Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 12, 1992 TAG: 9203120400
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Jesse E. Hopkins Jr., associate professor of music at the college, is director. An offering will be taken.
\ UNITY OF ROANOKE VALLEY, 3300 Green Ridge Road, will sponsor a video series, "Homecoming," featuring John Bradshaw. The series begin March 19 and continues each Thursday night from 7-9 through May 21. Ann Turner will be facilitator. An offering will be taken.
\ GERALD MORAN has resigned as music minister at Cathedral of Praise Church of God for health reasons.
\ A GOSPEL CONCERT led by the Rev. James Moore and featuring the choirs of several Virginia Churches of God in Christ is scheduled Saturday night at 7:30 at the Roanoke Civic Center auditorium. The program is part of the closing session of the 70th annual Workers Conference for the Pentecostal denomination. Advance tickets for $5 are available at Tracks or the Record Bar. At the door, the tickets will be $7.
\ THE SOUTHERN STATESMEN, a gospel quartet, will sing March 22 at 6 p.m. at First Wesleyan Church, 3706 Peters Creek Road N.W. An offering will be taken.
\ THE BAPTIST MEN'S UNION, a Christian service group covering the Roanoke Valley, will observe its 53rd anniversary Sunday at Slate Hill Baptist Church, 4352 Elm View Road S.W. The Rev. Enos H. Glaspie of Shiloh Baptist in Salem will preach, and the Shiloh choir will sing at the 3 p.m. service .
The group also has scheduled an open meeting and reception Friday night at 7 at Pilgrim Baptist Church.
\ A HOLLINS COLLEGE COMMUNITY SERVICE Sunday night at 7:30 will feature the Rev. Nicholas G. Bacalis, pastor of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, and Dr. Paul Dallas, a layman in the congregation. "But By Prayer and Fasting" will be the theme.
Dallas, who will chant part of the service, is a physician. Bacalis, who has served the church for 16 years, has been a priest since 1968.
\ MUSIC IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION will be the theme of a workshop scheduled March 23-27 at Maple Street Baptist Church, 902 Fairfax Ave. N.W. Open to the public, sessions will be nightly from 7-9. Marjorie Olive, organist for the National Baptist Convention USA Inc. and a staff member of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in East St. Louis, Ill., will be the leader. For more information, call 343-3880.
\ THE COVENANT PLAYERS, a national touring Christian drama group, will perform March 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Williamson Road at Epperly Northwest. The group coming to Trinity is one of many that visit churches to give short plays with contemporary messages. An offering will be taken.
\ GREATER MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, 1810 Grayson Ave. N.W., will be the site of a concert Sunday at 3 p.m. by the Male Chorus of Union Baptist Church in Morristown, N.J.
\ EARL REYNOLDS, a former Roanoker who recently became city manager of Martinsville, will speak March 21 at Holiday Inn Airport during a banquet concluding a two-day conference for laity of Virginia African Methodist Episcopal churches.
The meeting will open with a service March 20 at Ebenezer A.M.E. Church starting at 7:30 p.m. Saturday workshops begin at 9 a.m. and are open to the public. To reserve a ticket for the $20 banquet, call 345-1382 or 362-5551.
\ ST. ANDREW'S CATHOLIC CHURCH will sponsor a religious book fair Friday and Saturday at Roanoke Catholic Elementary School, near the church at 631 N. Jefferson St. The books will be sold Saturday from 4:30-7 p.m. and the following day from 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
\ HOLY WOMEN AND HOLY THOUGHT, a free lecture on some female mystics of the High Middle Ages, is scheduled Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Lucas Hall 206 of Roanoke College. It will be led by John G. Tuthill of Georgia Southern University, who will tell of Irish mystics, and Pamela S. Anderson of the Roanoke College faculty, who will discuss the power of medieval women in a male world. Both speakers hold doctorates in subjects related to their talks.
\ FINCASTLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH will sponsor a performance of the Agnes Scott College Glee Club at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Ellie Porter, a graduate of Northside High School and a junior history major at Agnes Scott, is a member of the club.
Rowena Renn, a Botetourt County native, is the conductor.
\ Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010.
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