Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 10, 1995 TAG: 9508100096
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
THE MULTICULTURAL YOUTH CHORUS, sponsored by the Lutheran Brotherhood Southwest Virginia Branch 8462, will sing Sunday at 7 p.m. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Palmetto and Olive Avenues Northwest. The chorus is directed and accompanied by Michael Brown, music director at the Evangelical Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit and a recording artist who has just returned from an evangelistic tour of Great Britain. An offering will be taken.
THE REV. WILLIAM LEE, a chaplain at the Salem Veterans Medical Center and pastor of Loudon Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), is on a three-week tour of Ghana and Zimbabwe as part of a group of African-American pastors in the Disciples and United Church of Christ denominations. The cross-cultural experience is intended to bridge gaps between the United States and African churches and encourage more joint mission projects.
A CUBAN REFUGEE FAMILY, that of Rafael Ramor, is being resettled by members of Oak Grove Church of the Brethren. The couple with their two children arrived July 19 and are living on 12th Street Southeast.
PENN FOREST CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 3028 Penn Forest Blvd., is registering for its preschool for children 3 through 5. The school will open Sept. 5 and continue through May 1996. Registration fee of $25 is needed to reserve a place. Call 774-2445 mornings or 774-9381 for details.
VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH, a Divine Science congregation worshiping at 5000 Carriage Drive in the Oak Grove community, will sponsor a six-week course, "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind," beginning Aug. 22. It will be taught by the Rev. Maurita Wiggins, pastor. To register for the $35 program, call 774-2704.
THE REV. DR. DIOGENES ALLEN, a professor and author from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, will be the Dobbins Series guest preacher at Salem Presbyterian Church on Sept. 17. "Spiritual Life, Yesterday and Today" will be his theme at 9:45 and 11 a.m. and at 4 p.m. A nursery will be open for all programs at the church in downtown Salem. The series was endowed by the late Curtis G. Dobbins , a Salem business leader.
THEATER 'N THEOLOGY, a free public presentation of religious films, will feature "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 314 Turner Road in Salem. Discussion of the story of Sts. Francis and Clare will be led by the Rev. Gregory Kandt, pastor.
REBECCA GOODWIN has resigned after a five-year tenure of directing youth and bell choirs at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Her replacement has not been named. Goodwin developed the handbell ministry, which has involved more than 20 members.
CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 428 S. College Ave. in Salem, is enrolling adults and children for Crossroads 1995, a Christian education series of classes to begin Oct.4 and continuing on Wednesday nights from 7 to 8. A nursery will be provided. Registration with payment of a reservation fee is needed by Sept. 3. Call 389-2933 for more information.
The church also is sponsoring a gleaning program this month for children in cooperation with the Society of St. Andrew of Bedford County. The Harvest of Hope program in Botetourt County will permit children to pick commercially useless produce and take it to the City Rescue Mission for Roanoke's needy.
LOCUST GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHhas sent four of its members to the Stavropol, Russia, area to carry on evangelistic ministry at Kozack Camp through Aug.22. The mission trip is led by Margy Murray who went to Russia in 1994 and began the congregation's involvement in the international relationship.
by CNB