Show RELIGION Saturday November The Salt Lake Tribune Missionary Pilot Lived Died in Service COMMENTARY Flying and Faith Were Two MAF founded in 1945 is an international evangelical Protestant organization David was a connector says his father a computer systems manager for the Boeing aviation company in Huntsville Ala about 25 miles south of Hot Rock He was a ligament for people On one trip he picked up a boy who had broken his leg The child's parents so him couldnt ride with they placed their son in the front of the small Cessna for the trip to a doctor The boy was frightened and hurting and spoke no English David hadn't been in the country long and didnt know much of the tribal language so the two were at a loss for words But every few seconds David would lean back and touch his index finger to the little boys finger and they would smile Other trips weren't so successful On Davids first flight a man died about halfway into the trip I think that's what really vaulted David into the business Robin Bacon says He realized then how serious it could be David's greatest joy was helping people and sharing the Lord with them Julia Bacon Davids mother says lie was where he was supposed to be and he loved it The parents say their son grew up learning his faith at home They taught him and his brother and sisters about God and sent them to Christian schools The family also helped support missionaries including an MAF pilot named Jim Lynne In 1979 Lynne was killed in a plane crash in Africa David told his father he believed God want Great Loves for Connector BY COURTNEY HARDEE and YVONNE WHITE TOM EHRICH RELIGION hadnt reached the Blue Ridge when 10 singers stopped recently for breakfast in West Jefferson NC Folks were enjoying a slow a Saturday They noticed the exuberant strangers but went back to eating and visiting We the singers settled in for eggs grits biscuits and gravy Do you know the story of Field of Souls?" a fellow singer asked me This song from start on the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choirs repertoire has capti- vated us We are working hard on this retreat to learn it It seems the lead singer is a former crack addict whose wife reached the end of her rope one night and asked the New York congregation for help At that moment the man came home from a toot felt a sudden urge to visit the church and found there an entire congregation praying for him It broke him on the spot my friend said Now his tenor voice soars in a song of faith All of the Above: This moment reminded me of another We were 16 years old members of the Shortridge High School Madrigal Singers Christmas shopping was in full swing in Indianapolis We rode the escalator at LS Ayres & Co and sang the Renaissance eras songs of faith Holidays can be about commerce or about religion Our moods can be grim frenzied and filled with obligation or our moods can be tender exuberant lighted by candles Or as is likely the eight weeks bracketed by Halloween and Christmas (No 2 and No 1 respectively in retail sales) can be all of the above as we are whipsawed by the tension between religion and culture Religion and culture will always do battle because they compete for the same limited d space Congregations and outlets fight for the same suburban corners Congregations community charities and the IRS compete for the same dollars Christian bookstores compete with Barnes & Noble Childrens choirs compete with fast-foo- soccer g Sunday-mornin- leagues Religion wins some and loses some But the real field of souls isnt tax laws or school rules its the woman who exhausted her own resources to help the man she loved The real field of souls is the young man sitting with his wife and daughter in a Blue Ridge restaurant who hears music smiles and says I play banjo Quiet Walk: The interplay that matters isnt the tense confrontation between religion g and culture but the less A self-servin- encounter between faith and life Pastors will mount the expected festivals but their real ministry will be sitting quietly with the widowed and distraught for whom holiday cheer is an affront Parents will watch children in pageants but ministry will happen when a mom helps a Mary into her costume Singing groups like ours will perform but faith will blind us in a mountain cabin when the depth of a mans battle with crack makes his song more than music We will walk the brightly lit aisles of Target hear Silent Night and see a sea of merchandise beyond our reach As we mentally tally the gap between means and desires faith will walk into our worry No pledge card no neon no Sale Today! Just a companion on a stressful journey Faith will sit with worried anxious tree-growe- mer- chants harried clerks nervous Marys crack users and crack sellers Long after ol Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-SaleNC an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter him at il RELIGION NEWS SERVICE R COPYm f journey(at)in-terpathco- Iakovos of Chicago Anthony of San Francisco Maximos of Pittsburgh Methodios of Boston and Isaiah of Denver Bishop Nicholas of the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church headquartered in Johnstown Pa also was elevated to the rank of metropolitan The Carpatho-Russiachurch a nationwide ethnic diocese is under the direct authority of the ecumenical patriarch as is the Greek church The new titles carry no additional administrative duties leaving Spyridon in charge of manag- ISTANBUL EcuTurkey menical Patriarch Bartholomew has elevated the status of six American bishops of the Greek Orthodox and Carpatho-Russia- n Orthodox churches Meanwhile the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has released a memorandum intended to quiet growing unrest within the church over the leadership of its administrative head Archbishop Spyridon Named metropolitans a step up from bishop in the Orthodox Christian hierarchy were Bishops n ing the 15 ed him to take Lynnes place Bacon took flying lessons in Huntsville bey tween his sophomore and junior years at College in Wilmore Ky The airfield at Methalenang in Lesotho is a tough one Its a steep field Robin Bacon says moving his hands like a pilot guiding his craft You have to land uphill and take off downhill And theres a mountain just past it you have to turn to get over David had climbed up through the hard part his father says but then crashed into a nearby ridge The crash is still under investigation The Rev Joel McGraw pastor of Faith Chapel Church a Pentecostal congregation in Huntsville had known David Bacon for about 20 years ever since the Bacons attended his church when the family lived in the city He likens Bacons life to that of Jesus Like our Lord David went public with his ministry at 30 and like our Lord died at 33 McGraw says He took off at 7100 feet went to 8600 feet then dropped the plane and his body and just kept going on up David's wife Lisa and their three daughters have returned to the United States and are staying in Orlando Fla with her brother Lisa Bacon says she wants her daughters to grow up thankful for their father and his ministry and not angry with God because of his death Its difficult she says I always knew God grants grace when we need it But I never understood it until now as I watch him give it It doesnt take the pain away but it makes it doable RELIGION million-membe- r American Greek Is Popular Among Utah Catholics Orthodox church Spyridon who was named archbishop by Bartholomew last year has alienated some US Greek Orthodox Christians with what they perceive as his authoritarian style In a memorandum to church members released Monday Spyr-idon- s top aide the Rev John lleropoulos sought to quiet the discontent by addressing the concerns St Petersburg Fla The Rev Henry J Lyons the embattled president of the National Baptist Convention USA reportedly Continued from bato said B-- l I Many will forgo the $350000 from the Nigerian government during the period he lobbied federal officials to reduce their opposition to the African nations government Three checks from Nigerias Permanent Mission to the United Nations were deposited in the Baptist Builder Fund at the United Bank in St Petersburg Fla between April 1996 and February 1997 the St Petersburg Times reported Tuesday The mission has played a key role in financing a major lobbying effort in the United States by the government of Gen Sani Aba-ch- a Abacha has been condemned as a dictator Under federal law it is a felony to serve as a lobbyist for a foreign government without filing official registration papers Lyons pastor of a St Petersburg church did not register as a lobbyist the newspaper reported Lyons declined to be interviewed by the newspaper but his attorney released a statement that referred to a trip Lyons and a delegation of ministers and businesspeople took to Nigeria in July No member was under any obligation whatsoever to endorse the political views of Nigerias government or its people the statement read widely in Greek are not required that women may continue to sing in church choirs that Greek Ortho- dox priests are encouraged not ordered to wear beards and cassocks and that the Standing Conference of the Canonical Bishops of America which has led the effort to unite American Orthodoxy under autonomous leadership removed from Bartholomew still has church support LChaim BYeshua a Messianic Congregation experience the Jewish roots of Yeshua (Jesus) in worship and the study of His Word II Erev Shabbat Services I - 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