Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 5, 1990 TAG: 9004060587
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-8 EDITION: EAST
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ THE COVENANT PLAYERS, national contemporary repertory company, will perform on Good Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Bedford Presbyterian Church. The program is sponsored by the Bedford County Ministerial Association.
\ THE REV. RICHARD H. FORRESTER, pastor emeritus and on the senior care staff of Thrasher Memorial United Methodist Church for several years, has moved from Vinton to The Hermitage Home in Richmond.
\ ST. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH at Forest has scheduled a Good Friday Way of the Cross service starting at 7 p.m. This service of darkness includes Scripture, prayer and music.
\ BELMONT BAPTIST CHURCH at 825 Stewart Ave. S.E. will present a musical drama Palm Sunday at 7:30 p.m. "Calvary's Love," by Greg Nelson, Tom Fettke and Phill McHugh, is about Christ's love on Calvary seen through the eyes of the biblical characters Peter, Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman. Judy Barger will direct the presentation, accompanied by Rob Lambeth, organist, and Kim Lavinder, pianist.\ 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.
\ 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
\ 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. 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.
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