Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 8, 1993 TAG: 9304080533
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-30 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
RELIGION BRIEFS
VINTON BAPTIST CHURCH will begin a six-week Christian education program for preschool children on June 30. The sessions will be held on Wednesday and Thursday for 45 minutes in the media library of the downtown Vinton church. Registrants must be 3, 4 or 5 by Sept. 30, 1992. Ten pupils per class will be enrolled by June 15. Call 343-7685 for more information.\ ROANOKE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 1701 Memorial Ave. S.W., has scheduled its Easter program Saturday at 11 a.m. The service will include special music and a drama to commemorate the death and resurrection of Christ.
\ A BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS SERVICE will take place Saturday at 11 a.m. at Canine Complex, 3946 Electric Road S.W.
The service, led by the Rev. Dr. Robert T. Copenhaver of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem, permits pet owners to offer thanks for God's creatures, as set forth by the 12th-century Christian St. Francis of Assisi.
Call 989-2046 for more information.
\ ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Elm at South Jefferson in downtown Roanoke, has scheduled Maundy Thursday services today at noon and 7:30 p.m.
Good Friday liturgy will be used at noon and 5:30 p.m. with worship on Saturday at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Easter morning worship will be at 7, 9 and 11:15 a.m. with a nursery provided for the later services.
\ AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 515 Third St. S.W., Roanoke, Charles Krause has been ordained to the Gospel ministry. He has been on the staff since 1977 as director of the church's orchestra and assistant in musical productions. Krause is one of nine men who direct specific ministries for the congregation.
Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon in order to run in the following Thursday edition.