Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 9, 1993 TAG: 9309090468
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The first session of the evening class will be Monday at 7:25 p.m. at Southview United Methodist Church, 3539 Peters Creek Road N.W. The day class will begin Wednesday at 9:10 a.m. at Grandin Court Baptist Church, 2660 Brambleton Ave. S.W.
A children's program, for which registration is required, is provided for women in the morning class. For evening class, call 343-8836, and for the morning call 774-4973.
\ WOMEN'S AGLOW DAY CHAPTER has scheduled author and evangelist Wilda Sue Marple as its speaker Wednesday, at the Woodmen of the World building, 2306 Peters Creek Road N.W. A $2 donation is asked for the 9:30 a.m. to noon meeting, which includes a light breakfast. Child care also is available by reservation. Call 345-2359 or 362-4849 for reservations.
\ MELROSE BAPTIST CHURCH, 3520 Peters Creek Road, is dedicating its new facilities Sunday. The $800,000 project constructed over the past year, includes an enlarged worship area that will seat 500, administrative offices and an education wing with choir suite. The Rev. Larry Sprouse, pastor, and the Rev. Kirkland Lashley, executive director of the Roanoke Valley Association of Southern Baptists will conduct the dedication of the building that has been in use for three months.
The service will begin at 10:45 a.m. and will be followed by an open house
\ DAVID ETTER has resigned as youth and children's activities director at Connelly Memorial Baptist Church to enter mission work in South Korea. Mike Adams will succeed him at the Hershberger Road church.
\ DEREK GORDON is leaving the staff of Ridgewood Baptist Church to continue his education at Averett College in Danville. He has worked with children and youth.
\ THE REV. OLIN GLIDDEN, who has been associate pastor of Airlee Court Baptist Church, has become interim minister of the Williamson Road congregation. The Rev. Gene Burris, pastor at Airlee for a decade, is preparing for an interim ministry career.
\ HOMECOMING is scheduled Sunday at the 11 a.m. service at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 502 Gilmer Ave. N.W. Guest preacher will be the Rev. Henry L. Melvin of Fair Promise African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Sanford, N.C. "Families Uniting to Celebrate and Witness" will be the theme.
\ FAIRVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1310 Van Buren St. N.W., plans a fellowship breakfast Sept. 18 from 8:30 to 9:30. Speaker will be Cody Lowe, religion writer for the Roanoke Times and World-News. Call 366-4107 for reservations.
\ FOUNDERS DAY will be observed Friday night at 7:30 at Guiding Star Church of God in Christ, 804 Madison Ave. N.W. The service will honor the founding bishop of the denomination, the late Charles Harrison Mason. Several choirs will perform. For a ride call 342-5029.
The church also will sponsor a prayer breakfast for women Saturday starting at 9:15. A donation of $3 is requested.
\ NORTH VALLEY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH will hear Elder Marvin Wray at services Saturday at 11 a.m. He is ministerial director of the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The North Valley church, a new congregation, is meeting at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 4909 Peters Creek Road N.W.
\ VISITORS' DAY will be observed Saturday at Melrose Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1601 Melrose N.W. Morning worship will start at 11. At 6 p.m. worship will be led by Cynthia V. Palmer of Columbus, Ohio, and the Melrose Gospel Ensemble.
\ JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W., will observe Woman's Day Sunday. Speaker at the 11 a.m. service will be Ernestine Brown Jackson, principal of a Christian academy in the Memphis, Tenn.
A former Roanoker, Jackson was educated in the city school system as well as Virginia State College and Memphis State University. Her husband, the Rev. Alvin Jackson, is pastor of a Disciples of Christ congregation in Memphis with more than 6,000 members. She is a former member of Jerusalem.
\ RABBI JEROME FOX of Beth Israel Synagogue is the co-author of a booklet, "A Jewish Dialogue," which answers questions Christians most often ask about Jewish beliefs and customs. The Roanoke rabbi produced the work with a Pennsylvania friend, Clifford Rieders. Copies of it are available by calling 345-7943.
\ THE REV. WILLIAM R. KLEIN, minister of Second Presbyterian Church for the past 25 years, is the author of "Prayers, Public and Private." It is available for $8.95 from the church office.
\ THE REV. DR. ISAM BALLENGER, professor of Christian mission and world religions at the Baptist Theological Seminary of Richmond, will deliver the Harry Y. Gamble Life Renewal Lectures Sept. 19 and 20 at Calvary Baptist Church, 608 Campbell Ave. S.W. Ballenger is a former mission worker in Germany and Switzerland and supervised Southern Baptist ministries in the Middle East and North Africa. He will speak at the 11 a.m. Sunday worship and on Monday night at 7 in the Calvary chapel. On Monday at noon, he will address a luncheon for Roanoke Valley clergy.
\ A PRAYER AND RESTORATION SERIES is in progress through Friday at Greater Hope Temple at Albemarle and South Jefferson Streets. Services are at 7:30 each night with Elder E.M. Covington the host pastor.
\ PEOPLE OF THE COVENANT, an adult education program, will hold a training meeting Saturday at Oak Grove Church of the Brethren, 2138 McVitty Road S.W. The initial program is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bible study, as well as personal experience, are incorporated into the 10-week program. The initial program is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 774-3217 for more information.
\ THE LIBERATING TRUTH: A STUDY OF HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CHURCH, is scheduled Sept. 22 and 29 at 7 p.m. The Wednesday night studies are sponsored by Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge. For meeting places, call 366-0839.
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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