Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 3, 1995 TAG: 9508040081
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
THE REV. DR. DALE D. HOLLOWAY has become pastor of First Wesleyan Church. He succeeds the Rev. Jim Harrison, who has joined the Steve Wingfield Ministries evangelistic team.
Holloway, who holds degrees from Vennard College, Michigan State University and Trinity Theological Seminary, has served congregations in Marion, Ind., and Williamston and Lansing, Mich. He also has been a missionary to Honduras and personnel director for World Gospel Mission. He and his wife, Janet Marie Engen Holloway, have three grown children.
THE REV. KENNETH B. WRIGHT will be honored Aug. 10 at 7 p.m. for his leadership of First Baptist Church for 22 years. Participating in a special musical program at the church at 310 N. Jefferson St. will be choirs from Bent Mountain Baptist, Jerusalem Baptist, Deliverance Church Ministries and the male chorus of the host church.
A DEBUTANTES FOR CHRIST pageant is scheduled Aug. 13 at 4 p.m. at High Street Baptist Church, 2302 Florida Ave. N.W. Awards will be given to the young women and their escorts.
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 4404 Williamson Road, will hold its vacation Bible school Aug. 13-18 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Programs will be available for children 2 years and older and adults.
ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH in Fincastle has scheduled two special events in August. The 225th anniversary celebration continues with a 1789 service Aug. 27 at 11 a.m. at Emmanuel Church at Eagle Rock. A picnic follows.
On Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m., Sally Eads, a church historian, will speak on "The Heritage of St. Mark's" at 7:30 p.m. at the church on Roanoke Street.
NEW GRACE, a Southern gospel group, will perform Saturday at 4 p.m. at Crossroads Mall.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL will be Aug. 14-18 at Bethany Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at 3115 Fleming Ave. N.W. Classes will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. for all age groups. A closing program with a potluck dinner will be Aug. 20. Call 366-0968 to register.
BETH McKEE-ROSE, minister of Christian education at First Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) for the past five years, will complete her service there Sunday. The religion graduate of Anderson University will continue her education at Duke University in Durham, N.C. A farewell party will be given for her after the 6 p.m. service.
CHARLES DAYTON CUNDIFF, who has been active in Washington Heights Grace Brethren Church for many years, has won the national Grace Brethren Fellowship's Senior Medal of Ministry award.
The announcement was made at the recent Grace Brethren national conference in San Diego, Calif. Cundiff, a retired pastor, is a teacher, board member and music leader as well as remodeling worker at the Northwest Roanoke church.
WOODLAND CHURCH, an evangelical Christian congregation near Fincastle, has scheduled its vacation Bible school Sunday through Aug. 10. Hours will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m., with classes for children 3 through 12. Missions of the 19th and 20th Centuries will be the theme.
The church is on Country Club Road at Blacksburg Road. Call 992-1008 for more information.
THE REV. MOTT A. CUMBY JR. has become interim pastor of Crystal Spring Baptist Church. He has been pastor of churches in Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and has been an Air Force Reserves chaplain. He is a son of the Rev. M.A. Cumby, who served one of Crystal Spring's predecessor churches 40 years ago.
AMANDA BAYNE has become part-time program director at West End United Methodist Church. An education assistant and former day-care worker, she attended Cave Spring High School and Virginia Western Community College.
RALEIGH COURT UNITED METHODIST is enrolling children 2 through 5 for its preschool program, which emphasizes Christian values for the whole child. For more information about the half-day program, call 344-6011.
HAROLD DAVIS, clergyman and dramatist, will present a monologue on Philippians on Aug. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Church of the Harvest, 5530 Williamson Road. The candlelight program focuses on the apostle Paul and his work as a missionary.
RIVERDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, 1624 Edgerton Ave. S.E., will present Salem gospel singer Evelyn Conner in concert Sunday at 7 p.m. An offering will be taken.
TENT REVIVAL SERVICES will be in progress Friday through Aug. 13 on U.S. 221 near Virginia 644 in the Bent Mountain community. The evangelist will be the Rev. Tim Hamaker, who will preach nightly at 7:30 and on Sundays at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
AN EVENING BIBLE SCHOOL will be in session at Virginia Heights Baptist Church, 2014 Memorial Ave. S.W., Sunday through Aug. 10, from 6 to 8:15. A snack supper will precede activities. To register children 6-12 years old, call 344-7748.
ZEKE LEONARD, a radio preacher on station WKBA, will be honored Sunday at the 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. services at Fellowship Baptist Church, 929 Murray Ave. S.E.
Leonard is marking 50 years as an evangelistic disc jockey. He began in Burma in World War II, then broadcast in Marion for 33 years. He now has a daily program on WKBA from 4 to 5 p.m.
GUIDED STEPS, a summer ministry group from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Mass., will perform twice this weekend in the Roanoke Valley. The sextet will be at Salem Church of the Nazarene, 3631 Evelyn Drive, at 7 p.m. Saturday and at East Gate Church of the Nazarene, 2002 East Gate Ave. N.E., at 10:30 a.m. Sunday The concerts are free.
BELMONT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH has sent more than 200 packages of vegetable seeds to help combat chronic hunger and malnutrition in the African country of Liberia. The United Methodist Women's project was part of a Virginia Conference effort.
DON BLATT JR. has left the staff of Calvary United Methodist Church in Salem, where he has been director of youth ministries since 1993. He will continue his work as a staff member of Camp Alta Mons.
MARANATHA FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, 2715 Greenridge Road, will have revival services Friday through Sunday. Evangelist Tim Newton of Concord, N.C., will speak Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
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Memo: same in all 4 zones