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FAITH Friday, January 26, 2018 East Oregonian Page 7A LIMEY PASTOR A country of countries I AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File In this Monday photo, a Hindu holy man burns dried cow dung cakes in earthen pots on his head as he performs a ritual at Sangam, confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna on “Basant Panchami” day at the annual traditional fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India. Basant Panchami is celebrated by worshipping Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom, Saraswati and marks the advent of spring. Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus bathe at the confluence during the astronomically auspicious period of over 45 days celebrated as “Magh Mela.” BRIEFLY Toby Mac to perform live in Kennewick KENNEWICK — Christian alternative, urban pop and rap musician Toby Mac will be performing in Kennewick. Mac got his start in DC Talk, a Grammy-winning Christian pop group formed while he was in college. When the group disbanded in 1999, Mac — aka Toby McKeehan — embarked on a solo career with ever-expanding genres. Mac has continued to garner awards, including a handful of Grammy Awards. He received Best Contemporary Christian Music Album in 2013. As part of his Hits Deep Live tour, Toby Mac will perform Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Toyota Center in Kennewick. Tickets are $15-$70 and are available via www.ticketmaster.com. Gathering encourages sharing the gospel HERMISTON — What if we followed God with perseverance instead of insecurity? That is the focus of a faith-based gathering of women in Texas that is being live-streamed across the globe. Women are gathering in churches, homes and community centers to participate in the event. In Hermiston, New Hope Community Church is coordinating IF: Gathering Hermiston to participate program that includes a large gathering and then break-out groups to facilitate deeper conversations. IF: Gathering Hermiston is 401 Northgate, Pendleton 401 Northgate, Celebration of Worship Pendleton Sundays 10:00am CELEBRATION Youth: 0-6th grade OF WORSHIP Midweek 10:00 Service am Sundays Youth: Wednesdays 6:00pm 0-6th grade Youth: 0-6th grade Overcomer’s Outreach MIDWEEK SEVICE Tuesday’s 6:00pm Wednesdays 6:00 pm In the Annex Youth: A Christ Centered, 12 Step 0-6th grade Recovery Support Group Pastor Sharon Miller Pastor Sharon Miller 541-278-8082 541-278-8082 Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP In this Oct. 11, 2016 file photo, Toby Mac performs at the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards at Lipscomb University, in Nashville, Tenn. The Christian singer will perform Feb. 15 at the Toyota Center in Kennewick. Friday, Feb. 9 from 5-9 p.m. at New Hope Community Church, 1350 S. Highway 395. It continues Saturday, Feb. 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 30 host locations. A suggested donation of $1 for the registration is requested to offset costs for the live-stream. For those who can’t make a donation, arrangements can be made. Childcare for kids through age 5 is available by donation. The focus is on Paul’s letters to Timothy as he reminded him of the power and responsibility of sharing the gospel. The gathering will also serve as a celebration and encouragement to share about God’s work. 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 P eace L utheran C hurch Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 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 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. “See ye no strangers, rather see all men as friends, for love and unity come hard when ye fi x your gaze on otherness.” – Abdu’l Baha Community Open Hearted... Open Minded ELCA BAHA’I FAITH IN PENDLETON Worship www.livingwordcc.com www.livingwordcc.com 210 NW 9th, Pendleton To register, visit https://register. ifgathering.com/event/ifhermiston. For more information, contact Heather Beal at if.hermiston@gmail. com or search Facebook. ——— Friday’s faith page features local, national and international faith-re- lated news. Send information about local faith-related news and events, including concerts, special speakers and activities to community@ eastoregonian.com or drop off to the attention of Tammy Malgesini at 333 E. Main St., Hermiston or Renee Struthers at 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton. Call 541-564-4539 or 541-966-0818 with questions. 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 remember when I regions, ostensibly first encountered by international the United agencies for very States, flying over it, thought-out designs, casting the shadow have had the opposite of the airplane far effect. They have below onto the created radicalism, endless green sod the feeling of and mountainous being “other” and Colin gray. The thing I of belonging to a Brown was struck with was world that has been Faith the vastness and dissolved from the emptiness of the maps. plains below. Each state is The art of assimilation just a piece of this God-given is the particular work that magnificence. this country is good at. It is Our land is a country a blender and alchemist of made up of little countries, a cultural selves. We cannot wee simulacrum of Europe. help ourselves but become We forget the scale of what new in this place. Every new we have been given. America generation is a new version is much, much more than a of America — braver, kinder country. It is majesty. and more creative. It is a fine Over the years I have and heady brew. I love it. been fortunate enough Jesus came out of to roam around this Samaria, being born in Bethlehem, yet he is owned unimaginable place. I have by the whole world and been in the vast mountains nobody claims Jesus as of Alaska. I have stood and uniquely belonging to their gazed upon the horrifying country. Yet many countries remains of Ground Zero in claim their own prophets as New York. I have traversed being unique to their state or Lake Superior in a sailboat groupings of states, which under the Northern Lights. makes a colossal mess as I have seen beauty in every you can see as it is played raindrop and rainbow. out among the little armies I remember working in Wisconsin in Rice Lake and that fill the world with a froth Barron, near the relics of of blood. Indian mounds, for Jennie-O The current political Turkey Stores (now part of distortion in our own Hormel), working on making environment (which many, the company compliant for including me, characterize as the Sarbanes-Oxley law racism) is, seen in the light of many years ago. our history, not American. At The first time I came to least not modern American. the company’s doors I saw I am praying very hard that the workers coming to work, this disease of the soul, this dressed in African garb and disease of little countries, surrounded by snowflakes does not poison our vast and falling turkey feathers. land of promise. I ask God to Because there were few intervene and send his angels local natives to work at the of amity to end this before factory, the majority of the it rots. workforce were drawn from I say this prayer for you the Somali community in and your family: Minnesota, refugees from “May God’s love blossom civil war. It was a strange in our household and grow and surreal scene. out into your garden. They were a lost people. May God’s holiness spill The international community out into the waterways of had broken up the original your heart. May you be a families, shattered by their proclaimer of the One, and civil war into even more become a vessel for the life brokenness, and sending of his son. members of each family to May you fear not of bring Canada, Australia or Europe, different for you are made where the seeds of shocking to be new, a new creation of isolation, grief and trouble love to shine and renew. would be sewn among these May you protect the little separated families. ones, who can grow in your The local church told me shade, who can shelter from that the international policy cruelty and take part in the of breaking up families was Way. actually causing radicalism. Become the defender the The church in Wisconsin was Lord made you to be. May making an effort to create the Lord walk beside you, new groupings among the every day. Somali people, but it wasn’t Amen. enough. ■ I have noticed that You can email Pastor this policy of breaking Brown at bpicolin@gmail. up families in war-torn com. Please come visit with us at Th e Baha’i Center: 1015 SE Court Place Everyone invited! Sunday Devotions @ 11:00am Th ursday Investigate Religion Class, 7pm Th ursdays – Everyone welcome! (541) 276-9360 or visit us at www.pendletonbahais.com To share your worship times call 541-278-2678 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” 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 Worship: 10 AM Sunday School at 11:30 The Salvation Army Center for Worship & Service 9:30 - Sunday School 10:30 - Worship Service We off er: Sunday School • Sign Language Interpreters • Nursery • Transportation • & more! 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