Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 22, 1993 TAG: 9307220624
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
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\ THE REV. JULIA McCARGO has become pastor of St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church on Rutrough Road Southeast. McCargo was at he Bethel and Red Bluff A.M.E. Churches of Wytheville for two years.
Reared in Birmingham, Ala., she was educated at the University of Maryland and the University of Baltimore for a career in radiology. After 10 years in that field, she began her theological education and recently completed studies at Virginia Union University. She has served churches in Richmond and Harrisonburg and is the mother of two grown sons.
\ FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE has chosen as its new pastor the Rev. Earl Robertson who began his work Sunday. He and his wife Betty have come to Roanoke from Bethany, Okla., where they have done interim teaching at Southern Nazarene University. They also have taught at Eastern Nazarene College and Nazarene Bible College. Earl Robertson has been pastor of churches in Colorado and Missouri and been active on the district level of the denomination. Betty Robertson is the author of devotional books and curriculum materials. The family includes two adult children.
Robertson succeeds the Rev. Ernest Lewis who moved to a Clearwater, Fla., church several months ago. His wife, Linda, was music director of the Roanoke church.
\ THE REV. SCOTT SEILER has begun a new pastorate at the Mountain View Charge, two United Methodist churches - Parrish Chapel and Mays Memorial - near Vinton. He has come from Deltaville where he was pastor of the Clarksbury Church. Reared in Arlington, Seiler is 33 and a graduate of Northern Virginia Community College abd George Mason University. He took theological education at Oral Roberts University and is a candidate for the doctor of ministry degree from Wesley Seminary in Washington. Before going to Deltaville, he served churches in Rush Springs, Okla. and Arlington.
Laurie Tankersley Seiler, a teacher, is from Boise, Idaho. The family includes two daughters.
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