Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 21, 1993 TAG: 9308210091
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: RICK LINDQUIST Religion
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Saturday, 2-3:30 p.m., will be "Super Saturday," featuring Wainbow the Clown and Pipsqueak.
Call 639-1511 for more information.
There's a big schedule of GOSPEL MUSIC this week:
The Singing Witnesses, Chosen Generation, The Nippers and The Carpenter's Tools will be in concert tonight at 7 at Shawsville High School. Admission is free.
Chosen Generation also will sing at Cambria Pentecostal Holiness Church, Christiansburg, Sunday morning at 11. Call 268-2248.
The Martin Family will sing tonight at 7 at Christiansburg Pentecostal Holiness Church, Third and Phlegar streets. For information, call the Rev. Richard Kingrea, 382-9429.
The Singing Witnesses will sing at Merrimac Pentecostal Holiness Church, Merrimac Road, Blacksburg, Sunday morning at 11. Call 552-5070.
The Whitts will present a free concert of Southern gospel music Tuesday evening at 7 at the gazebo in Bisset Park, Radford. Blankets or lawn chairs are recommended. Call Mary Jane Harmon, 731-3634.
The Young at Heart quartet of Radford will sing at Sunnyside Pentecostal Holiness Church, 2275 Lick Run Road, Blacksburg, Friday at 7:30 p.m. Call 382-8559.
A 45-member children's choir and adults and youth from FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Pulaski, will present "Good Kings Come in Small Packages" Sunday, 5 p.m., at the Family Life Building, 135 Fourth St. N.W. The musical drama culminates a weeklong music camp. Call Barbara Shomo, 980-3331.
\ HOMECOMING celebrations are set at these churches:
Pilot Pentecostal Holiness Church, 4491 Old Pike Road, will celebrate its 17th anniversary Sunday starting with Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Morning worship is at 11 and dinner follows at 12:30 p.m.
Music with The Perry Sisters gets under way at 2:30 p.m. These Southern gospel vocalists from West Virginia have been together since 1974 and have 14 albums and several hits to their credit.
For more information, call 382-4443.
Glenwood United Methodist Church, Barren Springs, Sunday, with morning worship at 11. The Rev. Peggy Long, pastor of the Draper Charge, will speak. Lunch and fellowship will follow.
Call Mary Alice Edmonds, 766-3550.
Providence Methodist Church, Wilburn Valley Road, Pearisburg, Aug. 29, with Sunday school at 10 a.m., worship at 11, and dinner at noon. The Lupers will sing at the 11 a.m. service and again after dinner. Call Edna O'Brien, (800) 541-6703.
Vicker Pentecostal Holiness Church, Peppers Ferry Road about two miles from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office, Aug. 29. The Gospel Strings will sing at 2 p.m.
The Midway Community Church, Aug. 29, with Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 and lunch following the service. Music with The Young at Heart starts at 2 p.m.
\ DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY will have a yard sale, bake sale and car wash to benefit the school today, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at the center, Clay and Prospect streets, Blacksburg. Call Ray Stell, 231-4109 or 552-7777.
The SHAWSVILLE/LAY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION REVIVAL will be Sunday through Friday, 7:30 each evening at Big Spring Baptist Church, Elliston. Pastors from the Shawsville, Alleghany, Elliston, Lafayette and Ironto churches will speak. Call Sally Rakes, 268-2898, or the Rev. Bill Monday, 382-0347.
The FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH of West Dublin, Baskerville Street, will hold a revival Monday through Friday, 7:30 each evening. The guest evangelist will be Sheila Tucker.
The middle and high school youth groups from CHRISTIANSBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 107 W. Main St. will visit the Roanoke Rescue Mission on Sunday for a tour and program about homelessness in preparation for The Great Sleepout of '93 on Sept. 10. That's when members of both groups will get sponsors to endow a bed at the homeless shelter. Participating youths then will camp outside all night at the Rescue Mission parking lot. Call Juliana Sheffield, 382-2802.
\ VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, sponsored by First Pentecostal Holiness Church, Christiansburg, will be Monday through Friday, 7-9 p.m., featuring The Pilot Puppeteers. The theme will be "God's Got an Army." Friday will be parents' night. Call Renee Kingrea, 382-9429 or 381-1464.
\ ST. JUDE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, 7318 Peppers Ferry Road, Fairlawn, will resume its winter schedule Sunday. Sunday Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. The Saturday evening Mass will continue to be at 5:15.
People interested in the Roman Catholic faith or in joining the church are welcome to join a St. Jude inquiry session. They start Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. at the CSA House, 1016 Fairfax St., Radford. Call 639-5341.
\ LUTHER MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH will return to its fall-through-spring schedule Sunday, with worship services Sundays at 8:30 and 11 a.m. Holy Communion is celebrated weekly at the 11 a.m. service. Call 951-1000.
The FLOYD PARISH UNITED METHODIST CHARGE plans "Heritage Weekend" Friday through Aug. 29. The schedule:
Friday, 7:30 p.m., at Stonewall, with the Rev. Eugene Sowder.
Saturday, a covered-dish supper at Havens Chapel at 5:30 p.m., followed by a service at 8 p.m. at Copper Hill, with the Rev. Lewis Minter.
Sunday, the fifth Sunday service at Huffville, 11:15 a.m., features the Rev. Joe Willard. Call 651-4490.
The youth department of the RADFORD CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST will sponsor "A Night of Elegance" fashion show Aug. 29, 6 p.m. at the church, 206 Russel Ave. Merchants will showcase their after-5 fashions. Call 953-0850.
\ COPPER HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN's music committee plans a fifth-Sunday singing program Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. Groups and solos are welcome to perform.
Church names in the news:
The REV. JOEL P. WRIGHT will take over Sunday as interim pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Pulaski. From Richmond, he has just completed work on a doctor of ministry degree at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. He has pastored churches in Iowa and California.
\ LAVELVA B. STEVENS, Trinity Lutheran Church, Pulaski, will be among 1,000 voting members of the 1993 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which meets meet Wednesday through Sept. 1 in Kansas City's Convention Center.
The REV. PAUL PINGLE has begun his ministry at the Floyd Parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with congregations in Floyd and Willis. An Atlanta native, Pingle, 30, is a graduate of Georgia Tech and Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, S.C. He succeeds the Rev. Richard Giessler, who retired.
by CNB