Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 26, 1990 TAG: 9007270127
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Peace Church is a project of Presbytery of the Peaks based in Lynchburg.
Gunn, a native of Arkansas, is a graduate of Davidson College and the divinity school of Duke University. He has served churches in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina and currently is taking a doctorate from the University of North Carolina.
His family includes his wife, Pam, a U.S. Postal Service systems analyst, and three children, Lisa, 10; Dan, 9; and Benjamin, 4.
\ THE REV. RANDY GARNER has been named the new pastor of Valley View Wesleyan Church. He and his wife, Cindy, have come from Asheboro, N.C., succeeding the Rev. Kenneth Dupin who has joined his brother on the staff of a new Grand Rapids, Mich., church.
Garner, 33, is a graduate of Central Wesleyan College and Bible School, Rock Hill, S.C. He has been a general evangelist who travels for the denomination.
\ JOHN CANNON, formerly minister of education at North Main Baptist Church in Danville, has joined the staff of North Roanoke Baptist Church. Cannon will work as minister of education at the Hollins congregation.
\ SOUTHVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 3539 Peters Creek Road N.W., is enrolling for a new pre-kindergarten weekday class. The class is for children who will be 5 on or before Dec. 31 but who may not be attending public kindergarten. Renelle Maddrey, director, said children with later birthdays may be considered. The class will be 9 a.m. to noon three or five days weekly, depending on enrollment. Ten children is the maximum. Call 380-4676.
\ WARD HAVEN RETREAT CENTER, owned by the Roanoke Association of Southern Baptists, has employed Richard McDaniel as its supervisor. The center on Catawba Mountain includes two all-weather dormitories and was used in 1989 for 22 overnight retreats and 25 picnics.
\ AN AGAPE JUBILEE FESTIVAL to raise money for TAP is scheduled at Victory Stadium Aug. 5 at 5 p.m. The program will include selections by several gospel-singing groups as well as by a choir made up of members from many churches. For tickets, call 981-2889 or 342-5058.
\ SALEM CAMP MEETING, established in 1896, will be in session Aug. 18-26 at the tabernacle at 208 Third St. in Salem. Night services will begin at 7:15 with those in the morning at 10:30. World Mission programs are scheduled on Sundays at 3 p.m. Evangelist will be the Rev. Wilbur Dayton of Macon, Ga., with Dick Whitener of Bessemer City, N.C., the song leader.
Missionaries participating will be Jim and Grace Smyth, workers in Colombia, South America, and Marjorie Campbell, who has served in Kenya. Call 389-1661 for more information.
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