Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 7, 1991 TAG: 9103080590
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ CARLTON COLLINS will retire from the staff of Salem Presbyterian Church by September after 12 years as organist. Collins' career spans 30 years in church music.
\ A STEWARDSHIP TEACHING REVIVAL will held Monday through March 15 at First Baptist Church, 226 S. Broad St. in Salem. The Rev. S.A. Raper of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Shelby, N.C., will lead nightly services at 7:30.
\ THE REV. JAMES PARKE has been given a second six-year term as pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Salem by Bishop Walter F. Sullivan. Priests in the Diocese of Richmond usually serve for five years with extended terms considered if requested by the congregation and pastor.
\ THE REV. METZ T. COKER will observe his 39th anniversary as pastor of Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church Sunday at 3 p.m. The Rev. W.W. Thompson and the choir of Cedar Grove Baptist Church in Chester, S.C., will lead the service.
\ AWAKENING, an annual Lenten series of services sponsored jointly by Roanoke Valley Churches of the Brethren, will be led this year by the Rev. Paul Fike. The services will be at Central Church, 416 Church Ave. S.W. March 17-20 nightly at 7:15. Fike, pastor of the Cloverdale church about 30 years ago, now is chaplain at a Bridgewater retirement home. Call 342-0337 for schedule of activities.
\ RUSS HOLLINGSWORTH, a Nashville-based singer/songwriter, will give a concert of contemporary Christian music Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at First Church of God, 2241 Mill Lane, Salem. In addition to writing songs and recording for World Records, Hollingsworth directs Doulos Training Schools, a training center for Christian musicians.
Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon in order to run in the following Thursday edition.
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