Show D2 RELIGION Saturday Auzust The Salt Lake Tribune Church 5335 S Highland Drive Holladay and divine liturgy at 10 am at Prophet Elias Church at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral 279 S 300 West Salt Lake City and at Lagoon where it will mark the beginning of a day of fun NEWS FROM THE PEWS -- Discover the Joy of Jesus" is the theme of vacation Bible school Monday through Friday mornings at Salt Lake City's First Church of the Nazarene 2018 E 2100 South A carnival today from 11 am to 2 pm at the church precedes the Bible school program Greek Orthodox Plan Activities Salt Lake's Greek Orthodox community will have dual observances Sunday one religious and one secular The day marks the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and is also the Greek Orthodox community's annual day at the Lagoon amusement park in Farmington The event will be marked with Great Vespers tonight at 6 pm at Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox 0 Continued from D-- 1 MIMIIIM more meaningful "My parents brought me up to think of the church as an experience not a chore" she says "But I may not feel as strongly about church life without the youth ministry program here" Erin Gras 17 also is a St Ambrose parishioner who finds fulfillment teaching Sunday School to 3 to 5 year olds "I learn with the litle kids and it brings me closer to the church" she says Activities that draw parish communities together and augment traditional approaches to education are becoming increasingly common as the Catholic Church in the United States attempts to cope with shifting demographics and parish changes "We can't keep doing things the way we were doing them 30 years ago when support systems are no longer there today" says Judith Dunlap of Dayton Ohio who has long been involved in parish-baseeducation programs Ms Dunlap who has written and lectured extensively on religious education is one of a growing cadre of dedicated religious education teachers who think the answer to what some would call the Catholic education crisis is not d to argue for more Catholic schools or to concede that parish-baseprograms will never be much good What is essential she believes d Yard Sale Assists Youth Proczrams First United Methodist Church 203 S 300 East Salt Lake City will be the site of a daylong yard sale Aug 21 to raise money for United Methodist Youth's local outreach programs The sale runs from 8 am to 5 pm A representative for Food for the Poor an inter- national relief agency serving in the Caribbean will be the guest speaker at all Masses this weekend at St George Roman Catholic Church 259 W 200 North St George Clothes Shoes 'Needed for Kids Eric Fulmer will discuss his part in a mission work team which spent a month in Kenya earlier this summer on Sunday at 6 pm at Salt Lake City's First United Methodist Church 203 S The Back to School Fair needs clothes and supplies for underprivileged children from kindergarten to 12th grade Those who wish to donate can take new clothes and shoes or used ones that are brations and liturgies that are designed and organized by youth St Ambrose's youth ministry program is viewed as one of the most successful in the Diocese of Salt Lake City — a statewide organization with 58 parishes and missions The parish's energetic director Judy Barnett says the program has 225 young people and fielded a delegation to Denver's World Youth Day A former Mormon Ms Bar- nett's program provides service social athletic and spiritual dimensions like the popular youth programs of the Church of Jesus Saints Christ of Latter-da"We work with the homeless at the rescue mission with the AIDS Foundation" she says "We have the only Catholic Church-sponsore- d Do You Know the Pope? Here are the answers to the quiz on coed indoor soccer team and play against Brighton Granger and even Judge Memorial" Brighton and Granger are public high schools Judge is a Roman Catholic high school "We try to get the kids involved in the church too" Ms Barnett says "This way they are part of the ministry of the church so they don't just sit in the pews and listen to the adults" The St Ambrose program ties in well with the goals of the reli 2 a 4 b 3 d 7 b 8 false 6 b 11 a 12 a 10 b 15 true 14 a c 1 5 d 9 c 13 c ral associate "We try to involve youth in meaningful roles and provide a variety of activities "Our youth program is not as well organized as we'd like" she admits But the parish's policy has given it successful distinction "We had several parishioners who were in gangs who quit" Sister Rohrer says "Our policy has been most effective with gang wanna St Marguerite's policy is simple: Gang members cannot receive communion or participate in parish social activities "Gang membership is incompatible with being a Christian" she anti-gan- g a' anti-gan- g says The parish's effort caught the interest of the community "Other faiths the police schools and civic organizations got involved The community created Together With Youth which encourages participation in a slate of activities ranging from career days to dances" she says "Gang activity in Tooele has subsided at least for the pr- esent" says Sister Rohrer Religious News Service tributed to this report con- 25-Ye- Marriage ar Our Saviour's Lutheran Church 2500 E 3900 South Holladay will fete Roger and Barbara Anderson Aug 21 at 6:30 pm to mark their 25th wedding anniversary The Rev Roger Anderson is the church's pastor The event includes dinner — Compiled by Peter Scarlet Bishop Works Hard to Keep Latinos in Family 2 Continued from 1 also travel to missions in rural' Utah to minister to migrant and other seasonal Bishop Weigand also has re-- : cruited in Latin America for as- sistance in tending his Latino' flock Last year he invited several Mexican seminarians to serve missions in rural Utah Six Latin Americans have joined the dio-- : cese as seminarians and are' studying to be parish priests "We've got to keep this Latino family moving" said Father Leo Lopez pastor of Salt Lake City's Sacred heart Parish "Our negli- gence could undo hundreds of years of Catholic tradition among D-- 1 work-labore- D-- 1 300-memb- er y Event Honors 8913 Utahn to Outline Work in Kenya is a fundamental overhaul of parishes into vital communities In her Ohio parish Ms Dunlap has developed programs mixing classroom studies with family activities crafts music rallies during Advent and Lent Easter cele- Salt Lake City's First Presbyterian Church is camp Aug 20 to 22 at sponsoring an Wasatch Academy in Mount Pleasant The weekend affair built around the theme "A Transformed Heart" will feature the Rev Janet Malone a Presbyterian minister from Soda Springs Idaho as guest speaker Heritage Baptist Academy a Christian school offering instruction for grades 1 through 12 is enrolling students Wednesday at 7 pm at Heritage Baptist Church 1502 Walnut Drive Salt Lake City Further information is available by calling 533- - Sunday's Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary will be observed at Salt Lake's Cathedral of the Madeleine with sung vespers at 4:30 pm gious education and youth ministry-- programs of the Utah diocese Our goal is to bring the faith to our young people to teach them about their religious heritage the ritual and beliefs of the church" says Nancy Johnson diocese religious education coordinator Youth ministry is a separate program but its director Mike Harman says it also aims to perpetuate the faith "Our hope is to get more kids involved in their faith community" he says "to give them a role and sense of belonging" A promising youth ministry program is just getting off the ground in Ephraim at St Jude's Catholic Mission "One of my goals was to establish a youth group" says Mike Sciumbato a seminarian who spent much of the summer at St Jude's "We started out in June with 4 people We had 42 at our last meeting" St Jude's serves a mostly bilingual Latino community "This summer we organized a trip to Lagoon an amusement park in Farmington put on a dance at the senior citizens center did some cleanup work around the parish and are planning a future retreat" Ile says "Two of our members serve on the parish council" At St Marguerite's Catholic Church in Tooele young people serve as lectors ushers and altar servers "They have a larger role than listening to the homily and taking communion" says Sister Marianne Rohrer the parish's pasto First Presbyterian Sponsors Camp Christian School to Enroll Pupils Cathedral Choir Will Sing Vespers Catholic Teens Becoming 3Iore Active clean and in good condition to Catholic Community Services 2300 W 1700 South Donations are requested by Wednesday Further information on the Back to School Fair can be obtained from the Emergency Assistance Program Catholic Community Services 300 East Speaker to Discuss Food for Poor Bible School Starts With Carnival 14 1993 their hotel beds for cots and Latino companionship at the National Western Stock Show stables "1 met a cousin of mine there from Mexico" said Carlos Iriti from Provo "1 didn't even know he still went to church" Lapsed Catholics like Carlos' cousin worry US bishops The Roman Catholic hierarchy is counting on World Youth Day to help reduce the number of Latino Catholics — nearly 60000 — leaving the church each year "There's another religious 'conquista' going on to convert Hispanics" said Deacon German Toro who runs the Evangelization Office of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City "Only this time around we Catholics are losing ground" leave the church for two reasons said Utah's Bishop William K Weigand who spent 10 years working in Colombia Many respond to the evangelical )vertures of conservative Protestants others feel the church lacks sensitivity for their culture Even Latinos who stay in the church don't call it their home because they don't have clear ministries to take care of them he said Latinos have been one of Bishop Weigand's pastoral priorities for a decade In the early 1980s only priests at Our Lady of Gua- lalupe celebrated Mass in Spanish Now 10 bilingual priests say Mass in Spanish These priests and bilingual nuns and deacons rs Latinos" Despite the diocese's best forts many Latinos left out ly young Catholics — For a year now Father Lopez has been saying a Spanish-language Mass on Sunday noon& But many Latinos still can't attend because they work late in downtown hotels and restaurants he said "A lot of Father Leo's parishioners couldn't make it here to Denver" said Rosa Maria Lemos who works with Deacon Toro "They don't have the money and they have to work" Ms Lemos said it's a matter of power and that is the message she will bring back to her friends in Utah: "We don't feel different here just because our skin is brown Sometimes we feel isolated in Utah But we don't have to feel that way That's what I'll bear witness to It doesn't have to be -' after-Latin- ' t that way" - ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE Scholar Says LDS Doctrine Includes Jewish Kabbalah CI Continued from D-- 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 God's plurality and anthropomorphism and his ideas about polygamy may all have been in Nauvoo with Kabbalistic thought Literary critic Harold Bloom has noted: "The God of Joseph Smith is a daring revival of the God of some of the Kabbalists and Gnostics prophetic sages who like Smith himself asserted that they had returned to the true religion" Gnosticism is the belief in superior spiritual knowledge held by an elite few A central tenet of Israel's faith has been that "our God is one" But the Kabbalists believe the infinite has "emanated into a great number of experientially assessable Divine forms: a plurality of "cross-fertilize- Gods" Kabbalistic ideas are echoed in the founding prophet's King Follett discourse said Mr Owens "Four declarations made by Joseph Smith that April afternoon have had an extraordinary and lasting impact on Mormon doctrine: Men can become gods there exist many Gods the gods exist one above another innumerably and God was once as man now is" said Mr Owens Joseph Smith who was studying Hebrew at the time began his sermon with a discussion of the first verses of the Bible He translated the words "in the beginning God" as "the head one of the Gods brought forth the Gods" By standard Hebrew grammar this is not a correct translation said Mr Owens But it is the trans lation given in a Kabbalistic text of the 14th century "Something in the nature of the Prophet some element of his own intrinsic vision" he said "did resonate with the strange occult traditions of the Western spiritual ed the Hebrew to come up with the plurality of gods notion He also suggested Mr Owens was overstating the influence of the Kabbalah adding that many of the church founder's other ideas can be found in the Talmud the Jewish guide to interpreting the Torah or first five books of the quest" Michael Walton a Jewish schol- ar said Joseph Smith mistranslat g 9 k111111 COr y Eat Better Look IOW MIGHT WATONFIS orr we (wimp 4440Otintint01ialliftSMAStio4) " Better OF AcerrEnto MARK ALL MONT" PEOCE E511120g51 xIAPM41‘ ' ra i I 1":11 A' MARTHA BAIN MORTENSEN m Oen HomvA he hold "k 'I Au1 gust i or Row:trot Word co 2300 lost SoN Loki) C Sy t4 frum 6 u rn10 a p M Martha wilt ft0 senors on iv rood ib 1993 ( 'mot and estroilves Ore ttmitod lo 0100r1 NO Vnt MIV (XX prorso : ep f 1 f ' 10 AM 5450 Green Street Murray Utah 84123 268-444- UTAH TOLL-FRE- 6 MINISTRY 0 ---- a ' Fa f) Church "JESUS AND THE OUTSIDER" Rev Robert R Sewell Worship Service 1100 GA 0"1110 09lwalin9 Church School 930 am 3 2375 E 3300 So "GOD CALLS ALL OF US" Rev Ron Hodges Worship Services 930 & 1 a m Child care provided Church School 9'30 Ministers: Ronald Hodges Khen McClellan HILLTOP UNITED METHODIST 7 085 E 10600 So "GOD NEVER LETS US GO" Rev Jim Cowell I 90am "06 L4 Nt t : f'' " Sunday School 9 30am Susanna's Preschool W James Coverii Paster the jil t ARE" 1 PhD welakiJ ' Worship Services 10:30 am Sunday School 10:30 am Nursery Care Provided - 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