Show Christian brotherhood goal of Shared Ministry OGDEN — The midwinter meeting of Shared Ministry in Utah met in Ogden last week and set an agenda for the coming year Speaking at the meeting was the Rev Richard Reese pastor at Ogden's First Baptist Church and moderator of Shared Ministry for the past four years “We have moved in our understanding of Shared Ministry from the aims of financial soundness less duplication of programs and more efficiency of bodies — to the realization that Christian unity is a gift of God" Listening to his words were 200 delegates from 67 congregations of Shared Ministry from Utah southern Idaho and western Wyoming Reese’s topic was “Are There Any Questions?” and he answered the first one “What are the greatest gains of Shared Ministry over the years?” by saying “Shared Ministry has been one of the greatest growth points in my life in the last ten years When I was involved in discussions between the Utah Association of the American Baptist Churches and Shared Ministry in 1981 it was pointed out there would be financial savings stewardship of human resources and less competition in the ministry understanding and peace in Crete where Reese attended a summer seminar saying “I am a mirror whose design and shape I do not know Nevertheless with what have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world — into the black places in the hearts of men — and change some things in some people This is what I am about This is the meaning of life" It scares me how much that made sense to me back then" There is continued growth in understanding he said and to know “Our fundamental witness is that the followers of Christ are already one We are God's witness not because we chose to be united but because unity is a gift 1 of God" Quoting the Rev France pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Salt Lake City that it is God's will that we mingle Reese stated that “it pleases God when we mingle together It is God's pleasure today to watch the African Methodist Episcopal Church begin to mingle with us in Shared Ministry Christian churches mingling together" He was referring to the fact that at the day's meeting the predominately black AME Church joined Shared Ministry becoming the sixth mainline Protestant denomination to do so Da-v- is Reese and his wife Dr Don-m- s Reese will leave Ogden soon and he will take on his new position as the Southeastern Michigan area minister of American Baptist Churches with headquarters in Detroit The Rev Philip Tarman tor of Community United odist Church in Ogden and host to the winter meeting spoke on “Breaking Down the Walls” saying “Ten years ago our perception of the world was colored by divisions which dated back to the end of the second world war Reese then asked “What might sound like an impossible question: What is the meaning “Winston Churchill had given a name to the iron curtain: Communist leaders in Eastern of life?" He quoted Alexander pas- Meth- Europe had made it concrete and steel and barbed wire and the divisions of the Warsaw Papade-ro- s founder and head of an institute dedicated to human Pact "But the last months of 1989 have taught us one thing” he said “Change can occur Barriers as permanent as a wall div g the city of Berlin can come down Governments we believed had the power to crush almost all public dissent have been forced to change with unbelievable rapidity" id-in- Turning to Shared Ministry Tarman said that in 1787 in a Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia 14 black freedmen were kneeling at the altar in prayer “Ushers came and dragged them from their knees to make room at the altar for white Methodists to pray Richard Allen said to those ushers 'Let us finish our prayers and we will trouble you no more'" From that confrontation came the birth of a new church the African Methodist Episcopal Church which over the years “has sought and seeks to be a liberating and reconciling people” Tarman said "As we in Shared Ministry vote today a barrier that has separated some persons of the Methodist tradition — black and white — will come at least partly down God is acting to draw all of his creation together When we cat this least together (Holy Communion) we bear witness to our faith that he has broken down the wall There are no longer aliens Walls come tumbling down" ME Presiding Elder the Rev I Coates candor signed the Shared Ministry covenant along with the Rev Richard Williams pastor of Emh Chapel in Ogden and the Rev Curtis Sewell pastor of Trimly AME Church in Salt Lake City The governing bodies of the assembled denominations set some goals for the next 18 months that include experimenting with a Protestant Pastoral Care program at the University hildren's and other “terccry C care" facilities developing an in- tegrated camping model with shared facilities and programming operating a Campus Ministry in all higher education institutions with ministry to students faculty administration and including a new model for the Protestant Church to participate significantly in major societal and life issues being focused in academia and involving pastors and the laity in Prison Ministry at all Utah institutions Each goal is to be earned out by September of 1991 Bush praises role of religion in creating democracies By CHRISTOPHER we believe that political values without moral values cannot sustain a people” Bush said in For CONNELL Associated Press WASHINGTON — President George Bush declaring that “the world increasingly is on the side of God” applauded the role religion has played in breaking down barriers to freedom in Eastern Europe In a speech to the National Association of Religious Broadcasters Bush also reiterated his stands against abortion for a constitutional amendment re- storing voluntary prayer in public schools and for new federal aid for religious as well as secular child-car- e centers “There is no denying that America is a religious nation Calciu a guest at the religious broadcasters’ convention had been sentenced to death but was e given a last Later he found the two people who were to have executed him kneeling at his feet attending a his fourth address to an annual convention of the broadcasters “The last year has been a vie- -' tory for the freedoms with which God has blessed America We have seen the rights of man move mountains or — as in East Berlin — even move a wall" he said Bush praised the role religious figures played in democratic revcomolutions in once hard-lin- e munist states and saluted a Romanian Orthodox minister Gheorghe Calciu who he said spent 21 of his 64 years in dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s jails minute-repriev- liturgy service Bush said Bush also lauded church demonstrators who began candlelight v igils in Leipzig East Germany in 1982 Bulgarians who recently were able to exchange Christmas greetings in public for the first time without fear Czechoslo- vaks who sang Christmas carols without fear of the police and Muscovites who “hosted the first nationwide gathering of Jews since the fall of the Czar” Shirt and Tie MISSIONARY HEADQUARTERS The Right Suits The Right Shirts Ties and Socks The Right Shoes PJ’s and Robes The Right Rain Coat Top Coats The Right Belts and Accessories The Right Luggage and Briefcase ALL AT THE RIGHT OGDEN Ogden City Mall 627-315A- --- Feb 3 1990 PRICE LAYTON Layton Hills Mall 2 546-36- 68 of each 2 $19900 Expert Tailoring Free Fast Alterations BOUNTIFUL S60 W 100 292-12- 36 N J ONLY! 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