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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
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Church holds basement sale
A huge basement and yard sale is planned at Trinity Lutheran Church. The event is
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 485 W. Locust Ave., Hermiston. For more informa-
tion, call the church at 541-567-6471.
Mentorship program created
to support struggling families
By JADE M C DOWELL
Staff Writer
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
Cruz Correa rinses off a car during an I Love My City event hosted by Hermiston Assembly of
God on Saturday.
LOVE:
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morial service for JJ Hurtado,
age 14, who was killed by a
man he saw as a father igure
before that man killed anoth-
er person, wounded Hurta-
do’s mother and then turned
the gun on himself.
“Just to see the response
of the city, if anything it re-
vealed that we have a lot of
hurting people,” Haight said.
The hurt didn’t seem to
just be local. Turning on the
news revealed terror attacks,
riots, shootings and political
strife.
As the congregation
turned to their faith for com-
fort, they wanted others to
feel God’s love as they did.
That’s why on Saturday after-
noon Haight was in the Les
Schwab parking lot, working
alongside red-clad parishio-
ners covered from head to toe
in soap and grime, scrubbing
cars clean while their own-
ers sat in the shade enjoying
cookies and — if they want-
ed — prayers for the strug-
gles they were facing.
Other I Love My City
participants were handing
out free water at Butte Park,
washing cars at a second lo-
cation near Ofice Max, en-
tertaining children at a block
party at Viewcrest Apart-
ments and going door to door
offering prayers and words of
encouragement.
“We’re just trying to con-
vey the message that God is
still good, and he still loves
us,” Haight said.
He said washing some-
one’s car for them or handing
them a bottle of water while
they watch their child’s soc-
cer game is a way to express
that love. Whatever religious
beliefs someone in the com-
munity might hold, he said
the I Love My City volun-
teers wanted to be there to
help them.
“When people are hurt-
ing, for some people you just
need to come and sit with
them, and others are looking
for answers,” he said.
Haight said the church has
already gotten interest from
other pastors about joining
future I Love My City events,
so the bright red T-shirts seen
STAFF PHOTO BY JADE MCDOWELL
Volunteers from Hermiston Assembly of God give free car
washes in the Les Schwab parking lot during the church’s I
Love My City event on Saturday.
Hermiston’s
Faith
Based Advisory Com-
mittee is poised to
launch a new program
for at-risk families in the
community.
The program, called
Family Promise, will
match trained mentors
with local families who
need some extra help,
meeting with them reg-
ularly to help provide
support in navigating
anything from budget-
ing to parenting.
“The goal is to help
families be self-sustain-
ing,” Oasis Vineyard
pastor James Lafolette
told the Hermiston City
Council on Monday
night.
The committee has
been searching for the
right person to adapt
the nationally available
program to Hermiston’s
needs, and Lafolette said
they believe they have
found that person in
Made to Thrive director
Kris Dammeyer.
Made to Thrive is
a nonproit that helps
disadvantaged students
ages 4-17 choose an
extra-curricular activi-
ty, register, pay partic-
ipation fees, purchase
equipment and have
people at their games or
performances cheering
them on.
Lafolette said the two
organizations will be
“separate and distinct”
nonproits but will work
in partnership, with
Dammeyer
working
part-time for each and
referring families between
the two programs. He said
Dammeyer has been study-
ing the training materials
sent by Family Promise and
is “gnawing at the bit” to
get going.
“She didn’t have to
invent something from
scratch or reinvent the
wheel, it’s ready to roll
out,” he said.
He said a trainer from
Salem will come to Herm-
iston “soon” to train poten-
tial mentors, drawing from
Made to Thrive’s dozens of
volunteers as well as new
members of the communi-
ty interested in mentoring
a family. The irst year will
be a sort of pilot year, he
said, with only a few fam-
ilies, but they expect things
to grow quickly after that.
Lafolette said they es-
timate the Family Prom-
ise budget will be about
$35,000 a year — including
about $20,000 for Dam-
meyer’s salary — and are
hoping in the future to pay
for it with a combination
of city money, grants and
fundraising.
City councilor Rod Har-
din, who represents the
council on the Faith Based
Advisory Committee, said
he felt good about the ar-
rangement with Made to
Thrive.
“It’s been a long process,
and we’ve explored a lot of
options, but I think this is
it,” he said.
Dammeyer said that
Made to Thrive now serves
207 students in the com-
munity. Through that work,
she said, she has formed
relationships with “lots” of
families who could beneit
from mentorship through
Family Promise, so it made
sense for her to be the one
pairing mentors and fami-
lies together.
“Now we get to provide
them with two resources,”
she said.
Dammeyer said the goal
of Family Promise is not
just to have someone avail-
able to help walk families
through the process of get-
ting services they need. It’s
also about giving them a
“good, solid, faithful, loyal
friend.”
“Family Promise is
something exciting and I’m
looking forward to it,” she
said. “They (the commit-
tee) have been praying the
right person will step for-
ward and I’m just hoping I
can be that person.”
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