The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 68, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 2011 Page: 3 of 35
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THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 3
SEPTEMBER 2011
in Norway attacks
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BY ERIK TRYGGESTAD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
Bobby Ross Jr.
Andersen
BY ERIK TRYGGESTAD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
See LATINO YOUTHS, Page 22
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Believers pray for
victims and accused
Play ball: Travels
bring ballpark
fun, fellowship
City. The Spanish-speaking congregation
hosted the event, using the facility of the
Oakcrest congregation.
The conference, launched by a group
of Spanish-speaking ministers in the U.S.,
is similar to youth events in Mexico, said
Victorino Martinez, minister for a Church
of Christ in Rogers, Ark. The minister
grew up in Mexico and graduated from the
Baxter Institute, a ministry training school,
before moving to the U.S.
One goal of the conference is to show
young, Spanish-speaking Christians who
grow up in small congregations that they
are part of a larger body of faith, Victorino
Martinez said.
INSIDE: Pepperdine University's Daniel A. Rodriguez presents
models for reaching U.S.-born Latinos in "A Future for the
Latino Church." See a review of the new book on Page 32.
ERIKTRYGGESTAD
Anahi Cabral, right, and fellow youths from the San Elizario Iglesia de Cristo (Church of Christ) in El
Paso, Texas, practice new praise songs at the National Youth Conference in Oklahoma City.
No translation required
LATINO YOUTHS in the U.S. worship in Spanish, are fluent in
English and sometimes feel like they live between two worlds
Talk about an awesome
time: A
Inside Story recent Friday
night found
me in the
right-field
bleachers at
Safeco Field
in Seattle,
sipping Diet
Coke from a
souvenir cup
and watching
my favorite
team, the Texas Rangers,
play the hometown Mariners.
James A Maxwell, minister
of the Holgate Church of
Christ in Seattle, invited me
to the game while I was in
town working on a story.
Maxwell, whom I first met
at the National Lectureship in
Philadelphia last year, sport-
ed a brand-new Mariners cap.
His 12-year-old son, Brooks,
chowed down ballpark garlic
fries as we enjoyed America’s
favorite pastime.
With Seattle fans all
around me, I wore a red
Rangers shirt with Al-Star
outfielder Josh Hamilton’s
No. 32 on the back. I
cheered politely — but not
too loudly — for defending
American League champion
Texas. (My team won!)
I have mentioned before
that I love God, my family
and baseball — mostly in
that order. My time with the
Chronicle has provided amaz-
ing opportunities to embrace
all three of those loves.
See BASEBALL, Page 4
OKLAHOMA CITY
M M ore than 200 youths, from as
H awaY as Vegas and San
■■ Diego, traveled .—
■ ■■ ■ to the heart of
■ W ■ the U.S. to hear
preachers talk about holiness |
and to sing songs of praise —
all in Spanish.
In the hallways of the
Oakcrest Church of Christ,
the teens fellowshiped —
and flirted — bilingually,
Martinez
floating in between Spanish and English.
The fourth “Reunion Nacional Juvenil”
(“National Youth Conference”) was designed
to “preach the Gospel to the young people,”
said Felix Martinez, minister for the
Southeast Church of Christ in Oklahoma
/ eoP^e ask me wkat I do
1# in winter when there’s
no baseball. I’ll tell
you what I do. I stare out the
window and wait for spring. ”
— Rogers Hornsby
M
■ 1
“No one is safe in Scandinavia
anymore.”
That’s how Sigridur Hilmarsdottir
described her reaction to twin attacks
in Norway that claimed 76 lives.
“We are shocked, more than words can
say, over these senseless, cold-blooded
murders in our friends’ country,” said
Hilmarsdottir, a member of a tiny Church
of Christ in Reykjavik, Iceland. ‘We are
grieved and praying fervently for God’s
mercy and comfort to the stricken.”
In Norway, Christians
also are praying for vic-
tims of the July 22 bomb-
ing in the capital, Oslo,
and a shooting rampage
at an island youth camp.
“This is a really sad and
painful incident for the
whole nation,” said Colin
Beharie, a church mem-
ber in Sandnes, Norway.
Anders Behring
Breivik, the man accused
of the killings, also is the
subject of prayers among
Norwegian Christians,
said Borgar Andersen,
a church member in
Bergen, Norway. Onoku
“We pray for the ter- p
rorist as well,” he said, “that he will
think over what he has done, repent
and not sin anymore.”
A handful of Churches of Christ meet
in Norway, Andersen said. He and his
wife, Sana, worship in homes with three
other Christians.
In neighboring Sweden, Christians
mourn for the victims of the attacks,
said Gabrielle Nilsson Opoku, who wor-
ships with a small Church of Christ in
Sweden’s capital, Stockholm.
Many of the victims “probably never
have heard the Gospel,” she said, “and
their chance will never come again.
“Therefore, we are pleading for mis-
sionaries ... to come to Sweden and
other Scandinavian countries for the
sake of the Gospel to be spread.”
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McMillon, Lynn. The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 68, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 2011, newspaper, September 1, 2011; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1509308/m1/3/?q=%22songs%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.