Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 19, 1992 TAG: 9203190344
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-13 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
\ PRESCHOOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT will be the focus of a free program March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church, Grandin Road at Brandon Avenue Southwest. "Body, Mind and Spirit: How the Preschool Child Develops" is for teachers, parents and other family members involved with small children and is sponsored by Noah's Landing Preschool, a ministry of Christ Lutheran. A panel will include Dr. Donald W. Kees, pediatric educator; Dr. Lyn Day, clinical psychologist, and the Rev. Jean Bozeman, a staff member of Lutheran Family Services.
\ A HYMN FESTIVAL, "The Long March of the People of God," is scheduled March 29 at 3 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church, 608 Campbell Ave. S.W. The program, which will be directed by Paul E. Oakley of Minneapolis, Minn., will include music by the Sanctuary Choir as well as audience participation. The focus will be music of the church through many decades.
\ WOMEN'S AGLOW, an organization for women of charismatic Christian preference, will hear a Codie Williams of Lynchburg at its Wednesday meeting at the Woodmen of the World building, 2306 Peters Creek Road N.W. from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Both Williams and her husband are active in the evangelical Christian United Marriage Encounter. Admission is by $2 donation at the door. To reserve child care, call 774-6214.
\ A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE,"Government Under the Influence Of . . . " is scheduled Sunday at 4 p.m. at The Roanoke Marriott conference room. It will be given by Barbara B. Holliday, of Gaithersburg, Md., and a representative of the Christian Science Board will speak. The lecture is sponsored by the Roanoke Christian Science congregation. The lecture is free, and child care will be provided.
\ A BLACK AND WHITE MUSICAL will be held Sunday at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. Several guest choirs and soloists will perform. The concert is sponsored by the J. Eugene Young Mass Choir.
\ CAVE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 4505 Hazel Drive S.W., will hear the Rev. M.J. Kim on Sunday and Monday for special Lenten services. Kim, an associate pastor of Greene Memorial United Methodist Church 20 years ago, now is superintendent of the Ashland District and active in worldwide Methodism. Sunday services will be at 8:45 and 11 a.m. with informal evening programs at 7 on Sunday and Monday. A nursery will be available.
\ A SPRING BIBLE CONFERENCE will be in progress Friday through Sunday at Grace Church, 2731 Edgewood St. S.W. The Rev. Dr. John D. Hannah, department chairman and professor of historical theology at Dallas Theological Seminary in Texas, will lead the conference.
Hannah is a author and has served as pastor and developer of several churches. Friday and Saturday night services will begin at 7, and Sunday worship will be at 9:30 and 11:10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
A nursery will be staffed, and activities for children, ages 4 and 5, will be available On Friday and Saturday nights and for the early Sunday service.
\ A WASHINGTON PILGRIMAGE to the Roman Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is scheduled May 2. Reservation are needed by March 30. The pilgrimage is part of the observance of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' claiming the Americas for Catholic Christianity during his 1492 discovery. The bus will leave Salem at 6 a.m. and return at midnight. The trip costs $27.50. Call 380-3338 for reservations.
\ AWAKENING, an annual Lenten series of spiritual renewal services sponsored by Roanoke-area Churches of the Brethren, will feature the Rev. David Radcliff of the national staff of the church as preacher. A former Blue Ridge resident, Radcliff is peace consultant and director of Korean ministries at the Elgin, Ill., headquarters. This 10th annual series at Central Church, 416 Church Ave. S.W., will be April 5-8, beginning with hymn singing at 7:15 p.m. A portion of the offerings received at the services will be used to jointly build a Habitat for Humanity house.
Child care is available for the services, and special music is planned each night. For information about morning Bible studies, call 342-0337.
\ 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.
\ THE BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR will present concerts at several Roanoke-area Churches of the Brethren this month. The 45 auditioned singers and a handbell choir will perform March 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Daleville Church, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Red Hill Church, and March 22 at 11 a.m. at Cloverdale Church and March 22 at 7:30 p.m. at Ninth Street Church.
Jesse E. Hopkins Jr., associate professor of music at the college, is director. Programs are free; an offering is taken.
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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