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    Posted on March 2nd, 2010

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    30 YEARS IN MINISTRY

    30 YEARS IN MINISTRY

    Starting Friday, March 12, the congregation of Celebration Tabernacle Church in North Portland will host “A Call for Growth,” a public celebration of the 30 years in ministry, leadership and service of Senior Pastor Elbert D. Mondainé.
    In 1988, Mondainé founded True Believers Assembly of Non-Denominational Churches, as well as Celebration Tabernacle Church in the Kenton [...]

  • Events

    Posted on May 20th, 2009

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    First Thursdays with Perspect

    First Thursdays with Perspect

    FIRST THURSDAYS - we meet at  PO’ SHINES CAFE DE LA SOUL @ 5:00PM and head downtown to experience the Creative art scene. We ask that you would fill out our First Thursday’s permission slip for your High Schooler and bring it with them.

  • Current News

    Posted on June 22nd, 2009

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    Po’ Shines open-mic night showcases youth poetry

    Po’ Shines open-mic night showcases youth poetry

    The phrase “spoken-word open mic” may conjure up images of bongos, berets and beatniks. In Kenton, only two words come to mind: Po’ Shines.
    Every Friday night, Po’ Shines Café De La Soul has been hosting a spoken-word open mic night. The youth-focused event, “Cornbred,” has been gaining momentum.
    “I’m a youth advocate,” said Po’ Shines manager [...]

  • Current News, News Archive

    Posted on June 23rd, 2009

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    Savoring hush puppies, for a cause

    Savoring hush puppies, for a cause

    By Anne Marie DiStefano
    The Portland Tribune
    Mar 24, 2009
    I’m sitting in the sunny window of a corner storefront, watching the action on the intersection of North Denver Avenue and North Kilpatrick Street — the heart of the north Portland Kenton neighborhood. The Temptations and Al Green are playing on the stereo. Just on the other side [...]

  • News Archive

    Posted on May 17th, 2009

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    New Columbia Party Connects Area

    July 6, 2008
    Community Free food, live music and a neighborly spirit are the point of the festival
Though attendance was dampened by rain, the neighborhood festival at McCoy Park in North Portland’s New Columbia housing project still served up plenty of burgers, hot dogs and community togetherness Saturday.
    “I came here to play a little chess and [...]

  • News Archive

    Posted on May 20th, 2009

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    Concert Aims to Help Families of Miners Heal

    Concert Aims to Help Families of Miners Heal

    By Amy Choate-Nielsen and Josh Loftin
    Deseret Morning News
    Published: Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007
    PRICE - Dark clouds surrounded Price’s Peace Garden Tuesday night, but the light of hundreds of candles shining brightly on a choir of children’s faces weren’t doused by any rain.
    The “Voices of a Thousand Angels” benefit concert drew a crowd of more than 300 [...]

  • News Archive

    Posted on July 1st, 2009

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    Angels few in number but mighty in prayer

    Publication Date: October 29, 2006
    Patricia Poist, Sunday News (Lancaster, PA)
    It could have been deemed a disappointment that only about 20 people showed up.
    But a worship service in the sanctuary, provided free by Bright Side Baptist Church Saturday night, to pray for the victims of the Amish school shootings in Bart Township was anything but.
    Instead, it [...]

  • News Archive

    Posted on July 1st, 2009

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    Movement aimed at school violence

    Publication Date: October 25, 2006
    Lancaster New Era Staff
    The movement is being organized by the Rev. Elbert Mondaine, the senior pastor of congregations in Portland, Ore., and St. Louis, Miss.
    When Mondaine heard about the shootings, in which five girls were killed and five were wounded, he said, “I thought, ‘What is God trying to say to [...]

  • News Archive

    Posted on July 1st, 2009

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    On ‘Angels’ Wings

    Publication Date: October 25, 2006
    Carla Di Fonzo Intelligencer Journal Staff
    When the Rev. Elbert Mondaine heard about the shootings at West Nickel Mines School, he began asking himself serious questions.
    For starters, how could such violence take place on Amish soil?
    “The Amish are such a plain, gentle people,” said the senior pastor of congregations in Portland, Ore., [...]

  • News Archive

    Posted on May 20th, 2009

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    Voices With A Mission

    Voices With A Mission

    Pastor plans to take message of hope to grieving Pennsylvania town
    BY ERIC BARTELS
    The Portland Tribune, Oct 17, 2006
    Pastor Elbert Mondainé, who pronounces his last name with continental flair and goes by the honorific Apostle, is a big talker.
    Ask members of his congregation. Some of them jump-start their days with the sound of his megaphonic orations, [...]

  • News Archive, Press

    Posted on May 17th, 2009

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    Music to Move Body and Spirit

    May 26, 2006
    Northwest music scene
MUSIC TO MOVE BODY AND SPIRIT –Music is power, and gospel music from the Southern black church has been one of the most potent and influential of American styles.
    Just listen to how it works on the new CD, “The Blessing Box,” by Apostle E.D. Mondaine of Portland’s Celebration Tabernacle.
    His supple tenor [...]

  • News Archive, Press

    Posted on May 17th, 2009

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    The Business of a Church

    September 17, 2004
    THE BUSINESS OF A CHURCH
    Summary: Celebration Tabernacle is the driving force behind new businesses in Kenton in North Portland
    The intersection of North Denver Avenue and Kilpatrick Street in North Portland is a flurry of construction, with new businesses opening on almost all four corners. And at the center of is Celebration Tabernacle.
    The church [...]

  • News Archive, Press

    Posted on May 17th, 2009

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    The Zone - Sometimes Christians Just Want to Have Fun

    July 12, 2002
    It’s the first night of summer, and The Wave Room is packed with people eagerly awaiting the start of another Jam Night session.
    The Friday night event, a weekly showcase of comedy, dance and music, has attracted to this North Portland hideaway a cross-generational audience of grade-school kids, parents and young singles.
    The evening’s activities [...]

  • News Archive, Press

    Posted on May 17th, 2009

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    Portland’s Own “Joseph”

    June 28, 1998
    Celebration Tabernacle’s Elbert Mondaine transforms lives with gospel of personal responsibility and self-help
    Robert Woodson’s biblical reference, you can bet, was not lost on Portland’s Elbert D. Mondaine at a Thursday night lecture put on by Cascade Policy Institute, the American Institute for Full Employment and the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs.
    Woodson, director of [...]

  • News Archive, Press

    Posted on May 17th, 2009

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    Man with a Mission

    July 16, 1994
    A North Portland pastor empowers people in his community with a business investing in human potential
    Elbert Darrell Mondaine is getting married Saturday.
    But he’s not going on a fancy-schmancy honeymoon trip to Honduras he had planned.
    “My fiancee is going to kill me,” says the 35-year-old Mondaine.
    Well, maybe not. Because Mondaine didn’t blow the romance [...]

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