Holocaust Week Begins Sunday

“We Remember the Children and Vow, ‘Never Again.”’

That’s the poignant title of Holocaust Remembrance Week, April 14-20.

Between 1933 and 1945, 6 million Jews, including 1-1/2 million children, and millions of people of other nationalities were victims of Nazi tyranny.

Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Day, will be observed with a candlelight ceremony at 7 p.m. Sunday at Temple Beth Shalom, 1322 E. 30th.

Fifteen children, each representing 100,000 Jewish children who died during that dark time, will read a brief biography of one of the children they represent.

Eva Lassman will give “Growing Up in the Nazi Shadow,” a survivor’s remembrance; Alan Rubens and Heron Baumgarten will present a reading from the “Diary of Anne Frank”; and music will be sung by the Temple Beth Shalom Choir and the Jefferson Elementary School Choir.

Other participants will include Rabbi Jacob Izakson, the Revs. Austin and Mary Hennessey of Unity Church, the Rev. Kristi Philip of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, and the Rev. Robert Dunn of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

The public is invited.

Gospel music concert

The Rev. Isiah Jones Jr. will perform contemporary African-American gospel music at 7 tonight in the Pence Union Building on the Eastern Washington University campus.

Jones, a composer and vocalist who has performed with the likes of Mahalia Jackson, is a campus minister at Oregon State University. His song, “God Has Smiled on Me,” was sung in the Whoopi Goldberg film “Clara’s Heart.”

His concert, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the United Ministries, Lutheran Campus Ministry and the Catholic Newman Center at Eastern.

Church and conflict seminar

A seminar for pastors and church leaders on “Managing Conflict in Your Church” will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the First Assembly of God Church, 828 W. Indiana.

The event, sponsored by the Institute for Christian Conciliation, will be led by Ken Sande, executive director for the Institute for Christian Conciliation in Billings, Mont.

The seminar will cover a variety of subjects:

How to teach church members to resolve their own conflicts personally and privately.

How to apply biblical negotiation skills to promote consensus and cooperation within your church.

How to use counseling, informal mediation or binding arbitration.

How to support peacemaking and reduce exposure to lawsuits.

How to reduce risk of child abuse and fulfill legal obligations to report abuse.

How to prepare and carry out church discipline in a loving, redemptive and legally safe manner.

Cost for the seminar is $50 per person. Churches co-sponsoring the event are Indian Trail Community, First Assembly of God, Valley Fourth Memorial, Life Center, Northview Bible, Fourth Memorial, Park Heights Baptist and First Presbyterian.

‘Faith In Motion’

The Frontline Continentals, a traveling troupe of 25 young people, will stage “On the Frontline … Faith in Motion” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Central Lutheran Church, 309 W. Fifth.

The group will present an “energetic and innovative musical performance of contemporary Christian music, including praise songs and a special number for children,” a spokesman said.

Symbolic motion workshop

“Experiencing Our Songs with Body, Mind and Soul” is the name of a symbolic movement workshop to be led by Margaret Taylor Doane at 9 a.m. today at Westminster Congregational Church, 411 S. Washington.

Ways to dramatize social concerns and to reconcile and find empowerment through insights into God’s presence in daily living will be explored, a spokeswoman said.

Doane, a Spokane resident, has led workshops in 3,000 churches in America and Japan.

For more information, call 624-1366.

Halfway mark

St. Peter Roman Catholic Church has raised 75 percent of its $950,000 goal to finish the church complex at 3520 E. 18th and retire the building debt.

A total of $720,908 has been received, said Michael Glockling, chairman of the general campaign, now in its 10th week.

Work being completed on the building begun in 1995 includes adding mechanical equipment and finishing 12,000 square feet of ceilings, floors and walls, Glocking said. The All Saints School gymnasium is also being renovated.

The new building now has a chapel that seats 500, five classrooms, administration offices for school and parish, three meeting rooms, four restrooms and a multipurpose area - a total of 40,000 square feet.

The St. Peter Parish includes 700 families with 2,400 individuals.

For more information, call 534-3109.

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