
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 10, 1990                   TAG: 9005110154
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

ENON BAPTIST CHURCH at Hollins will receive the Rev. William R. Harding III as its next pastor. Harding, who is completing a 13-year pastorate at Piney River Baptist Church in Nelson County, will begin at Enon June 1. He is 40 and a graduate of Old Dominion University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His wife, Susan Lynn, is a dental hygienist and on the board of the Virginia Woman's Missionary Union. The family includes Scott, 11.

\ THE REV. DAN RUSMISEL, pastor of Blue Ridge Church of the Brethren for the past four years, will leave in early June. Rusmisel, 40, will become minister of the Lanark Church of the Brethren in Illinois. The Rusmisel family includes the pastor's wife, Jill, and four children.

\ PAUL VAN GORDER, a former national radio Bible teacher, will conduct special services Sunday through Wednesday at Faith Alliance Church, 7505 Barrens Road. Van Gorder will speak at the 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. services Sunday and nightly at 7 during the week. Retired from an Atlanta Baptist pastorate, Van Gorder has published more than 50 books and study guides.

\ THE REV. AUBREY S. PULLEN and singers from Reed Street Baptist Church in Vinton will lead worship May 20 at 3:30 p.m. at Macedonia Baptist Church, 2910 Cove Road N.W. The occasion is the ninth anniversary of the coming of the Rev. Wallace A. Saunders as pastor.

\ MARY ANN DACY of Fairfax will speak tonight during a meeting of the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life. Dacy, national executive director of the anti-abortion group, will speak at 7:30 p.m. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church on Palmetto Avenue Northwest.

\ TWO SOVIET-JEWISH FAMILIES are expected in Roanoke by the end of May. One from Kiev includes a young couple and their child. The parents have skills in photography and dressmaking. The other couple has two children and worked in the U.S.S.R. in tractor manufacturing and statistics. The Roanoke Valley's two Jewish congregations are collecting household needs for apartments in the Southwest area. The Shapiros and Zelakovitchs are among many Jewish political refugees recently approved for emigration.

\ IN MEMORY OF ADOLPH O. KRISCH, members of Temple Emanuel and Beth Israel congregations have planted more than two dozen white pine trees on the edge of the Jewish cemetery on U.S. 460 east of Roanoke.

\ ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES now has storage space for household furniture and seeks beds and chests, tables and chairs as well as kitchen utensils and other home essentials. Donors may bring these articles to RAM House, 820 Campbell Ave. S.W. weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Pickup by a RAM volunteer can be arranged by calling 981-1732.

\ A PRE-MOTHER'S DAY DINNER, sponsored by the Host/Hostess Guild of Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W., is scheduled Saturday night at 6 at the church. Tickets are $3.50 and may be bought at the door of the Hunter Fellowship Hall.

\ SALVATION ARMY REVIVAL SERVICES end tonight at 7 at the center at 724 Dale Ave. S.E. Preaching are Maj. and Mrs. Omer McKinney of West Palm Beach, Fla.

Robert C. Lawson Jr. and Heidi F. Krisch recently were appointed to the advisory board of the Salvation Army in Roanoke.

by CNB