Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, February 25, 1993 TAG: 9302250334
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
RELIGION BRIEFS
A MISSION AWARENESS WEEKEND involving several United Methodist churches in the Roanoke area is scheduled March 5-7. Marie Russo, director of The Neighborhood Center, a nationally-supported inner-city ministry of the church in Utica, N.Y., will be the featured guest.The event will begin with a breakfast for clergy at Huntington Court Church. A community forum will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Greene Memorial Church.
The $5 fee covers lunch and registration. Call 345-7351 or 345-6781 by Friday for reservations. The March 5 activities will conclude with a tour of several Roanoke Valley service agencies.
Events on March 6 will include a talk by Russo at 9 a.m. at Bonsack United Methodist Church. She will talk about the work of the center, and several others will discuss their involvement the Neighborhood Center.
The awareness weekend will conclude March 7 when staff workers from the center will speak at several churches, including Thrasher Memorial Church in Vinton and Highland Park in Roanoke.
\ WORLD DAY OF PRAYER, an annual program of Church Women United, is scheduled March 5 at Belmont Presbyterian Church, 1005 Ninth St. S.E. The service, which opens with registration at 10 a.m., was written by Guatemalan women.
The women's group is ecumenical and interracial.
\ CHILDREN'S SPIRITUAL VALUES will be the theme of a program Sunday night at Huntington Court United Methodist Church, Williamson Road at Huntington Boulevard Northwest. Linda Kusse-Wolfe, a staff member of Williamson Road Church of the Brethren, will discuss how parents can encourage their children to have a relationship with God. The program will begin at 6.
\ BETHANY CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST), 3115 Fleming Ave. N.W., will observe Mission Sunday on March 7 at the 8:30 and 11 a.m. services.
Victor McAnallen, a Hendersonville, N.C., mission worker who is on furlough from Thailand, will speak at both. He also will show a video after a 12:15 p.m. potluck lunch.
Crafts from Lao Song will be on sale. Call 366-0968 Monday, Wednesday or Friday mornings if attending the lunch.
\ FIRST WESLEYAN CHURCH, 3706 Peters Creek Road N.W., will sponsor a presentation by Brass Dimensions on March 3 at 7 p.m. The brass and percussion ensemble is from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. The ensemble has performed nationally.
A nursery will be provided. Call 563-4481 for more information.
\ THE SPIRITUAL SEVEN, a Wirtz gospel group, will sing March 7 at 3 p.m. at Truevine Church of Christ, 1132 Loudon Ave. N.W.
\ THE BENNETT COLLEGE CHOIR of Greensboro, N.C., will present a program March 6 at 7 p.m. at St. Paul United Methodist Church, Fifth Street at Gilmer Avenue Northwest. The women's choir includes students at the Methodist-affiliated school. The concert is free.
\ A SPECIAL SERVICE with Doris Mack as the speaker is planned March 7 at 4 p.m. at Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 506 15th St. N.W. The Senior Choir of St. John A.M.E. Church will present special music for the service, sponsored by the Price Memorial Deaconess Board.
Mack is a member of Loudon Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
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.