Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 23, 1991 TAG: 9102220399
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Franklin County resident C. Terry Ayres has been named Virginia director for the Child Evangelism Fellowship. State offices are at 5720 Williamson Road.
Child Evangelism is an interdenominational ministry with conservative Protestant focus that has been active in the Roanoke Valley for two generations. Its major purpose is to train volunteers to teach Scripture principles to children of elementary school age in weekly classes held in homes or on other private property.
The agency also promotes week-long Bible Clubs for children during the summer.
Ayres moves up to the state job after directing the Roanoke Child Evangelism program since September 1989. He is a member of Covenant Reformed Episcopal Church.
H.T. Grindstaff, chairman of the board of the state group, said moving the state office to Roanoke does not affect the work of the Roanoke office at 619 Third St. S.E. A successor to Ayres is being sought there.
Other Child Evangelism programs are active in most major Virginia cities, Grindstaff said.
Seed potatoes
Making seed potatoes available free to families who cannot afford to buy them is the latest project of the Society of St. Andrew based at Big Island.
Staff member Marian Buchanan said the program, started a year ago, resulted in four truckloads of seed potatoes being distributed to needy households in low-income Appalachia. Results of the crop have provided food this winter, Buchanan noted.
The St. Andrew's Christian community supervises the collection of food grown throughout the nation that is wholesome but unsuitable for sale. Churches and individuals volunteer to collect the food and to pay for trucking the produce to food pantries.
Gospel competition
A deadline of March 9 has been set for Western Virginia gospel musicians to enter a regional competition that could lead to recognition by the Nashville recording industry. The second annual Contemporary Christian Musicians' Competition is scheduled to be held later in the spring at Airport Sheraton in Roanoke.
Singers, instrumentalists and song writers with qualifying scores may advance through regional levels to the national try-outs in Nashville, Tenn. this fall. Prizes will be given for those who do not place for the national contest.
More information and entry forms are available by writing Contemporary Christian Musicians' Competition, P.O. Box 1505, Asheboro, N.C. 27204-1505 or calling 919-625-2091.
Contestants will be required to pay a $35 fee when they submit their entry forms.
by CNB