Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 2, 1994 TAG: 9406020201
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The bishop's wife, the Rev. Lula G. Williams, is the missionary supervisor of the Fifth Episcopal District. Besides churches in the two adjoining states, the conference includes those in the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas as well as in India and in the British Isles.
The daily services for the delegates are open to the public. Williams will preach at the final Sunday morning service. The service will be followed by a musical program, memorial recognition and the reading of appointments to churches in the conference.
Call 345-9203 for program details.
\ A FAREWELL RECEPTION for the Rev. James Parke is scheduled Sunday from 1:30 to 5 p.m. at Holiday Inn/Tanglewood. Parke, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Salem for a decade and host of a radio talk show, has been transferred to Ascension Catholic Church of Virginia Beach. His successor will be the Rev. Gregory Kandt, who begins work Monday.
\ NICOLE RILEY, president of the Baptist Student Union at Roanoke College, has been elected president of the BSU on the state level for the next year.\ Susan Walters is the volunteer Baptist campus minister at the Roanoke College.
\ THE PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER, an ecumenical ministry based at Second Presbyterian Church of Roanoke, has named Lillian Hagan chairman of its board. Other officers include: the Rev. Dwayne Westermann, pastor of College Lutheran Church in Salem, vice chairman; Ira Peters, treasurer; and George Kegley, secretary. The Rev. Leo Howard, who has directed the center since its opening 20 years ago, continues in his position of family counseling.
\ CALVARY TABERNACLE congregation, a nondenominational Christian group led by the Rev. Ben Peyton, is meeting at 3025-A Peters Creek Road until a new building is completed on Sanderson Drive. The former church building at 18th Street and Orange Avenue Northwest has been sold to Faith and Hope Church of God in Christ, which formerly worshiped on Peters Creek Road.
Calvary Temple's Sunday program includes education at 10 a.m., and worship at 10:55 a.m. and 6 p.m. The church also sponsors a prayer service Mondays at 12:30 p.m. and Bible study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
Peyton said the first unit of the new church will be a combined worship and fellowship building costing about $350,000. About 100 people are active in the congregation.
\ FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH has chosen the Rev. Dr. W. Philip West as its new associate pastor for pastoral care. West, 32, is coming from an associate position at Winter Park Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, N.C., where he has served since 1988. Prior to that he had internships at churches in the Atlanta area and was on the staff of a childrens' home.
He is a native of Atlanta and was educated at a community college there and at King College in Bristol and Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga.
He is married to Laura Hurst West, a nurse, and is the father of three children.
\ COLONIAL AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH, 4165 Colonial Ave. S.W., will have a concert featuring the Youth Choir of College Street Baptist Church in Walhalla, S.C., June 12 at the 11 a.m. service. The choir includes 58 young people and comes from a church whose pastor, the Rev. John Adams, formerly was on the staff of Colonial Avenue Baptist.
\ THE REV. JOHN HAWN, formerly of Albemarle, N.C., will be installed as pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church Sunday at 11 a.m. The Rev. Jean Bozeman of the staff of the Virginia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will officiate. The church, one of Roanoke's oldest Lutheran congregation, is at 1008 Franklin Road S.W.
\ BRENDA DRISCOLL, a 1986 graduate of Radford University, will be licensed to the ministry Sunday at 11 a.m. at her home congregation, Red Hill Church of the Brethren, 6050 Franklin Road. Driscoll, employed in Roanoke, is continuing her education through the denomination's Ministry Training Program. A reception will follow the service.
\ DR. WILLIAM A. FINTEL, a Salem cancer specialist and co-author of a book on physical and spiritual aspects of the disease, will speak June 19 at the 10 a.m. service at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 1201 Hardy Road, Vinton. Fintel and his colleague, Gerald McDermott of the Roanoke College faculty, have received national attention for "Living With Cancer" since its publication a year ago.
Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon in order to run in the following Thursday edition.
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