Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 25, 1993 TAG: 9303250457
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
RELIGION BRIEFS
MANY SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCHES in the Roanoke Valley Association are promoting a program to send vegetable seed packets to Baptists in the war-torn Eastern European nation of Croatia. The seeds for all common crops except corn will be mailed to a specific Croatian Baptist leader who will distribute them for spring planting.\ MARY N. ORVILLE, employed by four of the Roanoke Valley's six Episcopal parishes as lay minister to the homebound and sick, will retire Wednesday from the full-time position.
Orville, a member of St. Paul's Church of Salem, has been the missioner for 16 years. She will continue some part-time service for the Salem parish. The lay minister will be honored at a luncheon April 1 at the Salem Civic Center.
\ THE REV. CARL J. NARO, pastor of St. Andrew's Catholic Church, will retire in May after a three-year assignment there. Naro, 68, came to the parish after 12 years in Charlottesville. He has been a priest for more than 40 years. His successor will be named by Bishop Walter F. Sullivan when annual assignments are made in May.
\ SANDRA K. ANDERSON, Christian education director at St. John's Episcopal Church since June 1990, is leaving the staff in a reorganizational move to promote new ministries at the downtown Roanoke parish.The minister of outreach at the church for the past five years, the Rev. Dr. John Sylvester-Johnson, also will leave the staff in June. The church is seeking a third full-time ordained person to work with the Revs. Thomas O'Dell and David "Kirk" Brown.
\ SUZY HAMLIN, interim director of the Noah's Landing Pre-School, has been named its permanent director. Noah's Landing is a ministry of Christ Lutheran Church.
The preschool will sponsor a free public seminar, "Body, Mind and Spirit," Monday night from 7 to 8:30 at the church at Grandin Road and Brandon Avenue Southwest. The seminar for the parents and teachers of young children will be led by Mike Chiglinsky, a licensed clinical psychologist at the Appalachian Counseling Center.
Its theme will be "How Not to Rear a Hurried Child; How Not to Be a Guilty Parent."
\ JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH'S third annual Black and White Musicale will be held Sunday at 4 p.m. at 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. A number of choirs and guest singers will perform during the musical which is noted for all participants dressing in black and white.
\ SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 214 Mountain Ave. S.W., has scheduled a model seder meal April 4 from 4 to 6 p.m. Rabbi Jerome Fox of Beth Israel Synagogue will preside and show the Presbyterians how the re-enactment of the Passover meal of Judaism relates to the Christian Last Supper of Christ. The seder is a ritual meal with several symbolic ingredients customarily eaten in homes.
\ THE REV. DR. JAMES HENRY will leave the part-time staff of Christ Episcopal Church in midsummer. Henry, who also works with the Pastoral Counseling Center of the Roanoke Valley, will be replaced by a full-time ordained person who will carry on some of the work currently done by Elizabeth Bunce-Nichols, the Christian education director. Bunce-Nichols will retire in July.
\ CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH of Roanoke is observing its seasonal Reach for a Star project for Lent. At Sunday's service, members will select a household to receive an Easter dinner or gifts for adults or children. These gifts will be presented at morning worship on Palm Sunday and will be home-delivered to the households during Holy Week.
\ DICK and EDITH SCHISLER, missionaries to Brazil, will visit Greene Memorial United Methodist Church on April 4 for services at 9 and 11 a.m. and a program at 10 a.m.
The couple will be at South Roanoke United Methodist Church that night at 6.
The Schislers have worked in Brazil for more than 30 years and are on their final furlough before retirement from foreign mission service. Edith Schisler is a daughter of the late Frank and Eula Long of Roanoke.
\ MARANATHA FELLOWSHIP, 2715 Green Ridge Road N.W., has scheduled a renewal service Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Guest evangelist will be the Rev. Don Arney of New Covenant Fellowship in Wytheville. Music will be provided by a choir from New Covenant.
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