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Show Saturday. January 2, . .. t - Jonathan David Noble Msw pastor coming 1ROVO Tree of Life Lutheran Church will start the New Year with great expectations as they look forward to welcoming their new pastor and his wife, Mike and Jody Jeffries, from Walnut Creek, Calif The Jeffries bring with them new ideas and plans in ways of leading the group. Until their arrival, the group will continue with guest speakers and members of the congregation filling the pulpit each Sunday. This week's gospel will be the study of the first chapter of John. Tree of Life invites anyone in search of a church home to begin the New Year with them. Worship services begin at 9:30 a,mH with Sunday School and fellowship time immediately following. The church is at 330 W. 500 North. For more information, call -- 224-379- Message on hope Often we say that PROVO we hope such and such will happen. As Christians we say that our hope for eternal life is in Christ Jesus. ,' The Bible teaches us that our , hope is an absolute accomplished fact when we are born again in Christ Jesus. The nature of our rebirth is a relationship with the Lord that is personal, intimate and recipro-call'Ithis life we can know without a doubt that we are to enjoy that relationship for eternity. That hope is an assurance that his promise1 is sure. During this Sunday's 10:45 a.m. worship and praise service of the Church of The Nazarene, Pastor John Corilon will deliver a message titled, "When There is No Hope, There is Hope." The Church of The Nazarene is at 150 N. 700 West in Provo. During the morning service there is a children's church for all children and an infant school begins at 9:30 a.m. with classes for all ages. Sunday evening services begin at 6 p;m, A welcome is extended at all services. n nurs-j?vSund- Muslim girls relocated After LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) more than three months in a Christian foster home, three Muslim Iraqi sisters now are in the care of a Detroit-are- a Muslim leader. religious and community leaders had criticized the girls' treatment by their original foster parents, alleging that they gave them Christian crosses to wear and took away their traditional hijabs, or head scarves. The girls, ages 12, 14, and 16, were removed from their parents' home in August after state child welfare officials accused their parents of physically abusing them. 'The girls now live with Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, leader of the, Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, and his wife an three children. Arab-America- n Widower a priest ' '. Allred, son of Joseph and Kathy Allred of Lindon, has been called to serve in the f Romania tBucharest Mission of the ,LDS Church. lHe will 6peak in the Lindon 9th Ward, 1050 E. 100 North, Lindon, on Sunday at 11 a.m. He will enter the Mission Training Center on Jan. 13. r a Sister Jessica Callahan, daughter of Chad and LaNae Callahan of Provo, has returned from the Illinois Chicago North Mission of the LDS Church. She will speak in the Edgemont st Ward, 303 W. 3700 North, Provo, on Jan. 10, at 9 a.m. 1 Elder Josh Hall, son of Larry and Linda Hall of Bradley Lloyd Johnson. son of Stanley i i f 4i approach such a possible horror with our wounded neighbor as our most important consideration, whether that neighbor is part of our immediate family or not. The Savior would surely want us to bind up each others' wounds and face the horror, whatever it might be, together. That is what he must have meant by loving our neighbor as ourselves. CLARK Continued from A6 his wounds and care for him. The parable is told to define neighbor for the certain lawyer. But it has reverberated through the centuries to force us to consider how we should treat any one who has been smitten by the world. What the parables tell me about Y2K is that, yes, we should prepare for it; we should be sure we have oil in our lamps. But, more profoundly, that we should Bernie Gruenes, who has four children, is becoming a father. Gruenes, 64, a retired banker and widower, was to.be ordained Friday night as a Roman Catholic priest. - Those who know him say he'll do an excellent job. lie brings a wealth of life experience with him," said the Rev. Robert Pierson, rector of the School of Theology at St. John's University, where Gruenes has been studying. "tlruenes has served as deacon" at the Church of St. Michael for thei past 3 12 years. Retired for two years, he has known for soine time that he was destined fiSpthe priesthood.; 7,VThe whole idea of service was Attractive. I just felt there was ,' such a need in the church for ' people to serve," said Gruenes, wnose wife, Cathy, died in 1992. Healso lost a son, Bob, in 1976. "ty talked to the bishop and he ssafa Give us five good years.' is a history of ordina-6o- i ibr older men, said Gruenes, who took a vow of cetibacy when he became a think more and more WiddWenj are considering it." dea-coa,- Marden Clark is a professor emeritus of English at Brigham Young University. Jan. Jan. 20. 13. Larson and Susan Holyoak of Lindon, Ila Peterson has been has 1l been called to serve in the Costa Rica San Jose Mission of the LDS Church. He will speak in the Lindon 1st Ward, 25 N. Main, Lindon, on Jan. 10, at 9 a.m. He will Jack Bryce Stickney, son of Jack L. and Jeanine B. called as an International enter the MTC on 13. and Leslie Johnson of Orem, has been called to serve in the Spain Madrid Mission of the LDS Church. A. Welfare Service I if, Missionary to Bangkok, Thailand. She will speak in the Hillman Field 1st d2h 1090 South (on Ward, 930 exit 250), Payson, on Sunday at 10:15 a.m. She will enter the Senior MTC on Jan. 12. W. Allison Stickney, daughter Jack L. and Jeanine I J. Stickney of Payson, has Hawaii He will speak in the Lakeridge 4th Ward, 158 E. 1100 South, Orem, on Sunday at 9 a.m. He will enter the MTC on HAMBLIN and as we talked he offered to give us a lift in his nearby and began a mass in Italian, reciting prayers and familiar Christmas scriptures which I quietly translated for my children. The small group sang "Silent Night" in Italian accented English; pilgrims from many nations and denominations shook hands and embraced, saying "peace." THE SERVICE OVER, tired and cold we began the long walk back to our car. I asked directions of an Arab, 13. MISSIONS POLICY of Honolulu Mission of the LDS Church. She will speak in the Payson Page Ward, 700 S. 600 East, Payson, on Jan. 10, at 1 p.m. She will enter the MTC on Continued from A6 1 Jan. been called to serve in the Q2ZJ Stickney of Payson, has been called to serve in the North Carolina Mission of the LDS Church. le will speak in the Payson Page Ward, 700 S. 600 East, Payson, on Jan. 10, at 1 p.m. He will enter the MTC on Daily Herald prints missionary announcements with photos (optional) on Saturdays in the Religion section. The deadline for submission is the previous Monday at 5 p.m. Forms are available at the front desk of the newsroom. Please print the missionary's name on the back of the photo and pick up the photo within two weeks of 77ip an Israeli soldier who had put his foot on Zayd's head and his rifle in his face. Fifteen year old Zayd spent the next three years in and an Israeli prison. As Zayd kindly gave us a ride to our car that chilly Christmas morning in Bethlehem, two thousand years after the angels sang, it was clear how desperately we still need their message of peace and car to where our car was parked about a mile away. He was Palestinian Muslim named Zayd who had come to Bethlehem from Hebron just to watch the fun of the Christmas celebration. When he saw my son Alex he said that he once had a little brother the same age, who eight years ago had been shot by the Israelis for good will. throwing stones during the Intifada. At the same time William Hamblin is a professor of history and Daniel C. Zayd himself had been wounded in the leg. While Peterson is a professor of Near Eastern languages at Brigham lying on the ground bleeding Zayd had been arrested by Young University. eleven-year-ol- d there and we all need to put MARKER this behind us." Loving was shaken by the comments. "President Hinckley's words, I never thought I'd hear, and neither did anybody else who was in that meeting," said Loving. "We have come a long way in the last three months from the last 141 years, and the majority of it is due to President Hinckley's insight and feeling of what we feel about those people who are buried up there." Bigler said he hopes the church will someday open its archives to historians so he and others can learn about the entirety of the church's role. "It needs to be remembered to remind people of what happens when people become too extreme," he said. All of those involved hope the grave marker fosters healing among the descendants. Loving says that, while some descendants still bear ill feelings toward Mormons, he sees them as the same as any other religion.1 "If you go back far enough, they've all got skeletons in their closets or buried in meadows around'the world." Continued from A6 and Mormons' fears of invasion and persecution by the U.S. Army. The wagon train, for unknown reasons, became the focus of that hostility. Blame for the attack was laid on John D. Lee, a zealous Mormon portrayed by the church as a rogue major in the Mormon militia. He and others were excommunicated from the church and Lee was tried and executed at Mountain Meadows nearly 20 years after the slaughter. For the next 140 years, the church kept its distance from Mountain Meadows, said Bigler. "They've tried actually since it happened to cover it up and hide the truth." President Hinckley speaks But in their October meeting, Hinckley made what Loving called the most direct apology for the incident. "No one knows fully what at Mountain happened Meadows," Hinckley said, according to the meeting's minutes. "But we express our regrets over what happened month, and he expects that numJ ber to grow. He is news a virtual Continued from A6 room he gathers tips, assigns DNN budget for this year is stories, edits t,hem and plans $75,000 and $94,000 for 1999 e future coverage' His sole and so he's perfecting the art of colleague, Suzanne Ankerbrand, follow-ujournalism. posts the stories and designs the Describing what DNN seeks to site. The job often eats into their cover, he says: "the human side." evenings and Weekends. "We're talking about the little Sponsoring church groups say old lady who ... can't cook because establishing, DNN was a priority she's got a tree in her kitchen." because those affected by disasLacking the funds to send ters and those wanting to help reporters to disaster sites imme- the needy iidn't have one place diately, Skillington and his they could'turn to. seven free lancers around the Rick Augsburger, director of country work the phones and response programs at emergency manage to tell compelling stoChurch World Services, said the ries. For instance, on Sept. 22, Web site is the day Hurricane Georges umbrella group's for church other more slammed into Puerto Rico, designed share to information, groups' Skillington wrote the story is geared toward based on telephone reporting whereas DNN the public. office in a former cotton from his DNlSTs principal goal isn't to mill. "conThe stories that DNN covers raisej funds, but to raise of and sciousness appreciation range from warnings of disasters faith-base- d disaster organiwhat to spot reports on them to relief efforts long after the mainstream zations do," said Linda Petrucelli media depart the scene. One of of the United Church of Christ in the principal attractions o the New York. "If we were using this just to Web site is a database that; lists volunteer opportunities. try and get money, that would be selfish," she said. "It's really for is the site getSkillington says hits some 250,0002' ting per people who are in need." one-ma- n full-tim- p , . Philip Booth Holyoak, Jan. the Minnesota Minneapolis (Hmong) Mission of the LDS Church. He will speak in the Edgemont 7th Ward, 555 E. 3230 North, Provo, on Jan. 10, at 11 a.m. Page A7 son of R. Carin M.B. Green and the late Roger C. Green, has bee'n called to serve in the Brazil Rio de Janeiro Mission of the LDS Church. He will speak in the Payson 17th Ward, 700 W. 800 South, Payson, on Sunday at 2:50 p.m. He will enter the MTC on Jan. 13. Provo, has returned from DAILY HtRALD. Provo, Ltah MISSIONS . George Albert Chip Green, son of WEB SITE ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) COPY! , 1W THE I Christians want to mobilize forces with new World Prayer Center By ROBERT UNRUH Associated Press Writer member New Life Church, has rows of computers, a diameter, revolving globe, passwords and security clearances. It's an autonomous ministry and began as a vision 14 years ago by Pastor Ted Haggard of New Life, a Full Gospel Charismatic church with a variety of local and international ministries. "This is on the right track," a Steve said Chavis, spokesman for the Denver-basePromise Keepers, which has attracted 3.2 million men to stadium conferences in recent years and assembled hundreds of thousands at a 1997 rally in Washington, 15-fo- 2,200-poun- COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. On a gentle slope from which a visitor can see Pikes Peak and the Air Force Academy chapel spires sits a command post for those pair- ing today's technology with one of humankind's oldest religious acts: prayer. faxes and a Using growing Christian church network, the new World Prayer Center plans to connect prayer requests from around the world with millions of volunteers willing to pray for them. "We want to make it hard for people ... to go to hell," said Pastor Joseph Thompson, the facilities director for the center that has as its goal "targeted global evangelistic or taking prayer prayer" requests and forwarding them to those who pray for specific needs, by name and location. d d D.C. "We have perceived a return to prayer on the part of Christians in general," he said. "To have a place like the World Prayer Center to continue to promote this movement is a positive indicator." Transmitting the message send out laborers into His harvest.'" Linking knowledge and prayer is important, said Wagner. Center officials liken general prayer to a light bulb, focused prayer to a laser. They say their prayers for increased Christian conversions in northern India and in China have been answered. The New Life Church developed many of the center's prayer plans, targeting crime in Colorado Springs. The city's crime rate dropped from 86 incidents per 1,000 residents to 66, even as the population rose by 55,000 people. Police confirmed the decrease but would not comment on whether prayer was a' The member Southern Baptist Convention, " largest has a prayer request option on its t 15.6-millio- n the nation's Protestant group, righteous man makes much power available," Thompson said. He compared coordinated prayer to an air force that can "decimate the weapons and strength of the enemy." Then, he said, "the ground troops, as we consider missionaries, have less chance of becoming casualities to the heavy spiritual battles they confront." Prayer requests come in from anyone, both individuals and groups, and problems submitted range from Aunt Bertha's bursitis ,to the destruction of Christian churches in intolerant nations. The $5.5 million center, funded by the nearby 8,000- ' ministries have prayer hot lines, but nothing the size of the new center, officials said, It will work globally and " eventually have access to some 50 million volunteers willing to pray for urgent chairwoman This way, thousands can be told with one button click, he said. The center was founded by Haggard and C. Peter Wagner, who runs Global Harvest Ministries here. Global Harvest was set up a decade ago specifically to be "a primary source and catalyst of intercessory prayer for the worldwide harvest." It is based on Matthew 9:37-3"Then He said to His disciples, 'The harvest is truly plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to , Web site and many individual Unlike local church prayer Central system the newest technolmeetings, officials center Since no limits to has ogy virtually believe prayer is the precurword of needs. the spreading of to move sor every great Thompson said he personGod, a fully equipped nerve has addresses for requests. Other ally Prayer center with data and informa200 friends. Centers Christian are planned They already tion about needs throughout the world will enable interces- have their own lists. And so do in Birmingham, England, and sors to pray intelligently, they the next level of recipients. Tokyo to work in those And so on. Then there are the regions of the globe. say. lists and networks. Dobson, Shirley "The Bible tells that the effectual fervent prayer of a : factor. for the Natjcrnal Day of Prayer, said it was a wonderful concept, "to develop a center specifically dedicated to prayer for peoples of the world." "I think very clearly we can. never be in prayer too much,' said Bob Peters, a vice presi-'- ; dent for the International Bible Society, "and to have a, coordinated', cooperative, effort from anybody will bene- fit all Christian ministries." 8 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You St Mary'i 50 Church Wot 2nd North Provo, UTMM34641 3734090 Sunday Holy Eucharist Sunday - Family Euchuitt 130 a.m. 10:30 a.m. (dilUeanmmlUk) Sunday CburcfaSchool h 10:30 a. m, i |