Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 28, 1991 TAG: 9103290106
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By Frances Stebbins
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ JAMES BAYNE, a Christiansburg minister, will lead revival services April 7-10 at Edgewood Christian Church, 1006 Peck St. N.W. Byron Miller of Eden, N.C. will lead singing, starting at 10 a.m. on the opening Sunday. Other services that day are at 10:55 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Week nights worship will begin at 7. A nursery will be open.
\ EASTER SUNDAY HOMECOMING is planned from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Strait Way Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church on Virginia 311 north of Salem. Revival services also will start Monday and continue through April 7 with John Gabbard, a Bond, Ky. evangelist, preaching nightly at 7:30.
\ THE REV. R. TYLER BURKETT has joined the staff of Green Ridge Baptist Church as minister of education and youth. He came from Huguenot Road Baptist Church in Richmond where he worked with youth. A graduate of Mary Washington College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Burkett also was minister of education and youth at the Oak Grove Church of Richmond for more than three years.
His wife, Annette, formerly of Christiansburg, has worked for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in Richmond and WDBJ-TV in Roanoke.
\ "POLICING OUR COMMUNITIES IN THE '90s" will be the theme of Jeffrey B. Spence of Richmond for the April 8 meeting of the interfaith Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference.
Spence, who since 1978 has been regional director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, will speak at First Presbyterian Church, South Jefferson at McClanahan streets, at 10:30 a.m. Spence is ordained in the United Church of Christ. He plans and leads programs for better human understanding, especially in the fields of police training, youth leadership, intergroup relationships and applied ethics.
\ THE REV. ALVORD M. BEARDSLEE of the Hollins College religion faculty will present a lecture, "Islam," for the April 5 service at 8:15 p.m. at Beth Israel Synagogue, Franklin Road at Highland Avenue Southwest.
\ CHILDREN AS PEACEMAKERS will be the theme of a workshop April 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bonsack United Methodist Church. Kathleen and James McGinnis, founders of two ecumenical national agencies and authors of "Parenting for Peace and Justice," will be the leaders. The workshop is especially for parents, Christian educators and church planners. Registration is needed by April 8; call 977-4212.
\ GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH - MISSOURI SYNOD has chosen the Rev. John D. Hartwig, 48, as its new pastor. He has come from Emporia, where for the past three years he has operated a printing business and served as interim pastor at several congregations. His installation will be Sunday at 4 p.m.
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.
\ 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.
\ 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 29, 1991 in the Metro edition.\ Correction
Because of an editorial assistant's error, the installation date for the Rev. John D. Hartwig at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church was incorrect in some editions of Neighbors Thursday. The installation has already taken place.
Memo: Correction