Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 10, 1993 TAG: 9306100254
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ A COLUMBARIUM for the ashes of cremated members of the parish will be dedicated Sunday at 11:15 a.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Salem. The wall of niches, which holds the ashes in urns, is part of a garden patio on the Calhoun Street side of the church. The church also plans to install three bells in its steeple during the summer. The bells, given anonymously, will be tuned to be rung manually for services or tolled at funerals.
\ MASON COVE CHAPEL, 3917 Old Catawba Road, has scheduled its vacation Bible school for Aug. 1-6 nightly from 7 to 9. Groups will be available for all ages. On Aug., 8 a community rally day with lunch on the grounds is planned.
\ SALEM'S 97TH ANNUAL CAMP MEETING is set for Aug. 21-29 at the Colorado Street building its board maintains. Richard T. Brunk, a Florida evangelist, is leader for the revival services that also will feature Ken and Kris Fitch of Brazil, and Annette Wood, a worker in Bolivia.
\ MATT COX, a member of the Salem congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and 1991 graduate of Glenvar High School, will speak Sunday at 11 a.m. at the church's chapel on Wayburn Drive in Salem. Cox, son of Roger Cox of Salem and Dreama Cox of Richmond, has returned from a two-year mission in the Netherlands. He plans to continue his education this fall.
\ THE CITY RESCUE MISSION is preparing to celebrate 45 years of serving the poor of the Roanoke Valley. The focus of the Aug. 7 celebration will be the construction of a log lodge at Jubilee Acres on Broadshaw Road. The mission staff operates a day camp and farm on the land. The mission will hold a dinner Aug. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Roanoke Airport Marriott. During that time, contributors will be able to sign logs that will be used to build the lodge. Call 343-7227 for more information.
\ BETHANY CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Disciples of Christ) has presented $1,000 to the ministry of the Rev. Richard Harris, a Lutheran pastor employed by the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference to serve inmates of the Roanoke City and County jails and patients at the Roanoke City Nursing Home at Coyner Springs. The grant, part of $15,000 made available for Virginia programs, is from a national Disciples Fund for Reconciliation, which supports many projects to help disadvantaged people. Harris' ministry is estimated to reach 20,000 people annually.
\ THE REV. DR. JEFFREY B. SPENCE of Richmond will discuss "A Retreat from the Edges" Friday at 8:15 p.m. at Temple Emanuel, 1163 Persinger Road S.W. Since 1980, Spence has been executive director of the Virginia Region of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. A United Church of Christ minister, Spence is a Washington and Lee University religion graduate.
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