ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, February 27, 1997 TAG: 9702280019
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
SPECIAL EVENTS
``The Once and Future Church'' led by Dr. Chris Hobgood, a consultant with the Alban Institute in Washington, will be the focus of a workshop from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday. It will be at Second Presbyterian Church, 214 Mountain Ave. S.W., and is open to interfaith church leaders. Fee for the workshop is $5, and participants should bring their own lunch. The workshop is jointly sponsored by the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference and the Roanoke Valley Association of Southern Baptists.
Volunteer prison workers can receive training for their ministry at a four-session workshop to begin Friday at Valley Word Ministries building, 1928 Loch Haven Drive.
Sponsored by the national agency Prison Fellowship, the first session will begin at 7 p.m., with the second on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The third and fourth sessions will be the weekend of March 14, with the same hours. Training is free; an offering for materials will be taken. Call Sadie Miller, 345-6781 or 345-9923 for more information.
A columbarium, a wall on the church grounds with niches for the ashes of those cremated, will be constructed this spring at St. John Lutheran Church at Cave Spring. Dedication is set for Nov. 2, the Feast of All Saints. The columbarium will have 252 niches.
Conflict in the Congregation and ways to prevent or alleviate it is the subject of a workshop Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m., sponsored by the Conflict Resolution Center Inc. of Roanoke. The program at Second Presbyterian Church costs $45 and includes dinner. It is for both ordained and lay church people. Call 342-2063 for more information.
The Catholic Historical Society of the Roanoke Valley will close its museum and gift shop no later than June 1, and will store its artifacts until a new site can be found. The quarters in which it has been housed for 10 years are an old convent that will be razed this summer to make space for an expansion of Roanoke Catholic Schools. The board of the society continues to seek new space at minimal cost, according to Jo-Anne Woody, president.
``Dead Man Walking,'' an award-winning film on prison conversion, will be shown Friday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 314 Turner Road in Salem. It is one in a series, Theater and Theology, and is open free to the community. The showing begins at 7:30 p.m. and is followed by discussion until 10:30. Call 387-0491 for more information.
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church is supporting an appeal to raise $150,000 for a liver transplant for Monk Moses, a Greek holy man scheduled to undergo the surgery in Miami when a donor is found. The monk, 44, has written many devotional books; the appeal to save his life is endorsed by Archbishop Spyridon, leader of Greek Orthodoxy in North America. Call 362-3601 for more information.
Belmont Baptist Church, Ninth Street at Stewart Avenue Southeast, will begin next week two spiritual growth classes open to the community. First Place, a 12-week scriptural approach to healthful eating, will begin Sunday at 5:15 p.m. This class will be repeated on Tuesday mornings at 10, beginning April 15. Carol McCann, a church staff member, and Laura Lee Stewart, retired missionary, will be leaders.
On Tuesday Women of the Bible, a study for community women, will begin. Two separate groups beginning at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. are scheduled. Call 343-5539.
Roanoke Area Ministries will benefit from a luncheon and fashion show scheduled March 19 at 11:30 a.m. at Holiday Inn, Tanglewood. Call 345-8850 to reserve the $15 meal.
Cave Spring Baptist Church, 4873 Brambleton Ave. S.W., will hold a revival March 9 through 12 at 7 p.m. hosted by evangelist Rick Via. For more information, call the church, 989-6136.
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Roanoke will hold a panel discussion Sunday at 11 a.m.: "The importance of early childhood years." Moderator will be Phyllis Olin, chair of the church's Promise the Children Committee. Participants include Ann Francis, director of the Office of Family Affairs at Virginia Tech; Cleo Simms, director of Head Start; Ted Edlich, director of TAP; and Robin Hammerstrom, executive director of Roanoke's CHIP. |MUSICAL EVENTS| The Concert Band of the University of Notre Dame will perform March 9 at 4 p.m. at St. Andrew's Catholic Church, 631 N. Jefferson St. The band, established more than 150 years ago at the South Bend, Ind., Catholic school, is believed to the the oldest of its kind in America. The concert is free, though an offering will be taken. |LENTEN EVENTS| West End Presbyterian Church, 1200 Campbell Ave. S.W., will hold video-based Bible studies for all ages each Sunday through Lent at 5 p.m. The "Listening For God" study sessions, which begin with a soup and bread supper, explore issues of faith through interaction with the writings of eight contemporary American writers. For more information, call the Rev. Ken Atkins at the church, 343-9593.
Tenebrae, a choral ``service of darkness'' with special music and a darkened church suggesting Jesus' suffering, is scheduled on March 27 at 7:30 at South Roanoke United Methodist Church. The liturgy includes Holy Communion, with the extinguishing of lights to usher in the Good Friday of Christ's crucifixion. |PEOPLE| The ordination to gospel ministry of Mark Mofield will take place March 9 at 4:30 p.m. at Colonial Avenue Baptist Church, 4165 Colonial Ave. S.W. Mofield, now on the staff of Hester Baptist Church at Oxford, N.C., is a son of the Rev. Laney Mofield, associate pastor of Colonial Avenue Church; he is a former Roanoke Valley resident.
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