Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 8, 1990 TAG: 9003092184
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-5 EDITION: WEST
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ JIM FORINGER, minister of Edgewood Christian Church for two years until his resignation several months ago, has begun a new fellowship in his home at 3760 Meadowlark Road S.W. Foringer, who came to Roanoke from Pennsylvania in 1987, said the new group "will emphasize the ministry of all believers and that we're not the only Christians but rather Christians only." Call 989-9226 for more information.
\ THE REV. KIRK LASHLEY has begun his work as executive director of the Roanoke Valley Association of 71 Southern Baptist congregations. He has come from Danville. Lashley and his wife, Barbara, will be welcomed at a reception at the Baptist Children's Home and Family Services dining room March 18 from 2 to 4 p.m.
\ DAVID E. WOLFE, coordinator of pastoral care at Lewis-Gale Hospital, has been certified as a fellow in the College of Chaplains. Members of the professional group must be seminary graduates, have gained experience in a clinical residency and been on another job for at least a year. Several volunteers assist Wolfe in ministering to the spiritual needs of patients, families and staff.
\ SALEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH will observe Lent through April 4 with Wednesday night meals starting at 6 and a sermon series on "The Message of the Re-Formation." Meals, for which the $4 payment is due on the previous Sunday, will have typical menus of the countries from which Protestant reformers came including Germany, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
\ THE REV. J.W. HATTON, pastor of Fort Lewis Baptist Church more than 30 years ago, has returned there as interim minister.
\ FIRST UNITED METHODIST LENTEN PROGRAMS in downtown Salem will be held each Wednesday night at 7. United Methodist pastors Kirk Nave, Larry Thompson, William Logan, Harris Kesler and John Andrews will be guest preachers. Fellowship time follows.
\ ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL Lenten programs include potluck meals at 6 p.m. on March 25 and April 3. Programs by the Emory & Henry College Choir and Ibou Faye, an African Christian drummer, will follow the meals on the respective dates.
The downtown Salem church also is starting a Tuesday prayer group that will meet weekly at 7:30 p.m. and is open to the community. Its leader will be the Rev. Harmon Smith who recently moved to Salem after retirement from an Appomattox Episcopal parish.
\ ROANOKE'S HABITAT FOR HUMANITY project will receive national television exposure in late spring or early summer. A segment of a recent First Presbyterian Church service is scheduled to be part of a one-hour documentary to be aired over the Arts and Entertainment Network. The show about Habitat's worldwide building of simple homes for the working poor will focus on the role of the church.
Shown in the documentary will be Olivia LaMotte at worship. She is the wife of the pastor of First Presbyterian and helped start the Roanoke Habitat program four years ago.
\ A TAX AND ACCOUNTING SEMINAR, free to pastors and church business staffs, is scheduled Saturday from 8:45 a.m. to noon under sponsorship of Caring for Life Ministries of Vinton. It will be held at the Family Reunion Restaurant in Vinton with Joseph L. Bush Jr., certified public accountant, the instructor. Call 342-5131 for more information.
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