lobby, the arts-
and-crafts chain whose
devout Christian owners won
a landmark Supreme Court
ruling on religious freedom,
is caught up in an antiqui-
ties-smuggling scandal that
has opened the company to
accusations of hypocrisy.
The Oklahoma City-based
business agreed to pay a $3
million fine Wednesday over
its role in what federal prose-
cutors said was the smuggling
into the U.S. of ancient clay
tablets, seals and other Iraqi
archaeological objects that
might have been looted from
the war-torn country.
Online, many people
piled on, with more than one
saying things like: “I know
Hobby Lobby’s big on the
Ten Commandments, but
how about ‘Thou shalt not
steal’?” and “Hypocritical
cretins. Preach one thing and
practice another.”
Hobby Lobby, whose
president, Steve Green,
has been collecting ancient
artifacts since 2009 and is
building an $800 million
Bible museum in Wash-
ington, pleaded naivete in
doing business with dealers
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File
In this June 30, 2014, file photo, customers walk to a
Hobby Lobby store in Oklahoma City.
in the Middle East.
“The company was new
to the world of acquiring
these items and did not fully
appreciate the complexities
of the acquisitions process,”
Hobby Lobby said in a state-
ment. “This resulted in some
regrettable mistakes.”
Federal
prosecutors
described a scheme that
involved lying and perhaps
stealing. It included a number
of middlemen and involved
the use of phony or misleading
invoices, shipping labels and
other paperwork to slip the
artifacts past U.S. customs
agents, prosecutors said.
Among other things,
cuneiform tablets were
labeled “ceramic tiles,” and
items carried paperwork that
said they came from Turkey
or Israel. Also, artifacts were
deliberately undervalued and
shipped in small batches to
multiple addresses in Okla-
homa City to avoid drawing
the attention of customs
agents, prosecutors said.
Bob Murowchick, an asso-
ciate professor in archaeology
and anthropology at Boston
University, cast doubt on the
company’s claim that it didn’t
know what it was doing.
“It’s like that scene in
‘Casablanca’: ‘I am shocked,
shocked, that there is
gambling going on here,’”
Murowchick said.
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Native Americans say grizzly
bear decision violates religion
HELENA, Mont. (AP) —
Native American tribes, clans
and leaders from seven states
and Canada say the U.S.
government’s recent decision
to lift protections for grizzly
bears in the Yellowstone
National Park area violates
their religious freedom.
They are suing to block
the
government
from
removing Yellowstone griz-
zlies from the endangered
and threatened species list,
which would allow Montana,
Wyoming and Idaho to hold
grizzly bear hunts.
The Native American
plaintiffs argue that trophy
hunting for grizzly bears
goes against their religious
and spiritual beliefs. The
lawsuit filed June 30 asks
a federal judge to rule that
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service must consider the
Native Americans’ beliefs
and consult adequately
with them before removing
grizzly protections that have
been in place since 1975.
“He is our relative. For
us Bear Clan members, he is
our uncle,” Ben Nuvamsa,
a former chairman of the
Hopi Tribe in Arizona, said
Wednesday. “If that bear is
removed, that does impact
our ceremonies in that there
would not be a being, a reli-
gious icon that we would
know and recognize.”
The three states have
not planned any hunts for
this year, but have agreed
to quotas and to cease all
hunting if the Yellowstone
population falls below 600
bears. There are now about
700 in the region.
Basing a legal challenge
of an Endangered Species
Act decision on religious
beliefs and inadequate
tribal consultation has not
been tried before, said
the plaintiffs’ attorney,
Jeff Rasmussen. It’s an
argument that differs from
those of the conservation
and wildlife advocacy
groups who have also filed
intentions to sue over last
month’s U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service decision.
“They don’t feel like
they’ve been listened to,
both with regard to their
religious beliefs and spiri-
tual beliefs, and with regard
to some of the issues in this
case,” Rasmussen said.
“They feel the U.S. is not
listening to them, and we’re
hoping to change that.”
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Services and Department of
Interior officials declined
to comment on the lawsuit.
U.S. Department of Justice
officials did not return a
call or email for comment.
LIMEY PASTOR
Independence Daze
spent then next day recovering from
is spectacular, and is used to bake potatoes.
Tuesday night’s display of fireworks
This week, Ben Franklin’s old house in
London was opened for tours — a house
by neighbors who apparently made the
long trek to Idaho for Chinese fireworks,
where Franklin worked for years trying to
or found some souvenirs of the Middle
persuade the Brits to lighten taxation on a
Eastern wars in working order.
new country trying to mind its own
My house shook with explosions
business.
and rockets exploded above the
Britain is very fond of its offspring,
neighborhood in sprays of fire
and also celebrates with us here,
that rained down around us. My
although they don’t understand why we
two cats and two dogs bunkered
have such taxes now. After all, when
under my bed, and moaned in
England minded the store taxes were
despair as the building rattled with
just 5 percent.
multiple percussions. My wife
My time here now spans two decades
Colin
slept, as she has been immunized
and my son was born here. I honestly feel
Brown
by my snoring.
that there is a continuum from there to
Faith
In my old country, we exploded
here. I do not feel alien in either country.
our domestic arsenal
It is, according to Sir Winston
on November 5, when
Churchill, part of being an
I celebrate the
fireworks were much
English-speaking nation. It is
independence that a relationship based on a deep
less intercontinental than
here. We would burn a
understanding, deeper
recognizes our common
figure of a man — an
than politics, almost spiritual in
effigy of Guy Fawkes,
dependence on a nature.
a royalist who tried to
I celebrate the indepen-
common wealth dence
blow up the Houses of
that recognizes our
Parliament — atop a huge of faith and linked dependence on a common
bonfire. Every year we
wealth of faith and linked
ideals.
lost citizens to these fires
ideals. Happy Fourth of July,
thanks to excesses of beer
my fellow freedom folks of the
and to the habit of folks going to sleep in
United States.
unlit bonfires the day before.
■
November in the tiny, limey homeland has
Colin Brown is Pastor of Good Shep-
the advantage of cold, wet ground and early
herd Lutheran Church on Locust Road in
nights, so a little less flammable. The bonfire Boardman.
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Family Fun!
Rotary Breakfast
Vendor Booths
Classic Car Show in the Park
Eastern Oregon Art Show
Club 24 Glow Run
Chain Saw Wood Carvers
KOHU/The Q Cash Machine
Kids Zone
Cultural Event to follow Fun Fest
Worship
Community
Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church
LCMC
Sunday worship at
11:00 AM
420 Locust St. • Boardman, OR
541-481-6132
Colin Brown, Pastor
Community
Presbyterian Church
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
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
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”
P eace L utheran C hurch
210 NW 9th, Pendleton ELCA
Join us Sundays
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
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
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.
Sunday Service: 10am & 6pm
Tuesday Kingdom Seekers: 7pm
Wednesday Bible Study: 7pm
We off er: Sunday School • Sign Language
Interpreters • Nursery • Transportation • & more!
Pastor Dan Satterwhite
541.377.4252
417 NW 21st St. • Pendleton, OR 97801
www.facebook.com/
PendletonLighthouseChurch
Worshiping God
OPEN HEARTS – OPEN DOOR
www.graceandmercylutheran.org
Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m. (Nursery Provided)
Fellowship, Refreshments & Sunday School
Check Out our Facebook Page or
Website for More Information
FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM
SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM
712 SW 27 TH ST.
541-276-1894
www.fcogpendleton.com
541-289-4535
Tom Inch, Pastor
Grace and Mercy Lutheran Church, ELCA
(First United Methodist Church)
191 E. Gladys Ave. / P.O. Box 1108
Hermiston, Oregon 97838
Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church
FAITH LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Saturday Services
Pendleton
1401 SW Goodwin Place
276-0882
Sabbath School 9:20 am
Worship Service 10:45 am
in Mission for Christ LCMC
Bible Study.........9:00 AM
Sunday Worship......10:30 AM
Red Lion Hotel
( Oregon Trail Room )
www.faithpendleton.org
~Come and be at Peace ~
To share your worship times
call Terri Briggs 541-278-2678
Join Us
On Our Journey
With Jesus.
PENDLETON
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH
Faith Center Church
9:30
Sunday
Worship
9:30
am am
Sunday
Worship
10:30 am Fellowship
11:00 am Sunday School
& Adult Class
on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
Behind These Stone Walls Beat the Hearts
of Some of the Warmest Most Sincere,
Most Caring People in Pendleton.
We Invite You to Come Get Acquainted!
Summer Worship 9:40 am
Fellowship to follow
Offi ce 541-276-5358 M-F, 8:30-12:30
www.fccpendleton.org
Loving People
108 S. Main • 276-9569
Sunday Worship
10:00 am
Sr. Pastor,
Ray O’Grady
pendletonfaithcenter.org
First United
Methodist
Church
401 Northgate,
Northgate, Pendleton
401
Pendleton
Celebration
of
Worship
Celebration of Worship
Sundays 10:00am
Sundays
10:00 am
Youth: 0-6th
Youth:
0-6th grade
grade
Midweek Service
Midweek
Sevice
Wednesdays
6:00 pm
Wednesdays 6:00pm
Youth: 0-6th
0-6th grade
grade
Youth:
Overcomer’s
Outreach
Overcomer’s Outreach
Tuesday’s
6:00 pm
Tuesday’s 6:00pm
In the
the Annex
In
Annex
Christ Centered,
A A Christ
Centered, 12
12 Step
Step
Recovery Support
Support Group
Recovery
Group
Pastor Sharon Miller
Pastor Sharon Miller
541-278-8082
541-278-8082
www.livingwordcc.com
www.livingwordcc.com
Pendleton
352 SE 2nd Street, Pendleton OR
Sunday Worship 9am • 541-276-2616
Worship Broadcast on KUMA 1290 @ 11am
Worship Livestream at
www.facebook.com/FUMCPendleton/
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
Rev. Dr. Jim Pierce, pastor
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