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FaithReligion
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Void to fill comes with loss, gain
DEVOTION An Indian Sufi Muslim devotee weeps as she prays at the Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan, earlier this week. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti for the annual Urs festival observed to mark his death anniversary.
Briefly . . . Gospel singer to make visit on Sunday PORT LUDLOW — Gospel singer Lillie Knauls will be the featured guest at Port Ludlow Community Church, 9534 Oak Bay Road, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Knauls won a 2007 Dove award for Traditional
QUEEN OF ANGELS CATHOLIC CHURCH 209 West 11th Port Angeles
360.452.2351 www.queenofangelsparish.org
Parish School
457-6903
www.queenofangelsschool.edu
Rev. Thomas Nathe, Pastor Mass: Saturday Vigil 5 p.m. Sunday 8:30 and 11 a.m. Tuesday 6 p.m. Wed. thru Sat. 8:30 a.m. Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Latin Mass) Every 2nd & 4th Sunday at 2pm Confession: Half hour before all Masses & 4-5 p.m. Saturdays Youth Religious Ed Classes: Sundays 9:35-10:35 a.m. at Parish School Life Teen Night: Sunday 6-7:30 p.m. at Parish Hall Eucharistic Adoration: Fri. 9:00 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sat.
Gospel Album of the Year from her album “Past and Present.” For more information, phone 360-437-0145.
Holden prayer set PORT TOWNSEND — Grace Lutheran Church will offer a Holden Evening Prayer service at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The special worship service will include sung canticles and psalms.
BETHANY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH E. Fifth & Francis Port Angeles 457-1030 Omer Vigoren, Pastor SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m., 6:30 p.m. Worship WED. & SAT.: 7 p.m. Eve. Service
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 139 W. 8th Street, Port Angeles 360-452-4781 Pastor: Ted Mattie Lay Pastor: Shirley Cruthers Worship Hours: 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Nursery Provided: both services Sunday School for all ages: 9:45 a.m.
“Talking the Same Language”
UNITY IN THE OLYMPICS www.unityintheolympics.org 2917 E. Myrtle, Port Angeles 457-3981 Sunday Services 10:30 a.m. Rev. John Wingfield
PENINSULA WCG Gardiner Community Center A Bible Based Church Services: Saturday at 1 p.m. Visitors Welcome For information 417-0826 980 Old Gardiner Road
INDEPENDENT BIBLE CHURCH Sunday: 116 E. Ahlvers Rd. 8:15 & 11 a.m. Sunday Worship 9:50 a.m. Sunday School for all ages Nursery available at all Sun. events Saturday: 112 N. Lincoln St. 6:00 p.m. Upper Room Worship Admin. Center: 112 N. Lincoln St. Port Angeles, WA / 360-452-3351 More information: www.indbible.org
SOMETIMES YOU DON’T realize how good you have it — or the opposite, how difficult it has been — until the moment or events or time passes, and the relief or agony invades your soul with a hello and wake-up. The analogy I will use will be exercise. For those who exercise frequently, to simply stop would leave a kind of weird aching in the body and mind, perhaps even a void THE ASSOCIATED PRESS that you did not know even existed at the time you took up exercising your body. The opposite is true, too. For those who never or rarely exercise, the thought Margaret and her husWell-known Port of a void or a gap in their Townsend pianist Lisa band, Einar, are good life is simply foreign. Lanza will accompany wor- friends of Unity and are There is nothing to be ship leaders Sarah Gustner licensed Unity teachers. missed because there was and Gerda Jorgensen. The Rev. John Wingfield nothing ventured in that Grace Lutheran Church is away in Indiana for his area in the first place. is located at 1120 Walker Once you start doing family reunion. St. something, if it is good for Worship is held at you, you begin to miss it if 10:30 a.m. Unity service Unity in the Olympics is it is not there. Dozens of things in our located at 2917 E. Myrtle PORT ANGELES — lives we are caught up in, St. Margaret Denstad will most of them hopefully in a For more information, present “The Path Less good way, a healthy way. phone 360-457-3981. Traveled” at Unity in the Oftentimes, I think of Peninsula Daily News Olympics’ Sunday service. my life before God made an appearance, before I sought God, before I wanted to know more than what I could see and touch in this world.
DUNGENESS COMMUNITY CHURCH 683-7333 45 Eberle Lane, Sequim Sunday Service 10 a.m.
Sunday 10:00 a.m. Meeting @ Deer Park Cinemas - Hwy 101 & Deer Park Road, Port Angeles Glen Douglas, Pastor 452-9936
Justice, Equity & Compassion In Human Relations Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 417-2665 www.olympicuuf.org 73 Howe Rd., Agnew-Old Olympic to N. Barr Rd., right on Howe Rd. June 3, 10:30 AM Debra Thorne M a rtin LutherK ingThe Belo ved Co m m unity W elco m ing Co ngrega tio n
www.thecrossingchurch.net
Casual Environment, Serious Faith
ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL 510 E. Park Ave. Port Angeles 457-4862 Services: Sunday 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. Godly Play for Children 9:00 a.m. Monday 8:15 p.m. “Compline” Wednesday 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
To know C hrist and to m ake H im know n www.standrewpa.org
PORT ANGELES CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Corner of 2nd & Race P.O. Box 2086 • 457-4839 Pastor Neil Castle EVERY SUNDAY 9 a.m. Sunday School for all ages 10 a.m. Worship Service Nursery available during AM services EVERY WEDNESDAY 6:30 p.m. Bible Study Invite your friends & neighbors for clear, biblical preaching, wonderful fellowship, & the invitation to a lasting, personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST & Congregational Church 7th & Laurel, Port Angeles 360-452-8971 FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Joey Olson, Pastor (Disciples of Christ) HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY Childcare provided Park & Race, Port Angeles LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) 457-7062 8:30 a.m. Worship 301 E. Lopez Ave., PA Pastor Neil Allen 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 452-2323 11:00 a.m Worship Pastor Richard Grinstad SUNDAY CHURCH OF CHRIST Youth Activities - Contact Church Sunday Worship at 9:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Adult Sunday School 1233 E. Front St., Port Angeles Nursery Provided portangelesumc@tfon.com 10:00 a.m. Worship 360-457-3839 Sunday School at 10:45 a.m. www.gbgm-umc.org/portangelesfumc Dr. Jerry Dean, Minister Radio Broadcast on KONP 1450 at 11 a.m. most Sundays A Christ–Centered message for a www.htlcpa.com world weary people. SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Worship Service FAITH BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP 847 N. Sequim Ave. • 683-4135 518 W. 8TH ST. • Port Angeles FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH www.sequimbible.org St. JOSEPH GARBC 360-683-7303 CATHOLIC CHURCH 683-7303 7652 Old Olympic Highway Sequim
Family Oriented Ministry Emphasizing Bible Preaching and Teaching
SUNDAY 9:00 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday School Family Oriented Ministry Emphasizing Bible Preaching and Teaching
101 E. Maple St., Sequim 360-683-6076 Rev. Thomas Nathe Rev. Jean Pierre Kasonga Masses
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m. Sunday, 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Daily Mass: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat., 8:30 am Confessions: 1/2 hour before all masses and 4 - 5 p.m. Saturday
SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Traditional Worship Children’s Classes 10:30 a.m. Coffee Fellowship 11:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship Children’s Classes ages 3-12 Adult Discipleship Hour 6:00 p.m. E3/Mid-Hi School Bible Study Dave Wiitala, Pastor Shane McCrossen, Youth Pastor
Bible centered • Fam ily friendly
26569893
Sunday 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Worship 6:00 p.m. Praise and Fellowship Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting
A ministry of Faith Baptist Church of Sequim (GARBC)
ISSUES OF FAITH much Acheson more time I would have in my life if God wasn’t involved, and I remember those days. Wherever we went, we said a prayer before we ate, went to Mass a couple of times, and I explored the Catholic Information Center on K Street that I could’ve spent hours in. It was a busy time, but God was never far from our thoughts. On a beautiful day (and it was gorgeous the whole time there), I stood on Little Round Top at Gettysburg. I have to say that briefly, I got a lump in my throat, and tears came to my eyes.
Mike
Infinite courage
In the bloody Wheatfield and then facing the sacred land where Pickett made his charge — standing where thousands fell — the solemn, incredible quiet was a voice in itself, in Doubting Thomas whispers, cries and, of We remember the Apos- course, infinite courage. tle Thomas, who despite We hung out with Alan spending three years with for a day, a soon-to-be the Messiah still could not Dominican priest and a fathom that Jesus was all good friend of Dan’s, and that he had shown, was the he is a fast walker, too. man he claimed to be. You’d better be, he said, Brought to his knees in the sketchy part of town finally, his exclamation “My we were in that day. Lord and my God” was and Touching back down in is the ultimate realization. Seattle and then Port Doubting Thomas Angeles, I had ample time doubted no more. to ponder life, the many A wow moment. It is blessings, the usual assesseasy picturing him hitting ments having to do with himself with a hand on the “where we are,” meaning side of his head as if thinkmyself and family, work ing, “How could I have and faith. been so stupid?” It was great to see my Of course, everything wife and the two kids still changed for Thomas after at home, the dogs and the that: A void that he might peace we feel in our home. have sensed, or didn’t perAnyone with a fluid life, haps know existed, was meaning children, knows filled. what it’s like to feel loss How often do we take stock of the habits we have and gain. The pace of raising acquired over the years? them and then the deparRecently, I spent a few ture can be a happy or a days with my son, Dan, in sad one, or even a little of the Washington, D.C., both. metro area. As Dan received his A couple of those days, I wore a suit and tie to vari- diploma with a big smile, I ous functions, including his couldn’t help seeing the litgraduation with a master’s tle kid again. There is a void now for degree in foreign affairs from the Institute of World him that will soon be filled with other things — an Politics. I walked around Dupont exhale, an assessment, a time to ponder. Circle feeling like one of The adrenaline and the guys, the fast walkers rush have eased a little, with their tie flapping in and the walk is a little the breeze. slower, a walk that began From his school, it is a and will end under the true short walk to the White majesty of God. House or to St. Matthew’s Cathedral or to Stoney’s, _________ where I had the best hot Issues of Faith is a rotating pastrami I’ve ever had. column by seven religious leaders I slept on the floor of his on the North Olympic Peninsula. place and rose early to say Mike Acheson is a lay minister at my prayers. Queen of Angels Roman Catholic Church in Port Angeles. I thought about how
Spiritual sessions begin this Thursday PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — Those who consider themselves spiritual but not religious are invited to join a group of eight to 12 kindred spirits to openly and respectfully share stories, engage in conversations and find meaning. The group seeks to explore the sacred and discover God in everyday places around and within. Lessons and discussions are based on Barbara
Brown Taylor’s New York Times best-seller An Altar in the World. Twelve weekly sessions Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. will begin this Thursday.
Uptown PT home Sessions are held in an accessible home in uptown Port Townsend. A one-time fee of $20 includes the book. For more information, phone 360-385-8282.