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Thursday, May 15, 2008

FAITH

 
PORT ALLEN — The Rev. Jim Sawyer went into the operating room Oct. 17 to fix his back, but a rare surgical complication would change his life and his ministry.


TODAY

  • ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH: 2021 Tara Blvd. Mother’s Day Tea, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cost will be $14. Call (225) 766-0848 for reservations.
  • CAMPHOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: 8742 Scenic Hwy. Daughters of Naomi meeting, 9:30 a.m. with Dorothy Early Davis speaking about “Character Traits of Christian Femininity.”
  • FIRST UNI-CARE MINISTRIES: 6262 McClelland Drive. Registration for youth participants and adult volunteers in the Aim High Youth and Young Adult Ministry, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Youth activities will begin May 24.
  • LIVE OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: La. 16 and La. 1019 in Watson. Men’s prayer breakfast, 7:30 a.m.
  • NEW SUNLIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH: 1777 America St. A tent revival/prayer meeting, 4 p.m.
  • HOLY TRINITY COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH: 1412 Seabord Drive. Pre Mother’s Day Banquet with Deborah Washington, of Community Baptist of Fort Worth, Texas, as speaker, 6 p.m. at the Bellmont Hotel, 7370 Airline Hwy. Tickets are $25. Call (225) 767-6175 or (225) 753-4825 or e-mail Deborahw09@AOL.com for information.
  • NEW GIDEON BAPTIST CHURCH: 2542 Balis Drive. Dedication services for Education/Life Center building, 6 p.m. today with the Rev. Sean Elder and 8 a.m. Sunday with Bishop-elect E. Craig Wilson of New Orleans and 11 a.m. with the Rev. Shannon Warner of Plaquemine. 
  • BEREAN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST WORSHIP CENTER: 4555 Fairfields. Mother recognition during 11 a.m. service with special tributes to members Laura Carter, Doris Gilliam, Dollie Goins, Lubertha Miller, Eugenia Morgan and Mae Bell Richardson. A fellowship luncheon will follow the service at the Academy, 5100 Osborne Ave. Youth will honor mothers during the 6 p.m. service at the church.
  • FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: 305 E. Charles St. in Hammond. Country/gospel music show, 6:40 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Reimer’s Auditorium.
  • OLD SOUTH JAMBOREE: Off U.S. 190 in Walker. Gospel concert featuring the Dixie Echoes, the Gospel Travelers, Curtis Dykes and Charles Wilson, 7 p.m.



About a month after his 50th birthday, Aubrey Foster Sr. was “basically homeless” and fired from the church he had pastored for nearly five years.


Pastor Alfred Booker remembers being a teenage father with little education and no job. The desperation he felt and the gun he imagined remain vivid memories for the 66-year-old minister. “I remember feeling disconnected because I couldn’t read. I had no skills, and no one would give me a job. My family needed to eat,” he said.


At a shrine in Italy, the casket of Saint Padre Pio is on display. A spokesman says the body is on display to promote “the spiritual growth of his devotees” as “happened when Padre Pio was still alive.”
Padre Pio’s body goes on display


VATICAN CITY — The body of Italy’s beloved saint Padre Pio went on display April 24 at his shrine in southern Italy; over the coming months, more than 1 million people are expected to see it. Pilgrims file past a casket with walls of bullet-proof glass, where Pio lies with his face covered by a life-like silicone mask, produced by a British firm that supplies wax museums.
Facets of Faith for May 3, 2008


Religion Bulletins for May 3, 2008


A Louisiana Catholic attending her first Papal Mass last week found the experience so powerful, she can’t quite remember what Pope Benedict XVI said. “I know it was a message of hope, but it’s so overwhelming and emotional to be there,” Shannon Duplessis said of her experiences last week at Nationals Park in Washington D.C.. “That’s why I wanted (family) to tape it from here so I could listen to it later.”


Beth Shalom Synagogue will change rabbis this summer, and strangely enough, the Pacific Far East figures into the journeys of both men. Rabbi Stanton M. Zamek, after nine years of ministry, is leaving in June for a synagogue in Hong Kong.


Medicines and miracles didn’t provide instant healing for Lynn Morrison’s failing liver. However, Morrison did get his healing in a relatively short amount of time, undergoing a successful liver transplant only two months after getting on the waiting list.


Religion Bulletins for April 26, 2008


Religion Bulletins for April 19, 2008


In addition to Passover (see the story at the bottom of this page), this weekend is full of holidays.


Jenny Buchtel says digging in the dirt is more than her ministry: It is also an act of worship. “I feel like I’m closer to God’s heart in the garden than any other place,” she said. That closeness goes along with Jesus Christ’s commandment to feed his sheep she said of her work with Our Father’s Garden.


ROME (AP) -- From a presidential welcome, to two Masses at baseball stadiums, to a stop for prayer at ground zero in New York, Pope Benedict XVI will get a heavy dose of the American experience in his first pilgrimage to the United States. Benedict departed for Washington on Tuesday, with President Bush planning to make the unusual gesture of greeting him when his special Alitalia jetliner touches down at Andrews Air Force Base - the first time the president has greeted a foreign leader there.


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