DATE: Saturday, October 18, 1997            TAG: 9710170086

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NEWS AND NOTES

Evangelist Hill to speak

at Norfolk's First Baptist

Evangelist Junior Hill, who has conducted more than 1,300 revivals, will speak Sunday, Oct. 26, at First Baptist Church of Norfolk.

Hill will speak in each of four services: at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. A student gathering is planned for 5 p.m. and a hot dog supper at 5:30 p.m. for children in first through sixth grades.

Hill, a resident of Alabama, has written six books, including ``The Tragedy of Not Knowing'' and ``Joy in the Morning.''

Ecumenical church plans

to mark its 20th birthday

Church of the Holy Apostles in Virginia Beach, the only shared Episcopal/-Roman Catholic parish in the United States, will celebrate its 20th anniversary Nov. 3.

The Rev. Walter F. Sullivan, the Roman Catholic bishop for Virginia, and Frank Vest, the Episcopal bishop of southern Virginia, will attend the official celebration Nov. 3. There also will be an interfaith prayer service at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1.

The church, near the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Independence Boulevard, was established in 1977 as a pioneering ecumenical effort. It has a congregation of about 100.

Ecumenical conference

returns to Williamsburg

The annual Lutheran/-Anglican/Roman Catholic Conference will return to Williamsburg in November to ``celebrate and advance'' the cause of ecumenism.

More than 200 Lutherans, Episcopalians and Roman Catholics are expected at the conference, which has the theme ``Covenant & Conversion & Communion.''

The opening session will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, in St. Stephen's Lutheran Church. The next morning the conference will move to St. Bede Roman Catholic Church and will conclude that afternoon at Bruton Parish Episcopal Church.

The conference is held, according to its organizers, ``to illuminate, celebrate and advance the cause of Christian unity among Lutherans, Anglicans and Roman Catholics in Virginia.''

For more information, call 757-229-2891.

Children's Sabbaths

theme focuses on health

``Seeking Shalom: Healthy Children, Healthy Nation'' is the theme for this year's national observance of Children's Sabbaths. The observance, which concludes Monday, is sponsored annually by the Children's Defense Fund, a Washington-based non-profit organization that addresses children's issues.

An array of religious groups - including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus - from across the nation are hosting weekend activities that will focus on child health care for the sixth annual observance. Activities will include special worship services as well as immunizations and educational programs about health issues.

CDF wants to encourage different religious communities to play an active role in addressing child health care. A record 11.3 million American children - 15 percent of the total - did not have health insurance in 1996, CDF officials said.

``The religious community must redouble its efforts to stand up for children's health and urge state leaders to take advantage of new federal funds to get health coverage to as many uninsured child-ren . . . as quickly as possible,'' said CDF President Marian Wright Edelman.

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