Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 22, 1993 TAG: 9305210319
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: RICK LINDQUIST
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The group also will do some Broadway show tunes and interpretive dance numbers.
Members of the troupe will stay with Presbyterian families in Radford.
Directed by Joe and Mary Stephenson, the chorale was organized in early 1990 and has toured extensively across the Eastern United States.
Every January, the nonprofit group puts on a major Broadway-style musical to raise money for its summer concert tour.
The Coleman Memorial United Methodist Church Youth Handbell Choir of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., will accompany the chorale.
For more information, call 639-2585.
Sunday at the Presbyterian Church of Radford, Peggy Reinhold will be the guest speaker for the church's Witness Season program.
The service begins at 11 a.m. An informal reception will follow in the parlor.
Elsewhere on the musical calendar:
A HEART FUND BENEFIT GOSPEL MUSIC CONCERT gets under way tonight at 7 at Auburn High School on Virginia 8 in Riner. Admission is free, but a Heart Fund offering will be taken.
On hand to perform will be The Mannon Family, The Farley Brothers, Wanda Gail, The Gospel Strings and The Otis Linkous Family Singers.
Call Carl Ratcliffe at 382-4654 or 382-7571 to find out more.
Tonight at BACK CREEK PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH, Alum Springs Road, Pulaski, music by the Vaughan Gospel Singers starts at 7. All donations go toward the fellowship-hall building fund.
Call 674-8492 for further information.
There's also gospel singing tonight at 7 at BLACKSBURG PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH. The Whitts of Radford will be featured performers.
At ELLETT VALLEY PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH, 1264 Misty Hill Circle, the Joyful Sounds of Galax will sing tonight at 7:30.
Sunday at 7:30 p.m., there will be music and a guest speaker, the Rev. Jube Burke.
Call 552-7113 for details.
The Senior Choir of FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - WEST STREET, 1730 West St., Radford, will perform "The Whole Armor of God," Sunday at 3 p.m. at the church.
For more information, call 639-3873.
Yard sale season is starting. The BELMONT CHRISTIAN BODYBUILDERS youth group will hold its "Giant Yard Sale" today from 7 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. on U.S. 460, just down the road from New River Pontiac-GMC-Nissan.
Proceeds will pay the youth group's way to the Southern Christian Youth Convention in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in July.
On the revival circuit:
The WEST RADFORD CHURCH OF GOD, 1818 First St. will hold revival services with the Rev. Ron Caudill today and Sunday at 7 p.m.
The Searchers gospel trio will sing at each service.
Call 639-5288 for more information.
A monthlong revival continues at SHAWSVILLE CONGREGATIONAL HOLINESS CHURCH, Alleghany Springs Road.
Services start each night at 7.
For details, call the church at 268-2466.
Husband and wife Southern gospel team BOB AND SANDY MULLINS of Second Chance Ministries in Christiansburg will resume their appearances in Virginia at the end of the month.
On May 30 at 10:30 a.m., they'll conduct the entire service at the Salvation Army, 525 Commerce St., Pulaski.
Then, the couple will join with other area gospel groups and soloists on June 5 at 7 p.m. for the Gospel Sing and Praise Rally at their home base, Belview United Methodist Church, 3619 Onyx St., just off Peppers Ferry Road (Virginia 114), 2 1/2 miles east of the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.
The offering from this event will go toward the building and renovations fund at Camp Alta Mons in Shawsville.
Alta Mons, sponsored by the Roanoke District United Methodist churches, offers summer camp for youngsters and young adults.
For more information on Bob and Sandy's activities, call 639-6271 evenings.
The 10:55 a.m. service Sunday at CHRISTIANSBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 107 W. Main St., will recognize the church's Youth Choir as its singing season concludes until fall.
A coffee fellowship in the main hall precedes the service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday School classes are at 9:45 a.m.
The communicants' class meets Sunday at 5:30 p.m. in Room 300.
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom: Now You List 300 Suggestions," a presentation by Radford University philosophy and religion professor Russell Gregory, will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY, 1301 Gladewood Drive, Blacksburg.
A discussion will follow.
To learn more, call 552-8050 or 552-4749.
\ RIVERVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH in Giles County will hold its second annual Memorial Day commemoration May 30 at 10:30 a.m. in the church sanctuary.
The church is on Big Stoney Creek Road (Virginia 635) between Pembroke and Pearisburg, about a third of a mile north of U.S. 460.
Local survivors of recent military conflicts will read the names of those who died in battle, and the nation's colors will be presented in their honor.
Area musical groups, state and local dignitaries, and several fraternities of war veterans will take part.
The Riverview Baptist men's fellowship will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the home of Carl Honaker. Prayer requests will be offered following fellowship.
For more information, call 626-7721.
In Religion is a regular Saturday feature of the New River Current. If you have news from your church or religious organization, write in care of Rick Lindquist at the New River Current, Roanoke Times & World-News New River Valley Bureau, P.O. Box 540, Christiansburg, Va. 24073. Clear, sharp photographs accompanying news items are welcome.
by CNB