History of Temple Baptist Church
The following is of chronological times in history that pertain only to Temple Baptist Church.
For an inclusive chronological history that records events that happened down through the ages, including this page, Click here.
1881
January, Olaus Okerson and his family arrived in Portland.
They stayed in the Shogren family home to which they were welcomed. They stayed
there until located elsewhere.
January 23, Pastor
Okerson's first preaching service in the Pacific Northwest was held in the
Episcopal Chapel on SW 5th near Oak St. in downtown Portland.
"For God so loved the world
that he gave His one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life."
John 3:16 NIV
See Foot Notes
1882
Panoramic View of the City of Portland looking East.
Place mouse pointer over thumbnail picture and click the mouse button to see a full size Panoramic View.
It is a large file so please be patient.
"All the prophets
testify about him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name."
Acts 10:43 NIV
See Foot Notes
1883
April 15, The
First Scandinavian Baptist Church held
meetings in its own building at S.W. Sixth and
Caruthers.
October 17,
Rev.
Gustof Liljeroth baptized John Palmblad and two others in Johnson Creek at
Gresham. This was the first baptismal service for our church.
Mrs. Liljeroth
conducted the Sunday School. Click here to read an account of the history
of the Temple Baptist Sunday School.
"See, I lay in
Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the
one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
Romans 9:33 NIV
See Foot Notes
1884
January 1, First Scandinavian Baptist Church of Portland (now
known as Temple Baptist Church) was organized by Gustaf
Liljeroth.
Click
here to see minutes of the meeting.
Note: From the
records of Harley Hallgren Hard times came in
1884. Railroad financial
collapse resulted in much unemployment. Work on the Portland Hotel
stopped. Some of the church members moved out of town onto farms, some
went back east. P.A. Johnson went to Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Rose went to
Michigan.
"Yet to all who received
him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of
God -- children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a
husband's will, but born of God."
John 1:12,13 NIV
See Foot Notes
1885
Gustaf
Liljeroth continued as Pastor of our church.
October 1, Nicholas Hayland, first graduate of Bethel Seminary,
became pastor.
May, Rev. Liljeroth
went to Oakland, California where he organized a Scandinavian Baptist Church.
Recorded names of
people at church services in this year; PH Carlson, Lydia Lindblom, Hanna
_______?, Anna Moe, Anna? Pearson, Mary Moe, Ellen Nelson, Andrew Olsam, Axel
Loaderholm, David Hagg, ______ Stenstrom, Rev. Hayland, Mrs. Hayland, 3
children, Anna Youngstrom, Bernard ________?. Pastor Hayland preached to
south Portland Catholics and Jews.
"Whoever believes in him is not
condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has
not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
John 3:36
See Foot Notes
1886
Nicholas
Hayland continued as Pastor of our church.
June 23, Women's
Sewing Society was formed. Read a historical account and see a picture of this group
taken in the early 20's by
clicking on the Women's Sewing Society Link above. Read the Constitution
of the Sewing Bee in Swedish and also translated to English.
July 3, Nicholas
Hayland was reelected preacher, unanimously, "received all the votes of
those present, eleven in number."
"See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be
put to shame."
1 Peter 2:6 NIV
See Foot Notes
1887
Nicholas
Hayland continued as Pastor of our church.
August 1, a new building, The
First Swedish Church of Portland on N.W. 12th near Glisan was erected
and dedicated.
August 27,
First Baptismal Service held in the 12th Street Church with Pastor Hayland
baptizing Miss Anna Ljungstrom (sister of Mrs. Hayland), Miss Anna Person, and Mr.
David Hagg.
"Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be
saved - you and your household."
Acts 16:31 NIV
See Foot Notes
1888
Nicholas
Hayland continued as Pastor of our church.
August 25th, the trustees of the First Scandinavian
Baptist Church of Portland decided to sell the property on Caruthers Street to
John P. Nelson.
September 29, The Young
People's Society was organized
with a membership of seventeen. L. Larson was the first president.
Bethel Seminary
returns to Morgan Park, Chicago, again as a separate Swedish department of the
Baptist Union Theological Seminary with Eric Sandell as acting dean.
I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. John 12:46 NIV
1889
Nicholas
Hayland continued as Pastor of our church.
December 28, The
Swedish Baptist Conference of the North Pacific Coast was organized. It later became the Columbia Conference in 1930.
Uno
N. Brauer became Senior Pastor.
Then Jesus declared, "I am the
bread of life, He who comes to me will never go hungry and he who believes in me
will never be thirsty."
John 6:35 NIV
See Foot Notes
1890
Uno N.
Brauer continued as Pastor of our church.
February 28, The Cedarhome Baptist Church in Stanwood,
Washington was organized.
"If you
can?" said Jesus, "Everything is possible for him who believes."
Mark 9:23 NIV
See Foot Notes
1891
Uno N. Brauer
continued as Pastor of our church.
Rev. August Westerberg
was Pastor.
Then Jesus told him, "Because
you have seen me, you have believed, blessed are those who have not seen and yet
have believed."
John 20:29 NIV
See Foot Notes
1892
Rev.
August Westerberg continued as Pastor or our church.
May, the church voted to withdraw from North Pacific Coast
(Columbia) Conference.
"I tell you the
truth, he who believes has everlasting life."
John 6:47 NIV
See Foot Notes
1893
Rev. John Olander
was Pastor of our church.
Erik Hjalmar East felt the call of God to go the the Foreign Field.
Blessed is he who has regard for the
weak, the LORD delivers him in the times of trouble. The LORD will protect
him and preserve his life, he will bless him in the land and not surrender him
to the desire of his foes.
Psalm 41:1, 2 NIV
See Foot Notes
1894
Rev. David Oberg
was Pastor of our church.
See Tax
Lot information on Caruthers Street Church.
December 29, The name "First Scandinavian
Baptist Church of Portland" was changed to "The First Swedish Baptist
Church of Portland."
He who is kind to the poor lends to
the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done.
Proverbs 19:17 NIV
See Foot Notes
1895
Rev. David Oberg
continued as Pastor of our church.
June, the conference name was changed to the Swedish
Baptist Conference.
"But when you give a banquet,
invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be
blessed, Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the
resurrection of the righteous." When one of those at the table with
him hear this, he said to Jesus, "Blessed is the man who will eat at the
feast in the kingdom of God." Jesus replied: "A certain
man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time of
the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited. 'Come, for
everything is now ready.' But they all alike began to make excuses.
The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it.
Please excuse me.' Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen,
and I'm on my way to try them out, Please excuse me.' Another said,
'I just got married, so I can't come.' Then the servant came back and
reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and
ordered his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and
bring in the poor, the crippled. the blind and the lame.' Sir the servant
said, 'what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.'
Then the master told his servant, "Go out out to the roads and country
lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full. I tell you,
not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.' "
Luke 14:13-24 NIV
See Foot Notes
1896
Axel
Vester served as Interim Pastor of our church.
"Sell your possessions and give to the poor Provide, purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys." Luke 12:13 NIV
1897
Rev. Charles Asplund was
Pastor of our church.
He who despises his
neighbor sins, but blessed is he who is kind to the needy.
Proverbs 14:21 NIV
1898
Rev. Charles
Asplund continued as Pastor of our church.
April 13, The Women's Mission Circle was organized to promote interest in home and foreign missions.
A separate conference in Oregon was established. The
conference name was then the Oregon Swedish Conference.
Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. Ecclesiastes 11:1 NIV
1899
Rev.
Charles Asplund continued as Pastor of our church.
Rev. G. A. Osbrink became the first Oregon Conference Missionary.
He has scattered
abroad his gifts to the poor, his righteousness endures forever; his horn will
be lifted high in honor.
Psalm 112:9 NIV
1900
Rev.
Charles Asplund continued as Pastor of our church.
February 14, Pastor
Nicholas Hayland, our 2nd pastor and 1st graduate of John Edgren's Theological
Seminary, (Bethel) passed away, in Tacoma, Washington.
A generous man will himself be blessed, for
he shares his food with the
poor.
Proverbs 22:9 NIV
1901
Rev.
Charles Asplund continued as Pastor of our church.
August 29, Olaus
Okerson, died in McMinnville,
Oregon.
Give, and it will be given to
you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will
be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured
to you.
Luke 6:38 NIV
1902
Uno N. Brauer served as Pastor some time during this year.
Gordon V. Johnson served as
Interim some time during this year.
Rev. John Huggert was
Pastor or our church.
Rev. Gustaf Johnson
succeeds Rev. Osbrink as missionary.
He who gives to the poor will lack
nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses. Proverbs 28:27 NIV
1903
Rev. John
Huggert continued as Pastor of our church.
Each man should give
what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion,
for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV
1904
Rev. John
Huggert continued as Pastor of our church.
September 26,
Axel Anderson
and Carl V. Anderson were baptized.
"Trust
in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in
all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths
straight."
Proverbs 3:5,6 NIV
See Foot Notes
1905
Rev.
John Huggert continued as Pastor of our
church.
April 12, the 12th avenue church property was sold.
Services were held in The German Methodist church from April to September.
September 17, a new
building, The First Swedish Baptist Church at N.W.
Fifteenth and Hoyt was dedicated.
" All
those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never
drive
away."
John 6:37 NIV
See Foot Notes
1906
Rev. Eric
Scherstrom was Pastor of our church.
Rev. Carl Axel Boberg
succeeds Rev. Gustaf Johnson as Oregon Missionary.
Mr.
and Mrs. Lundberg were the custodians at the 15th and Hoyt church.
"The Jews who were there gathered
around him, saying, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you
are the Messiah, tell us plainly."
John 10:24 NIV
See Foot Notes
1907
Rev. Eric
Scherstrom continued as Pastor of our church.
A.G. Sandblom came to
the west coast as a missionary and continued until September, 1912.
Rev. A. G. Sandblom
succeeds Rev. Boberg as Oregon Missionary.
May 30, See
the Announcement for the Yearly Banquet of the Sunday School
June 5, the Church
at Warren was organized.
Rev. A. G. Sandblom
succeeds Rev. Boberg as Oregon Missionary.
"Cast your bread upon the waters for after
many days you will find it again. give portions to seven, yes to eight, for
you do not know what disasters may come upon the land. If clouds are full
of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south
or to the north in the place where it falls, there it will lie. Who ever
watches the wind will not plant: whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.
As you do not know the path of the wind or how the body is formed in a mother's
womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the maker of all things."
Ecclesiastes 11:1-5 NIV
See Foot Notes
1908
Rev. Eric
Scherstrom continued as Pastor of our church.
July 4, See Photo
of Young People's Picnic.
....and the dust returns to the ground it came from and the spirit returns to
God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 12:7,8 NIV
See Foot Notes
1909
Rev. Eric
Scherstrom continued as Pastor of our church.
August 19, Powell Valley (Haley) church was organized.
The Income
for Temple this year was $2,412.47.
"So I commend the enjoyment of life,
because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat, drink, and be
glad. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of the life God
has given him under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 8:15 NIV
See Foot Notes
1910
Rev. Eric
Scherstrom continued as Pastor of our church.
The Sewing Circle and Mission Circle were combined.
Philip Forsander left for Morgan Park Seminary, to become a Pastor and Naval Chaplain.
In the
spring, the blind evangelist, A. J. Freeman, and his daughter, Ester held
meetings which were used of God in the salvation of many souls.
The income
for Temple this year was $1,563.30.
"In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth."
Genesis 1:1 NIV
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1911
Rev. Fredric Linden
was Pastor.
"Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come."
II Corinthians 5:17
1912
Rev. Fredric Linden
continued as was Pastor of our church.
January 28, The church at Cherry
Grove was organized.
September, Rev. August Olson
succeeds Rev. Sandblom as Oregon Missionary.
The Haley church
was dedicated. John Johnson was the first Pastor from 1907-1920.
December, Mr. and Mrs. John
Milton went to Cherry Grove from Portland and bought a lot on First Avenue to
build a hotel. It was rushed to completion and ready for use in late
January the following year.
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."
Philippians 4:6 NIV
1913
Rev. Fredric Linden
continued as Pastor of our church.
The hymn "The
Old Rugged Cross" was composed by Rev.
George Bennard.
1914
Rev. Fredric Linden
continued as Pastor of our church.
1915
Rev. Fredric Linden
continued as Pastor of our church.
1916
Rev. Fredric Linden
continued as Pastor of our church.
January 1, read the Församlings
Posten (Assembly News), our church news letter, which was written in Swedish.
Rev. Axel Tjernlund served as Interim
Pastor sometime during this year.
Rev. Gideon
Sjolander was Senior Pastor.
1917
Rev. Gideon
Sjolander continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
1918
Rev. Gideon
Sjolander continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
August 16, Harley K Halgren and Louise
Marie Tjernlund were
married.
1919
Rev. Gideon
Sjolander continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
January, the church celebrated its 35th anniversary.
February
4, The church started a building fund at the suggestion of
the Young People's Society. To see extracts from the business meeting.
1920
Rev. Gideon
Sjolander continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
January, the Oregon Conference was held at this church and
a large number of delegates made a trip to Warren,
Oregon, to dedicate the
church there.
July, Pastor
Sjolander visits Sweden.
Rev. Emanuel
Bjorkquist becomes Interim Pastor.
July, Pastor Axel
Tjernlund went to be with the Lord.
August 3, Pastor Sjolander was granted 9 months leave of
absence to visit Sweden.
October 31, the
Deacon Board arranged a meeting to honor John Palmblad on his eightieth
birthday. Mr. Palmblad gave the church of $50.00 for the new church lot
that the church expected to buy. Reported by O.S. Rydman on November 20.
Rev. Emanuel
Bjorkquist succeeds Rev. Sandblom as Oregon Missionary.
See a photo of the church choir.
Bethel Seminary's
name became "Bethel Institute."
1921
Rev. Emanuel
Bjorkquist continued as Interim Pastor of our church.
January, the church began to have a service once a month
in English, for the benefit of those who do not understand the Swedish language. Gradually
the shift to English services became a reality as the church's responsibility to
minister to the neighborhood as well as the Swedish population was recognized.
Return to Centennial Quilt.
June, Rev.
Sjölander with family returned from Sweden to resume the pastorate at our church.
There had been much demand for both gospel preaching and temperance lectures
while he was there.
November 15, the church voted to purchase property at the
east end of the Broadway Bridge near Interstate Ave on Larrabee Street.
Later the Interstate/Larrabee property was sold.
1922
Rev. Gideon
Sjolander continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
See photo of Pastor Sjolander's Bible Class.
1923
Rev. Gideon
Sjolander continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
June, The Young People's Society
celebrated their 35th anniversary. The church was then called "First
Swedish Baptist Church". See a photo
taken on the front steps of the the church at SW 15th and Hoyt Streets.
See a photo of "The
Cheerful Helpers" Sunday School Class.
See a photo of Sunday School Picnic, probably
held on July 4th.
See a photo of Men's "Berea" Sunday School Class.
1924
Temple celebrated it's 40th anniversary since the organization of the
church. Pastor Gideon Sjolander along with a committee had a book
published called "Minnesskrift," written in Swedish, which tells a
detailed history of Temple from 1884 to 1924. It has also since been
translated to English.
January 15, Pastor Sjolander resigns
as our Pastor to accept a call to
become the General Conference Missionary.
Rev. J.
Alfred Erickson became Pastor. .
1925
Rev. J.
Alfred Erickson continued as Pastor of our church
May 25, The Baraca Sunday School Class
held their second annual banquet at Henry Thiele's Restaurant. See
the menu and program.
November 26, Margaret Brunander (Margaret Steel) was baptized.
See notes from annual meeting concerning the new church at
N.E. 7th and Clackamas by clicking here.
1926
Rev. J.
Alfred Erickson continued as Pastor of our church
January, property at Seventh and Clackamas was purchased.
Click the link to read about the history of the city block the church building
sits on.
March 6, The
Building Committee recommended hiring a competent Architect to draw up plans for
a new Church Building.
April 27, The
Architect, Walter Kelly presented plans for a building that would cost $50,000.
The plans were adopted.
September 1, Walter
Kelly presented a sketch of the new church building.
September19, ground
breaking took place for the new building.
October 4, See
drawing of Front Elevation of new church
building.
1927
Rev.
J. Alfred Erickson continued as Pastor of our church
March 6, Sunday
afternoon the cornerstone to our new church
building was
set in place.
June 5, last
service in the old building on Hoyt Street.
June 12, dedication
of the new church building.
Click Here to see the Invitation to the Dedication Exercises.
Click Here to see the Program For Dedication.
October 21, Friday
evening, dedication of the pipe organ. Pastor Erickson led in a dedication
of the organ, followed by a recital performed by concert organist William
Boone. The organ was built by Teller-Kent Organ Company of Eric.
Pennsylvania, It had over 1100 electromagnets, with 25 miles of copper and
silver wiring. The organ contained 1,386 pipes, the largest pipe being 16
feet long. The smallest pipe had openings the size of a led pencil.
To see photos and
text of the new church building on NE 7th and Clackamas, Click
Here.
1928
Rev. J.
Alfred Erickson continued as Pastor of our church
1929
Rev.
J. Alfred Erickson continued as Pastor of our church
June 26-30, Swedish Baptist Temple was host the first time to the Swedish
Baptist
General Conference. The Conference was celebrating their 50th year at
Temple. Click Here to view a copy of the
conference program. (Most of it is written in Swedish)
See the schedule
for 1929 of Offices and Societies for the church.
1930
Rev.
J. Alfred Erickson continued as Pastor of our church
The Oregon Swedish Baptist Conference merged with the
Washington Conference to form the Columbia Baptist
Conference.
Rev. A. H. Johnson
was missionary until 1935.
1931
Rev.
J. Alfred Erickson continued as Pastor of our church
January 1, Due to hard times, the church stopped paying a
salary to all workers and Rev. Erickson agreed to deduct $40.00 per month from
salary for 5 months.
Gertrude Gustafson
was Temple's church historian.
May 30, Swedish
Baptist Temple held a Conference Concert 8:00 PM on Saturday. Click
here to view the copy of the original program.
1932
Rev. Fredrik Linden
served as Interim Pastor.
The Great Depression worsened. Church was in danger
of repossession.
1933
Rev. Carl A. Olsson was the Pastor.
Refinancing of the
church took place.
The younger people
wanted more English in the church services. A vote was taken and members
decided to hold on to the use of Swedish rather than adopting the wholesale
usage of English in the church services. One reason may have been the
feeling that Swedish was more worshipful than English, and that the preaching
should be understandable to the Swedish majority membership. This caused
part of the congregation to leave the church. Gradually later in the1930's
the language switched exclusively to English in the services.
Radio services on KOIN were
begun-"The Scandinavian Half Hour."
Baptismal service at Temple on
New Years Eve - Mr. & Mrs. Percy Seymour, Miss Marjorie
Rydman, Miss Eileen
Johnson, Mrs.
Carl (Elsie) Ostrom and Mrs. Haroldson were baptized.
1934
Rev. Carl A. Olsson
continued as the Pastor of our church.
The Golden Jubilee of Swedish Baptist
Temple. The
honor of being the only living charter member of the Swedish Baptist Temple at
East Seventh and Clackamas Streets, Portland, was bestowed upon our Mother,
Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, Mrs. Augusta Palmblad, when the church
celebrated its Golden Jubilee-January 1st to 7th, 1934. Click
Here to see notes written at a Palmblad clan meeting August 19, 1934. (Taken from notes compiled by Harley
Hallgren.)
February 4, Baptized at
Temple - Betty Hallgren, Margaret Anderson, David
Carlson, Astrid Johnson,
Delores Wickman.
Read a copy of the 1934
Annual Sunday School Report originally written by Helen Tjernlund, SS Superintendent.
The panorama photograph
shown below was taken of the congregation on January 7, 1934 in front of the
church as part of the Golden Jubilee celebration.
1935
Rev. Carl A. Olsson
continued as the Pastor of our church.
Rev. Ole Larson succeeds Rev. A. G. Johnson as Columbia
Missionary.
June 7, See pictures of
the Baptist Sunday School Rose Festival Float
in the parade.
1936
Rev. Carl A. Olsson
continued as the Pastor of our church.
Rev. C. A. Aldeen was Interim Pastor.
December 1,--First
time the minutes of Business Meetings were written in English.
1937
Rev.
C.A.Aldeen continued as Interim Pastor of our church.
April 11, Bert and his brother
Lloyd Johnson were welcomed into the church fellowship on this day.
June 13, Temple celebrated its 10th
Anniversary in the building on NE 7th and Clackamas. See the Anniversary
Program.
September 30,
Charles Surdstrom ordained to Gospel Ministry.
Rev. V. E. Hedberg
became Pastor. He was the first
American born Pastor in the churches history.
Ned Holmgren to
Bethel Seminary. He was a pastor at various churches untill 1973.
1938
Rev.
V.E.Hedberg continued as Pastor of our church.
January 1, Ned Holmgren licensed to preach.
July 1, Our former
pastor, Rev. John Alfred Erickson went to be with the Lord.
1939
Rev.
V.E.Hedberg continued as Pastor of our church.
August 25, the
church held a farewell reception for Pastor Victor Hedberg.
September, Linus and Mrs. Johnson arrived with
their children Earl and Marion. Two other children were Beulah and
George. Beulah was in training at Midway Hospital, St Paul, and George was
at Bethel Junior College. Dr. Johnson came from Temple Baptist Church in
Duluth, Minnesota. At this time he assumed the pastorate at our church.
September 1?, the
church held a welcoming reception for Linus Johnson.
October 30, the
church honored the Rev. and Mrs. Emanuel Bjorkquist and Mr. and Mrs. Gustav
Hallgren in a joint celebration of their Golden Wedding anniversaries.
Miss Helen Carlson
started at Multnomah School of the Bible as a student. Later became
instructor.
The average
attendance in church for the year1939, was 341. The average attendance in
Sunday school was 192 per Sunday. The highest attendance was 265 and the
lowest was 140 during 1939.
1940
Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
January
7, Rev. Wyman Malmsten from Bethel was with us this week.
October 4,
The choir recommends Miss Helen Tjernlund as choir
leader.
The Conference
publication, "The Standard" was first published.
The Officers
for the year were: Vice Chairman: Dr. F.G. Salstrom; Secretary: Jacob
Gordh; Assistant Secretary: Lee Johnson; Financial Secretary: Walfred
Anderson; Assistant Financial Secretary: Ernie Johnson; Building
Treasurer: Leonard Anderson; Church Treasurer: Emil Peterson; Treasurer
of Radio and Mission Funds: Ed Johnson; Chief Usher: Henry Dahlgren; Assistant
Chief Usher: Ray Lott; Historical Secretary: Harley K. Hallgren; Deacons
- Elected: Ed Johnson, John Johnson, Carl Stromgren; Trustees:
Leonard Anderson, Albin Rydman; Organist: Helen Tjernlund; Song
Leader: Mrs. Stanley Gordh; Assistant Song Leader:
1941
Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
February 7,
The Church decided to use "Temple
Baptist Church" in all publicity and to drop the "Swedish"
designation from the title.
March 9,
Sunday, The Columbia Conference district rally was held at Cherry
Grove. A worship service was held at 3:00 in the afternoon. Our
pastor, Linus Johnson presented the message.
March, Some
of the classrooms on the second floor were painted with volunteer labor by those
who felt led. The painting project was led by Mr. Albin Rydman
April 13,
Easter Sunday.
Miss Henrietta
Carlson enrolled at Bethel Seminary. She later married Mr. Clifford Gustafson.
For a list of men from Temple who
served in WW II Click Here.
The
Officers for the year were: Vice-Chairman, Rev. John Nordell; Secretary,
Jacob M. Gordh; Assistant Secretary, Nathan Sjolander; Finance
Secretary, Miss
Eileen Johnson; Assistant Finance Secretary, Carl Ostrom; Treasurer of Building
Fund, Leonard Anderson; Treasure Current Fund, Emil Peterson; Missionary
Treasure, Miss Ruth Hanson; Radio Treasurer, Birger Arnbom; Chief
Usher, Henry
Dahlgren, Assistant Chief Usher, Ernest Hanson; Historical Secretary, Harley K.
Hallgren; Trustees, Sven Larson and Ben Selberg, Organist - Choir
Director, Miss
Helen Tjernlund; Sunday School Superintendent, Edwin Johnson; Assistant
Sunday School Superintendent, Birger Arnbom; Song Leader, Alfred Johnson;
Assistant Song Leader, Birger Arnbom.
Each Sunday
at 1:00pm, Temple made a radio broadcast "Swedish Half-hour" over
station KALE.
1942
Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
May 8, The honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity was
conferred on Pastor Linus Johnson at the commencement exercise of Western
Baptist Theological Seminary held at Temple.
May 22, the church
debt paid.
June, mortgage due
July 12, Sunday,
the burning of the mortgage. Click here
to read an account by Harley Hallgren of the last days of the mortgage.
October 23, name changed from
"Swedish Baptist Temple" to " Temple Baptist Church."
All services
at Temple are now spoken in English.
1943
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
February, See picture of group from
Temple visiting Multnomah County Poor Farm as they did from time to time.
Edgefield
Manor, as it is known today was built in 1911, served as the county poor farm where
it was run as a self sufficient operation by the residents who worked in various
forms of employment on the grounds.
June 27, The Clatskanie
Church was organized.
September 19, Bethel
Baptist Church in St. Johns was organized.
Miss Lois Sorley was called from Wisconsin to assist
Pastor Johnson in visitation work
Sunday School for war worker's children was established in
the St. John's area.
Click
here for an account of Miss Lois Sorley.
1944
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
February 19, Click Here
to read letter from Mrs. Bjorkquist to Harley Hallgren.
October 10,
Methodist Deaconess Home located near N.E. 25th and Flanders was purchased
and organized and became the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home.
October
19, The Oregon Baptist Retirement Home was organized and became a corporation.
Columbia Conference accepted responsibility for the Sunday
School in St. John's. Henrietta Carlson, (Mrs. Clifford Gustafson), was licensed
for the ministry and sent to
be the first leader-pastor of this work. This Sunday School was soon to
become Bethel Baptist Church.
See
photo of Temple Baptist Church Congregation on front steps.
1945
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
January 1, Temple had their 61st
anniversary dinner. See List of members who have been affiliated with the
church for 40 years
and more.
February,
Rev. William Tapper, Director of Young People and Sunday School work in the
General Conference was with us and held fine spiritual meetings.
April, In the
latter part, Rev. Victor Larson, a great powerful preacher, from Elim Church in
Seattle spent "Four Great Days" with us.
May and June, Bernie
Wennermark was Junior Rose Festival Prime Minister.
May, The Methodist
Deaconess Home (which became The Oregon Baptist Retirement Home) was purchased.
June 11-22, Daily
Vacation Bible School was held under the supervision of Miss Lois Sorley.
July 1, work was
started on remodeling of the Oregon Retirement home.
July 4, The church
had its annual picnic at Peninsula Park.
July, Dr. Arthur I.
Brown, physician, radio minister and scientist was with us.
July 11-15, Eugene
Johnson, Lloyd Nordstron and Harold Carlson three young men from Bethel
Seminary, gave inspiring talks, colored chalk drawings, and vocal selections.
August 5-12, Faith
Bible Camp was held at Columbia City Fair Grounds.
October 2-7, We had
"five great days" with Rev Alphin Conrad from Ballard, Seattle.
November, A special
Thanksgiving service was held on Thanksgiving evening with Dr. Bob Jones of
Tennessee.
December 2,
Dedication of the Oregon Retirement Home and welcome for
the 1st
Superintendent, David
M. Anderson.
December 31, the
church had a membership of 333.
See the Honor
Roll of names of people from our church,
members and friends, who served in the military in WW II.
This year the Swedish Baptist General Conference dropped the "Swedish"
designation from their official name.
The first and
second floors including the custodians quarters were painted.
See photo of
Temple Choir.
Miss Lois Sorley
was the church missionary. She did a splendid job of solicitation of new
members for the Sunday School and church. The church bulletin was mimeographed
by Miss Sorley.
Mr. Earnest Hanson
was the church clerk.
Mr. Harley Hallgren
was chairman of the Deacon Board.
Merril E. Morgan
was the Secretary and Treasurer of the Deacon Board.
Hildur Strandberg
was Secretary and Treasurer of the Deaconess Board.
Mr. Ewald Anderson
was chairman of the Trustee Board.
Mr. Ernie Johnson
was Secretary of the Trustee Board.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Wennermark were custodians.
Read an account of the Scandinavian Half Hour Radio Broadcast for this year.
Mrs. Ninian
Westerlund was chairman of the Music Committee.
Mr. Arthur B.
Carlson was Director of Radio Broadcasts.
Miss Maydora
Westerlund was Treasurer of the Mission Committee. The following
Missionary speakers were heard at various meetings of the church: Rev.
Harold Hetter, of the International Christian Leper Mission, Rev. William Tapper,
Dr. Arthur I. Brown, Rev. Dan Ganstrom, Mrs. Ulrich, temporary director of the
Christian Service Men's Center, Miss Joy Ridderhoff, Mr. B.N. Hicks of the Anti-Liquer
League, a representative of the African Inland Mission, Rev. William Hagstrom,
and Rev. Warren Johnson.
Viola Anderson was
president of the Senior Young People's Society, Maydora Westerlund was vice
president, Betty Hallgren was corresponding secretary, Phyllis Rydman was
recording secretary. The treasurer was Stanley Christiansen and assistant
treasurer was Ralph Rydman.
Bethel Seminary's name becomes "Bethel College and Seminary."
1946
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
January 12, The Baptist Youth Fellowship had its
annual meeting.
March 16,
Wedding bells rang at Temple for Bert Johnson and Maydora Westerlund; Maydora
was Bert's high school sweetheart. They were married about 3 months after
Bert was honorably discharged from the US Air Force.
April 10, a
memorial service was held for Lt. Henry George Carr who was killed in action in
the South Pacific.
April 22-26, A week after
Easter, Rev. Vick was speaker at special services.
May, the decision was made to purchase property for Lake
Retreat.
July 4, The church
held its annual picnic at Peninsula Park.
August 9, Hildur
Strandberg's parents celebrated there 50th wedding Anniversary. See
picture of them along with friends from Temple.
August 17-25
Special Camp was held at Lake Retreat. See
Brochure from the camp.
October, Rev. Axel
Anderson from Turlock, California led us in studies from the book of Jonah.
October 20, Stanley
Christiansen and Viola Anderson were married in the church.
December 1, the
church had 345 members on it's records.
December 25, Temple
had a Christmas Juletta Service.
Western Baptist
Seminary, Multnomah School of the Bible, the Gideon's, Rev. Turnwall, Rev.
Taggart spoke at different times during the year.
Seven boys and
girls were led to the Lord at Vacation Bible School.
The deacons were
invited to attend the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Loydgren.
The Trustee Board
reported that the church has been painted.
The church
purchased the residence next door on the south side of the church. Address
of the residence was 1319 NE 7th.
The ladies
purchased and put up draperies through out the church.
The lower auditorium
was painted.
The church received
a concert grand piano donated by Mr. and Mrs. George Strandberg and Mr. and Mrs.
F. G. Salstrom.
The church received
an oak pulpit in memory of Mr. Alferd Johnson and Mr. Sven Larson, by their
wives.
Rev. Gordon Carlson
succeeds Ole Larson as Columbia Missionary.
1947
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
June 28, Mr. and
Mrs. George Strandberg celebrated 25 years of marriage.
July 1, the church
had an anniversary celebration for Mr. and Mrs. George Strandberg.
Read an account
from the annual report about the Scandinavian
Half Hour Radio Broadcast.
The house next door
to the church was remodeled for a comfortable dwelling for the Pastor and his
family.
David Carlson
entered Bethel Seminary.
Rev. Earl Olson,
former pastor of the church went home to be with the Lord.
Miss Lois Sorley
left the church and moved to another mission field.
Chairman of the
Deacon Board was Mr. Joseph Westling.
Secretary/Treasurer
was Mr. Ivar Nordquist.
1948
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
January 18,
8:30 AM, The Male Chorus and Temple Choir was at KEX-Westinghouse in Portland
for audition and will be on the air 9:00 to 9:30. Pastor Johnson
preached. This is the first program for us on KEX radio.
January 18,
Evening Service. Rev. and Mrs. Wyman Malmsten of St. Paul-Bethel gave and
evening of music and pictures. It was a service with no sermon.
April 10-11,
Columbia Conference B.Y.P.U. (Baptist Young Peoples Union) was held at
Temple.
April, a series of meetings were held
by Rev. Gordon Hasselblad.
July 10, the annual
picnic was held at Peninsula Park.
August 1, Holy Communion service at Lake Retreat.
Six hundred seventy two in attendance.
September, God's
Invasion Army was formed and started with 35 post high school youth.
October, A series
of evangelistic meetings were held by Rev. Edwin Swanson.
November 9, The
Boy's Christian Service Brigade was started and was sponsored by The Men's
Brotherhood. Mr. Dave Johnson was Captain, Mr. Ray Lott, Dr. Evans Nelson
and Mr. Dwight Hanson were lieutenants. There were 14 boys enrolled.
Outings were enjoyed; a hike near Mt. Hood, Eagle
Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, Frog Lake near Mr. Hood, Camp
Meriweather and a hike around Tillamook
Head.
Harriet Norr
succeeds Miss Lois Sorley as Church Missionary. Miss Norr worked with
other helpers in conducting a successful Daily Vacation School and had
an average attendance of 50 children.
A new 1948 Dodge 4
door sedan was presented to Senior Pastor Dr. Linus Johnson.
A children's hour
after Sunday School was just started. Children ranging from 4-9 year old
was included.
The Cradle Roll
department met in the room behind the balcony. Large plate glass windows
were placed in the wall so workers could see the services as well as a sound
system so the service could also be heard.
The mission in St.
John's Woods is shepherded by Rev. and Mrs. Glenn Nordquist.
The Senior Pastor,
Dr. Linus Johnson turned in a resignation to the church, but the church asked
him to reconsider, which he did.
Mr. Ernie Johnson
was chairman of the Board of Trustees and Mr. Norm Ryberg was secretary.
The average church
attendance was 219.
1949
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
February 29 - March 6, God's Invasion
Army visited.
Spring, Miss
Henrietta Carlson married Mr. Cliff Gustafson.
May 29, The
radio ministry was discontinued.
July 16, The annual
church picnic was held at Peninsula Park.
August, Mr. Louis
Pilbeam, the choir director resigned. Mr. Harvey Flansberg became choir
director.
Bethel Baptist Church joined the Columbia Baptist
Conference.
New Dining Hall
ready for use at Lake Retreat.
Pastor Linus Johnson went
to Sweden for two years.
Harriet Norr was
church missionary and youth director.
The church acquired
a parsonage.
Sunday Superintendent
Merrill Morgan, his wife Jane and family left Temple and resettled at Lakeside
Baptist Church in Oakland, California.
Oregon Baptist
Retirement Home Manager, Mr. and Mrs. David Anderson left for Eugene, Oregon.
Mr. Carl Ostrom was
the church Financial Secretary.
Bethel Baptist Church in North
Portland, joined the Columbia Baptist
Conference.
1950
Click Here to see a Oregon Journal, Mr.
Fixit article written by Harley Hallgren.
1951
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
Herbert
Lawrentz, Seminary student, serves as Director of
Youth Work
The current
Apostles Creed or An Affirmation of our Faith was adopted by the Baptist General
Conference. Click here to read a copy of it.
August 14,
Rev. Gideon Sjolander passed away and was buried on this day. He was
living in Seal Beach, California.
He was a dear
brother, faithful and able minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was
not without trials, but has, "fought a good fight and kept the
faith." A wire was sent to Mrs. Sjolander and the children, whom we
remember in prayer. We extend warm love and sympathy for Nathan, his
brother here in our church, who attended the funeral service. From
the bulletin for August 19, 1951.
September 30, see
the bulletin from the Sunday Service.
1952
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
Miss Harriet
Norr was the Church Missionary.
Mr.
Harvey Flansburg was the Choir Director.
October
5, The church bulletin states that 239 attended Sunday school last Sunday.
October
19, The church bulletin states that volunteers from Temple helped Glisan Street
Baptist Church with working on their new chapel last week. They include,
Stanley Wright - La Vern, Harley, Duane, and Bob Bergstrom - Ted Lessard - the
Don Davis' - Andrew Johnson - Joseph Westling - Abdon Lundstrom - Elmer Hanson -
and Herbert Lawrentz. Three Seminary students also helped. Mrs. Onis
Watson served lunch on Saturday, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Johnson provided ice
cream and coffee in the afternoon.
December 14,
From the Church Bulletin a story called God's Care.
December 21,
7:00pm, Christmas Pageant and Program.
December 23,
David Hagg, born in Sweden, on January 20, 1856, went to be with the Lord today
at an age of 96 years, 11 months and 3 days. He lived, farmed, and carried
on a dairy business for 62 years in Reedville. Mr. Hagg was a member of
the Temple Baptist Church from the beginning, or since 1884, thought not a
charter member, Mr. Hagg had a keen interest in the church and it's
work.
December 25,
Christmas Day.
December 25,
6:00 am, Christmas Morning
Julotta.
December 27,
According to Jacob M. Gordh, the following worked at Glisan St. chapel today and
the week previous: Abdon Lundstrom, Joseph Westling, Martin Wennermark,
and a friend of his Herbert Lawrentz, Harry Broeder, Rev. Gordon Carlson, Hokvin
Danielson, LaVern Bergstrom, Ninian Westerlund, Mr. Eggeman and Mr. Gordh.
Perry Hughes, Seminary student, succeeds
Herbert Lawrentz.
1953
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
Harvey
Flansburg was the Choir Director.
Perry Hughes
was the Youth Director.
April 19, The
Official Church Board recommended that the church ask Br. and Mrs. (Ruth) Perry
Hughes to continue their good work among the young people as Youth
Director.
May 1,
Friday, 6:30 pm, The Annual meeting was held at this date and time.
May 3, 3:00
pm, Sunday, With the help of Temple,
Glisan Street Baptist Church was
organized. The Western Baptist Seminary Quartette and the Warren Dale
Quartette sang. Rev Bror Lundgren, Rev. Gordon Carlson and Dr. Linus
Johnson spoke briefly. The Dedication Message was brought by Dr. Linus
Johnson. Dedication Prayer was spoken by Rev. Anderson. The
gathering was held in the new church building.
May 10,
Mothers Day, The Church Officers for the year: Vice chairman, Stanley
Wright; Church Clerk, Mrs. Evelyn Coffin; Assistant Clerk,
Mrs. Lenus Peterson; Financial Secretary, Carl Ostrom; Assistant
Financial Secretary, Earl Johnson; Church Treasurer, Mrs. Ewald
Asplund; Missions Treasurer, Mrs. David Carlson; Historical Secretary,
Harley K. Hallgren; Sunday School Superintendent, Bert Johnson; Assistant
Sunday School Superintendent, David Johnson; Deacons: Axel Anderson,
Don Davis, Dr. Evans Nelson, David Carlson, Bert Johnson; Deaconesses:
Mrs. Emil Peterson, Mrs. LaVern Bergstrom, Mrs, Frank Johnson, Mrs. A.B.
Carlson, Mrs, Helmer Bjelland; Trustees: Ewald Asplund, Harley Bergstrom.
George Obinger; Reception Committee, Mrs. Emil Johnson, Mrs. Oscar
Lundgren, Mrs. A.G.Carlson, Mrs. Emil Peterson, Mrs. Alfred Johnson; Music
Committee: Ewald Asplund, Robert Johnson, Mrs. Robert Macknik, Mrs. F.G.
Salstrom, Mrs. Herschel Loy, Mrs. Hildur Strandberg.
June 15 - 26,
Daily Vacation Bible School was held at this time.
July 5, The
Bethel Quartet or Quintet was at Temple with an evening of inspiration and
singing.
July 18,
Saturday, The Sunday School Picnic was held at Peninsula Park.
August 9, The
Church Bulletin for this Sunday reports that it was unanimously voted to
purchase the duplex in the rear of the church, on the recommendation of the
Trustee Board. The offer was $8,500. It was purchased for income
from the two rentals and if in the future the need would arise for off-street
parking that the church would be ready.
September 20,
The Boy's Crusaders and their leaders were with Captain David Johnson on their
semi-annual outing.
The Pipe
Organ was repaired and partially rebuilt as it refused to function properly.
"You are
richer today than you were yesterday...if you have laughed often, given
something, forgiven even more; made a new friend today, or made stepping stones
of stumbling blocks; if you have thought more in terms of "thyself"
than of "myself," or if you have managed to be cheerful even if
you were weary.
You are
richer tonight than you were this morning... if you have taken time to trace the
handiwork of God in the commonplace things of life, or if you have learned to
count out things that really do not matter; or if you have been a little blinder
to the faults of a friend or
foe."
Copied from the September 6, bulletin
1954
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
August 6, The Church voted to buy their first Sunday School
Bus
Temple help start McLoughlin Heights
in Vancouver,
Washington, now known as New Heights.
November--Perry
Hughes becomes Christian Education Director.
1955
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
July 12, Read the
note given to Harley Hallgren about the old
pulpit that was given to the church by Mrs. John Nordell that was made by her
father, PM Holst.
Dr. Linus Johnson visits Sweden.
1956
Dr. Linus
Johnson continued as Pastor of our church.
March 2, Dr. Linus Johnson dies on way home from church.
July 24--Mr. Frank
Voth ordained.
Rev. Ellis E. Eklof, Sr., was Pastor.
1957
Rev. Ellis E.
Eklof Sr. continued as Pastor of our church.
Gordon Johnson was Youth Director.
June 26-30, Temple Baptist
Church was host the second time to the 86th Annual meeting of the Baptist General
Conference. The picture below is of the attendees to the conference taken
on the front steps of the church.
This picture was copied from the July 12, 1957 issue of the "Standard".
June
29,-- There was a Men's Brotherhood (of the Baptist General Conference) Banquet
at the Multnomah Hotel in the Rose Bowl at 1pm.
1958
Rev. Ellis E.
Eklof Sr. continued as Pastor of our church.
April 6, Easter Sunday - See the Bulletin
for the Easter Program, Easter Service and schedule for the rest of the
week.
April 6, With the help of Temple,
Calvary Baptist
Church near West Linn was organized.
Mrs. Dale (June) Peretti
was appointed church organist.
1959
Rev. Ellis E.
Eklof Sr. continued as Pastor of our church.
January 18-25, Temple celebrated the
75th anniversary of the church since founded in 1884. See the Anniversary
Program.
July, dedication of Johnson Lodge at Lake Retreat.
November, See photo of
Temple Choir.
1960
Rev.
Ellis E. Eklof Sr. continued as Pastor of our church.
Rev. David G. Danielson
assumed the Pastorate of our church.
1961
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Pastor of our church.
Mr.Robert Wagner was Youth Pastor.
The Office/Gym
Addition was built. Architect was Lawrence Supove.
1962
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Pastor of our church.
Jim Spicklemeier
worked with the youth during the summer.
Click
Here to see pictures of ground breaking ceremony.
Miss Marjorie Olson
was church office secretary and Missionary Visitor.
June 29, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Gordh (Edith) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
November 30, the
youth center or Christian Education Wing on south side of Temple was dedicated (includes classrooms, gymnasium, custodian's
apartment.)
1963
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Pastor of our church.
March, "Lift" program of General Conference
was instituted and stimulated missionary and general giving.
May, Mr. Harley
Hallgren was chairman of the Deacon Board with Mr. Mandy Strandberg
Vice-Chairman, Mr. Bert Johnson, Secretary and Mr. Ray Green, Treasurer.
May 15-18, The
Columbia Baptist Conference convened in Portland for the annual meeting.
June, Jim
Spicklemier, a Bethel student serves as Youth Pastor. At the end of the
summer season he left for New York for training with the Peace Corp.
June 30, Rev.
Ned Holmgren brought the morning message and former pastor Ellis Eklof Sr.
preached at the Sunday evening service.
July, Miss
Georgianne Obinger was severely injured in a swimming accident.
July 14, Mrs. Carl
V. Anderson (Lydia Nystrom passed away. She was a member for 67 years
(January 25, 1896.)
July 15-19, Daily
Vacation Bible School was held for children for children from ages 4 to
13. Average attendance was 80.
August 2, Mr. Axel
Anderson was voted to be honorary deacon.
August 6, Robert
Wagner ordained.
September 15, Harold
"Bud" Malmsten came to Temple after graduation from Bethel
Seminary and was designated Minister of Music and Director of Young
People. It was decided that his official title be "Assistant to the
Pastor."
October 29, Mr.
Abdon Lundstrom passed away. He is survived by his devoted wife, Mrs. Ruth
Lundstrom.
1964
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Pastor of our church.
Temple Baptist Church is 80 years old.
Click here to view part of the souvenir
program.
January 10, Temple
held its anniversary dinner and was attended by some 350 guests. Dr.
Virgil Olson of Bethel College and Seminary was the special speaker of the
dinner. Dr. Olson is Historian for the Baptist General Conference and a
cousin to Pastor Dave Danielson. Mrs. Velma Rydman and Mrs. Minnie Rydman
were especially honored having been members since 1903. The theme of the anniversary was,
"To God Be The glory, Great Things He Hath Done!"
See 1964 photo of
Church
Lay Leaders.
January
19-26, Missionary Conference was held with Rev. Carl Lachler from Brazil, Rev. Marvin
Lindstedt from the Philippines, Rev. S. Lindberg and Rev. Dale Bjork from Japan.
January 22,
Mrs. George Nelson (Ester Salstrom) passed away after a long illness.
May 14-16,
Pastor Danielson was elected Moderator for the 75th Anniversary meeting of the
Columbia Baptist Conference which was held at the Central Baptist Church of
Seattle.
Pastor Dave
Danielson was Senior Pastor with Bud Malmsten assistant to the pastor.
During this
time 1734 people have been added to out fellowship. This is an average of
21 people per year.
The number
this year was 30, or 9 above average.
Mrs. F. G.
Salstrom was recording secretary.
Evelyn Smith
was Financial Secretary.
1965
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Pastor of our church.
January, 23-28 The
Annual Missions Conference was held with Rev. Francis Sorley of Japan, Miss
Arlene Coleman from Ethiopia, Rev. Gil Anderson from Ethiopia, Miss Margorie
Malm of Ethiopia, Rev. Don Goldsmith from Brazil, Rev. Gerald Osbron of the
Philippines, Miss Grace Swanson of Assam, and Miss Betty Person of Assam.
May 16, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Johnson celebrated 50 years of marriage.
May 30,
Memorial Day Weekend, 52 of our members formed work teams and helped make needed
repairs to the buildings at Lake Retreat Campground.
August 15-20, Daily
Vacation Bible School was held at the church. Dr. C.W. Slemming of England
spoke.
September 20, a
group of ten members of God's invasion Army arrived to begin a two week
visitation program with our church members.
December 31, New
Years Eve a slide show was presented before the Watch night Service called
"Temple: 1965, A Year in Review."
Mr. and Mrs.
Henning (Josie) Johnson were custodians.
Missions week
included Dr. Paul Finlay of Bethel College, Rev. Wesley Lindblom of the Columbia
Conference, Rev. Francis Sorley of Japan, Miss Arlene Coleman of Ethiopia, Miss
Margorie Malm of Ethiopia, Rev. Irwin Bjelland of the Philippines, Bill and
Grace Anderson of Ethiopia, Miss Grace Swanson of Assam. Miss Betty Person, of
Assam and Rev. Gerald Osbrom, of the Philippines.
Young men in the
military include: Bob Davis in Germany, Mark Hagey in Kentucky, Gary Huff in
Texas, Mike Herdner in Alaska, Ron Wright in Texas, and Ric Bailey in
California.
Len Johnson, Greg
Anderson and Klaus Siemienic are all attending Bethel, the most ever from
Temple.
Mr. Dale Peretti was chairman of the Christian Education
Board and Mr. Bert Johnson was Sunday School Superintendent.
1966
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
June, Bethel Baptist Seminary in Stockholm Celebrated 100 years. Rev
Gustaf Liljeroth was graduate.
December 22, Arthur
B. Carlson died.
Bud Malmsten was
the Assistant Pastor
The Christmas Choir
appeared in new choir robes.
Exterior of the
church building was painted.
1967
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
January 15-22, World Missions Week brought 4 missionaries
to Temple: Rev. Herman Tegenfeldt - Ragoon, Burma, Rev. Clem Walbert -
Japan, Rev. David Sperry - Ethiopia, Rev. Nils Friberg - Brazil. The
Rev. Cliff Gustafson represented the Columbia Conference.
May – At the
annual meeting the church voted to sell the parsonage and apply the proceeds to the building loan for the Youth Center.
May 28—A
reception was held at the Oregon Baptist Retirement home to honor the retirement
of Mr. and Mrs. Walferd Johnson, the homes administrators. Mrs. Linus Johnson stepped in during the summer as Supervisor.
September—Mr.
and Mrs. Reuben Ronne and Karry Sue were welcomed to the Oregon Baptist
Retirement home as administrators.
1968
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
July 8--Annual
Sunday School Picnic was held at Blue Lake.
Summer--Miss Sharon
Smith went to Ethiopia as a BGC missionary nurse.
The church adopted a housing allowance for the Senior
Pastor as the Church Parsonage was sold.
Mr.& Mrs. Gary
Davis
(Kathy) went to Spain as missionaries under Greater Europe Mission.
Mr. Bert Johnson
was the Sunday School Superintendent.
51 young people
from Temple attended Lake Retreat Bible Camps, Dr. Ceilous Williams scheduled
two busy evenings for camp physicals.
Mrs. Onis Watson
was Superintendent of the Junior High Department
Sunday School attendance averaged 240 this year.
1969
Rev. David G.
Danielson continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
Okerson Lodge construction was started at
Lake
Retreat.
October 21, Mr. and Mrs.
Mandy (Hildur) Strandberg celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. See a
picture or drawing of the church that was presented to them.
Rev. David G. Danielson continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
1971
Rev. David G. Danielson continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
June 6, Mrs. Josie Peterson from Birmingham, Alabama became the first Negro member of Temple.
September 6, Okerson Lodge dedicated at Lake Retreat.
Some time during the fall season the former church on Caruthers Street was torn down to make room for a gas station.
December 31, Pastor Danielson gave his final sermon as Senior Pastor on New Years Eve.
1972
Eric Lindholm
served as Interim Pastor of our church.
January 16, Stanley Christiansen
passed away.
February 13, Pastor Eric Lindholm
began as Interim Pastor.
June 27, Pastor
Lindholm and Mrs. Lindholm celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
September, Dick Weins
arrives at Temple to be Senior
Pastor.
1973
Dick Weins
continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
June 10-12, Bus
Conference, attracted participants from about 100 churches.
June, Bob Lott was
special Summer Youth Director
August, Gary Davis
family home on furlough from Spain.
September, Bob Lott
leaves for Bethel Seminary.
September 16,
Pastor Weins' 1st Anniversary as Pastor.
September 16,
Pastor Buds' 10th Anniversary
September 16, Gary Nyquist begins Ministry of Music.
November 4, Rev.
Alf Engebrettsen joins staff as Visitation Pastor.
Extensive remodeling program was undertaken to update the
entire church facility. The completion of this project has resulted in a
beautiful sanctuary and functional classrooms for the church school. See Architects
color presentation of church building with proposed additions and
improvements.
James Gallatin and
Bud Malmsten were serving with Pastor Weins.
James Gallatin
begins Bus Ministry
May, Annual
Business Meeting: New Constitution adopted, One Board of Deacons in charge of all activities of the church, now known as the
Elder Board. Voted to remodel building at a cost of $200,000.
1974
Dick
Weins continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
January 1, ninety years since the church was organized.
January 28, Mrs.
Velma Rydman, Senior member on Anniversary date, died. She was an member
for 70 years, Sunday School Teacher, and Church organist.
February, Dr.
and Mrs. Bror
Lundgren have been serving as Interim Pastor while the church
is looking and praying for a successor to Pastor Wiens. In January, Dr.
Lundgren closed his work with the Central Baptist Church of Tacoma after 34
years of fruitful ministry; and in the Providence of God was therefore available
to help us for a time.
March 27, Mrs.
Victor Carlson was honored at the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home on her 80th
birthday.
March 31, first
anniversary of the Bus Ministry
427 riders on the buses
823 attendance at Sunday School
April, We celebrated our 90th Anniversary.
At the same time we hosted the 85th annual Meeting of the Columbia Baptist
Conference. Former pastors Ellis E. Eklof, Sr (1956-59) David Danielson (1960-1971 and Eric
Lindholm (1972 were with us and helped Pastor Richard Wiens,
Associate Pastor Bud Malmsten and Pastor Jim Gallatin with celebrating
“90 years of God’s wonderful grace.”
At the banquet at the Coliseum, the 25th
Anniversary of our “daughter church” Bethel in St. Johns was also
celebrated.
Special guests at the
banquet included Mr.& Mrs. Allan Bussey….he is the grandson of the pioneer
missionary, Rev. Olaus Okerson who started our church and other churches of the
Columbia Conference. Also there were Mrs.
Signe Stone Ball, daughter of charter members Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stone, Mrs.
Emily Palmblad Magnuson, Mr. Albert Palmblad, daughter and son of charter
members Mr. and Mrs. John Palmblad.
May 19, Temple held
its 90th Anniversary Program in the Fellowship Hall in the basement. See
the program
July, Gary Nyquist, Director of Music, left for
Bethel to finish school.
September, Jim Gallatin left us to become pastor of the Evergreen Baptist Church in
Tacoma.
October 20, Pastor
Weins resigns.
The Strands, our
custodians, left us and the Henning Johnson' stepped in on a temporary
basis. The new custodians are Mr. and Mrs. Winn Goddard.
The custodians
apartment was officially converted to Sunday School space.
The old part of the
building has been waterproofed and now ready for painting.
The Sunday School
has had a high attendance of 500.
The Deaconess
honored Miss Mable Dahlgren on her 80th birthday.
The church went
through a major remodel. Fisher Wallin and Long were the Architects. The
new stair tower was built, the old "rick-rack" and plaster were removed
above and in back of choir loft and vertical oak was installed plus the
hide-a-way projector screen. The doors in back of the sanctuary were
removed and relocated. A new platform was built to replace the original
one. The foyer went through a major face lift. The small exterior door on the front of the
church on the south end was removed as well as the door just below it that
accessed the lower level of the church. The stairway on the south end of the
foyer that went from the lower auditorium to the balcony was removed. (The
new stair tower would take the place of the stairway as well as the two small
exterior doors.) It was quite a chore saw cutting the 24" concrete of
the basement wall for the new access from the stair tower. The existing ladies
restroom under where the stair way was on the south end of the foyer was
remodeled with additional fixtures installed. The men's restroom on the
north east corner of the basement was also went through a remodel. Steam
heat fan coils were added in the foyer and the ceiling of the street level in
the new stair tower. A finned steam pipe was added in the toe kick
in the new library. The steam boiler was also retrofitted with automatic
steam zone valves which were operated by a new control panel in the boiler room
plus the thermostats around the building.
1975
February 16, Bror Lundgren
arrived as interim pastor with great blessings to the church.
February 27,
The
30th anniversary dinner for the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home.
March 7, The
ground breaking for enlarged facilities of Calvary Baptist Church of Cedar Oak
Park, West Linn, Oregon.
May 28,
Mark
Johnson, Bethel College senior and the Student Body President, was licensed to
preach and went to spend the summer to assist our former pastor, Rev. David
Danielson in Bellingham, Washington.
September
2,--Pastor Prinzing and family arrived at Temple.
October 31,--Pastor
Bud left for Loma Vista Baptist in Spokane, Washington.
November, decision
made to move the churches offices from the rooms behind the sanctuary to the
vacated custodians apartment when renovated.
This year some remarkable
widows went to be with the Lord
Mrs. Velma
Rydman, Sunday School Teacher, Church Organist, and faithful wife of
O. S. Rydman.
Mrs. Ellen Milton, 96 years old, more than 60 years a member of this church, one
of the founders of the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home, faithful in hospitality
and in encouraging many in the Lord's work.
Mrs. Mary Danielson, 91 years of age and a member of this church more than 50
years. Many times hospitalized because of fractures, never really
well, spending her time outfitting hundreds of dolls for children's homes and
memorizing Christmas pomes. A few months before her last brief illness,
someone visiting her said, "Mary, it is always so nice to visit you because
you never complain!" She answered, "I don't have anything to
complain about."
The ladies of the church started a
quilting group. Click here to read an account
and view some images.
Read a copy of the Temple
Teleios: A monthly news letter that was published a short time. This
is volume 1 Issue 3.
1976
Dr. Fred
Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
April 19, Lenus Peterson died.
June 6, Jacob Gordh
died. He was a member of Temple for 64 years.
June 11, Pastor Ed
Mitchell was ordained at Temple.
July 21, Harley
Hallgren died. He was 84 years young and was an active member 66 years.
September 2, Dr. F.
G. Salstrom died at 75. He was a member for nearly 60 years.
September 27, Dr.
Bror Lundgren died. He was 72.
November 19, first
service at Southwest Hills Baptist Church - Dan Peterson is Pastor.
Temple helped start
Southwest Hills Baptist Church in
Beaverton.
During the Summer
and Fall seasons new main doors were installed on the church and the exterior
was painted.
The Church
office move was completed.
"But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in
a dream and said, 'Joseph Son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as
your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She
will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he
will save his people from their sins.'"
Matthew 1:20-21 NIV
1977
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
April 10,
Easter Sunday, the evening
service; Corrie Ten Boom was the guest speaker.
June, Lloyd Rekstad
and family came to Temple and joined the staff as the Director of Music.
June
3, Temple hosted a 50 Year Celebration for the
completion of the building. See the program
for the Banquet
September, Temple
hosted the Family Focus Seminar (Focus on the Family). Over 1,300 people
attended.
November, Deacon
Board voted to purchase the Chi Alpha Youth House.
December, The church purchased a parcel of land near the church, the initial use
was to park the church buses.
December 15, work
started on the chapel-house for Southwest Hills Baptist
Church
Temple
has helped start some churches in the Portland Area in the past and is
continuing to do so today. For a list of these churches: Click
Here
"God is Able through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish
infinitely more than we might ask or think."
Ephesians 3:20
1978
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
March 15, Dave Parker hired as Director of Evangelism and
Adult Ministries.
October, Temple began Temple Sonshine with eight children from three years to
fifth grade.
39 new members
joined the church this year
Pastor Prinzing was
asked to deliver the commencement address at Bethel College
In the spring
Pastor Prinzing was selected as the special guest speaker Pastor to minister for
one week to the Bethel Seminary students.
Dave
Parker was in charge of Evangelism and Adult Ministries
Terry Hollister was
Director of High School Ministries:"
Temple had its first Craft Fair in December. A birthday party was included honoring Bill Steele on his 82nd
Year.
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your strength."
Deuteronomy 6:5 NIV
1979
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
May, the church purchased a home on the
North West corner of NE Sixth and Clackamas for use in its youth ministries.
(Chi Alpha House)
June, the youth house located
was purchased.
Bob Lott called to be Assistant Pastor.
Lloyd Rekstad
was
Director of Music “Serve the Lord
with gladness; come before his presence with singing.” Psalm 100:2
Russ Jensema was in
charge of Junior High Ministries
The Board of
Elders felt it was necessary to update our membership rolls this year which resulted in
releasing 70 members. Most had
found fellowship in other churches.
Dr. Evans Nelson
was
the Church Moderator.
The
front steps to the church were tiled giving them a non slip surface.
Peace and Hope: Therefore, since we have been justified through
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we
have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we
boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in
our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to
shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit, who has been given to us.
Romans 5:1-5 NIV
1980
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
January 1, Read an account of an experience
by Karen and Terry Whitehill.
January 21, Our Christian Education workers attended the annual Christian
Leadership Conference in Seattle.
January 30, Bill Steele died.
February 29, Martha
C. Larson died.
March
2, Peter John Carlson died.
April 25, Terry Hollister called to be full time Director
of Youth Ministries.
May, The
Mother/Daughter Luncheon was held. Annie Hastey and Rich Shimomura
presented a skit based on the Lord's Prayer.
May 27, Hershel Loy
passed away.
Summer, Fourteen
High School and College students for SMT (Summer Missions Team) ministered three
and one half weeks in Baja California, Mexico.
August, The women had a mini-retreat at Lott's cabin. Kathryn Dixon was
the speaker.
August 19, Mabel
Dahlgren passed away.
September 11,
Christmas in September meeting was held
October 5,
Today marked the 200th
anniversary of Sunday school. The movement was initiated by Robert
Raikes in England.
October 8, Members
of the choir traveled to Tacoma to attend an all day choral workshop sponsored
by the CBC (Columbia Baptist Conference.)
Bob Lott, wife
Debbie, and son Jeremy were welcomed into the congregation. Bob was hired
as assistant Pastor. Bob was ordained by Rev. Bud Malmsten.
December, Dave
Parker and family were appointed by the board of World Missions as missionaries. The Parkers served in Yemen, Nice, France and then in the Ivory Coast.
December,
The Temple Choir and the Sonshine choir presented a concert at the Lloyd Center.
This year
sixty-nine people
joined the church, 29 by baptism and 40 by letter.
Terry Hollister was our Youth Pastor.
Don Van Polen
presented a multimedia presentation called, "Autumn Across America".
Temple was invited
to the sixtieth anniversary of Warren Baptist Church.
Temple held a
twenty-four hour "Day of Prayer" again this year and experienced seven
Lenten services with Darrall Imhoff, Neil Lomax, Kirby Brumfield, Bill Johnson,
Gordon Shadburne, Mike Donahue and Gary Randall.
One of the
highlights of the whole year was the double ordination service for Terry
Hollister and David Parker.
The renovation of
the "Youth House" (Chi Alpha House) has become a fine resource for our
young people and a facility which has proved to be a great blessing.
Margaret
Steele (Mrs. Bill) was the Historic Secretary for this year.
"Jesus is not all you need until He is all you have!" ~ Mother Teresa
1981
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
January 7, Dave Parker and Terry Hollister were ordained.
January, We hosted our annual church music workshop led by
Mr. Dale
Wood.
There were approximately 120 church music directors in attendance.
April 15, Ministry
Expansion fund raising started. Consisted of adding Sonbeam Day Care
Center, new Sunday School space, and support for missionary, Dave Parker and
family.
May, The Temple Sonshine
presented a musical production, "The Enchanted Journey."
August, Temple hosted twenty-two young people from Japan for several days.
November, Temple hosted a
missions conference, the theme of which was "Go And Tell This People"
featured Dr. Clarence Bass from Bethel College, the George Chalmers' from the
Philippines and the Richard Young's from Argentina and Dave Parker.
December 11, 6:30 PM
(Friday) The church had a farewell dinner for the Parkers.
December 13, 11:00 AM
(Sunday) Commissioning Service for the Parkers. Rev. Herb Skoglund,
Executive Secretary of the Board of World Missions, and other invited guests
took part in the service.
December 13, 6:00 PM
(Sunday) Children's Christmas Program. The entire evening was devoted to
a portrayal of the "The Christmas Story" in word and music by the
children of the church.
December 20, 11:00 AM
(Sunday) Rev. Joseph A Ryan, Regional Director of World Vision, International,
was the speaker. Rev. Ryan, at that time was serving in Central and
South America visiting the many mission fields.
December 20, 6:00 PM
(Sunday) Annual Choir Concert. Our Adult Choir sang traditional
Christmas Carols and excerpts from The Messiah.
December 24, 9:00 PM
(Thursday) Christmas Eve Service. This hour-long service has been a
highlight for many each Christmas. The freshness of the Christmas Story
became apparent as we re-lived the Gospel Narrative of the Birth of Christ.
December 27, 11:00 AM
(Sunday) The Chalmers Family was in charge of our evening service. The
family provided special music and George and Nancy's son Dan, will speak.
Dan and Carla have been appointed as missionaries of the Baptist General
Conference the week before.
December 31, 10:15,
(Thursday) New Year's Eve Service. The evening service began with a time
of fellowship in the Lower Auditorium and the service concluded with a Communion
service and prayer.
Six young men have completed seminary training and have moved out into areas of
Christian service. They include, Jim Wright, Tom Grove, Mark Johnson, Jim Heritage,
Terry Hollister, and David Parker.
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble
in heart, and you will find rest for you souls. For my yoke is easy and my
burden is light."
Matthew 11:28-30 NIV
1982
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
March, The Lower Columbia Conference
Spring Rally for the Women's Missionary Society was held at Temple.
May, The
children's musical, "Come Messiah, Come", was presented during this
month.
June, Arlene
Peterson represented Temple at the Association of Church Mission Committee in
Minnesota.
June 17-24,
The Summer Missions Team took advantage of this time to minister her in the
Portland area. The first week was spent training and the second week was
spent teaching the neighborhood children about God. The team ministered
through Bible clubs in two church homes.
July, Many women of
Temple met at Evelyn Lott's cabin on the Lewis River for a mini-retreat with an
inspiring talk given by Dixie Sylvester.
July 4, The
all-church picnic was held at Columbia
Park. The Singles Class was in
charge. Eating, singing, and playing games were enjoyed by all.
September 3-6, The
third annual "Labor Day' Weekend was held at Fort
Stevens, on the Pacific
Coast just south of Warrenton,
Oregon. All the campsites were filled and
everyone enjoyed a fun weekend. Eleven AM services were held at Temple and
also at Fort Stevens.
October, The women
of Women's Mission Circle met for our "Christmas in October".
Linda Coffman spoke on "Women Helping Women" which the ladies said was
encouraging.
November, the
Annual Missions Conference held at Temple was the highlight of the year.
Joe Ryan served as chairman for the conference, which the theme was, "Every
heart without Christ is a mission field, and every heart with Christ is a
missionary."
November 7,
Peter Larson, conference missionary in Mexico spoke to a combined Sunday school
during Missions Week.
From the 1981-82
Annual Report--Our Lenten Services experience a great attendance this year than
last. On the seven Wednesday noons before Easter, we were inspired by the
following: Musical groups from Grant High School, a Pro Football Player, a
president of two different Bible seminaries, an attorney, a biblical dramatist
and television personality, and a television reporter/news anchorman.
Bob Lott was
Assistant Pastor.
Terry Hollister was
Youth Pastor.
Ray Green started as Temple's Business Manager.
A new sign was installed in front of the church building.
New choir robes
were purchased. The choir has 40 to 45 people participating each week
during the year which included 20 to 22 men.
Evening service
attendance almost requires the balcony.
The Deacon Board
was expanded to five more deacons.
The church fiscal
year was changed to coincide with the calendar year.
All the church
choirs took part in a Christmas Concert at the Lloyd Center.
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.
Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you
pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to you Father, who is
unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward
you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they
think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them,
for your Father knows what you need before you ask him........."
Matthew 6:5-8 NIV
1983
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
February 10, Pastor and
Anita Prinzing left for a five-week trip to Japan and the Philippines.
Thirty Conference pastors and some wives were there to hold meetings and to be
an encouragement to missionaries in the field. Pastor Prinzing and Anita
visited missionaries including Ken Tbayashi in Tokyo,
Japan - Yutaka
Yoshiki in Osaka, Japan - Jill and Dave Beeler in Bagiuo City, Philippines
- George and Nancy Chalmers
in Calbayog, Western Samar, Philippines - Roy and Jean Nelson in Cebu City,
Philippines while they were there.
May, For
Women's Missionary Society this month, they had their annual Mother and Daughter Luncheon.
August, marked the
beginning of the Post Seminary program at Temple. The two men chosen for
this program were Mitch Klein and Rich Murphy.
August 28,
The church witnessed the ordination of Steve Feriante into the Gospel Ministry.
August, The
Women's Missionary Society had their Mini-Retreat at Lott's Cabin.
Approximately fifty women were present for a delicious luncheon in beautiful
weather.
September 11,
The church witnessed the ordination of Rich Murphy into the Gospel Ministry.
September,
The Women's Missionary Society held their Women's House Party at Lake Retreat.
Fall, ground breaking for three story addition on West
side or back of the Church. Click here
to see photos of ground breaking ceremony. Construction started as we watched
during the year. The church anticipated great things and an added outreach
to the community as we looked forward to opening a daycare center for nearly one
hundred children. We will have a kitchen and dining area on one floor and
planned to have class rooms on another.
October, The
Women's Missionary Society held their "Christmas in
October." Diane Penner spoke of her experiences as a short-term
missionary to Japan.
November, The
Women's Missionary Society of Temple and the women of the Lower Columbia Conference
met at Glisan Street Baptist Church.
August, The Women's Missionary Society held their Mini-Retreat at Lott's
Cabin. Approximately fifty women were present for a delicious luncheon in
beautiful weather.
August
28, Steve Feriante ordained into the Gospel Ministry
September 11,
Rich Murphy ordained into the Gospel Ministry.
October, For Women's Missionary Society this month brought us "Christmas in
October." Diane Penner spoke of her experiences as a short-term
missionary to Japan.
November, For
Women's Missionary Society this month the women on the Lower Columbia Conference
met at Glisan Street Baptist Church.
Don Van Polen
presented his multi-media presentation, "The Four Seasons."
Fourteen of
our young people traveled to Kansas City "83" for a time of spiritual
inspiration and Christian growth.
The church sold bonds in the amount of $300,000.00 to
complete phases I & II of the ministry expansion program for the expansion to
the church on the west side
Mitch Klein
and Rich Murphy were chosen for the Post Seminary program
Church
adopted a 3 year ministry expansion program to begin June 1,1984
The church
had a “World Outreach Conference” with the Roy Nelson’s from the
Philippines and the Donald Goldsmiths from Brazil.
Dave and
Marjorie Parker are our very own missionaries in the Ivory
Coast.
The
Dave Danielson’s are conducting a ministry in evangelism in many areas of the
United States.
The Sunbeam
Day Care opened for the first time.
The new ministry expansion building at the NW corner of the lot includes Day
Care, elevator, new church nursery, new future kitchen and dining room on second
level. William Keefer was the Architect.
The "SMT"
Summer Missions Team traveled to Alaska during which they held daily vacation
Bible schools and youth retreats in various churches. There were
twenty-three including leaders and sponsors in this group.
The
Centennial Quilt was presented at the Fall Kick Off Banquet. See 1984
Because
of the crowding in single worship services, the church staff and the Worship
Committee have cooperated in starting two morning services, thus we cut down on
crowding and also allow more opportunity for involvement such as ushering and
serving communion. We also changed the type of bread we use during
communion `to cut down on preparation time.
Peace and Hope: Therefore, since we have been justified through
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we
have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we
boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in
our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to
shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit, who has been given to us.
Romans 5:1-5 NIV
1984
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
New Years Eve, Sunday morning service,
Pastor Dave Danielson ministered to us and a Swedish Choir helped remind us of
our heritage. Recognition was
given to the for following longest-term members: Edith
Gordh, Helen Hallgren, Gerta Salstrom, and Flavia Westerlund.
January 8, A resolution pertaining to double Sunday morning services was
adopted and to begin on this date.
March 25, Sunday evening, the Temple Sonshine and Chi-Alpha Singers presented the production, "What's New Corky?"
March, the church began accepting applications for daycare positions.
April, Rich Murphy left Temple to go into Chaplains training in Rhode Island. Later his family joined him in Arizona where he began his duties as a Navy Chaplain.
April 15, A new house of worship for Southwest Hills Baptist Church opened on Palm Sunday.
April 15, At Temple: The church holds an Open House for the new ministry building at the conclusion of the 11:00am service. The second and third story were uncompleted at this time.
June 1, The ME 11 program started under the direction of Mr. Bill Hammerbeck.
Early Spring, The name Sunbeam Day Care was chosen for the child development center.
April 18, --Senator Mark O. Hatfield spoke at the Lenten service.
June 9,--Mr.Mitch Klein and Miss Debbie Meis were married in a beautiful ceremony at the church.
A Centennial Quilt designed and manufactured by the ladies of the church under the leadership of Edith Ryberg, and presented to the church to commemorate the first 100 years. Fran Maynard composed song and lyrics corresponding to the quilt squares with depicted stages in Temple's development and ministries.
Read an article from the Oregonian Newspaper about the Centennial.
June 24, Temple celebrated its 100th anniversary commemorating service under God with a dinner at the Red Lion.
June, Temple and
Lower Columbia Conference hosted the 106th annual meetings of the Baptist
General Conference. Executive Board meetings at Temple on June 18 and June
20. The Conference itself was in session at Jantzen Beach Red Lion from
June 20 to June 29.
June, SMT '84 This year was set aside for the team of high school and college
students to be in charge of the children's ministry (150 children in elementary
grades) during the Baptist General Conference Annual Meetings at the Jantzen
Beach Red Lion complex.
July 1, Mr. Fred
Johnson began serving as Director of Child Development.
July 24, official
dedication of Southwest Hills Baptist Church.
August 8, --Mr. Norm Ryberg passed away and went home to be with the Lord while sitting in church at Sunday morning service.
August 23, Gerda Salstrom, wife of Dr. F.G. Salstrom passed away.
August 26, the nursery was in its new location on the ground floor of the new addition on the West side of the church.
September 1-3, The annual campout at Fort Stevens State park was held over the Labor Day weekend with over 200 campers attending.
September 4, Sonbeam Daycare Center opened its doors with a limited number of students. (The name Sonbeam Day Care was chosen as the name for the child development center in early spring of this year.)
September 7, Dick Wiens, former pastor of Temple, was the guest speaker at our Fall Kickoff Banquet.
September 20, The Sonbeam Day Care Center officially opened and provided service for five children.
October 22, The annual church roller skating party was held at the Oaks Park Roller Rink in the evening.
November 21, Thanksgiving Eve, The Love Loaf ingathering was collected at the Great Family Gathering.
December 24, Ellen Wright, wife of Stan Wright passed away.
Bob Lott (Minister of Evangelism and Discipleship) and Debbie turned in their resignation to move to Tacoma, Washington.
Dave Parker and family accepted a call to Sylvan Way Baptist Church in Bremerton, Washington.
Fred Johnson was licensed to preach.
Mitch Klein was licensed to preach.
Mark Manfredi was recommended for admission to Western Baptist Seminary.
Rev. Terry Hollister was recommended to a Doctor of Ministry program at Western Baptist Seminary.
Ruth's Kitchen was completed as was the new dining room which was to be called The "Upper Room". John Pumphery was Architect.
A note from the 1984 Annual Report: (Bob Lott was assistant pastor and wrote a page from his desk in the report.) "Since writing this report, Debbie and I have turned in our resignation at Temple to move up to Tacoma. We will miss the people here at Temple very much and have dearly love these past five and one half years."
The retired persons joined together under Don Slater for fellowship and mutual help. Trips were planned to places of interest and monthly potlucks held for social enrichment.
Ken Kornelis began providing counseling services for the people in the church.
Dave and Marge Parker had to return from the Ivory Coast and had to return to the States due to health reasons. They are now in a pastorate at Sylvan Way Church in Bremerton, Washington.
George Orwell was mistaken, especially at our church!
So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by
others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
But when you give to the needy, so not let your left had know what you right
hand is doing, so that you giving may be in secret. Then you Father, who
sees what is done in secret, will reward you........"
Matthew 6:2-4 NIV
Dr. Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
February, Assistant Pastor, Bob Lott asked his father Ray to ask Ray Green and Don Slater to go to Modesto, California and visit with the churches in the area and check out their programs for Retired People. See October 11.
February 13, Temple accepted the challenge of sponsoring new Conference work in Bend, Oregon. Rev. James Wright accepted the challenge to head up this new work. In the spring they left their church in Nevada to start the new work in Bend.
March 31, the ordination of Mitch Klein.
April, Bob Lott resigned to join Central Baptist in Tacoma as Minister of Youth and Single Adults.
April, Dr. Jack Bergeson retired as Executive Secretary of Columbia Baptist Conference after serving 15 years.
April 11, Agnes Johnson passed away.
June, Temple hosted the “Tone of Life Choir” from the Baptist Union of Sweden. Members of this group come from the Stockholm area and had joined together to sing in association with the choir of (Swedish) Bethel Seminary.
June 22, Anna Heppner passed away.
August,--Rev. Terry Hollister and Debbie resigned from the church staff to become church planters in Billings, Montana. Their work was much appreciated and they are missed by the church body.
August 4, Hazel Brenneke passed away on this date.
September1, over Labor Day weekend: The all-church Labor Day Fort Stevens Camp-Out had over 200 participants.
September 24, Ruth Johnson, wife of Dr. Linus Johnson, former pastor of Temple went to be with her Lord.
October 11, --The Keenager group at Temple was organized. See a letter written by Ray Lott.
November 24, The Temple Historical booklet, “Temple Baptist Church – The First Century”, written and compiled by John Pearson, was made available to the church.
December 8, Don Van Polen presented his multi-media program entitled, "Footprints of the Reformation." Don photographed the actual sites where these historic events took place and presented these dramatic scenes with narrative on three giant screens in the church sanctuary.
December 1, The Chi Alpha House was vacated and the young people moved into the church basement. The house was sold as part of a package, which enabled the church to purchase the parking lot on the south west corner of the block the church is located on.
December, Rev. Mitch Klein accepted the call to be the pastor of Cedarhome Baptist Church, Stanwood, Washington.
December 14, Hanna Johnson passed away.
December 29, A Great Family Gathering Homecoming tribute was held in honor of Mitch and Debbie Klein as they concluded their ministry with the church to begin serving as Pastor of Cedarhome Baptist Church in Stanwood, Washington.
December 30, William Nestlen passed away.
John Anderson and Mark Manfredi stepped in to take the space of ministry for the youth.
Don Strandberg had to vacate his position as church moderator because of length of term ran out.
Pastor and Anita Prinzing took a sabbatical from the pulpit. They attended the BGC annual meetings in Wheaton, Illinois, then flew to Rome for an 18 day seminar at the Waldensian Seminary. After they toured the great cities of Europe for 2 ½ weeks.
As originally designed, the nursery was too small to accommodate the children enrolled. After many hours of discussion and planning, the nursery was finally remodeled in the Fall.
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the
very end of the age."
Matthew 28:19-20 NIV
1986
Dr.
Fred Prinzing continued as Senior Pastor of our church.
February
16, Mr. Clifford Beeler died.
February 28, Elsie
Ostrom died.
February,
Pastor
and Anita lead a tour to Israel, several Temple members went along.
March 15, The
women of the Lower Columbia Conference has their Spring Banquet at New Heights
Baptist Church in Vancouver, Washington, with Anita Prinzing as speaker.
Spring, The Awana
program begins.
April, Dr. Fred
Prinzing announced his resignation effective July 31. Lloyd Rekstad became
involved in the pastoral functions of the ministry.
April, For12
months in 1984-85, Karen and Terry Whitehill, members of Temple
Baptist Church, Portland, Ore., toured Europe on a 11,OOO-mile bike trip. Now they are back in Europe again, this time on a yearlong walk from
Paris to Jerusalem. Read about the trip as it appeared monthly in the
Standard as the trip progressed.
April 1, John
Anderson became Temple’s Minister of Christian Education.
May, Music leaders and sponsors took the Sonrise Edition to Puyallup for a short
weekend tour which included an evening at Lake Retreat.
June, Tom Kornelis
and Paul Strandberg accepted the position of co-chairmen of the Building
Committee.
June 18,
Summer
Missions Team traveled to Camp Big Horn in St. Regis, Montana with Mark and
Deena Manfredi
June 29, Fortieth
Anniversary of Lake Retreat Baptist Camp.
July, Music Camp
was held. The highlight was the musical production, "Its Cool to be
in the Furnace." The theme of the performance was teach the young
people the value of trusting God through every circumstance.
July 27, Farewell
Sunday for Sunday for Pastor and Anita Prinzing
July, Pastor Prinzing left Temple to take a position as
Professor of Theology at Bethel.
July 22, Dr.
Robert Anderson accepted the call to be Temple’s interim pastor. His duties began the first Sunday in September.
September 1, Dr.
Bob Anderson began his duties on this Sunday as Interim Pastor at Temple.
October 1, Dick and
Bev Young missionaries from Argentina shared about their ministries.
November 8, Edith
Gordh died.
December, Temple, the Columbia Baptist Conference & Baptist General Conference helped
format the Philippine Baptist Church in Portland.
Morrie Brask
retired as head usher.
"The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has
become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God,
and I will exalt him."
Exodus 15:2 NIV
1987
Dr. Robert Anderson
continued to served as Interim
Pastor.
February 3, A Swedish
smorgasbord was held at Temple. Menu included
Lutfisk,
Kroumkaka, Kottbullar, and
Spritsar See a website with many delicious Swedish
recipes
May 10, John
Anderson ordained.
June 15, Mike Pinkerton became Director of
High School Ministries.
August, Lloyd
Rekstad left for a new ministry in Yacaipa, California after 10 years and
Director of Music.
Fran Maynard
(Malmsten)
took over as Director of Music from Lloyd Rekstad.
Computerization of
church records was begun.
Morrie Brask
retired after 25 years as Head Usher.
ME-3
(Ministry Expansion Third Phase) Fund raising Program started.
October 25,
the American Filipino Baptist Church
was organized.
November 30,
Dr. Robert Anderson resigned as Interim Pastor to teach at Western Theological
Seminary.
Work crews began construction on the second floor of the three story project on
the west side of the church building. Finishing was done to the
kitchen, trim around the windows were set, a dropped ceiling was installed,
flooring was laid, and a dividing wall was installed among other things
accomplished.
"Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain
you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will
rescue you."
Isaiah 46:4 NIV
1988
Harold
Carlson served as Interim Pastor at our church.
April 20 to
24, Pastor Steve Roy , with wife Susan and children,
Andrew, Beth, Lydia arrived at Temple to candidate at Temple. The following week the church voted to extend the call for
Senior Pastor to Steve Roy.
May, a Junior
Olympics was held at Lake Retreat.
June 19, A loving
farewell was given for Fred Johnson, Patti and sons David and Brian who joined
the staff of Hinson Memorial Baptist Church as Christian Education Director.
July 17, Rev.
Harold and wife Jamie Carlson our interim pastor for six and one half months
were honored on this day.
July 24, Pastor Roy
began his ministry at Temple.
October 23, John
Anderson and wife Kim were honored at a commissioning service. They will
enter a church planting ministry with the BGC at Crystal Lake, Illnois.
November 18, Popcorn with the Pastor, Those who planned to attend were
asked to write or speak verbally questions of the Pastor on the Bible, theology,
ministry programs, future plans of the church.
Deschutes Bible Church in Bend,
Oregon, was welcomed into Columbia Baptist Conference at the annual meeting
in Olympia, Washington.
Efforts were made
to complete the second floor of the new building.
The church enlisted
the help of Olan Mills to
provide a new color pictorial directory.
John Pearson was
the church historian.
Tony Nimis was the staff youth leader.
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. The
LORD works out everything to its proper end--even the wicked for a day of
disaster.
Proverbs 16:3-4 NIV
1989
Steve Roy
continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
February 20, a recommendation was made
to extend a call to Mike Pinkerton to be the Associate Pastor for Nurturing
Ministries.
March 5, The church
congregation voted to extend a call to Mike Pinkerton to be the Associate Pastor
for Nurturing Ministries effective June 1, 1989.
March 23, The first event in use of
the “Upper Room” was a Maundy Thursday
communion service.
May 7,
Sunday, 6:00 PM the
second floor
Dining Room was dedicated
May, The book The
Fourth Quarter, by Dr. Jack Bergeson, is scheduled to be released from the
publisher.
June 1, Mike
Pinkerton began as
Associate Pastor for Nurture Ministries.
June 4, Mike Pinkerton was
licensed to preach as per certificate signed by Pastor Steve Roy. See May 11,1990
August,
Filipino-American church conducted Daily Vacation Bible School at Temple
October 1, Terry
Tharpe called to become Associate Pastor of Outreach Ministries.
Deschutes Bible Church
disbanded following failure to find a pastors leadership.
December 1, Flavia
Westerlund died.
Terry Tharpe
was Associate Pastor of Outreach.
The new kitchen
that servers the second floor dining room was
named “Ruth's Kitchen” in honor of Mrs. Ken (Ruth)
McCarthy.
The AWANA program
was reviewed and ratified as church ministry for boys and girls.
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living
in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I
choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to
depart and be with Christ, which is better by far.......
Philippines 1:21-23 NIV
1990
Steve Roy
continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
May 11, was the official date on the License from Multnomah
County for Pastor Mike to preach. Return to 1989
"So do not be ashamed of the testimony about out Lord of of me his
prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power
of God. He has saved us and called us to a holy life--not because of
anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This
grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now
been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has
destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the
gospel. And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a
teacher. That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause
for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is
able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day."
2 Timothy 1:8-12 NIV
1991
Steve Roy
continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
Tony Nimis was High School Director
Temple
was blessed with the ownership of the parking lot on the Southwest corner of the
block.
It was obtained through the trade of other property and a lease back
arrangement for the use of parking during the weekday.
This allowed the church to obtain the property with no out of pocket
costs.
The small kitchen
in the lower level east of the fireside room was remodeled. John Pumphery
was the architect.
December 7,
Floie Davis
died and went to be with the Lord.
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift
of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For the Spirit
God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:6,7 NIV
1992
Steve Roy
continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
May 14-17, The 103rd Annual
Meeting of the Columbia Baptist Conference was held at Temple. See the
February-April front Cover of the Conference
Call.
October 11, Pastor Mike was
ordained for the ministry at Temple.
December, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Green (Hazel) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. A large
reception was held in the Upper Room.
Mr. Ray Green was the Church
Administrator.
"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for
this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
1993
Steve Roy
continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
August, Terry Tharpe and family moved to serve a church in
Poulsbo, Washington
Tony Nimis
served as High
School Director until June.
Fran Maynard (Malmsted)
was Director of Music.
Summer Mission Team
trains in the running of a Daily Vacation Bible School in Lebanon, Oregon, and
then spent two weeks running their own VBS in Mehama and Woodburn, Oregon.
Dean Longfellow was
Director of High School Ministries.
Ron and Leta Kriens
home on furlough from Southeast Asia earlier than expected when the host
government terminated its relationship with the Kriens' sending organization.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power,
together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high
and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses
knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:17b-19 NIV
1994
Steve Roy
continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
July 31, Ron Kriens
and family return to Southeast Asia under local sponsorship
The
Hope Vietnamese Baptist Church was started.
Pastor Roy left Temple.
Twelve new members
were added to the Temples roll, two by
baptism, ten by letter.
Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God
unless they are born of water and Spirit."
John 3:5 NIV
1995
June 1, Paul Flood joined the
staff in a part-time status as choir director.
July 1, Pastor Mike
began his first
year as Interim Senior Pastor
September 4, Mandy
Strandberg passed away.
Gary Shank
served
as Interim Associate Pastor
Jon Christian
(church moderator) left for Wisconsin
Don Green was voted
to the job of Church Moderator.
Temple welcomed
twenty-three new
members were welcomed this year.
Computer system in
offices completed.
Mortgage on the
building paid off for addition on West Side of Church.
See photo of
Board
of Elders - Deaconess
"I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God
has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 3:14 NIV
1996
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Interim Pastor at our church.
June 1, Pastor Mike Pinkerton was called as Temple's
Twenty Third Senior Pastor. He accepted the position that day.
November, Gary
Shank leaves for a pastorate at Immanuel Baptist Church in Monmouth, Illinois.
Church building was
painted and sound system and heating upgraded.
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open
the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with
Me."
Revelation 3:20
1997
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
January
1, Paul Flood became part of the church staff in a full-time position as
Minister of Music.
April 3, Ruby Brugh,
Hildur Strandberg and Dagmar Walthinson were honored by the Deaconess at Viola
Christenson's home for their age. Ruby was 91,
Hildur was 90,
Dagmar was 90.
Art Greenleaf was Associate Pastor. He devoted 25%
of his time as Chaplin to Portland Fire Bureau.
"If my people,
who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive
their sin and heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV
1998
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
October, new sound
system put into place.
November, Dave
Christenson family left for Belgium to work with the Muslim population.
The carpeting
was replaced
in the entire church sanctuary. Pews were removed from the sanctuary and replaced
after the carpet was installed. (A very coordinated effort).
The Vietnamese
Baptist Church helped with carpet installation work and other special services.
Pastor Mike
visited Ghana, West Africa and The Hawaiian Islands.
Jon Christian
became Director of Youth and Junior High Ministries.
Sonbeam Day Care
was in it's 15th year of operation.
For You
created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I
praise You because I am fearfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that
full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret
place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw
my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book
before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:13-16
Mike Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
April, Dr. and Mrs. Evans (Marilyn) Nelson celebrated 50 years of marriage.
May, June Perretti celebrated 40 years as church organist.
August, The Portland Streetcar Loop construction started. This line will run south down NE 7th avenue in front of Temple to OMSI Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and return north up Grand avenue and go back across the Broadway Bridge.
Luke and Terri Crook were seminary students working with the High School group.
This year was the 116th year the Annual Reports were written.
Temple sent support to the following missionaries:
Ron and Leta Kriens
Frank and Barbara Emrick
Peter and Coreen Larson
Brian and Stephanie Karlik
Mark and Helen Downing
Dick and Bev Young
Ray and Teresa Durkin
Gil and Norma Clark
Dave and Brenda Christenson
Mike and Eva Fast
Mathew Naw
Richard and June Harris
Rick and Carol Stark
"I will
sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have
being, May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the
LORD."
Psalm 104:33-34
2000
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
August, Jon and
Lisa Bryant left.
November, the
Annual Meeting was held in the Upper Room. A model of the B-24 Liberator
was presented to Ray Green by Don Strandberg who also made the model.
Luke and Terri Crook leave for Boston, Massachusetts--Jon
and Lisa Bryant took over as High School Sponsors.
The seats in the
choir loft were replaced with ones that were more manageable chairs.
"If my people,
who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive
their sin and will heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV
2001
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
March 17, Earl
& Pearl Johnson celebrated 50 years of marriage.
November 25,
Tim Corrigan and Linette joined as watch care members. They are the High
School Directors.
December 30,
Tim Corrigan and Linette were married.
But in you hearts revere Christ as Lord. "Always be prepared to give
an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you
have. But do this with gentleness and respect, ........"
I Peter 3:15 NIV
2002
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
February 10, A Great Family Gathering was held at 6:00 PM
in the Upper Room at Temple in honor of Betty Carlson
who is retiring from head
of the Kitchen Committee. Betty is 80 years old this year.
March 3, The guest
speaker for the Sunday morning worship was Rev. Hal Lentz. He said that
the BGC reports that Temple has given $540,000.00 to missions to date. The
message was titled "What Do We Hold Dear?" Text from 2 Corinthians
8:2-6.
March 28, The
Bethel Choir preformed an evening concert at Temple.
June 22, Dr. and
Mrs. Celious Williams (Mettie) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
June 28, Dr Jerry
Sheveland was named President of the Baptist General Conference at the
annual meeting in Ypsilanti,
Michigan.
August 3, The Baptist General
Conference celebrates 150 years.
August 4, Temple
Baptist Church celebrated 75 years since the existing building was built. Click
here to see details and photos of the event.
August 10, Mr. and Mrs. Winn Goddard (Marianne)
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
August 25, annual campout on the coast at Fort
Stevens.
September 8, the
church celebrated the 80th birthday of Dr. Evans Nelson
who's birthday was September 5.
September 20,
Chalmert Larson went to be with the Lord.
September 30, a
memorial service was held at Temple for Chalmert Larson.
November 15, Sam
Loeung and his wife Jen were hired as Director of Youth.
December, Tim and Linette Corrigan
left Portland to drive to there new station. They had resigned
as High School Directors earlier in the year.
"...........For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD,
"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a
future........."
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
2003
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
February 28,
David William Salholm passed away unexpectedly on this date. He was a long
time member of Temple Baptist Church.
March 6, A
Memorial Service was held at Temple for David Salholm.
March
17, A memorial service was held for Vern Bergstrom,
who died March 9, 2003
June 18, A memorial service was held for David Carlson who died June 15, 2003.
July 27, Glisan Street Baptist Church celebrated 50 years of ministry.
August 9, work day at Temple by the church family and friends to clean the church, upper room kitchen, and landscaping of the grounds.
August 16, a city wide work day on landscaping and grounds at different public schools. Temple joined with the Four Square Church at Benson High School.
August 17, Gil and Norma Clark celebrated 60 years of marriage in a celebration Sunday afternoon at Temple.
The church hosted a 20's, 30's, 40's party in the upper room. Click Here to see images of the event.
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you
belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not
belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why
the world hates you. Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not
greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you
also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours
also..........."
John 15:18-20 NIV
2004
Mike Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
January 11, Don
Van Polen presented his multi-media program at Temple in the sanctuary at 6:00pm.
January 18, the ladies of the Temple Quilters presented a quilt to Jon and Susan
Christian.
February 5, Ray Green, the church administrator, and
devoted member for many years passed away early this morning.
February 9, a
memorial service was held for Ray Green at 1:00pm in the sanctuary.
February 19, The Keenagers went to Oregon Museum
of Science and Industry (OMSI), visited different exhibits and viewed a
movie in the OMNIMAX Theater.
February 20-22, women's
retreat at Camp Tillicum.
February 28, the
church hosted a Missionary Conference and kicked off with a desert buffet with
Ron and Leta Kriens.
February 29, Ron
and Leta Kriens spoke
during a combined adult Sunday School time and Dave Christensen spoke to the
children's combined Sunday School and he also gave the message during the
morning service.
March 6, a brunch
in the upper room with Mark and Helen Downing.
March 7, Missionary
Conference continued with Ron and Leta Kriens speaking during children's
combined Sunday School and
Mark Downing spoke to the combined adult Sunday School and gave the message during the morning service.
March 7, a lunch
reception was held in the upper room for Josh Adams who returned from Iraq on a
tour of duty with the US Navy.
March 19, Mabel
(Johnson) Hagey, a former member of Temple, passed away at the age of
95. The service was held at Beaverton Foursquare Church.
March 25, Laurie
Breckel, a former Temple member, passed away. A memorial service was held
on April 1st at Southwest Bible Church in Beaverton.
April 8, The
Keenagers group attended the "Portland Passion Play" at Portland
Christian Center.
April 27, Dorothy
O. Bishop went home to be with the Lord. She was a long time member of
Temple, sister to Dave Carlson and sister in law to Betty Carlson. She was
born on July 27, 1925.
May 15, Long time
member, Evelyn Smith went home to be with the
Lord. Evelyn served in many capacities at Temple and in the
community. She will be remembered for her card and letter writing outreach
and her ministry of helping others.
June 6, 6 p.m.
Temple held its annual Sanctuary Choir Concert named "Favorites Concert."
June 17, The Temple Keenagers visited the Chinese
Gardens in N.W. Portland.
July 5, Margaret
Steel went to be with the Lord. She was 91 years of age. One of
her last requests was for some pickled herring in cream sauce.
July 15, The Keenagers Group spent the day at Viola Christianson's cabin in
Seaside. There were 39 in attendance and the weather was beautiful.
July 18,
Temple had their 20th Annual Music Camp presentation. Featured
"Esther-Ordinary-Faith."
August 7-14, Youth and Leaders will be in Chicago for Summer Mission's Team
Project.
August 29, The weekend of, Temple held its 25th annual campout at Fort Stevens.
August 29, Sunday - While most of the congregation was at Fort Stevens, Temple
had a potluck picnic lunch in the Upper Room after the morning service.
Pastor Ron Hall gave the morning message. He did a 30 minute walk through
in the Book of Ephesians.
November 14, the
church held its annual meeting in the Upper Room. The 2005 Church Officers
and the 2005 Budget were voted on
December 19,
Sunday, Temple had a choir concert called, "In The Fullness of
Time." One performance was at 11:00 AM and one was at 6:00 PM.
December 31, New
Years Eve. 6:30 pm the church hosted a Simple Supper in the Upper
Room. A Communion Service followed supper with the breaking of loaves of
bread. After the congregation went to the main sanctuary to enjoy a year
end slide show. The Simple Supper consisted of 3 different kinds of soup
and a green tossed salad.
Blessed are those
who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and
falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be
glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they
persecuted the prophets who were before you........"
Matthew 5:10-12 NIV
2005
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
January 11, Beverly
Loy went home to be with
the Lord.
January 17, A
Memorial Service was held at Temple for Bev Loy at 2:00 PM.
February 18-20, The Ladies of Temple spent
the weekend at Camp Tillicum for a Ladies Retreat.
March 6, The Church
honored Dale Peretti during the morning service and after in the Upper Room with
a light lunch for his service as a Sunday school teacher, librarian and doing
the landscaping around the church grounds. The congregation was invited to share with Dale..
April 8-10, A
Mother and Daughter Retreat at Lake Retreat.
April 21, The
Temple Keenagers had an outing at OMSI in Portland to see a documentary of a 4
month journey down the Blue Nile in Africa.
April 29, John
Fallon went home to be with the Lord.
May 4, A memorial
was held at the church for John Fallon
May 15,
During the morning service Pastor Mike Pinkerton told a condensed version
of the story of "Two
Ladies Named Margaret."
May 19, The
Keenagers went to Mt. St. Helens.
A large bus was rented for the group to ride in.
May 25, Wednesday,
Lake Retreat hosted a Senior's Luncheon. Guest speaker was Dr. Jerry Scheveland,
President of the Baptist General Conference.
June 2, Gwen
Bergstrom died and went home to be with
the Lord
June 7, Clyde
Malone went home to be with
the Lord at 5 PM. A memorial service will be held at Temple
on Wednesday, June 16th at 1:00 pm.
June 8, A memorial
service was held at Temple in the Upper Room for Gwen Bergstrom.
June 12, Temple
hosted the National Conference of the Baptist General Conference Vietnamese
Ministry. This is was an historic gathering of Vietnamese Churches in one
place to celebrate God's goodness.
June 16, Dwain
DeMaris leaves for a month long summer mission's trip to Brazil. He will be working
on construction projects for New Tribes
Missions.
June 26, Sunday
evening at 6:00 Temple held the "Summer Hummer", in the Sanctuary.
July 11-16, The 21st
annual Music Camp held at Temple Baptist Church
July 17, 6:30pm, A
Presentation called "Acorns to Oaks", was held in the sanctuary featuring
the members of Music Camp. Attendance in the audience was 230. A reception was held
in the Upper Room after the presentation.
July 21, The
Keenager Group spent the day at Christiansen's Cabin in Seaside, Oregon.
July 31, A
commissioning was held for the SMT members leaving for Rio in Brazil.
August 2, SMT
members left for Brazil. They left Portland International Airport on
United Airlines.
August 14, Jon
Christian held a telephone conversation with the SMT members, in Brazil, during
the morning service.
August 20,
The Junior High Group went to Mt. Hood and rode on the Alpine slide.
September 14,
Wednesday Evening Activities Resume
5:30 PM Betty's Diner
5:30 PM Temple Sonshine Choir
6:45 PM Temple Bible Clubs, Jr. High & High School Youth, Choir, Prayer
& Bible Study
September 18, There
was a combined Junior High - Adult Sunday School with Dick & Bev Young.
September 20,
Women's Morning Bible Study started up again - 9:20 AM
September 20,
Women's Evening Bible Study started up again - 7:00 PM
September
22, The Keenagers took a trip to Hood River Orchards.
September 25, The
Small Group Bible study started up again.
September 30, The
High School Youth Group had an all night event at Temple.
October 7,
The High School Groups of the CBC had a fall rally at Monroe, Washington.
October 14-16, A
Men's Camp was held at Lake Retreat.
October 20, The
Keenagers had a Swedish Smorgasbord and Scandinavian Program in the Upper Room.
October 23, Hazel
Green, wife of the late Ray Green passed away.
October 23,
Missionaries Rick and Carol Stark were at Temple.
October 24, Gil
Clark passed away.
October 27, There
was a Memorial Service for Hazel Green at 2:00pm in the Upper Room at Temple.
October 27, The
Sonbeam Daycare had a Harvest Carnival.
October 27-29, The
Columbia Baptist Conference had their annual meeting at Belleview, Washington.
October 28, There
was a Memorial Service for Mr. Gil Clark at 11:00am at The Little Chapel of the
Chimes in SE Portland.
October 28, The
Junior High had a Harvest Party at the home of Kyle and Cathy Horness.
October 30,
Daylight Savings Time Ended.
November 1, Mr. Joe
Ryan passed away at 3:30 this morning.
November 1, Deloris
Danielson passed away at 3:00 p.m. today.
November 5, A
Harvest Banquet was held at Lake Retreat.
November 11, The
Keenager Group visited New Heights Church in Vancouver, Washington.
November 12, A
memorial service was held at Temple for Deloris Danielson at 11:00 am. "A
wife of noble character is her husband's crown. She brings him good, not
harm, all the days of her life."
Proverbs 12:4,31:12
November 13, Temple
Baptist Church Annual Meeting and dinner was held in the Upper Room.
November 15, A
memorial service was held at Temple for Mr. Joe Ryan at 2:00 pm.
November 19, The
Junior High School Group had a bowling party.
November 23, A
Thanksgiving Eve Service was held at Temple with Lower Columbia Conference
Churches. Ron Hall delivered the sermon. A Thanksgiving Meal was
provided by the Hope Vietnamese Baptist Church. The menu consisted of
rice, salad, egg rolls, pumpkin
and apple pie.
November 24,
Thanksgiving Day.
November 27, Dickens
Carolers Concert at 4:00pm.
November 27,
See the Angel Tree in the church foyer.
December 2, The
church hosted the Bethel University's Northwest Area Christmas Festival at
7:30pm. A program of Christmas music, including selections from local
Bethel alumni, followed by a time of fellowship and dessert.
December 5, The
Church Choir and Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra performed a Sing-A-Long "Handel's
Messiah" in the church Sanctuary.
December 11,
The church held its Christmas Sunday School Program at 6:00pm.
December 15, The
Sonbeam Daycare Christmas Program was held this evening. The Christmas
message was given through the children to friends and family.
December 18,
The Temple Choir gave their annual Christmas concert. This year it was
titled "Christmas Then and Now." The concert was presented
during the morning service followed by the annual Feast of The Spring Roll, compliments
of the Hope Vietnamese Church. The Evening program was canceled due to a
winter ice storm.
December 24, 4:30
pm - The Christmas Eve Family Service was held. At 11 pm the church held a
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.
December 25,
11:00 Regular church service was held on this Christmas Day.
December 31, We
gathered together in the Upper Room for our Simple Supper. At 7:30 the
"Year in Review Slide Show" was held in the sanctuary. This was
the first year the annual year end slide show was presented in a digital format.
December, An
air conditioning system was installed in the church boiler room for the
sanctuary.
Rejoice greatly, Daughter
Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous
and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:9 NIV
2006
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
March 25th, 4:00 to
8:30pm, "Renewal Saturday," with Dana Olson. He led us in a
special time of Study and Prayer, a Buffet Dinner, both in the Upper Room and a
Concert of Prayer in the Sanctuary.
April 1, A CPR class was
held at Temple in the lower auditorium. There were about 20 people in
attendance and the class was taught by 3 Portland firefighters.
April 9-16 was Holy
Week at Temple.
April 9, Palm Sunday -
Palm
branches were handed to each member of the congregation representing the
people who waved palm branches during Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
April
14, 7:00pm - Good Friday service was held at Temple. The Tenebrae
Service was unforgettable as the program was a remembrance of Christ's Death on the
Cross. The words were read by seven readers. After each reading more
lights went out in the sanctuary until the auditorium was completely dark.
The Temple choir sang five numbers with instrumental selections from the organ and
flute. There was also a beautiful voice selection, "Were You
There."
April 15, Temple
hosted an Easter Breakfast and Candy Hunt for children of ages two through sixth
grade and parents. There were 103 children signed up. After the
candy hunt, the children were told the true meaning of Easter.
April 16, Easter
Sunday. After the morning service there was a luncheon in the Upper
Room.
April 17, Hildur Strandberg went to be with the
Lord this afternoon at 4:15. She was 98 1/2 years old when she died.
April 20, The
Keenagers met at Oregon Museum of Science and
Industry (OMSI) to view the Omnimax Film, "Wired
to Win", a film about the Tour-de-France.
Lunch afterwards was held at McGrath's
Fish House in Milwaukie.
April 23, Corbit
Magby, District Executive Minister of the Columbia Baptist Conference, was the
guest speaker at the morning service. The message was, "Something Has
to Die."
April 30, Rev. Ron
Hall, spoke at the morning service. The message was, "Man's Response
to the Gospel."
May 13, A Memorial
Service was held at Temple in the Upper Room for Hildur
Strandberg.
May 14, Mothers'
Day.
May 18, The
Keenagers met in the Upper Room for a talk by a Chinese Pastor followed by Chinese food for lunch.
May 21,
Sunday, Dr. James
Spicklemier, Vice President of Bethel Seminary, was the guest speaker in the
morning service. He spoke on "How Did I Stumble into the House of
God?" from Genesis 28:10-22
May 21, "The
Spring Fling Sing Thing," was held in the sanctuary at Temple at 6:00
pm. It was a wonderful time to see the many gifts that God has bestowed
upon people of all ages from the congregation.
May 24, Spring
Senior's Luncheon at Lake Retreat.
May 26, A Memorial
Day ceremony was held at Oregon Baptist Retirement
Home.
May 26-29, Helping
Hands Weekend at Lake Retreat.
June 3, 2:00
to 5:00pm. Dale and
June Peretti celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in the Upper Room.
June 15, The
Keenagers visited the Oregon Gardens, in Silverton,
Oregon.
June 18, Father's
Day.
June 25, The Golden
Hill Youth Choir, "Power
& Light", presented a beautiful message in song during the morning
service.
June 29, Peggy
Beattie went to be with the Lord this morning at 6:00. Her entire family
was with her at Emanuel Hospital when she died.
July 7, 2:00 pm, A memorial service was held
at Temple in the main sanctuary for Peggy Beattie. A reception
followed in the Upper Room.
July 16, 10:00 am,
Mark and Helen
Downing spoke at during the Sunday School hour. Mark also
delivered the message during the 11:00 worship Service.
July 16,
6:00pm, The 22nd Annual Music Camp presented their presentation, "Joseph,
This is your Life." A reception was held after in the Upper Room.
August 13,
The message at the morning service was presented by Rev. Thai Nguyen, Pastor of
the Hope Vietnamese Church. It was entitled "A New Beginning."
September 24,
A Wedding Reception was held today for Karen Aull and Duane Kitzmiller in the
Upper room after the morning service. It was held from 1:00 to 3:00
pm. Karen accompanies June Peretti on the pipe organ with a flute
during the Sunday morning services.
September 27,
6:30-8:30 pm, See
You at the Pole Rally.
September
30, 9:00 am, Elder Retreat at the Church .
October 6, 7:00
pm, Junior
High Game/Parent Night at church .
October 6-8, High
School Fall Rally held at Temple. Jr. High thru adults met with Dick Young
in the Upper Room for combined Sunday School.
October 13-14,
Women of Faith conference was held at the Rose Garden Arena.
October 26-28,
The 117th Columbia Baptist Conference Annual Meeting is held in Tacoma, Washington.
October 27,
5:30 pm, This evening was the Junior
High Harvest All-Nighter party.
October 29,
Daylight Savings time end.
October, The
Keenagers met for an informal coffee clutch at McDonald's
Restaurant near Temple every week during the month.
November 3, Junior
High Game Night.
November 11,
Veteran's Day.
November 12, 5:30
pm, This evening was the Annual Meeting and Dinner in the Upper Room.
November 17,
6:30 to around 9:00 pm, Movie Night & Dinner. The movie, "End
of the Spear," is based on the
true story of a boy and his family growing up with the Ecuadorian tribe that
murdered his father and several other missionaries. Directed by Jim Hanon and
based on the book by Steve Saint.
November 22, 7:00
pm, Thanksgiving Festival.
November 23,
Thanksgiving Day
November 25, All
Church Decorating for Christmas.
November 26,
4:00 pm, Temple hosted a Dickens Carolers Concert.
November, The
Keenagers met at McDonald's
Restaurant near Temple for an informal coffee clutch. This takes place
every Thursday, during the month 9:00 to 11:00.
December 1, 7:30
pm, Bethel
Christmas Event.
December 3, Sunday Advent
1 Lighting of the "Peace Candle" by the Bruce Fessenden Family.
December 3, 6.00
pm "A-Sing-a-long Messiah," in the church sanctuary.
December 8, 5:00
pm, Junior
High Christmas Party.
December 9, 9:00
am, Christmas Program Practice.
December 9, The
Keenagers visited Portland
Christian Center for their annual Christmas Program.
December 10, Sunday
Advent II Lighting of the "Joy Candle" by Ken
Marx.
December 10, 6:00
pm, Children's Christmas Program.
December 11, 6:00
pm, Church
Staff Christmas Dinner.
December 14,
Sonbeam Daycare Christmas Program - 7:00 PM
December 16,
Saturday, Choir Practice - 9:00 AM
December 16, 6:30
pm, The Kinsmen/Harvesters Sunday School met at
the home of Colleen and Holger Engstrom for the annual Class Christmas Party.
December 16, 7:00
pm, Tonight was the High
School Group Christmas Program.
December 17, Sunday,11:00
am, Advent III Lighting of the "Love Candle" by Peggy Bates.
December 17,
Sunday, 6:00 pm. Temple held a Christmas Choir Concert.
December 20, 5:30
pm, Wednesday All Church Supper and Caroling.
December 24,
11:00 am, Advent IV Sunday
Christmas Eve Lighting of the "Hope Candle" by the Dave
Salholm Family. Sunday School was not held today.
December 24, 4:30
pm, Children's Christmas Service was held this evening. Pastor Mike read the Christmas Story
to all the children gathered on the platform.
December 24, 11:00
pm, Candlelight Service was held this evening.
December 25,
Christmas Day
December 27-31, Urbana
06 was held at the Edward Jones
Dome, St. Louis, Missouri
December 31, New
Year's Eve Simple Supper and Year End Slide Show
December 31, High
School New Year's Eve All-Nighter.
"But you, LORD, are a
shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high. I callout to
the LORD and He answers me from His holy mountain."
Psalm 3:3,4 NIV
2007
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
January
13, Saturday, A "Guys Only Breakfast" was held in the Upper Room at
9:00am. After breakfast the movie "Rudy" was shown.
January
16, Tuesday 9:20am, Women's Bible Study began in the Upper Room. Leader is
Miecke Johnson.
January 20, Don
Strandberg celebrated his 75th birthday. We sang "Happy
Birthday" to him during the morning church service. See a
picture of the Strandberg family on the front steps to the church.
January 24, the
Wednesday Evening Events were canceled because of ice and snow.
January 28, A
Commissioning Service was held during the morning service for the Elder Council
and the Committee Chair Persons.
February 11, After
the morning service a Baked Spaghetti Feed was held in the Upper Room called,
"Twirlling and Dipping."
February 23-24, 30
Hour Famine. Our High School Group will be partnering with World
Vision by not eating for 30 hours.
March 2-4, Father and Son
Retreat at Lake Retreat. Gary Stanton, Associate Pastor at Faith Baptist
in Kent, Washington will be the speaker.
March 10, The
Temple Junior High Group had a car wash held in the church parking lot.
March 10, The Deaconess
celebrated four ladies of Temple who have reached 90 years of age at the home of
Fran Cooper.
April 27, "Friday Night Out - For Guys Only." The movie "Facing
the Giants" will be shown in the Upper Room. Pizza and drinks
will be provided.
May 4, Morrie
Brask passed away this morning.
May 4-6, Junior
High Live at Lake Retreat.
May 10, 2:00 PM, A memorial
service was held for Morrie Brask at Temple.
May 14, A memorial service was held at Temple at 2:00PM for Pastor Ron Hall who passed
away on May 8, in the afternoon.
May 20, The Spring Fling
Sing Thing was held at Temple. "If you have a song in your heart or a
spring in your step and you are bursting to share it with the Temple Family you
are welcome to join in."
May 25-28, The Helping
Hands Weekend at Lake Retreat.
May 27, 6:00 PM, Miss Amber
Fredrick and Mr. Joel Kersey were married at Temple.
June 1, 5:30 PM, Miss Ronda
Kriens and Mr. Mark Moore were married at Temple.
June 18, Audrey Malone
passed away.
June 24, The Summer
Mission Team was commissioned.
July 1, Pastor Mike and
family left for Southern California to attend the Baptist General Conference Annual Meeting and a time
away at Big Bear.
July 6, A memorial was
held at Temple for Audrey Malone at 11:00 AM.
July 11, Dave Best passed
away this morning around 3:00.
July 25, A memorial was
held at Temple for Dave Best.
July 29, Temple
held a Farewell Service for the Paul Flood family. Paul was on the church
staff as Minister of Music.
August 1, Jon and
Susan Christian left for Minnesota for vacation. Jon is the Director of
Outreach and Youth Ministries at Temple.
August 5, Sometime during
this past week Esther Christenson and Amanda James returned from their short
terms missions trips.
August 6,
10.30 am, The
Summer Mission Team leaves for Rio
de Janeiro from Portland International Airport.
August 11, 5-9
pm, A "For Guys Only Event" was held at the Chris Potter home.
August 24-26, The annual
campout was held at Fort Stevens State Park.
September 5, 6:30
pm, Christian
Education Committee, Teacher/Leader Meeting,
September 6, 9:00
am, Staff
Planning Day.
September 9,
5:30 pm, The annual
Fall Kick Off, Ministry Fair, and Dinner, was held in the Upper Room.
. September 10-14, Senior's
Camp held at Lake Retreat.
September 12, Wednesday
Evening Activities Resume.
5:30 PM Betty's Diner
5:30 PM Temple Sonshine Choir
6:45 Prayer Meeting & Bible Study
6:45 Temple Bible Clubs, Jr. High & High School Youth
6:45 Sanctuary Choir
September 14, 9:00
pm, High School
All Nighter.
September 16, Small
Groups Resume.
September 21-23, The
annual Men's Retreat was held at Lake Retreat. 18 men, ages from 20 to 80,
from Temple went.
September 23, Karen Moreschi presented an
update on the Sonbeam Day Care.
September 26, See you at
the Pole Rally in the Schools.
September 30, The 2007
Summer Mission Team had a display of activities and experiences from their
recent trip to Brazil in the Overflow Room at Temple.
October 5,
7:00 pm, Jr. High
Parent's Night. A time to meet the Jr. Hi Leadership team, other
parents and kids you may not know.
October 5-6, High School
Fall Rally.
October 12-13, Women of
Faith Conference held at the Rose
Garden Arena.
October 14, 12:30,
Pastor
Appreciation Lunch.
October 19-20, CBC
Annual Meeting at Bethany
Baptist Church in Puyallup,WA.
October 20, Guy's Only
Breakfast in the Upper Room with guest speaker Rick Burleson, Activity Director at Lake Retreat.
October 20, 7:00
p.m, A Live
Concert was held at Temple with "BLACKWOOD
LEGACY," .
October 26, Junior High
All Nighter.
October 28, Food Basket
Collection Begins, Homeless Gift Collection Begins.
November 2, Day Care
Harvest Party (Tentative Date).
November 4, Daylight
Savings Time Ends.
November 9-11, Women's Retreat at Lake Retreat,
Pamela Heim, Director of BGC Women's Ministries will be speaker on Becoming
God's Confident Woman.
November 11, Veteran's Day.
November 11,
5:30p.m, This evening was the Annual
Meeting/Dinner held in the Upper Room at Temple.
November 16-17, Revolve
Tour for Young Ladies.
November
18, Food Box Deliveries.
November 19, Daycare
Thanksgiving Feast.
November 21, No
Wednesday Activities
November 22, Thanksgiving
Day
November
23, Office Closed
November 24, All
Church Decoration 8:00 Breakfast/9:00 a.m. Decorate.
November 25, 4:00 p.m.
Temple hosted a Dickens
Carolers Concert.
November 25, Angel Tree
Program Begins.
November 30, 7:00
p.m. Concert of
Prayer.
December 2, Advent
I
December 9,
Portland Christian Center Concert.
December 9, Advent
II
December 11, Noon,
Committee Chairs/Elders & Staff met for Lunch.
December 12, Last
Wednesday Evening Club Programs until January 9, 2008.
December 13, 7:00
p.m. Daycare Christmas Program.
December 14, 5:30
p.m. A Christmas Party was held for the Jr. High
Youth.
December 15, 8:00 a.m. to Noon,
Women's
Ministry Drop & Shop.
December 15,
9:00 a.m. Children's
Christmas Program Practice.
December 15, 6:00
p.m. Tonight the Kinsman/Harvest held their annual Christmas Party.
December 15, High School
Christmas Party.
December 16, Advent
III
December 16, 12:30 p.m. Homeless Gift Wrapping. Members of
the congregation met to wrap Christmas packages for homeless people in our area
of the city after the morning service.
December 16, 6:00 p.m. Children's
Christmas Program.
December 16, Happy
Birthday Jesus Party following the Children's Program.
December
17, 6:00 p.m. Staff Christmas Dinner.
December 19, No
Wednesday Activities until January 4, 2008
December
19, 5:30 p.m. Instead of Wednesday night activities, Temple held an All Church Supper & Caroling.
A supper was served in the Upper Room then we divided up into 3 or 4 groups and
drove to retirement homes to sing carols.
December 21, 6:30 p.m.
Downtown Homeless Gift Delivery. These are the gifts that were wrapped on
the previous week.
December 23, Advent
IV
December 23, 11:00 a.m.
Christmas Worship with Sanctuary Choir.
December 24, Christmas
Eve
December 24, 4:30 p.m. Family Christmas Service, with a Story Time, a Puppet Show, and a Carol Sing; this
service was a joyous time for the entire family.
December 24, Candlelight
Celebration 11:00 p.m.- a traditional celebration of the Christmas story in a
beautiful setting, with wonderful music and Christmas Candlelight.
December 25, Christmas
Day -- Office Closed
December 31, New
Year's Eve
December 31, 6:30
p.m. Simple
Supper with communion.
December 31, 8:00. Year in Review
Slide Show
December 31, High School
New Year's Eve All-Nighter.
"For if the dead are not
raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been
raised, your faith is futile; you still in your sins. Then those also who
have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope
in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied."
I Corinthians 15:16-19 NIV
2008
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
January 1, Office Closed
January 5,
Church Un-Decorating Day -- Breakfast 8:00 a.m. Un-Decorating
9:00a.m.
January 9,
Wednesday Activities Resume.
January 13, Sunday,
following the morning service we will be having a Great Family Gathering potluck
and the second half of our Annual Meeting.
January 16, A 90th
birthday celebration was held in the Upper Room for Viola Christiansen.
January 20, Temple held a Commissioning Service for the Elder Council and Committee Chairs
January 20, A 90th
birthday celebration was held at Temple for Josephine Fallon.
January 25, Elder
Council Retreat.
January 27, Small
group studies on the book of Nehemiah begin today.
January 27,
Eileen Johnson passed away following a stroke. Eileen was a long time
member of Temple Baptist. She joined Temple in 1933 and was very active in
church.
February 2,
5:00pm The Hope Vietnamese Church held their New Year's celebration.
February 7, A
memorial was held in honor of Eileen Johnson at Rose City Funeral
Home.
February 10, The
Women's Ministry had a waffle brunch fundraiser after the morning worship
service in the Upper Room.
February 11, 6:30
to 8:30pm All
Church Roller Skate Night at Oaks Park.
February 17, People
from the church congregations started prep work to make ready for new carpets to
be install throughout the building.
February 29 to
March 2, Father Son retreat at Lake Retreat. This scheduled event was
canceled.
March 3, Work
started on resurfacing the gym floor.
March 16-23, Holy
Week
March 16, Palm
Sunday - 11:00 am Worship Service.
March 21, 7:00 pm.
Good
Friday Service was held in the Sanctuary. A solemn remembrance of our
Savior's suffering.
March 22, 9:30 am
in the Upper Room. Easter Breakfast and Program followed by a Candy Hunt.
March 23, Sunday, 11:00 Resurrection Celebration. Worship Service with a
luncheon to follow.
March 27,
Thursday, The church hosted the Keenagers for a Spring Garden Luncheon.
There was a great turnout. Dan Grady and his wife Susan excepted the position
as leaders for the Keenager Group.
April
2, Dan Grady volunteered to lead the Wednesday Evening Bible study and Prayer
time.
April 6, The Women's Ministries hosted a Swedish Luncheon after the morning
service in the Upper Room, with meatballs, lingonberries, noodles and brown gravy,
breads and assorted Swedish style cookies.
September 15,
Jon Christian took over the duties of Assistant Pastor at Temple.
December 7,
Sunday, The Dickens Carolers put on a concert this evening.
December 14,
Sunday, Homeless Gift Wrapping: Gift wrapping of the homeless gift
packages took place at 12:30 in the Upper Room after the morning service.
December 17, 5:50
pm,
Wednesday, Light Supper.
December 17,
6:30 pm, Caroling, a time of sharing God's love through caroling to a variety of
retirement centers, nursing homes, apartment complexes and individuals from our
Temple body.
December 17,
6:30 pm, Daycare Christmas Program.
December 21,
6:00 pm, Christmas Program - "Happy Birthday Jesus Celebration to
Follow." This year's birthday party for Jesus featured group singing,
soloists, instrumentalists, drama, and other expressions of heartfelt joy for
God's gracious and awesome gift of His Son, Jesus.
December 24,
11:00 pm, Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.
December 25,
Thursday, Christmas Day.
December 31,
6:30 pm, New Years Eve Simple Supper and Communion. Year in Review
Slide show to follow.
"God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love ~
like Christ in everything. We take out lead from Christ, who is the source
of everything we do. He keeps us in step with each other. His very
breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us that we will grow up healthy in
God, robust in love."
Ephesians 4:15,16
2009
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
The year 2009 is the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the modern
Baptist movement.
January 19, Rev. Jack Bergeson went home to the Lord at the age of
89. Jack was the CBC District Executive Minister from 1970 to
1985.
January 27, The
board of directors of The Oregon Baptist Retirement Home voted to
change the facility name to Parkview Christian Retirement Community.
May 3, Sunday
Evelyn Brask wife of Morrie Brask, who both were long time members of Temple went to be with the Lord. She
was 92 years of age.
May 3, 5:30
Sunday evening, Temple held a Great Family Gathering in the Upper
Room. The meal was a Spanish menu and the church took time after the meal
to thank Sam and Jen Loeung for there years of service as High School Youth
Directors. A Business Meeting was also held.
May 8th,
2:00pm. A memorial service was held in honor of Evelyn Brask at Temple
Baptist Church.
May 9,
Saturday 9:30 - 11:15am. A men's breakfast was held in the Upper
Room. The guest speaker was Dan
Russell, champion wrestler and a pastor in
Battle Ground, Washington.
May 17, Sunday 7:00pm. The annual Spring Fling Sing Thing was held in the
church sanctuary.
May
22nd-25th. The Helping Hands Weekend was held at Lake
Retreat. Helping Hands is designed for those who like to bring their
entire family to camp and help with some of the projects like landscaping,
painting, carpentry work etc.
May 31, The Global Day of Prayer.
On this day people from all over the world will unite in Prayer. It is a
call from 2 Chronicles 7:14 to humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, and turn
from our wicked ways, that He would hear our prayers and heal our land.
May 31st is also Pentecost Sunday when we remember the out pouring of God's
Spirit that brought His church into being.
June 22-26,
Sizzle Program. Theme of Sizzle is "There's no place like
Rome." Sizzle welcomes kindergarten through 5th graders for a week of
playing Bible-times games, eat traditional treats, make authentic projects, meet
the Apostle Paul and his friends in the secret underground church.
June 28, Mr. Bill Hammerbeck Jr.
went to be with our Lord.
July 3, A memorial service was held for Bill Hammerbeck at Warren Community
Church in Warren Oregon.
July 8,
Marion E. Johnson, wife of George Johnson, who is a son of our former pastor,
Dr. Linus Johnson, went to be with our Lord.
July 11, A
memorial service was held for Marion E. Johnson at Temple. A reception was
held in the Upper Room after the service.
July 18,
Saturday A salmon fishing trip was planned for men of Temple. There
were 12 men plus the crew of 2 from the boat. They each caught their limit
of salmon. The fish were around 3 to 5 pounds each The
boat departed from Ilwaco, Washington about 5:30 am and returned to dock at
about noon.
July 25, Saturday - Temple's High School and Junior High youth had a outdoor
activity that included hiking and swimming near Corbet, Oregon.
Tyler Knight one of the High School Leaders went swimming in a small lake near
there and was underwater for a couple minutes before some one noticed he didn't
come up. One boy in the group happened to have a pair of swimming
goggles. He looked under the water and managed to locate where Tyler was
laying on the bottom of the lake. He gave his goggles to one of the
leaders who is licensed diver. He dove in located Tyler and brought him
up. By this time he had been underwater for almost 5 minutes. His
pulse was weak and after administering CPR he started breathing.
The divers wife who is a nurse was there also. One of the group called 911
but there was no cell reception was available in that area. She ran out to
the main road where the reception was good, where she called 911. They
sent a medevac helicopter to pick him up. In the mean time a
hiker who was a paramedic who happened to have all his gear with him stopped and
gave Tyler oxygen. Also a neighbor who is a ER nurse heard the commotion
came and stayed with Tyler until the Medevac flew in. The incident was
broadcasted on the evening television news and the the divers wife including
every body else who witnessed the rescue marveled at all the emergency help that
was available to them said, "God was with us." "Blessed be
the name of the Lord!"
Tyler made a
remarkable recover from his rescue from near drowning thanks the the many
qualified people the Lord provided.
July 30, The
Summer Mission Team left today for their ministry in Brazil. The Ministry
Team includes, Ruthie Classen, Joel Klinkhammer, Abigail Fessenden, Anna and
Daniel Pinkerton and their leaders Candy Poppino and Ken Owen.
August 15,
10:00 am to 7 pm - The Parkview Christian Retirement
Community, formally Oregon
Baptist Retirement Homes, hosted their annual Community Fair. It is part
of the National Night Out, and involves BBQ, cruise-in, activities for kids,
silent auction-raising funds for Salvation Army, Loves and Fishes and Snow Cap.
August
21-23 The 30th annual church camp out at Fort Stevens. See
Schedule of Events
August 23, Chaplain Dan Grady
presented the message from John 1 at the morning service as Pastor Mike was at
Fort Stevens. After the morning service a pizza lunch/potluck of salad or
desert was held in the Upper Room.
August 28,
Friday 7:00 pm. The Women's ministry are hosting the Beth Moore Simulcast in
the Upper Room. The women of Temple joined thousands of women across the country as Beth Moore, exciting and
inspirational Bible teacher and speaker, celebrates God's Word in a live
simulcast from Green Bay, Wisconsin, Beth Moore's home town. The message taken from Psalm 37, "Coming
Home to the Heart of our Desires." Temple had a satellite dish
mounted on the roof of the church to accommodate this and future Simulcast
programs.
August 29,
Saturday 8:00 am ~ Beth Moore Simulcast.
September 12,
Men's White Water Rafting Trip on the Deschutes River. Twenty-two men from
Temple went under the invitation from Warren Community Church. This year
marks the sixth annual White Water Rafting Trip for the men of Warren
Community. There were a total of 50 men in all who participated.
They put in at Maupin, Oregon and navigated the Deschutes River in eight man
rubber rafts until lunch time when they pulled into shore and had lunch.
Subway sandwiches, potato chips, and soft drinks were provided. After
getting back in the rafts they floated down stream to a point just above Sherars
Falls where transportation was provided. On the way back to Portland, the
group stopped in Hood River where they had pizza at Pietro's Pizza. The
group from Temple arrived back in Portland at 7:45pm.
September 13,
Sunday 5:30 pm ~ The annual "Fall Kick Off" Dinner and Business
Meeting in the Upper Room.
September 14
- 18, Senior Retreat at Lake Retreat. Week was spent with catching up with
old friends and drawing closer to God. Wednesday September 16th was the
annual Senior Luncheon held at noon.
September 18
- 20, Men's Retreat at Lake Retreat. Guest Speaker
was Mike Penberthy
dedicated Christian. He played with Los Angeles Lakers during a 2000-2001
World Championship.
September
23, Praise the Lord for the 40 plus youth and leaders who attended the
"See You at the Pole Rally" this Wednesday evening. Praise the
Lord our youth can gather and be encouraged by youth from other churches.
This is the 19th annual "See You at the Pole Rally."
September
27, Sunday. Today starts the Fall Quarter Small Group Studies. The topic for this quarter
is "Just Walk Across the Room," by Bill Hybels, founder and Senior Pastor of
Willow
Creek Community Church of South Barringtton, Illinois.
October 11,
2009, In the Upper Room after the morning service. We as a congregation
celebrated June Peretti's gift to God and Temple Baptist Church of 50 years of
organ playing with a Celebration Party Luncheon.
November
15, The Annual Meeting was held with a lunch after the morning service.
November 26,
Thanksgiving Day.
November 23,
2:00 PM ~ Thanksgiving Food Box Packing.
November
28, All Church Decorating. Breakfast was served at 8:00 AM.
Decorating began in earnest at 9:00 AM.
November 29, First
Sunday of Advent.
November 29,
Sunday - 4:30 PM ~ The Dickens Carolers held a free concert at Temple in the
Sanctuary.
The Dickens Carolers is a group of men and women
who sing and dress in the style of Victorian England. In the true spirit
of the day, their music is unaccompanied, yet sung in four-part harmony.
The repertoire is comprised of favorite carols, both traditional and
contemporary. Along with the rich harmonies and beautiful costumes of the
Dickens Carolers, this event is a truly delightful beginning to your Christmas
celebration. It was a wonderful concert and the Sanctuary was filled
almost to capacity.
November
30, Betsy Pierson, a faithful member of Temple, went home to be with the
Lord today.
December,
Blake Kidney was named the new Director of High School Youth.
December 6, Second
Sunday of Advent.
December 6, A memorial service was held at the Parkview Christian
Retirement Community Chapel. (Formally OBRH), at the Independent Living Campus,
1825 NE 108th Ave, in Portland.
December
13, Third Sunday of Advent.
December 13,
11:00 am, Choir Christmas Presentation.
December 15,
7:00 pm, Tuesday ~ Daycare Christmas Program.
December 16,
Wednesday, Light Supper 5:30 pm and Caroling at 6:30 pm.
December 19,
Saturday, The Kinsmen-Harvesters group and all those who attend Rick Mathews
Sunday School Class had their Annual Christmas Party at the home of Jack
& Fran Cooper. A white elephant gift exchange followed the pot luck dinner.
December 20,
Fourth Sunday of Advent.
December 20,
6:00 pm, Sunday, This evening was the Children's' Christmas Program. "Happy Birthday Jesus
Celebration" followed.
December 24,
11:00 pm, Thursday, Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.
December 25, Friday, Christmas Day.
December 27,
Sherri Best, beloved wife of the late Dave Best
went home to be with the Lord at 4:00 am.
December 27-31, Urbana 2009 took place in St.
Louis, MO. Urbana is a ministry of Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship.
Urbana is an expression of Inter Varsity's purpose to transform students and
develop world changers. From our Temple family we had seven attending URBANA
2009.
Quotes from Temple Students: "I feel
that God is leading me to this conference to open my eyes to all the
opportunities around me."
"I have been interested in missions. I need
God to tell me where my life will lead me and I want to learn more about the
different opportunities and see what God has to teach me at URBANA."
December 31,
Katie Koerper resigned from her duties as the Upper Room Kitchen Manager.
December 31, 6:30
pm, Thursday, New Years Eve Simple Supper and
Communion. The annual Year in Review Slideshow followed.
Dixie Wade resigned after 29 years as Church Payroll Secretary. See
1980
"I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys."
Song of Songs 2:1
See Foot Notes
2010
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
January 1, New Years Day.
January
1, Jeanne Bushbach volunteered to take over the position of Upper Room Kitchen
Manager.
January
9th, 8:00 am, We gathered together for a hot breakfast in the Upper Room
followed by the un-decorating of the Christmas decorations around the church.
January
9th, A memorial service was held today at 2:00 PM for Sherri Best at Temple
Baptist Church.
January 12, a
7.0 earthquake shook the Island of Haiti doing major destruction to the capital
city or Port-au-Prince. Many thousands of lives were lost. After 14
days, rescue workers have pulled people from the rubble still alive.
January 15-16,
Mission Connection Northwest. Mission
ConneXion Northwest is a Free Missions Conference, activating thousands of
people every year for Missions. There was 125 workshops, over 70
exhibitors, 4 keynote speakers all there to discover your place in His
mission. It was held at Crossroads
Community Church in Vancouver, Washington.
January 23,
Temple's Jr. High Group went on a Tubing Outing at Ski Bowl near Mt. Hood.
January
29-30, New Hope Church hosted the NW Men's Conference. The speakers were
Joe White, Mike Silva, Bill Perkins and Don Miller spoke on the theme, "Men
at the Cross: Building a Christ Centered Life."
January 31,
Temple's High School Group went on a Ski Trip and spent the weekend at the home
of Marianne & Winn Goddard in Bend Oregon.
February 14,
The church was invited to a waffle lunch following the Morning Service.
The kitchen crew and helpers prepared 6 different kinds of waffles and countless
toppings. This delicious lunch was put on by the Women's Mission Group.
February 14,
Small Groups started up again. This time in a 13 week course from the Peacemaker
Group Study by Ken Sande.
April 15,
Keenager Event. The Keenager Social Group went to visit the Rice
Rock & Mineral Museum in Hillsboro, Oregon. It was a fascinating
place to visit. The trip was organized by the leader Dan Grady.
April 18,
"Spring Garden Luncheon" to honor Dixie Wade after 29 years as Payroll
Secretary and other duties.
April 24,
First Sergeant Brandon Bushbach welcome home party. Brandon is home from
Iraq. His mom say's "Everyone is Invited!"
April 30,
High School Youth and Parents Dinner.
April 30 - May 1, Jr. High
"Believe' Event.
Month of May, Sizzle Set Prep,
Meetings and Set-Up.
May 2,
Women's Ministry Fundraiser Lunch
May 6,
National Day of Prayer.
May 8, Men's
Breakfast - fellowship, a great meal, and awesome speaker - Dan Russell,
champion wrestler and now a pastor
in Battleground, Washington. The subject of Pastor Russell's talk was,
"Two Questions" to ask: Number One to himself and Number two to
God. 1. Who is in Control? 2. What are You asking me to take
control of today? In the days when Dan was wrestling he would ask
him self these two questions before he stepped onto the mat. If he could
answer these two questions, he had a very good chance of winning the match.
May 17,
Alyssa Cheek Bridal Shower.
May 20,
Keenager Event. The Keenagers went on a "Mystery Trip."
It was organized by the Keenager Leader Dan Grady. It is not a mystery
any more. Twelve Keenagers went in the two church vans to the town of
Hood River. They left church at 10:30 AM and stopped for lunch at Bette's
Place. Then visited the Western
Antique Aeroplane and Automotive Museum, also in Hood River. They
arrived back at Temple around 4:30 PM.
May 21 - 23,
Women's Retreat
May 27,
Daycare Graduation.
May 29, Jr.
High to Ape Caves.
June 6, The
Summer Hummer. It was an evening of sharing God's gifts through music,
dance, and word.
June 29,
Edna Sandblom West died this day. She was the daughter of A.G. Sandblom.
Edna was 106 years of age.
June 21 -
25, Sizzle (Vacation Bible School.) This year the theme of Vacation Bible school
will be Joseph's Journey from Prison to Palace in Egypt.
July 29,
Keenagers went to Christiansen's Beach House in Seaside. The group
consisted of 14. They shared a lunch consisting of Fried Chicken, mashed
potatoes, coleslaw, biscuits, sodas and coffee. After lunch some of the
Keenagers went for a stroll on the Boardwalk others went window shopping
downtown Seaside and the rest lounged around the beach house. On the
return trip to Portland, they stopped at a Dairy Queen in Manning for ice
cream. The weather was between 60 to 65 degrees. A great time was
had by all.
August 19-22,
Fort Stevens Campout.
September
11, Saturday, The men from Temple went on a 12 mile rafting adventure on the Deschutes
River with the men from Warren
Community Fellowship. They put in at Maupin
and finished the rafting at a point just above Sherars
Falls.
September
18, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, The women of Temple and friends attended a Beth Moore
Simulcast. It was held at Temple.
September
25, James "Jim" Recardo Gaupo died today.
October 1, 9:30am,
A
memorial service was held for Jim Gaupo at Temple Baptist
Church. He is buried at Willamette National Cemetery on Mt. Scott in
Portland. Jim was a member of Temple for almost 40 years. He is
survived by his wife Carolyn and three children; Cathy, Karen "Cissy",
and Ricky.
October 1-3,
Men's Retreat at Lake Retreat. Approximately 100 men attended the retreat
from different conference churches in the area and 23 came from Temple.
The speaker for the chapel services was Dr. Ron Carlson, president of Christian
Ministries International. Dr. Carlson's seminars were challenging and
educational.
October 15,
A Keenager Event Open to All! We were entertained by the Gaither
Homecoming Tour 2010, at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland. Dan Grady
was in charge of the arrangements.
October 24,
Sunday, 4:45 to 7:00 pm, Temple hosted a night of indoor Roller Skating at Oaks
Park. Everyone was invited - young and old, singles and families.
October 28,
John Arthur Snyder passed away on this date. He was a member of Temple for
years and a member of Gideons
International.
November 5,
1:00 pm, Friday, A Memorial Service was held at Temple Baptist Church for
John Snyder.
November 19,
Gene Norvald passed away. He is survived by his wife Freda and daughter
Debbie and son Gregg.
November 26,
Bert Johnson passed away peacefully with his family at his bed side.
November 30,
A memorial service was held at Temple for Gene Norvald.
December 3,
A memorial service was held at Temple for Bert Johnson.
December 12,
Sunday, 6:00 pm, Temple held it's annual Christmas Program. The children
and youth of Temple presented their gifts of time, abilities and love to Jesus
as they presented, "Jesus is the Light of the World. Program was
directed by Mary Fox. Following the program we met in the Upper Room to
celebrate Jesus' Birthday.
December 19,
After the morning worship service we gathered in the Upper Room for a light
lunch followed by a wonderful time of singing Christmas Carols to some of those
in our church body who are "shut ins" and to those who live in some
of the retirement centers, adult foster and nursing homes in our area.
This time of caroling is the first time this has happened on this day and hour
as previously time of caroling has been scheduled for a Wednesday evening.
December 24, Friday, 11:00 pm,
Temple presented a traditional celebration of the Christmas story in a beautiful
setting in the sanctuary, with wonderful music and a candle lighting ceremony.
December 31,
New Years Eve, 6:30 pm, Temple presented a Simple Supper and Communion in the Upper
Room. This was followed by the annual Year in Review Slide Show in the
Sanctuary. The slide show was produced by Mr. Doug Drinnon and crew.
God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, but God does not enable him to
enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous
evil.
Ecclesiastes 6:2 NIV
See Foot Notes
2011
Mike
Pinkerton continued as Senior Pastor at our church.
January 1, New Years Day.
January 8, All
Church Breakfast at 8:00 am and Un Decorating Day starts at 9:00. After
the hearty breakfast the Christmas decorations are to be taken down and stored
until next Christmas.
January 16,
After the morning service a luncheon was held to honor the retirement of June
Perretti, church organist and Jim Wilson church custodian.
January
21-22, Mission ConneXion Northwest was held at the
Sunset Presbyterian Church on
NW Cornell Road in Portland.
January 22, A
reception for the wedding of Gabirel and Melissa Duke was held at the home of
Steve and Mary Fox.
February 9,
Dixie Wade a long time member of Temple died in her sleep this morning at her
home with her daughter by her side. Dixie was the church Payroll Secretary
for many years.
February 13, Small Group Study begins today. The study entitled "Come
and Follow," is based on the
Gospel of Mark in preparation for Holy Week. The study guide was written
by Dr. Jerry & Dee Sheveland. Dr. Sheveland is President of Converge
Worldwide BGC.
February 18,
Viola Christiansen passed away and went to be with our Lord this morning.
February 25,
7:00 pm, The 18:20 Band
presented a concert at Temple. The concert consisted of original Christian
music with classic rock influence. Free Admission. Concert was
cancelled and to be rescheduled at a later date.
February 15,
Mark Moore, husband of Ronda (Kriens) Moore was approved by the elder council to
be the High School director of Temple Baptist Church. May he look to his
God for wisdom and guidance as he begins in this ministry position.
March 12,
11:00, A memorial service was held for Viola Christian who passed away on
February 18.
March 26th,
Saturday, 2:00 -5:00 ~ Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary open house celebration for
Earl and Pearl Johnson by their children and grandchildren was held at
Temple.
April 2,
10:00 am, A memorial service was held for Dixie Wade who passed away on February
9.
April 1-3, An
exciting weekend retreat for high school students at the Dunes Bible Camp in
Long Beach, Washington. Eighteen high school students and nine
leaders were there. The retreat was called "Catalyst."
April 3, Mike
Pinkerton, our senior Pastor, gave an announcement at a informational business
meeting, that he had turned in his resignation to the Elder Board effective July
10.
April 8, A
group from Temple left today for the island nation of Haiti to help with primarily
with Jehu who runs a boys home for homeless street boys. His house
collapsed during the earthquake and he has relocate to a new piece of
land. Other projects could include light construction/maintenance, kids
clubs, or medical/hygiene clinics depending or personnel. See January 12,
2010.
April 17,
Along with the morning service we celebrated Palm Sunday. "They took
palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
'Hosanna!'" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of
the
Lord!"
John 12:13 NIV
April 22,
7:00 pm, A Good Friday Service was held in the
Sanctuary. It was a solemn remembrance of our Savior's sacrificial
death. The Sanctuary was low light atmosphere; no lighting except for lit
candles on the communion table. Peggy Bates and Pastor Mike read the
Biblical account of the crucifixion and the events that led to it from the
balcony. Ryan Fast led in worshipful music and singing.
April 23,
9:30 am. Temple had an breakfast in the Upper Room and an Easter Candy Hunt in the
church following. An Easter
message of Jesus' resurrection and what it means to each of us was heard.
April 24,
Easter Sunday Service. We celebrated the Resurrection of the Savior.
The Sanctuary Choir directed by Per Walthinsen, presented two choral musicals, "God's Son Has Made
Me Free" by the Norwegian Composer, Edvard
Grieg and "Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ," which was a
Jamaican folk song melody, arranged by Gradley Ellingboe, with text by Fred Kann.
Pastor Mike
Pinkerton presented a very direct and down to earth message about the
Resurrection and why Jesus
had to die on the cross. He also told about the 40
days Jesus walked on earth after the Resurrection and before ascending into Heaven. See I Peter
1:8-9
June 20-24,
The Daily Vacation Bible School this year is called Sizzle with a program that
had the theme of "Nazareth, where Jesus was a kid." This is the
third year the church used the Sizzle program. In 2009 the theme was
Ancient Rome and 2010 the theme was Ancient Egypt.
June 25,
Phyllis Rydman passed away in the early afternoon on this day. The Rydman
family were long time members of Temple dating back to her mom and dad who were
very active members. Phyllis is survived by her sister Marjorie.
July 10,
Pastor Mike Pinkerton gave his final message during the morning service.
A Reception was held in the Overflow/Reception room for those to say goodbye and
thank you to Mike and Renee for their years of leadership.
July 17,
10:00 am, Luis Palau Season of Service
July 17,
11:00 am, The guest speaker at the Morning service was Dr.
John Terveen, Professor of Greek and New Testament Studies at Multnomah
University.
July 24,
Jr.
High/Adult Sunday School with Zach Powell serving with Servant Partners in
France. He also spoke at the Morning Service.
July 28,
Summer Mission Team (SMT) returns @ 8:50am.
July 29,
Friday, 11:00 am, Jr. High BBQ and Ice
Blocking.
July 31, Kate
White led the music portion of the Worship Service.
August 2,
5:50 pm, Lloyd Center Neighborhood Night Out @ Holiday Park.
August 7,
Kate White led the music portion of the Worship Service.
August 7, A
potluck and business meeting was held in the Upper Room after the Morning
Service. A ballet item was voted on to elect Rev. Jim Visbeek as an
Intentional Transitional Interim Pastor. He was elected by a 95% vote of
those at the meeting. The Upper Room was pretty well filled.
August 12,
9:30 am, Junior High group had an day outing at Alpine
Slides. Alpine Slides are the Pacific Northwest's only 1/2 mile Dual
Alpine Slide, as this major attraction sends you flying down a half mile track
of twists and turns through mountain meadows before dropping you back off in the
base are of Skibowl West. Two side-by-side tracks let you ride alongside
family and friends as you take banked turns, S-curves and hairpin thrills at the
speed of your choice.
August 13,
10:00 am, High School group went of a day Hike in the Columbia
Gorge.
August
18, All Church Camping weekend at Fort
Stevens State Park. This is the 32nd year in a row the the church went
on this annual campout.
August 21,
10:00 am, Worship Service at Fort Stevens.
August 21,
11:00 am, Worship Service at Temple.
August 28, 10:45 am, Dr. Roger
Trautmann, Associate Professor of Pastoral
Ministry, at Multmonah Biblical Seminary, shared from God's Word at the Morning
Service. He taught from 2 Peter 1:1-11 with a sermon title of
"Growing Through The Unexpected."
August 28,
12:45 pm, Team Missions-Switzerland Report. Hear what the young
people from Temple accomplished/what they did on their missions trip.
September 4,
Sunday, Today is the first day that our new Interim Pastor Jim Visbeek presented
the message at the morning service. He spoke on "The Pastor's
Paradox: Persuasive Words or God's Power?" Text from I Corinthians
2:1-5.
September 8,
10:00 am, Combined Junior High/Adult Sunday school with Art and Dorothy Helwig,
BGC Converge Worldwide Missionaries serving in Nigeria.
September 10,
Pastor Dave Danielson died this morning. He will be greatly missed.
He was Senior Pastor at Temple for about 12 years, during the years 1960 - 1972.
One of his favorite Bible verses was:
"He has shown you, O man, what is
good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To Love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8 NKJV
September 10,
Men's Rafting Trip down the Deschutes
River.
September 11,
Today marks the 10 Year Anniversary of the September 11 attacks on
America. We remember all the innocent victims who perished at the World
Trade Center, the Pentagon and in the Pennsylvania field. We also lift up
in those who grieve for family and friends and those who witnessed these
tragedies, asking God to give them extra strength from above.
September 11,
Adult Sunday School Classes as follows;
1 - Study of I Corinthians, led by Rick Mathews in the Kinsman-Harvester Room.
2 - New Testament Usage of The Old Testament, led by Dale Peretti in the Upper
Room South.
3 - Living on the Edge ~ Study of Romans 12, led by Gary Shank in the Upper Room
North.
September 11,
5:30 pm, fall Kick-Off Dinner/Ministry Fair and Informational Meeting.
September 18,
11:00 am, Commissioning of Joel and Andi McMartin, and Tori Duke who are leaving
for the mission field in Senegal,
Africa.
September 18,
1:00 - 4:00pm, Farewell/Send off Barbeque for the McMartin family and Tori at Laurelhurst
Park.
September 21,
Don and Dorothy Strandberg were married 60 years ago today.
September 23,
Friday, 7:42 pm, Shirley Bailey, wife of the late Max Bailey, a
devoted member of Temple Baptist Church for 29 years, went to be with with the
Lord. She became a member of the church on October 6, 1968.
She was, for one thing involved in co-chairing the Awana program along with
another person.
September 28,
Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. A memorial service for Shirley Bailey was held at Crossroads
Church at 2505 NE 102nd Avenue, Portland, OR.
September 30,
Men's Retreat at Lake Retreat.
September 30,
High School Fall Rally at Saviors
Church in Federal Way, Washington.
October 9,
5:00 pm, All Church Roller Skate at Oaks Park.
October 15,
18:20 Concert.
October
21-22, Converge NW Annual Meetings at Lake
Retreat.
October 29,
6:30, High School Harvest Party.
October 31,
Evans Nelson died today. He was a long time member of Temple and quite
active in the Columbia Conference. Evans was born on September 5,
1922. He served in the U.S. Navy as a dentist in Japan and then in private
practice for 43 years. He was a man of faith and integrity, a strong
leader, and an encourager who was full of wise principles and guidance.
November 12,
2 pm, Saturday, A memorial service was held in celebrating the life of Dr.
Evans Nelson at Temple Baptist Church. See October 31, 2011
November 17,
Susan (Goddard) VanBuskirk passed away peacefully surrounded by her husband, her
parents, two sisters, and her brother.
November 24, Thanksgiving Day.
"It is
good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim
you love in the morning and your faithfulness at night."
Psalm 92:1,2 NIV
Foot Notes: During
the Thanksgiving holiday, we focus on our blessings and express our
gratitude to God for them. But thanks should be on our lips every
day. We can never say thank you enough to parents, friends, leaders, and
especially to God. When thanksgiving becomes an integral part of your
life, you will find that your attitude toward life will change, You will
become more positive, gracious, loving, and humble. (From Footnotes of Life Application Study
Bible-NIV).
November 26,
All Church Decorating. The job of decorating the church inside and
outside, so beautifully this year, was directed by Mrs. Dan (Susan) Grady.
November 27,
4:30, The Dickens Carolers Concert.
This unique concert is an annual event at our church. It is always a treat
to see the carolers in their beautiful costumes and hear the many Christmas
Carols and other songs presented. This year there were not many seats left
in main sanctuary and the balcony.
December 4,
5:30 pm, High School Christmas Party.
December 4, 12:45 pm, Annual Business Meeting and Dinner.
This year the dinner was a pot luck.
December 10,
5:30 pm, Junior High Progressive Dinner.
December 11,
Egg Roll Sunday, The Hope Vietnamese Church makes egg rolls for the entire
church congregation. This has been a yearly event.
December 15,
7:00 pm, Day Care Christmas Program
December 17,
9:00 am, Christmas Program Practice.
December 18,
6:00 pm, Christmas Program.
December 24,
11:00 pm, Candlelight Service.
December 25,
Sunday, Christmas Day, 11:00 Worship Service
"And when the magi had
opened their treasures they presented him gifts of gold, frankincense and
myrrh." (Mat. 2:11)
As we consider what gift we can offer Jesus, we are reminded
that gold represents our wealth, possessions, tithes and offering.
While frankincense points toward our worship and adoration for He is
worthy! However myrrh, defined as "bitter." was an
unusual gift of medicinal incense that pointed towards Jesus' future suffering
and death on the cross.
Written by Rick and Carol Stark. Used with permission.
December 31,
6:30 pm, Simple Supper.
December 31,
7:30 pm, Annual Year in Review Slide Show. (approx time) The Slide
show for many years has been in a digital format and has been produced by Mr.
Doug Drinnon and Co.
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."
Philippians 3:13 KJV
2012
Rev. Jim
Visbeek continued as Intentional Interim Pastor.
January
1, Sunday, New Years Day, 11:00 Worship Service
January
8, Sunday, The First Town Hall Meeting took place after the morning service in
the Upper Room.
January
9, All Church Un-Decorating. All the Christmas Decorations were taken down
and stored until next Advent Season.
January 29,
Sunday, The Second Town Hall Meeting took place after the morning service in the
Upper Room.
February 26,
The message in the morning service was presented by Nikolas Buys.
March
4, Sunday, The Third Town Hall Meeting took place after the morning
service in the Upper Room.
March 4,
Pastor Jim and Janet Visbeek will be gone for the next two weeks.
March 10,
Cathy Horness's mother, Jeanne, passed away early this morning. Cathy has been our
church secretary for many years.
March 11,
Sunday, Blake Kidney presented the message at the morning service. It was
entitled "The Love of God," from I Corinthians 13:4-8a.
March 18,
Bruce Fessenden presented the message at the morning service. It was
entitled "The Peacemakers Recipe," from Matthew 5:9.
March 19,
George Johnson, the brother of Earl, Marion, Beulah, and eldest son of our
former pastor, Dr. Linus and Ruth Johnson, passed away this evening at
approximately 8 p.m. George would have celebrated his 91st birthday on
September 9.
March 28,
Eugene E. Miller passed away. Eugene, Rosalie and family were former
members of Temple. See April 7, 2012.
March,
Sale of Lake Retreat Camp is
pending. The prospective buyer is Real
Life Church, a church the camp has been in negotiations with both in terms
of the financial agreement, as well as the promise of the property being used in
the future for valuable ministry for the Lord and as the ongoing home of Adelphia
as a tenant.
April 1, Palm
Sunday
April 5, 7
pm, Season of Prayer to,
April 6, 7
pm, Concluded the Season of Prayer
April 5, 7:00
pm, Maundy Thursday Service ~ Everyone was welcomed to join us as we focused on
"Prayer and Scripture" and then partake in Communion together.
Tonight at 7:00 pm starts a 24 hour Season of Prayer.
April 6,
7:00, Good Friday Candlelight Service ~ Scripture, Prayer and Communion focused
on "The Words of Jesus."
April 7,
9:30-11:00 am, Easter Breakfast and Candy Hunt. The day's activities began
with breakfast for everyone in the Upper Room, followed by The Easter Story to
the children and the traditional candy hunt.
April 7, 2:00
pm, A Celebration of Life, was held for Eugene E. Miller at Grace
Baptist Church, Warren, Oregon.
April 8,
11:00 am, Resurrection Sunday. Easter Celebration Service. We
celebrated the Resurrection of our Lord!
April 14, A
Memorial for George Johnson was held in the sanctuary at 11:00 am. George
was the eldest son of our former pastor, Dr. Linus Johnson. Approximately
130 people were in attendance.
April 30, Alice
Nguyen went to be with the Lord this evening. She was a long time member
of Temple. Alice was born on April, 20 1937 in Bac
Lieu, Vietnam. She and her family came to the United States in 1977.
May 3,
Thursday, National
Day of Prayer is an annual event held on the 1st Thursday of May. It is a time which
the people of the United States turn to God in prayer and meditation at
churches, in groups, and as individuals. More than 35,000 prayer
gatherings were conducted across the United States. Several million
people participated in this call to prayer. It stands as a
call to us to humble come before God, as a nation, seeking His guidance for our
leaders and His grace upon us as a people.
May 6, Evelyn
(Nestlen) McCarthy died this day. Evelyn was a long time member of
Temple. She was married to Mr. Bill Nestlen for many years. A few years
after Bill passed away she married Mr. Ken McCarthy.
May 13, Mother's
Day The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908,
when Anna Jarvis held a
memorial for her mother in America.
May 28,
Monday, Memorial Day,
We remember all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country!
May 30,
Wednesday, 6:45pm, There was an FBI Internet Safety Presentation and Light
Supper in the Upper Room. This event was geared towards students and
parents, but was Especially for Parents. The talk on Internet Safety was
presented by Jane, a former FBI agent. About 50 people were in attendance.
June 1,
Friday, 6 to 9pm. Sizzle work party in back parking lot consisted of
Creating, Building, Painting, Cutting, Hauling.
June 2,
Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Sizzle work party.
June 2,
Sophie Christiansen and Katie Klinkhammer graduated from Bethel University in
St. Paul. The Commencement took place in Bethel's Benson Great Hall.
June 3, Sunday,
12:45-2:00pm, Sunday, The Fourth Town Hall Meeting took place
after the morning service in the Upper Room.
June 9,
Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Sizzle work party.
June 10, Sunday,
12:45-2:00pm, The Fifth Town Hall Meeting took place after the
morning service in the Upper Room.
June 10,
Holger and Colleen Engstrom celebrated 50 years of Marriage.
June 15,
Friday, 6 to 9pm, Sizzle work party.
June 16,
Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Sizzle work party.
June 17, Father's
Day Its first celebration was on June 19, 1910.
June 22,
Friday, 6 to 9pm, Sizzle work party.
June 23,
Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Sizzle work party.
June 29,
Friday, 6 to 9pm, Sizzle work party. Building the Market Place.
June 30,
Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Sizzle work party. Building the Market Place.
July 7,
Saturday, 9am, Final Move-In.
July 9, First
day of Sizzle (Babylon)
July 10,
Second day of Sizzle
July 11,
Third day of Sizzle
July
12, Fourth day of Sizzle
July 13, Fifth and final day of Sizzle.
July 15,
There was a Strike Party after the morning service where volunteers took down
and stored all the Sizzle Props and Decorations. The goal was to have everything
done in 2 hours. With the number of volunteers helping this was easily
accomplished.
August 1,
There was an internment service for Susan (Goddard) VanBuskirk at Willamette
National Cemetery. A reception was held following the service at Abundant
Life Church, 17241 SE Hemrich Rd., Damascus, Oregon.
August 7,
5-7:00pm ~ Temple Baptist Church and
Sonbeam Preschool teams had a booth at the
National
Night Out Event at Holiday Park near the church. The church had an
assigned area in the park and was blessed with a total of 25 to 30
church members and friends who stopped in to help. We had a pop-up canopy
and a crew of girls who preformed face painting for everyone, young and
old. Everyone had a good time of visiting and sharing with each other and
the general public. It was a good opportunity to talk to potential
families for Sonbeam and also to share about the wonderful qualities of Temple.
The police and other community safety groups were well represented. The
Army recruiters brought a rock climbing wall for every one to try. A Chiropractic
school provided a booth with massages and the firemen brought a truck, also two
horse patrol officers and their rides, many more vendors and two very pleasant
bands provided live music.
Food was provided by a variety of businesses: Calaroga
Terrace grilled hotdogs, Qdoba had
chips and salsa, the Doubletree Inn
provided a choice of beverages and their famous, delicious cookies for all who
attended.
This was the 29th national annual event, which started in 1984.
August 7,
Mary Salholm joined the church staff as Ministry and Volunteer
Coordinator. She will work with our two pastors in the next few weeks to
created the foundation of volunteer ministry at Temple as recommended by the
Transition Team.
August 11,
Saturday - 9-6pm ~ Temple held a yard sale at the church. There were
a wide assortment of items for sale. The ladies of church decided to use
their treasures, time, and talents to make our church more welcoming to guests
and show love to some of the older generations of Temple. The yard sale is
their way to earn money for their challenge. They are excited for their
opportunity to be part of Temple's future.
August 15,
Winn and Marianne Goddard, long time members of Temple, who now reside in Bend,
Or., were married 60 years ago on this date.
August 17-19,
The annual church camp out at Fort
Stevens State Park. It is located on the Oregon Coast north of Seaside
near Warrenton.
This year 35 camp-sites were
reserved in the O-Loop thanks to Sue Johnson.
September 16,
Sunday, Today was the first day we saw and heard the new Street Car run in front
of the church. It was on trial runs for a few days.
September 17,
Katie Klinkhammer left for the country of Senegal
to be a nanny for Joel and Andi
McMartin.
September 23,
Sunday ~ Today was designated as 'Sample Sunday'. 'Free Tickets' were
passed out during the services the past couple Sundays. The congregation
was encouraged to invite families and friends not attending Temple to come and
take part in the activities. Our service included special music, singing
new and older songs. Pastor Jim gave the message on remembering Jesus
Christ and His spiritual and bodily resurrection; how He died and rose again
that we may have life eternal. A free hot brunch was served before the
morning service and a free lunch was served on the front steps of the church
right after the morning service.
September 23,
Sunday ~ Today the new Street
Car (CL Line) ran in front of the church carrying passengers. It
started carrying passengers on September 22.
September 28,
Friday to Sunday, the 30th. ~ High School Rally was held in Olympia
Washington.
October 7,
Sunday ~ The morning service was a joint effort by Temple and Hope Vietnamese
Church. Pastor Jim presented the message in English and Pastor Thai then
translated the message to Vietnamese.
October13,
7;00 pm, A concert by the band 18:20 was held in the church sanctuary to benefit
CityTeam International . A 4-pack of
toilet paper was the entrance fee. A local artist Jacob Merlin was
featured. This is the second concert by 18:20 held at Temple.
K104.1FM - The Fish.
October 14,
5-7 pm ~ Family and Friends Roller Skating Party at Oaks
Park. For families and friends of Temple
Baptist Church and Sonbeam Preschool.
October 21,
Sunday ~ In a business meeting following the Morning Service a pulpit committee
to select a new senior pastor was elected by the members present. They
consisted of 4 current elders and a number of members at large.
November 24,
Saturday ~ The church was decorated for the Christmas/Advent season. Mrs.
Susan Grady volunteered to head up the task.
November 25,
Sunday ~ The Dickens Carolers
put on a concert this afternoon in the sanctuary.
December 2,
First Sunday of Advent ~ Jeanne Buschbach lit the First Advent Candle. The
lighting of the first advent candle symbolizes Expectation. The sermon titled Songs of Christmas, The
Angel's Song, this morning was presented by Rev.
Gary Shank. Reading
from Pastor Jim
December 9,
Second Advent Sunday ~ Dan, Rebecca and Dylan Wood lit the Second Advent
Candle. The second advent candle symbolizes Hope. Reading
from Pastor Jim.
December 9,
Sunday ~ The message at the morning service, Songs of Christmas, was
presented by Pastor Jim Visbeek. It was titled the "Story Behind the
Story, Zechariah's
Song.
December 16,
Third Advent Sunday ~ Steve and Marilyn Waring lit the 3rd Advent Candle
and Katie Koerper read from Luke
2:1-7. The third advent candle symbolizes Joy.
December
16, Sunday ~ The message at the morning service, Songs of Christmas,
was presented by Pastor Jim Visbeek. It was titled "Jesus the
Revolutionary: Mary's
Song." Reading
from Pastor Jim.
December 16,
Sunday, 4:00-6:00 PM ~ Temple Family Christmas Celebration. We sang
carols, heard the nativity story, enjoyed cookies, a hot beverage and celebrated
Jesus' birthday.
December 23,
Fourth Advent Sunday ~ The fourth advent candle symbolizes Purity. The message at the morning service, Songs of Christmas,
was presented by Pastor Jim Visbeek. It was titled "Simeon's
Song: This is the One!"
Reading from Pastor
Jim
December
24, Christmas Eve Service, 11:00pm ~ This evening we light the fifth candle - The
Christ Candle. This is the candle of Love, for Jesus Christ is love
incarnate who humbled Himself to become human for our salvation. It is
through the love of Jesus that we are made whole. Christ not only is the
perfect example of love for us - Christ is the pure essence of love. The
love of Jesus is not theoretical, hypothetical or even metaphorical, the love of
Jesus Christ is tangible, here for us this very night. Jesus, He always
protects, always trusts, always hoped, and always perseveres. Jesus never
fails. May the love of Jesus Christ fill our homes on this hollowed
Christmas Eve.
By Pastor Jim Visbeek
Reading from Pastor Jim
December 25, Christmas Day, Tuesday ~ A day spent with our families near and
far.
December 31,
New Years Eve, Monday ~ 6:30pm, New years Eve Simple Supper in the Upper
Room, followed by the annual year-in-review slide show at 8:00 in the sanctuary.
The following are words from John B. Pearson, Church Historian in 1985;
"The history of Temple is bursting at the seams with evidence of God's
goodness to His people. Due to the faithfulness of Olaus Okerson and a
handful of others in founding this church, Temple has a rich, spiritual
heritage.
We are what we are today because of the decisions made
by those who preceded us. The works of God's people have continued after
those early and later pioneers, and bears fruit in us today. The same
promises hold true today for us that were true for them. The faithfulness
we exhibit today will bear fruit in others tomorrow."
"Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:6 NIV
"Let
us go forward on the road that has brought us to where we are."
Philippians 3:16