Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 5, 1995 TAG: 9510070010
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
A DISTRICT REVIVAL MEETING, sponsored by 10 congregations of the Church of God with headquarters in Cleveland, Tenn., will take place Oct. 17-19 at Salem Church of God, 600 Craig Ave. in Salem. The Virginia youth and education director, Terry Hart, will be the evangelist for services nightly at 7.
BEGINNING AGAIN, a series of classes to help divorced people cope with the life transition, is in progress through Nov. 29 each Wednesday night at 6:30 at First Baptist Church on Third Street Southwest in downtown Roanoke. Classes are led by a church staff member, Ed Kohl.. For more information, call 224-3380.
CLAUDIA WHITWORTH, editor and publisher of The Roanoke Tribune, a weekly newspaper, will speak Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. when the Cottage Community Club meets at First Baptist Church on North Jefferson Street. The Youth Choir of the host church will provide music.
A GOSPEL CONCERT by Brothers and Sisters in Christ of Charlotte, N.C., is scheduled Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Emmanuel Tabernacle Baptist Church of the Apostolic Faith, 5 12th St. S.W. An offering will be taken.
MARANATHA FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, 2715 Green Ridge Road, has begun a new ministry in the River of Life Bible College. Registration is still open for the 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday classes that begin tonight.
Each credit course costs $60 or classes may be audited free. Call 562-0075 or 362-8696 for more information.
THE REV. DONALD BRUBAKER, a former Roanoker, has become pastor of Lighthouse Mennonite Church in Upland, Pa. He is the son of Dr. Herman and Hazel Brubaker of the Hollins area of Roanoke County.
REVIVAL SERVICES will be held Friday through Sunday at Maranatha Fellowship Church, 2715 Green Ridge Road. Guest preacher will be the Rev. J .B. Hawkins of Tulsa, Okla. Week night services begin at 7 with those on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.
LADIES OF LEE, a women's choir from Lee College in Cleveland, Tenn., will perform Oct. 22 at 10:30 a.m. at Penn Forest Church of God, 4429 Buck Mountain Road. The 40-voice choral group has traveled internationally and comes from the national headquarters of the church.
A GLEANING TEAM from South Roanoke United Methodist Church will spend Oct. 21 at a Bedford County orchard harvesting commercially useless apples to help feed the hungry. The Society of St. Andrew project will help Roanoke's City Rescue Mission.
ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH in Old Southwest is one of four parishes in the Virginia Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Synod to receive a grant to address domestic violence and what congregations can do about it.
The grant will allow three St. Mark's members, Lynda McConnell, Dan Nichols and LuAnn Brown, to attend a training conference in Chicago Oct. 20-22. Lutheran Family Services of Salem also is cooperating in the new program.
AN ECUMENICAL HEALING SERVICE will be held Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 1201 Hardy Road in Vinton. The service is sponsored by the new St. Nicholas Giver of Gifts Friends Catholic Community Church. For more information, call 890-4710.
VICKIE HOFFLER, a 1993 graduate of Mary Baldwin College and an interim music director at several Roanoke Valley congregations, has joined the staff of Belmont Baptist Church as part-time minister of music. Most recently at Airlee Court Baptist Church, Hoffler currently is working on her teaching certification at Hollins College.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH, 929 Murray Ave. S.E., plans revival services Oct. 15-18. The Rev. Lee Roberson, pastor emeritus of Highland Park Baptist Church and chancellor of Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, will speak at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday and nightly Monday through Wednesday at 7.
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 124 W. Main St. in Salem, will hold a "Blessing of the Animals" service in honor St. Francis of Assisi on Sunday at 5 p.m. The casual service will be conducted on the lawn. Participants may bring leashed animals or photos of their pets.
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS will be the focus of a program Sunday at 10 a.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Salem. David Lackley, a Wycliffe staff member, will talk about the work of the international agency that trains linguists who translate Scripture into dialects for Christians in underdeveloped countries.
As a mission project, St. Paul's and a British parish will help support an English translator on a mission in Africa.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491 by noon Thursday. Include a daytime telephone number.
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by CNB