Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, November 13, 1993 TAG: 9311160267
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
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Delegates from Churches of the Brethren throughout the Virlina District of Southern Virginia and North Carolina are at Bethel Baptist Church in Salem today for their annual convention. Keynoter is the Rev. Dr. Guy Wampler of Lancaster, Pa., a former national moderator of the denomination.
The Friday evening session included a banquet and annointing service to set aside members for their daily ministries. A highlight for the closing session today will be a performance of a musical, ``Back at the Creekbank,'' in which 44 children from many district churches will participate.
Health care discussions
Physician-Clergy Dialogues, discussions of health care issues related to religious ethics, will begin Tuesday. Each begins at 7 a.m. and includes a complimentary breakfast with the dialogue over by 8 a.m. The first meeting will be at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Its theme will be ``Where Is the Cathedral - Hospital or Church?'' Leaders will be Dr. Gordon Burch and the Rev. Dennis Herman.
Other programs will be ``Jurassic Park: Medical and Moral Implications'' on Jan. 18 at Lewis-Gale Hospital; ``Lifestyle Issues and Health Care'' on March 15 at Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley and ``Where Is the Enemy - Pain/Assisted Suicide?'' on May 17 at Lewis-Gale Psychiatric Center. The dialogues are sponsored annually by the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference and the Roanoke Academy of Medicine.
Pastor to retire
The Rev. Roger Kluttz, a former pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Roanoke, will retire from the pastorate of Holy Trinity Lutheran in Wytheville on Dec. 31. Kluttz, however, is expected to remain on an interim basis through June 30.
Last seminar
``Holidays, Holy Days, Hectic Days'' will be the theme of Sue Moore of the Good Samaritan Hospice staff at the last of a series of presentations for religion professionals Nov. 23. The vice president and director of patient services at the hospice, Moore will speak at a breakfast beginning at 8 in Conference Room D of Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem.
The program is free, but reservations are needed for the food. Call 776-4730 by Nov. 19.
Money pledged
A campaign to secure $500,000 for improvements and new construction at Camp Alta Mons United Methodist conference center near Shawsville raised $436,000 with pledges payable over the next five years.
At the recent annual meeting of the board of directors of the camp Brenda Brooks of Bonsack was re-elected president . Other officers of the board are the Rev. Michael Derflinger, vice president, and Iless Gisiner, secretary. A budget of $188, 688 was adopted.
by CNB