Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 21, 1991 TAG: 9103220198
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By Frances Stebbins
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Hartwig, a native of Illinois, is a 1968 graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and served parishes in Wisconsin and Illinois before coming to an Emporia church in 1977. He remained as pastor there for nine years.
He is married to a nurse, Natalie M. Hartwig, and has two adult daughters, Berith and Shereth.
\ THE PROBLEM OF PAIN will be the theme of the Rev. Dr. W. Gary Phillips at the Spring Bible Conference Friday through Sunday at Grace Church, 2731 Edgewood St. S.W. Phillips, chairman of the department of philosophy and religion at Bryan College, will speak Friday and Saturday nights at 7 and on Sunday at 9:30 and 11:05 a.m. and 6 p.m. A nursery and childrens' classes will be available.
\ A SINGLES CONFERENCE, led by Ann Alexander Smith, a consultant for the Southern Baptist Convention, will held in session Friday and Saturday at First Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke. Sessions will begin at 7 p.m. and 9 a.m. and will include help in starting a church singles ministry as well as a workshop on adjusting to divorced status. Cost is $10. Call 342-9720 for more information.
\ THE REV. ELSA H. HALE, a member of the staff of St. John's Episcopal Church since 1986, will leave May 19 to study in pastoral care at Loyola University in Baltimore. Now priest-in-charge of the parish, Hale will marry the Rev. Arnold Mintz of Harrisburg, Pa., on April 6. Mintz is a former interim rector of the downtown Roanoke church.
\ HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, established in the Roanoke Valley five years ago, has now erected 12 homes for the working poor in Northwest and Southeast Roanoke. Volunteers from businesses as well as churches have provided labor and materials with prospective homeowners also contributing labor. Two Southwest County congregations, Cave Spring Baptist and Cave Spring United Methodist, each did all the work on a house.
The organization is now raising money to build more houses on donated lots in the Gainsboro and Belmont neighborhoods.
\ A WORKSHOP\ SERIES to introduce the principles of the Eckankar belief system is scheduled April 11, 18 and 25 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the downtown Roanoke Public Library. For more information, call 774-4437.
\ THE FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY CHOIR from North Carolina will sing Sunday at 4 p.m. at High Street Baptist Church, 2302 Florida Ave. N.W. Directed by Augustus Pearson, the choral group is making a return appearance under sponsorship of the High Street Sanctuary Choir.
\ THE REV. OTTAWA PULLEN of Blue Ridge Baptist Church will lead worship at 4 p.m. Sunday at a Heroines of Jericho celebration. It will be at the Masonic Hall at 533 Centre Ave. N.W.
\ ROANOKE CHURCH OF CHRIST will have a program on the international ministry "Bread for a Hungry World" Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Jon Jones of Fort Worth, Texas, will present that program and a series of lessons at the church, 2606 Brandon Ave. S.W.
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.
\ ***CORRECTION***
Published correction ran on March 28, 1991.
\ Because of a reporter's error, an item in the Religion Briefs column in the March 21 editions incorrectly identified the Rev. Ottawa Pullen. He is former pastor of Blue Ridge Baptist Church.\
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Memo: CORRECTION