Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 27, 1993 TAG: 9303260399
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"The Way to Emmaus," a Lenten cantata, will be presented Sunday at 5 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Lynchburg.
Soprano soloist Amy Pugh will be featured in the Jaromir Weinberger work. Other music for the vespers will include a setting of the Nunc Dimittis by the Sine Nomine Singers and a John Rutter setting of Psalm 103.
The program is free to the public. The church is at 1215 Virginia Episcopal School Road. A nursery will be staffed. Call 804-384-6231 for more information.
Scholarship festival
A spring festival to raise funds for a college scholarship for youth served by the Henry Fork Community Center is scheduled April 10 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The family event will be held at the Phoebe Needles Center south of Callaway and is open to the Franklin County community. The festival will be held rain or shine.
The $5 admission fee for adults and $3.50 for children includes brunch and workshop materials for egg dying and decorating, palm cross making, growing and using herbs, and fresh-flower arranging. To be sold are baked foods, pottery, spring plants and oak tree crafts.
The scholarship is an ongoing mission project of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. The center is at Virginia 748 and 640 between Ferrum and Callaway. Call 483-3381 for more information.
Small-church seminar
The renovated Massanetta Conference Center at Harrisonburg will be the site of the annual Virginia Town and Country Ministers Summer School July 6-9.
Registration for the program may be made by sending a $10 deposit by June 20 to the Virginia Council of Churches, 1214 Graham Road, Suite 3, Richmond 23220.
The school, which annually attracts many small-church leaders from throughout the state, will have the theme of "The Pastor as Servant Leader." Keynoters will be the Rev. Dr. Robert Q. Pierce of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond and the Rev. Dr. Nancy Lincoln, a former Roanoker now on the staff of a Washington counseling center. Call 804-321-3300 for registration brochure.
Wolfe to speak
The Rev. Fred Wolfe, vice chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention executive committee, will be the speaker at a rally on the subject of revival Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at East End Baptist Church in Roanoke.
Wolfe also is pastor of the 9,000-member Cottage Hill Baptist Church in Mobile, Ala., where East End's pastor, the Rev. Joe Pierce, once based an evangelistic ministry.
Wolfe is a past president of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference and has delivered the keynote sermon at the convention's annual meeting. He is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
East End Baptist Church is at Mecca Street and U.S. 460 Northeast.
by CNB