Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 10, 1990 TAG: 9005110417
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
\ RONALD D. SCHWARZ has resigned as director of Craig Springs Conference Center, a ministry of the Disciples of Christ in Virginia. Schwarz has been in the full-time position since 1983. The Rev. Jack Austin, Virginia regional minister, said the 1990 summer program will continue under guidance of committee leaders. Schwarz will remain as part-time pastor of Craig Springs Christian Church, Austin said.
\ 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.
\ KARLA Z. GEE, minister of education, children and outreach at Cave Spring Baptist Church, has been ordained there to the gospel ministry.
\ STANLEY M. BAKER has resigned as organist and choirmaster of St. John's Episcopal Church effective June 3. Baker, 35, came to the staff in 1987 from Birmingham, Ala. A farewell reception for Baker is planned for his final Sunday at 10:15 a.m.
\ FESTIVAL EUCHARIST AND EVENSONG service is scheduled Sunday at 5 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 1101 Franklin Road S.W. It will be led by the choirs of the host church and of R.E. Lee Episcopal Church in Lexington.
\ MARY KAY COOPER, a member of Calvary Baptist Church of Roanoke for 62 years, has been honored by the Roanoke Valley Baptist Association for her leadership in inner-city home mission work of the Woman's Missionary Union. The association's annual was dedicated to her.
\ 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.
\ CHRISTO EVANGELICAL WESLEYAN CHURCH on Bent Mountain has scheduled revival services May 18-27. J.M. Sullivan will lead the services Sunday at 7 p.m. and other evenings at 7:30. Call 929-3397 for directions.
\ A RECYCLING SALE is planned May 19 at West End United Methodist Church, Campbell Avenue at 13th Street Southwest. The sale will be from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Food will be available.
\ 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.
\ MEDITATION - THE INWARD ART, a four-week course costing $25, will begin June 6 at 7:30 p.m. at First Divine Science Church, 5000 Carriage Drive S.W. Call the Rev. Maurita Wiggins, pastor, to register.
The Rev. Dr. F. Bernadette Turner, radio speaker on "Growing Old Graciously," will speak at First Divine Science May 20 at 11 a.m.
\ GREGORY R. KANDT, who has served at Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church for several months in the preparatory order of deacon, will be ordained to the priesthood May 19 at 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Richmond.
\ 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.
\ DAVID McCOY, candidate for the ministry from College Lutheran Church in Salem, will be ordained May 18 . He will be among several men and women who will undergo the rite of being set apart for professional ministry at the annual meeting of the Virginia Synod of the Lutheran Church in America. The ordination service will be at St. Andrew's Catholic Church at 7:30 p.m.
McCoy, who will complete studies later this month at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, S.C., is a graduate of Virginia Western and Roanoke colleges. He will be come pastor of Reformation Lutheran Church in Culpeper in June.
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