Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 5, 1990 TAG: 9004060174
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-7 EDITION: NORTH
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ THE DUBOIS CANTATA, "The Seven Last Words of Christ," will be presented Sunday at 5 p.m. at Williamson Road Church of the Brethren, Oakland and Pioneer Northwest. The Chancel Choir and several instrumentalists will perform the work directed by Garnett Carroll. A nursery will be available.
\ "THE LIFE OF CHRIST," a new contemporary Easter cantata, will be presented on three nights at Oakland Baptist Church, 3523 Round Hill Ave. N.W. The performances will be Good Friday through Easter Sunday nights at 7. Admission is by free ticket; call 362-9066 or 562-2465. A nursery will be provided.
\ "CALVARY'S LOVE," an Easter cantata, is scheduled Sunday at 10:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. at North Roanoke Baptist Church, 6402 Peters Creek Road, Hollins. Judy Hensley will direct the Adult Choir in the work. A nursery will be provided.
\ SUDDENLY SINGLE, a video seminar featuring Christian counselor Clyde Besson, will be shown Friday night at 7 at Maranatha Fellowship center at 4011 Melrose Ave. N.W. For more information about the program on coping with the loss of a mate, call 986-0115 or 268-2806.
\ GRACE BAPTIST TEMPLE, 1527 Gilford Road N.W., has scheduled pre-Easter revival services Sunday through Wednesday . They will be led by the Christ Life Ministry Team. Sunday morning worship is at 11 with night programs at 7.
\ THE HIGH STREET BAPTIST SENIOR CHOIR will sing Sunday at 6 p.m. at Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, 506 15th St. N.W. The occasion will be the 65th anniversary of the host church's senior choir.
\ SISTER CHURCH RELATIONSHIPS, in which a Roanoke-area Southern Baptist congregation is paired with a small New England mission, are now active among 13 churches. Churches in the Roanoke Valley and Bedford and Botetourt counties visit annually in the New England churches to help with evangelism, teaching and building construction. Expansion into rural New England represents home mission work of Virginia Baptists. About 70 Virginia congregations are now paired. Only 175 small Southern Baptist churches serve the several million people in New England.
\ MARJORIE McCULLOUGH, national president of the Woman's Missionary Union, will speak to Southern Baptist women from churches in more than 60 congregations during their annual meeting on April 17. McCullough of from Alexandria, La., will speak at Grandin Court Baptist Church, 2660 Brambleton Ave. S.W. The meeting will begin at 6:45 p.m. To reserve nursery care, call 774-8442 by Tuesday
\ JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W., has scheduled a Palm Sunday cantata with narration at 11 a.m. At 4 p.m. the E.T. Burton Choir of Sweet Union Baptist will sing for the anniversaries of the deacon and deaconesses boards. The J.E. Young Mass Choir also will sing.
\ CHURCH WOMEN UNITED, a national ecumenical and interracial fellowship, is marking its 50th anniversary in 1990. The Roanoke Valley unit will observe the event on Dec. 13.
\ THE REV. WILLIAM STOVALL, who has served several congregations in Western Virginia, will become the full-time pastor of Mason Cove Church of the Brethren on June 1.
\ THE REV. JAMES PARKE, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Salem, is host for a new radio program, "Religion and Life," aired each Saturday night from 10 to 11 on WFIR. Parke interviews Roanoke Valley religion leaders on a variety of contemporary issues.
by CNB