Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 19, 1995 TAG: 9508210017
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: A5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
To benefit the Roanoke College Chapter of Habitat for Humanity a concert by Robin and Linda Williams is scheduled Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. in Olin Hall of Roanoke College. For $12 tickets call 375-2333.
Harvest of Hope
Registration is open for Harvest of Hope events this fall sponsored by the Society of St. Andrew based in Bedford County. Teams of youths and adults are sought from churches to glean commercially useless fruit, which is then distributed to the needy through food pantries. The gleaning teams stay at conference centers - Camp Fincastle on Oct. 12-15 - and when not working in the orchards or fields gather for worship and education about world hunger and nutrition. Call (800) 333-4597 or (804) 299-5956 for more information.
Pease to transfer
The Rev. Dr. Edwin C. Pease Jr., a member of the staff of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia for the past three years, will leave Sept. 1 to become interim rector of a church in New Haven, Conn. Pease, whose title has been deputy for congregational development, assisted Bishop A. Heath Light and congregations in parish planning throughout the regional church area. The position is expected to be evaluated because Light will be retiring next year.
Trinity receives grant
Trinity Ecumenical Parish, a congregation in the Smith Mountain Lake area that is governed jointly by Episcopalians, Lutherans and Presbyterians, has received a $30,000 grant from a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) committee. The Sam and Helen Walton gift will be used to pay for a well drilling and water system, a retention pond and waste water treatment facilities for a proposed church on which construction is expected to begin in November.
Rare Bible donated
An unusual edition of the King James Bible with a mother-of-pearl emblazoned cover has been donated by Alma Hunt of Roanoke for an exhibition on the Bible now on display at the Virginia Baptist Historical Society at the University of Richmond.
Hunt is former executive secretary of the Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Other exhibits at the "Lamp Unto My Feet" showing include Martin Luther's Bible of 1541; a copy of the Eliot Indian translation, the first Scripture printed in North America; and several manuscript Bibles from the 12th and 13th centuries.
The exhibits are open daily from 9 a.m. until noon and 1 until 4:30 p.m.
Home pages
A Roanoke-based firm that publishes the National and International Religion Report, a bi-weekly condensation of religion news, is soliciting information to set up free "home pages" for ministries and church-related businesses on the Internet computer network..
Participants will featured in their own World Wide Web home page in the Internet Christian Resource Directory. Groups and businesses will be able to post information about themselves and receive contacts from Internet browsers.
The religion newsletter has been facing "serious financial difficulties" in recent months, Publisher Stephen Wike has told subscribers. Wike said the publication will be suspended unless readers, churches and other ministries pledge financial support of $30,000 per month by the end of August.
Campus Crusade for Christ, an international organization that focuses its ministry on college campuses, has pledged $1,000 a month for one year as well as giving an immediate $5,000 donation.
The newsletter has been endorsed by a number of prominent Christian leaders including Billy Graham and Chuck Colson, and is frequently quoted in other religious publications including Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and Charisma.
Information about the homes pages or the report is available by contacting Wike at P.O. Box 21433, Roanoke 24018 or by e-mail at the MediaMgmtaol.com or 71736.702CompuServe.com addresses.
Audiotape collection
The Bishop Marmion Resource Center, which is open for use by religion professionals of any denomination, has added an audio tape collection to its Christian education materials. Included are books on tape by 20th-century theological writers Thomas Moore, Madeleine L'Engle, Harold Kushner, T.S. Eliot, Keith Miller and others. The center is at 1010 First St. S.W. and is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Jean Butler, director, said the center also has expanded its free video collection. Call 342-6797 for more information.
by CNB