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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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., [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
September 13, 1993
A march, a band and plenty of song mark Celebration Tabernacle’s move into larger quarters
Traffic noise trampled the ears, but the 50 or so folks gathered at the former Celebration Tabernacle church on busy North Lombard Street couldn’t have cared less.
For this afternoon, a beautiful, balmy Sunday afternoon, the church was changing addresses, [...]
