The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 4

A-4 The News Tribune Tacoma Sat Jan 11 1986 Religion Famine-relief AIDS victim: A long lonely death airlift praised by local pastor Excommunicated Mormon wishes tried to stay straight and monogamous OGDEN Utah Excommunicated from the Mormon Church and abandoned by many of his friends AIDS victim Clair Har-ward says he wishes he had to stay straight and got counsel By CARL UZBERG The Nows Tribune ing" Harward! The $11000 that members of University Central Baptist Church donated for famine relief in Ethiopia was well spent the senior pastor reported The Rev Ronald Blomberg has returned from an eight-day trip to the East African nation to monitor the delivery of relief supplies went there having heard all the stories about foodstuffs rotting on the be said saw none of that The food that was flown in was efficiently handled at the air-and it got out to where it be- portawl 28 Ogden is dying of AIDS-related cancer that hu covered his body with brown turners that make him look of Uko a he said in a copyright tory appearing in Tie Ogdea StMatUrcf-Examioer Harvard hu Kaposi's sarcoma a rare skin cancer said Us physician Dr Jeffery Abel honestly think gay life that did it to me" said HanranL regret I ever came out" Harward said be hu found himself virtnally alone on hit deathbed His former wife he aid hu found another man and many of his friends have stopped seeing him He wu excommunicated from The Church of Jens Christ of Ut longed" Blomberg who returned from Africa Dec 14 said he saw positive results there from an airlift famine relief effort supported by the church its denomination the Baptist General Conference and ter-day Saints for having sexual relations with men and his father hu warned him that ha is doomed became of his promiscuous lifestyle be said wish Td tried to stay straight and got counseling and stayed in wUh Td the church" he wish Td Rev Ronald Blomberg felt there wu good incentive on their part they coasting back into Thou in younger generation including men in their late 20s and early 20s have hard lives compared to their counterparts in America he uid They look forward to college to a vocation to a car living is Just he said yet they are such happy people an Incredible happiness about them I wu softened a lot to see how starving people have such fortitude APLasarphoto His body covered with skin tumors Clair Harward eat waiting to die In Ogden Utah and moved to Salt lah City he said known Harward said friends ba about 20 miles south of Ogden He Three times since contracting gan to ihy away former lovers had kids I always wanted a began frequenting bars known for AIDS he tried to commit suicide disappeared landlords refused to family and wife" their homosexual clientele Each time be overdosed on drugs rent to him Harward said he hu had homo- What began monogamous re- and alcohol On the second binge He quit talking to his father af- mnii urn siiw grade school lations with sexual partners he climbed to the fifth story of a ter the elder Harvard also a Mor- But peer pmsinr and hit relig- turned into casual an with sever- bank building in Ogden intending mon warned he wu donned ious convictions kept him from al partners per week be said to Jump but wu unable to because of his lifestyle DartldMtinc in relation Now he said he is paying the 1 want to die soon I can compare this to So- ViUiofoermales until he wn 17 price tired of feeling miserable all dom and Clair Har- hesaid I want to say is: Find a the time Tm tired of the pain and ward said That wn following his Junior partner and be monogamous feeling like a burden to my family Harward said Mormon leaders yen in high during which whether gay or straight If and friends and roommate and counseled him not to attend he captured fourth plat- in the having a problem deciding Tm feeling insecure about myself fate wrestling tournament Her- whether gay or straight to where I want out" ha said Continued on Pane A-S be monoga- As his condition became more t'Orninueg on rage m-o out of high school get counseling people are not Airlifts have been serving 2800 families a month or about 15000 people for the put five months Each flight via a modified Boeing 747 based in San Diego costs approximately $140000 supplies and plane charter berg said The destination of the Air Service is a feeding station in a town called Lend about $0 kilometers north of Addis Ababa the capital where the flights arrive Blomberg was impressed" with the efficiency of the food distribution operation been a noticeable increase in the standard of since records on individuals calling at the mission started being kept last September said Blomberg But the famine is not over Major problems arising now are disease and lack of hygiene and relief efforts are branching out to include the teaching of proper nutrition hygiene and the development of wells irrigation seed fanning and crop rotation "Many of the people who come to the little feeding station walk seven hours to get there climbing about 4000 feet out id a Church briefs also realised that little $110 will ly for a day" Blomberg accompanied Aubrey Huskey director of the non-de-nominational Mission Air Service id Spring Valley Calif Huskey accepts no ulary absolutely no overhead every penny went to getting the food then according to Blomberg The plane's 105-ton cargo included 75 tons of food There were 20 ton of packaged vegetable oil 25 ton of seed oats and 10 tons of a high-protein corn-soy meal to quickly elevate the physical condition of badly malnourished people chapel el I MIN PLU memorial program to honor the Rev Martin Luther King Jr AOLOW: VMm af Malady Aglow and TB- will hear Marl A Watt speak at J0 am today at Eddie's fee Of $5 Will be charged for Catering not Sixth Avo A SI broakfast the James lecture end 219 ner 11 optional Mabat win arid eddreu the per couple fortS lecture series Bethel Christian AtiemMy 4041 Tacoma Tickets may be purchased at the jjarticipating churches or at Tho Rav Jackie Dixon will nddrau tho Pierce County chnotor of 10 tou of a 714-ton Also there equipment one of three nominees for the office of ruling bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America A Cleveland (Kilo native hia permanent assignment is to the Diocese of Detroit from which he hu been on loan He hu been at the Tacoma church for approximately 14 months Jennifer James Seattle anthro- will speak on Tho Order of St Luka tho Phyilclna at IM North Christ Episcopal Church 1 truck and a Toyota van which Joined a fleet of four vehicles used to transport supplies out to the St at 4:45 pm Thursday A vIco will tallow The memory of Martin Lather King Jr will be honored at Pacific Lutheran University Sunday with an afternoon talk songs and ft racftBtkML wa forget A is the topic of a talk by the Rev Edna Travis guest speaker Travis is pastor of New Covenant Pentecostal Tabernacle Gospel choirs from Tacoma-area churches will sing The birthday celebration will be in the University Center on the upper PLU campus at 2 pjn A reception will follow The PLU Minority Student Programs office is handling arrangement! The Rev Nicholas Craclun Kusevich will conduct his final liturgy at St Nlcholu Greek Orthodox Ckarch 1522 Yakima Ave Sunday morning Knsevich hu been reassigned by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America to the Prophet Eliu Greek Orthodox Church in Santa Crux Calif He will preach hia first liturgy there Jen 19 Kusevich will be succeeded in Tacoms Monday by the Rev John Kariotakia assistant priest at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Portland for the put five years In October 1984 Knsevich wu Retired Salvation Army Brigadier Clifton Sipley of the Brengle Institute in Chicago win lead a week for the Corps of the Salvation Army Sesaioni begin Tuesday evening and conclude with a prayer meeting Sunday evening pyii nwnisni avrvm mnamiiv MMr umaren programs also are of- tw cathauc church at nth and emi Marloa streets Olympia at 7:10 pm Wadnaiday Walhar li Mnior minlitar of Canaan Baptist Church of Chrltt In Naw York City will be held at the Corn Citadel 1119 ergetic and aid Those coming to the feeding stations were primarily older people and mothers of children who were bringing their children along for health checka he said the able-bodied men were back working their farms got native grain growing on virtnally every piece of land tilt able I uw garden patches mall 15 square feet The land is very rocky but doing all they can to make it Blomberg said Retiring Texas Baptist cleric seeks successor feeding rut of the cargo consisted of medical supplies A new airlift will be going in February and another in ApriL the April flight will have some other people from Tacoma not only from our church but from the Tacoma community at Blomberg said "If Interested in flying along and getting firsthand view I can give them Information It's not a real expensive proposi- Puget Sound Ave They are free end open to the in the Eighties" to open a series of family enrichment lectures and workshops in Tacoma at 7 pm Thursday Her talk is at St Patrick Church 1122 SL The series is an oecumenical effort sponsored tty Christ Ckarch (Episcopal) SL Patrick Ckarch (Roman- Catholic) Immanael Presbyterian Ckarch and Mason United Methodist Ckarch will be held on suc-Thnrsdays Jan 23 Jan 29 and Frit 6 from 7J9 to 9 pm The workshops will be offered on four topics each at a different MERCER MUSIC: Tha Tam Franiak Band Christian singer wiH perform at SL Mae lea Church on Marcar island at 7 JO pm Wednesday Admission isIMOi KENT HEAUNU: A thrne-day seminar titled Hit Whole Parson" vHH ba held at CL James EpItcapM church S4447 4th Ave Kant Friday through Suaday Tha Rav and Mrs Dennis nan-nett will I spaak The fan It SIS Dallas need a man to come here and to be with me in the pulpit a fellow pastor end to carry on the work when I lay the mantle said CriswelL SIUNOUAL: A bilingual pottuck dlnnar and MMa study tarvlca will ba bald at Uraad and Ratat Hama at HatpHallty 1M0 Eighth Ave Olympia at hio pm Friday Spanish and English will ba tpofcan Tha Bibla study It pattarnad attar theta mad In basic Christian communities in Central and South America WOMEN'S STUDY: tntsrdsasmlnanaa at MMa study is offered tar wamaa at hN am each Thursday at January In Taking national Madrona prayer Madrona Middle will network training at School M0 234th St SW Edmonds at MO am Topics are blended families parent-child communication couple communication and living Fort Worth Star-Telegram The pastor of the largest Southern Baptist church confirmed Monday that he is preparing to retin and will recommend an immediate search for his successor am in my 77th yew and it would Just be foolish of me not to remember said the Rev A Criswell pastor id the 27999-member First Baptist Church of man (his successor) is somewhere right now and we wait for 10 years for God to raise him up" said Criswell who celebrated his Dec 19 CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH UNITARIAN ATION OF TACOMA Presents excerpts from Tho of Amhorot lit SlllltlJ ftlRI fcf Bmlly Dickinson THECHILD JESUS Fester del Ue MI-52 WHOM MO aja SaadayldnslaadHlBhidMal MB sa AAdtUhlNdyloaihlbrM WEDNESDAY: SUNDAY JANUARY 12 SERVICE BEGINS AT 11 AJL 11M Otis I TitS Tilt I -1 1 i Jl III I WmaSSr asst tol aaO aamTwSSaww aaa tar laplrstHa1 pawy WiaaaO Rw dwamicTaHto al irvin who wanala to hdHma prsdeehm at we SIS emaeway imalsr FsqpksQamh With Us This Sunday Lmuiat tataruratar nravklad ViimC fth rli on sueiyiuiui nwvnuii 8enJwRtttct by Sr toi 1 -chunk Snwa- by totwr Usvd 1 3 "tosaaaa Chad web mdal wankm CsatowNseCIwslaeahlhy tom IM' 499 TACSMA AVL IL wandamnadaMNWArWalardUWva HUIII RBFaasHMnrrs in socml mau at ns noon VWTONS AN! 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