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FAITH Friday, January 19, 2018 East Oregonian HERMISTON Pro-life author to speak at pregnancy center fundraiser director of TruCare, said people who miss the deadline for the meal are still invited to attend the presentation that The author of a book that offers begins at 5:45 p.m. Cissna is excited to have Walden hope and vision in regards to reducing the abortion rate is the guest speaker participate in the organization’s first for a TruCare Pregnancy Resource fundraising event since establishing itself as an independent Center fundraising banquet. entity. The board of direc- With more than 30 tors of Pregnancy Care years experience in the Services — which has pro-life arena, Kirk Walden governed and maintained wrote “The Wall.” With pregnancy centers in the subtitle, “Rebuilding a Hermiston and Pendleton culture of LIFE in America — recently voted to tran- and ending abortion as we sition local governance for know it,” the author indi- the Hermiston site. cates ordinary people can The nonprofit orga- make a difference. nization’s goal is to Formerly known as Kirk Walden empower women and men Pregnancy Care Services, TruCare invites the community to through encouragement, support enjoy dinner and hear Walden speak and education. Their mission is Sunday, Jan. 28 from 5-7 p.m. at the to provide complete and accurate Hermiston Community Center, 415 information about options in regards S. Highway 395. There is no cost to to unexpected pregnancies. While attend but people will have an oppor- they are hopeful people will choose tunity to make a financial gift to the life-affirming options, Cissna said the agency provides support regardless organization. To ensure there’s enough food, of what decision a client makes. “We accept them and love them registration is requested by Sunday, Jan. 21. Debbie Cissna, executive and meet them where they are,” she By TAMMY MALGESINI East Oregonian sports writing and newspaper adver- tising, and then worked with an office products company. While he has been active in the pro-life arena for more than three decades — including political campaigns, addressing public policy and working with crisis pregnancy ministries across the United States — Walden said everyday people can affect a change. “God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary missions,” he said. When people become willing, Walden said, God begins to reveal avenues to accomplish things they had no idea was possible. Calling himself a regular “Joe Schmo,” Walden said he is naive enough to believe the world can be changed. And, he hopes more people will catch the same vision. For more information or to register for the banquet, contact 541-567- 2393, info@trucareprc.com or visit www.trucareprc.com. ——— Contact Community Editor Tammy Malgesini at tmalgesini@ eastoregonian.com or 541-564-4539 Pregnancy Resources Hermiston •105 S.W. Second St. •541-567-2393, info@trucareprc.com www.trucareprc.com Debbie Cissna, executive director Pendleton •311 S.E. Dorion Ave. •541-276-5757, sara@pregnancy- careservices.com www.pregnancycareservices.com Sara Taylor, executive director said. “We talk about a lot of things where they have nowhere else to talk.” Services include pregnancy testing, community referrals, parenting classes, teen support groups, infant supplies, post-abortion counseling and information about birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. The Hermiston center also has several Spanish-speaking volun- teers. Hearing a message from a pastor while he was a college freshman, Walden sensed a calling to be part of turning culture toward embracing life. After a brief career as a professional golfer, Walden turned his attention to LIMEY PASTOR Memories of Oxford, love’s pasture his week I feel a longing for places great authors has been inflamed turning visited and dreams dreamt from long their own hewn faith into crucibles of ago. I am haunted by places that I new stories to enrich the life of readers have but glimpsed and drifted into like everywhere. The club of writers was seaweed on the seashore. I long for a past known as the Inklings and consisted of that has yet to properly take root. Nostalgia many of the truly great writers of England. is an emotion that the soul is enriched by, Their aim was to create a new impulse of even though it is bittersweet and partial, the Christian life to revivify the broken like an echo. continents of World War II using access to Colin This week a fellow worker friend passed the door of imagination. Brown away and disappeared like mist in the They would gather every Tuesday at Faith morning, after a surgery failed to work. the Eagle and Child Pub, also known as Our community is rocked, as someone we the “Bird and Baby” to tell each other their knew really well has now disappeared from the stories as they were composed and tried out on earth. I feel the delicate transience of things, the their learned listeners. poignancy of memory. Time is short and, like all The spirit of the Inklings has lived on, and flesh, my slice of the world is but finite. many children have danced to the word music of I remember some years ago walking among the Oxford writers. It is most important that the the dreaming spires of Oxford in England, and tellers of such tales are plugged into eternal truths visiting the “Eagle and Child” pub where J.R.R. and know how to enchant the human heart. I’m writing this to spur myself on. Many years Tolkien met with C.S. Lewis to create new visions ago I wrote six stories about a group of children of Christianity by reading to each other from their who were traveling in the enchanted universe own creations — “The Lord of the Rings” and of story. I need to finish all the stories of these “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” — their children before too long, even if no one ever reads own books in draft in the midflight of creation. them. In some strange way, the writing of these I could feel the walls of time between me and children’s’ stories ignited something in my own them and a dim autumn light showed me what these writers had gazed upon, but I could not grasp faith life. If I fail at this I will fail in a very big way. the shape of their imaginings in this place. An It is God’s deepest desire to convert us into insulating skin existed between the walls of the co-creators, who invent and translate and share different worlds that co-existed here. It tasted of stories. It is God’s deepest desire to make us like ambrosia that had no earthly taste. Just up the street from the pub was Christchurch himself, with the wish to hallow each hill, each cloud and star-filled sky with meaning and story, College which has the portrait of one of its former with a wish to bring us to joy and wonder. This students hanging illustriously on the wall inside: of course is the real magic, the real enchantment, Charles Dodgson, or Lewis Carroll as we know where the poetry of creation sings in our hearts and him, the author of “Alice in Wonderland.” Any God’s mysteries make us laugh and clap our hands. American child would recognize the interior of Joy to all of you as you share starlight and Christchurch College as its alter ego — Harry wonder. Potter’s Hogwarts in the movies. We were in ■ Fairyland Central. Colin Brown is the former pastor of the Oxford is the place on earth where Christianity Boardman Lutheran church. Contact him at colin. has a great laboratory of story and concealment brown@usa.net. of secrets, where the imagination of many T By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile — Pope Francis accused victims of Chile’s most notorious pedophile of slander Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that has cost the Catholic Church its credibility in the country. Francis said that until he sees proof that Bishop Juan Barros was complicit in covering up the sex crimes of the Rev. Fernando Karadimas, such accusations against Barros are “all calumny.” The pope’s remarks drew shock from Chileans and immediate rebuke from victims and their advocates. They noted the accusers were deemed credible enough by the Vatican that it sentenced Karadima to a lifetime of “penance and prayer” for his crimes in 2011. A Chilean judge also found the victims to be credible, saying that while she had to drop criminal charges against Karadima because too much time had passed, proof of his crimes wasn’t lacking. “As if I could have taken a selfie or a photo while Karadima abused me and others and Juan Barros stood by watching it all,” tweeted Barros’ most vocal accuser, Juan Carlos Cruz. “These people are truly crazy, and the pontiff talks about atonement to the victims. Nothing has changed, and his plea for forgiveness is empty.” The Karadima scandal dominated Francis’ visit to Chile and the overall issue of sex abuse and church cover-up was likely to factor into his three-day trip to Peru that began late Thursday. Karadima’s victims reported to church authorities as early as 2002 Community 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 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church LCMC Sunday worship at 11:00 AM 420 Locust St. • Boardman, OR 541-481-6132 Colin Brown, Pastor Redeemer Episcopal Church Faith Center Church Worshiping God Loving People 108 S. Main • 276-9569 241 SE Second St. Pendleton (541)276-3809 www.pendletonepiscopal.org Worship Service: 10:30am Sunday School: 9:30am Sunday Holy Communion 9:00 a.m. Wednesday Holy Communion Noon Weekly Adults Spiritual Life Group Sr. Pastor, Ray O’Grady All Are Welcome St. Johns Episcopal Church Join Us Join On Our Journey With Jesus. Scripture, Tradition and Reason Family service 9am Sunday N.E. Gladys Ave & 7th, Hermiston PH: 567-6672 We are an all inclusive Church who welcomes all. Area fourth and fifth graders will participate in a community outreach project in Hermiston. The Impact Ministry event includes creating cards and delivering them to residents at local assisted living facilities. Youths will meet Sunday from noon to 4:30 p.m. at the Hermiston Church of the Nazarene, 1520 W. Orchard Ave. The gathering also includes pizza and a faith-based lesson. For more information, contact Melody Finn- Kinswa, connections pastor, at 541-567-3677, melody.hermnaz@ gmail.com or visit www. hermistonnazarene.org. Youth: 0-6th grade Overcomer’s Outreach Tuesday’s 6:00 pm Celebration of Worship In the Annex Celebration of Worship Sundays 10:00 am Youth: 0-6th grade A Christ Centered, 12 Step Recovery Support Group Pastor Sharon Miller Midweek Service To share your worship times call 541-278-2678 Open Hearted... Open Minded ELCA 401 Northgate, Pendle- ton Wednesdays 6:00 pm Service of Worship - 10:00 am Children’s Sunday School - 10:20 am Fellowship - 11:00 am www.pendletonpresbyterian.com 210 NW 9th, Pendleton East Oregonian that he would kiss and fondle them in the swank Santiago parish he ran, but officials refused to believe them. Only when the victims went public with their accusations in 2010 did the Vatican launch an investigation that led to Karadima being removed from ministry. The emeritus archbishop of Santiago subsequently apologized for having refused to believe the victims from the start. Francis reopened the wounds of the scandal in 2015 when he named Barros, a protege of Karadima, as bishop of the southern diocese of Osorno. Karadi- ma’s victims say Barros knew of the abuse, having seen it, but did nothing. Barros has denied the allegations. His appointment outraged Chileans, badly divided the Osorno diocese and further undermined the church’s already shaky credibility in the country. Francis had sought to heal the wounds by meeting this week with abuse victims and begging forgive- ness for the crimes of church pastors. But on Thursday, he struck a defiant tone when asked by a Chilean jour- nalist about Barros. “The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, I’ll speak,” Francis said. “There is not one shred of proof against him. It’s all calumny. Is that clear?” Francis had defended the appoint- ment before, calling the Osorno controversy “stupid” and the result of a campaign mounted by leftists. But The Associated Press reported last week that the Vatican was so worried about the fallout from the Karadima affair that it was prepared in 2014 to ask Barros and two other Karadima-trained bishops to resign and go on a yearlong sabbatical. 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