Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, January 30, 1992 TAG: 9201300455
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
RELIGION BRIEFS
THE REV. ROBERT E. FIELD has marked his 25th anniversary as pastor of Garden City Church of the Nazarene. He was honored at a reception earlier this month.Field, 55, came to the church from Winchester; he and his wife, Zella, have two daughters living in Nashville, Tenn. During Field's pastorate the church has erected three buildings for education, worship and community activities.
\ AT SHEPHERD'S CARE DAY SCHOOL, a ministry of First Church of the Nazarene, Joan Coffey has resigned as director because of a move to Rocky Mount. She helped organize the school more than four years ago and has seen its enrollment grow to 64. The church has been honoring Coffey with a series of programs this week. She will help train a new director.
\ JOANI TABOR, a Roanoke gospel singer, will perform Sunday at 7 p.m. at New Hope Christian Church, 4229 Welcome Valley Road. The program is free. Tabor, wife of a Roanoke minister, has made several recordings and has sung on television more than 100 times.
\ ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES board has elected Deborah Oehlschlaeger, a lawyer active in Christ Lutheran Church, as its new president.
Other new leaders of the ecumenical agency to help the needy are the Rev. James Parke of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic and the Rev. Kenneth Lane of Trinity Lutheran, vice presidents; Bess Rhodes of Melrose Christian (Disciples of Christ), secretary; and Clyde Ware of Windsor Hills United Methodist, treasurer.
The board sets policies for RAM's ministries, which are coordinated by paid staff the Rev. Julie Hollingsworth and Debbie Denison.
\ A TRADING CARD SHOW to benefit the ministry of the Rev. Richard Harris as chaplain to jails and a public nursing home is scheduled Feb. 8 in the fellowship hall of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Salem. For the admission price of 50 cents, participants may buy and trade racing, baseball, football and basketball collectors' cards. The show is sponsored by the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference, which helps support Harris' work.
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