Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 2, 1993 TAG: 9309020621
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-43 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Easley, 63, succeeds the Rev. Harold Uhl, who is now pastor of St. Timothy Church in Vinton. Easley and his wife, Emma Lou, came to the Old Southwest church from Columbia, S.C. He will conclude his work at St. Mark's on Sept. 19.
A CREATIVE EDUCATION WORKSHOP for teachers in Western Virginia churches is accepting registration. The Sept. 18 workshop at First United Methodist Church in downtown Salem will feature Judy Gattis Smith, a United Methodist educator and curriculum author who lives in Lynchburg.
The session is from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The registration fee of $6 should be sent to Creative Education Workshop, P.O. Box 2279, Roanoke, Va. 24009.
\ THE WEDNESDAY MORNING BIBLE CLASS, a Roanoke activity since World War II, will resume Wednesday at 10 a.m. The class, which is free and open to people of several Christian denominations, will be at Ghent Grace Brethren Church, 1511 Maiden Lane S.W. The Rev. Danny Wright, pastor of Ghent, will teach the book of James as this year's study focus this year. A nursery is provided.
\ SOUTHERN BAPTIST WOMEN through the Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia have begun a ministry to pregnant teens. The program, which will match "compassionate Christian women willing to offer themselves as partners in non-judgmental relationships," is being carried on in cooperation with Virginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services, which has its headquarters in Salem.
\ THE ROANOKE GUILD OF ORGANISTS CHAPTER received $350 in offerings from its nine summer Sunday afternoon programs presented in churches throughout the Roanoke Valley. The donations will be applied to bringing musical artists to the community. A goal of the programs is to introduce more children and youth to organ music and to encourage them to play the organ.
\ BETHLEHEM BIBLE COLLEGE, a program of classes to enrich church workers has set registration for the fall session on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Classes, started in 1987 by the Rev. Thomas A. Woods Sr., are held at 1578 Golfside Ave. N.W.
This fall's Monday night classes will be Old Testament Survey and the books of Jeremiah and Luke. Thursday night classes will be New Testament Survey, Exodus and Second Corinthians.
Call 362-2586 for more information.
\ PEACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH members raised a garden this summer on their property on Cloverdale Road and gave the produce to four community agencies that feed the poor. More than 500 pounds of squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers have been donated.
\ DALEVILLE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN has selected the Rev. Daniel Barnum-Steggerda has its next pastor. He is coming from Christian Church Uniting in Virginia Beach, where he and his wife, Lucinda, served as co-pastors.
The Virginia Beach congregation is affiliated with both the Church of the Brethren and the United Church of Christ. The new pastor will succeed a pastoral team of the Revs. Kevin and Joan Daggett, who moved to North Carolina earlier this year. The Rev. Richard Gottshall is interim pastor.
\ THE REV. STEVEN H. SHUSSETT has begun his ministry at Buchanan Presbyterian Church. The 30-year-old Pittsburgh native is a recent graduate of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He took undergraduate study at the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife, the former Alicia White, are expecting their first child early next year.
Shussett succeeds the Rev. Kenneth Goodrich, who left the community last year. The Rev. Fleet Powell has been interim minister.
\ CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH has selected Tracey Lynne Miller as its new director of church music. She succeeds Katherine Reier, who left earlier this year. Miller, who comes from Woodlawn United Methodist Church, was educated at Roanoke and Hollins colleges. She will direct all choirs and supervise an organist.
\ ROSALIND HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH sent 34 youth and adults to a summer ministry project in Big Cove, N.C., where they led singing, handbell ringing and a clown program on a Cherokee Indian reservation. The Roanokers worked with both an after-school children's center and a senior adult group.
\ SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH will have Sunday morning classes for adults, beginning Sept. 12 at 9:50. The classes include a study of the M. Scott Peck book, "The Different Drum"; "Faces on Faith," video interviews with notable religious leaders; "Renovating the Nest" on contemporary family life and "Christian Themes in Literature."
For a full program, call 343-3659.
\ THE REV. SAM E. McPHAIL has begun his ministry at Belmont United Methodist Church. He has come from Montgomery County, where he served several congregations in the Price's Fork area. He has had appointments to churches in Alabama and North Carolina as well as Virginia. His education includes graduation from Barton College and the theological school of Vanderbilt University. He also has taken clinical pastoral education at Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala. His wife, Elizabeth Wilson McPhail, is on the staff of Hollins College. The family includes three children.
Belmont will celebrate its 102nd anniversary on Sept. 26.
\ VINTON BAPTIST CHURCH, Washington and Maple in downtown Vinton, is enrolling preschool children for its October sessions of "Stories in God's House."
The one-hour Thursday programs begin Oct. 14 for six weeks. They are open to children ages 3 and 4. A limit of 10 children is set for each group. Four-year-olds will attend at 9 a.m., a combined class is planned at 10 a.m., and 3-year-olds will go at 1 p.m. Groups have a focus of stories about Jesus.
To be eligible for enrollment, children must be 3 or 4 by Sept. 30. Call 343-7685 before Oct. 7 for registration forms.
\ VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH, 929 Indiana Ave. N.E., has scheduled its 34th annual homecoming Sept. 12 with worship at 11 a.m., lunch at 12:30 p.m. and gospel singing at 2 p.m.
The church also will sponsor a Teen Challenge series of programs Sept. 19-22 at 7 p.m. with fellowship time.
\ GLENVAR BAPTIST CHURCH, 4804 Stanley Farm Road, Salem, has scheduled a concert Tuesday at 7 p.m. The Bob Jones University Musical Ministry Team will present the program, which will include a Bible message as well as instrumental and vocal selections.
The team is on a tour of the eastern United States and represents the Christian fundamentalist liberal arts school.
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.
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