ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, November 2, 1996 TAG: 9611050110
SECTION: RELIGION EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
All Souls' Mass at 10 a.m. today
An All Souls' Day Mass for Roman Catholics in the Roanoke Valley is scheduled at 10 a.m. today at St. Andrew's Cemetery, 3601 Salem Turnpike N.W. The time has been changed from one previously published. The Mass is sponsored by nine parishes in the Roanoke Valley, Bedford, Rocky Mount, Fincastle and Moneta.
Lynchburg church picks new rector
The Rev. Christine Payden-Travers, director of the Phoebe Needles Retreat Center in Franklin County for the past eight years, will become rector of Grace Memorial Episcopal Church in Lynchburg on Dec. 1. The retreat center is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia but is used ecumenically. Payden-Travers, a graduate of General Theological Seminary in New York, will succeed at the Lynchburg church the Rev. Thomas Wilson who went to a Georgia parish a year ago.
Episcopal youth coordinator named
Laura McBean, a member of the staff of St. John's Episcopal Church in Roanoke, has been named the new coordinator of youth work for the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. McBean, who will continue to work with the youths of the downtown Roanoke parish, will succeed Chris Carr, who held the position for a year before entering theological seminary.
Ecumenical study Nov. 22
Clerical and lay ecumenism officers in Western Virginia will gather Nov. 22 at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Lynchburg for a special conference to study ecumenical documents being considered by Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal national meetings. The meeting will precede the annual Virginia ecumenical conference known as LARC, which will open that night. Those attending either the preliminary conference or the general meeting will hear national ecumenical speakers from the three historic liturgical denominations discuss the effects that the Episcopal-Lutheran Concordat and a Catholic-Lutheran document, if either or both are accepted by their respective churches, are likely to have in coming years. Call (804) 525-5511 by Nov. 8 for more information.
Virginia Seminary and College pageant
Virginia Seminary and College in Lynchburg has scheduled its annual pageant tonight at 7 in Humbles Hall Auditorium. A choir festival will be included. The event is free. The seminary is the alma mater of many Virginia Baptist pastors.
'News Odyssey' weekly TV show
United Methodists soon will launch a new weekly television show, "News Odyssey," to be carried on the Odyssey Channel available in several Western Virginia communities. A release from United Methodist News said the show will present news of all religious groups along with some interpretation not necessarily Methodist in approach. The weekly show will be 30 minutes.
Healing fellowship at Montvale Chapel
At The Well, a new healing fellowship, is meeting at Montvale Chapel in Bedford County. The discussion Tuesday at 7 p.m. will be "Healing Our Nation." Topics on the next two Tuesdays will be "What Is Rolfing?" and "Therapeutic Touch: the Accepted Alternative." For more information call 947-5107.
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