Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, November 2, 1995 TAG: 9511020043
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-5 NEIGHBORS EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCIS STREBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
People with skills in evangelism, Bible school teaching and family counseling are needed for Panama from Feb. 23 through May 26, 1996. A construction team to work in the Czech Republic also will be sought in the spring of 1996. Call 992-4943 for information about the international partnerships.
BOAR'S HEAD FEASTE, an annual program of dinner and music for Advent based on old English festivities, will be held Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and 2 at the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall. Admission is $15 , and tickets are available by sending a check made out to Feaste to: P.O. Box 8538, Roanoke, 24014, before Wednesday.
The meal will begin at 6:30. Call 344-3204 for more information. The church is at McClanahan and South Jefferson streets.
CAMP BETHEL HERITAGE DAY, an annual observance supported by Churches of the Brethren throughout the Virlina District, attracted more than 2,000 people earlier this month. The crafts, music, food and Third World products sale brought in more than $20,000 to support the camping ministry of the Botetourt County conference center.
THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY will have an open house and a sale of religious articles for the Advent and Christmas seasons at its museum at 624 N. Jefferson St. The activities will be Nov. 12 and Dec. 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The museum also is open Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. until Dec. 13 when it will be closed through Jan. 1.
THE PASTORAL CARE DEPARTMENTS of Roanoke Memorial and Community hospitals have scheduled an additional photo sitting for Roanoke Valley pastors who wish to be included in a pictorial directory. Participants may call 981-7411 for an appointment on Nov. 10 from 1 to 7 p.m. at Roanoke Memorial.
THE TABERNACLE, a presentation of River of Life Bible College, is scheduled Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Maranatha Fellowship Church, 2715 Green Ridge Road. The Rev. Roger Griffith of Salem and the Rev. Mike Marschean of New York pastor, will lead the presentation.
AT VALLEY WORD MINISTRIES,1928 Loch Haven Drive, a concert featuring David and the Giants, a Christian rock band, and the Holywind ensemble is scheduled Friday at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 at the doors, which open at 6 p.m.
ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY, a program for women led by the Rev. Denise Rotival Huffman, will be presented today at noon at the YWCA of Roanoke Valley in downtown Roanoke. The hour-long bag lunch program will focus on six Greek goddesses representing aspects of personality. Huffman, a graduate of Hollins College and an ordained minister, is pastor of Lawrence Memorial United Methodist Church on Bent Mountain.
VIRGINIA HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH has chosen Kevin Lamb, a recent graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, as its new organist and minister of music. He begins his work Sunday. He and his wife, Holly, are Tennesseans by background. He took undergraduate study at Carson-Newman College and has been on the staff of a Grand Prairie, Texas, church.
THE VICTORS, a Roanoke gospel music group, will perform Sunday at 7 p.m. at Cave Spring Baptist Church, 4873 Brambleton Ave. S.W.
WINGS, a 20-member student performing group from Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, will visit Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. Through music, clowning and dance, the group will present "Love Is Alive in Me, " a show to encourage Christian commitment. An offering will be taken. The church is at 3009 Mount Pleasant Blvd.
THE HELPING HANDS CLUB of Jerusalem Baptist Church has scheduled a guest drama team from Washington Street Baptist Church in Bedford on Nov. 11 at 6 p.m. Led by Beulah Payne, the players will present "Flight 360" at the church at 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W.
AT MORNING STAR BAPTIST CHURCH, 1513 Rorer Ave. S.W., special music will be presented Sunday at 3 p.m. by the Roanoke group known as The Voices of Women Plus Three. The program celebrates the ninth anniversary of the L.A. Lewis Singers.
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