Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, February 16, 1995 TAG: 9503030024
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
FINCASTLE UNITED METHODIST and the CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION will hold a joint Ash Wednesday service on March 1 at 7:30 p.m. The service will be at the new Catholic building on U.S. 220, south of Fincastle. The Methodist congregation will give the Catholics a set of candlesticks as a "housewarming." The Catholics worshiped in the Methodist building before their own was finished in October.
FIRST WESLEYAN CHURCH, 3706 Peters Creek Road N.W., has scheduled renewal services Sunday through Tuesday. The Rev. Steve Wingfield, president of an evangelistic organization and a former pastor of First Wesleyan, will lead the services.
A nursery will be open. Sunday service are 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. On week nights, worship will begin at 7.
JOANI TABOR, nationally traveled Roanoke gospel singer, will present a program Sunday at 6 p.m. at New Life Temple Pentecostal Holiness Church, 5745 Airport Road N.W.
PEACE, LOVE AND JOY, a Roanoke gospel singing group, will perform Feb. 26 at 3:30 p.m. at Pilgrim Baptist Church, 1415 Eighth St. N.W. The occasion is the seventh anniversary of the Hospitality Committee.
HIGH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH'S Anchor Educational Services Committee recently honored several community leaders at its annual Follow the Leaders Family Night program. Those recognized were: A. Byron Smith, business; Onzlee Ware, law; Irvin Cannaday, education; Dr. Wendell Butler, medicine; Sonya Mayo, youth leadership; the Rev. Dwight Steele, religion; and Frances Keen, music.
DANICE HUNT, who was named Ms. Senior Citizen for Virginia in 1994, will sing Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. Tickets for the program, sponsored by the Trustee Board, are $4 and may be obtained by calling 342-2277 or 344-3788.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH will be marked Sunday at Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church with the Gospel Choir of St. Gerard Catholic Church singing at the 9:30 a.m. Mass. The church is at 2505 Electric Road S.W.
The church also will sponsor a musicfest, featuring several choirs, on Friday night at 7:30.
AT GREATER MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH,1810 Grayson Ave. N.W., two special services are planned this weekend. Several choral groups will perform Saturday at 6 p.m. for the 15th anniversary of the Male Chorus.
The Rev. Ray Arrington and the choir of Green Spring Baptist Church in Goodview will lead services Sunday at 3 p.m.
BONSACK BAPTIST CHURCH, 4845 Cloverdale Road, has scheduled a concert by the contemporary Christian singing group, Mission, for Sunday at 7 p.m.
A HAITIAN CHRISTIAN GROUP, under the leadership of Castin Mesadieu, has grown to 50 and continues to meet at Ridgewood Baptist Church, 703 Hemlock Road N.W. Consideration is being given to the group becoming a mission of the Roanoke Valley Association of Southern Baptists.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
by CNB