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WAY TO LIFE

CHURCH FINALE Nearly 8,000 Christians observed WAY 79 last Sunday in the largest combined church ceremony of prayer and thanksgiving ever held in WA. A spectacular feature of The only empty seats in not know the joy of your the Entertainment Centre the service was the dance presence iA their lives. belonged to movement display by 200 Give them the desire to auditorium find the Way, the Truth from those who had purchased children Catholic and the Life in your tickets but failed to turn up. schools. Son . . . During a 90 -minute ser- While three groups danced on the stage. others filled vice, directed by Graham Be with the needy in our Mabury of the Jesus Peo- the ground concourse, using State: Especially we reWay To Life banners to ple, Christian thanksgiving call those whose lives in song, signify grace coming down, was expressed have been undermined audio- while more groups permovement, dance by society or by their own visual display and, finally, formed on the stairways, foolishness. We recall a symbolic breaking of right among the audience. those who are alcoholics, ABOVE: Children of St Lawrence School, Balcatta, raise The students danced first bread by everyone present. other drug addicts, those their hands in an- expression of thanksgiving at the to the song "Much Obliged" a was led by The singing in prison . . Entertainment Centre last Sunday. BELOW: Children )50 -voice choir and backed composed by Dominican Army Sister Margaret Scharf and Strengthen all those whose carry baskets of bread front the stage to the audience by the Salvation pre-recorded by the Hamsrfamily life has been shut-. Band. sley Catholic Folk Grotlp tered deserted wives

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WAY 79 EVENT

"I AM THE BREAD"

The Governor, Sir Wallace Kyle, the Premier, Sir Charles Court, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Ron Davies, and the Lord Mayor, Mr Fred Chaney, were principal guests in the ceremony which capped the four weeks of discussion and inter-church rallies that bad been shared by eight Christian denominations as a special contribution to

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Mary Kerr, was sung as the robed dancers gathered baskets of bread from the centre of the stage and distributed 500 loaves to be broken and shared by the audience. Prayers offered at different stages during the cere-

passion the homeless of this city especially the fringe dwellers who live under bridges or in the open; wandering young people searching for work, shelter and meaning in life; those who are unemployed and without real hope; those who live in mental hospitals; those threatened by hosts of depression and anger

WAY 79. At the centre of the stage mony included a prayer of a trickling ornamental founintercession was offered by tain provided a sound back- Aboriginal pastor the Rev. drop as a long.distance run- Cedric Jacobs. Extend your healing power ner was heard panting his to those who ore in hosThe prayer stated: way through life, encountpital in Western Ausering dead -ends, cul-de-sacs PRAYER OF tralia this afternoon, those and similar obstacles until who are permanently ina final focus on a cemetery INTERCESSION capacitated, those' repointed out the cross as lkavenly Father, we recently infured on the the one way to God through member today all Westroads, those mourning the all life's situations. ern Australians who do loss of loved ones . . Give us strength and power to build a partnership between those who are descendants of the Aboriginal people and those who are descendants of migrant settlers . Help us to see our place .

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cultures . 79 rally, Strengthen Lord those who "A coMinitted Christian, feel reacted. Be with all young or:,c4, one who who suffer through racial Jesus bets hiS.' 71 that preludire or discriminaChrist ist.:*- Sou of the tion, all recently arrived Living Gigo:d," said Archrefugees . . . bishop E,clward Scott, AngAbove all, Lord, come to lican Primate _of Canada. our mon hearts and minds "and who focuses his life on this day as we pm,, on that belief. for others. Come to the "One our problems is hearts and mi,ds of all that we of like to set limits on Christians in thh State so our Christian commitments .

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"That is why I was delighted to see the Church leaders' statement about refugees and the danger of racism in our thinking." Asked how the Christian could better express the Christian message Archbishop Scott said: "Sometimes what we are shouts so loud that people cannot hear what we are "But if we accept our saying; communication inLord's words that he came volves more than words, it to establish his kingdom, involves our total being. then that kingdom extends (CONTINUED, PAGE 2 to every aspect of life.