Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 18, 1993 TAG: 9309170194
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The Willing Workers at COPPER HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN will sponsor a fall festival today, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Activities will include an auction (at noon), a food and bake sale, crafts, apple-butter making and musical entertainment all day.
For further information, please call Greg Spangler at 929-4897.
\ SLUSSER'S CHAPEL, Mount Tabor Road, Blacksburg, will hold its annual fall festival today, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Enjoy apple-butter making, arts and crafts, homemade baked and canned goodies, children's activities and plenty of home-cooked food - starting with ham biscuits and coffee for breakfast and moving on to hot dogs, hamburgers and barbecue (with ice cream for dessert) from noon-5 p.m.
The Warm Hearth Kitchen Kettle Band will entertain at noon.
Special events include baby and preschool children's contests for ages 6 months to 6 years at 11 a.m., an archery tournament at 2 p.m. and a horseshoe tournament at 3 p.m.
Call Dottie Brown, 552-8737, for more information.
\ INGRAM VILLAGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Virginia 100, Pearisburg, holds its annual fall festival today starting at 9 a.m.
The lunch menu includes ham biscuits, fried pies hot dogs and baked goods. Also, check out the flea market, crafts and country store.
\ BELVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 3619 Onyx Drive (off Virginia 114 in Montgomery County) celebrates its fall festival Sept. 25, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Get a first-hand look at how to make apple butter, cider and molasses, plus quilting by the Golden Age Ladies.
Call 639-1230 to find out more.
\ WILLIS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH will have its annual fall bazaar Oct. 9, 7 a.m.-4 p.m., including breakfast and dinner, crafts, yard-sale items, baked goods, sausage biscuits and gravy, pinto beans and corn bread and more.
Call Judy Hill, 789-7522 to find out more.
Three-time Grammy Award nominee gospel singer Vickie Winans will be in the New River Valley this month for a benefit banquet and concert sponsored by the \ RADFORD CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST, Sept. 25, 6 p.m., at Custom Catering, 902 Patrick Henry Drive in Blacksburg.
Money raised will go into the church's building fund.
Winans has performed on Broadway and has her own syndicated TV show, "Singsation." Her latest gospel album is "The Lady."
The church's choir and musicians also will be on hand.
Dress is semiformal. Tickets are $35 for the public and $25 for students with identification. No reservations are needed.
For more information, please call Pastor Ronald A. Watson, 639-5948 or 382-8667.
Mark these GOSPEL MUSIC dates on your calendar:
The Gospel Strings will sing at the East Radford Church of God, on U.S. 11 (just past Thompson Chrysler-Plymouth) tonight at 7.
Call 382-4654 for more information.
The Southern Statesman will sing Sunday, at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., at Midway Baptist Church, Ironto. Call 268-2769 for details.
A community gospel songfest is set for Sept. 25, 3-8 p.m. at the Willis Station of the Floyd County Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. The station is just off U.S. 221 in Willis on Virginia 768.
This open-air event will feature a variety of gospel music and puppeteers. Refreshments will be on sale. Proceeds will benefit the local volunteer fire squad.
Blankets and lawn chairs are recommended.
Call Charlie Allen, 789-7265 or 639-7457, to find out more.
On this week's calendar of anniversaries and homecomings:
\ HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH, 201 Lucas Drive, Blacksburg, will mark its 10th anniversary today and Sunday.
Dr. Henry M. Morris, founder and president of the Institute of Creation Research, will offer his views on the validity of scientific creationism today in 100 McBryde Hall on the Virginia Tech campus. The seminars are free and open to the public.
At 9:30 a.m., Morris will speak on "Evolution: Fact or Fiction?" At 10:45 a.m. he'll talk on "Dinosaurs and the Deluge."
For further information, call 552-1267.
\ SOWDERS CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH, Shawsville, observes homecoming on Sunday. The Rev. Willie Yates will speak, and a covered-dish dinner will follow the service.
\ CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1600 S. Franklin St., Christiansburg, will have homecoming Sunday, starting with morning worship at 11 with the Rev. Raymond S. Kelley. Lunch will be at 12:15 p.m.
This also is "Bring-a-Neighbor-to-Church Sunday."
\ BIG SPRING BAPTIST CHURCH, Elliston, will celebrate homecoming Sept. 26. Former pastor Wesley Patterson will conduct the morning worship service. A covered-dish dinner will follow.
Pastor Steve Sholar, 268-5841, or Janet Armel, 268-5930, can tell you more.
\ RINER GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH, Virginia 8, three miles south of Auburn High School, will have its homecoming Sept. 26. Sunday school will be at 10 a.m., and worship at 11 a.m., with the Rev. Norman Goad, guest speaker. Dinner will be at 12:30 p.m. and gospel singing with Young at Heart and soloist Rita Davis will start at 2 p.m.
Call Pastor Carl Ratcliffe, 382-4654 or 382-7571, for more information.
\ PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 306 Park St., Christiansburg, will celebrate homecoming Sept. 26. The Rev. Eugene Carter, superintendent of the Roanoke District United Methodist Church, will speak at 11 a.m. worship. Lunch will follow at 12:15 p.m. Gospel duo Bob and Sandy Mullins, The Second Chance Singers, will sing at 1 p.m.
\ ST. JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH, in temporary quarters at 7318 Peppers Ferry Road (next to Robin Hood Rentals), Fairlawn, will hold fellowship Oct. 3, at the 11 a.m. Mass.
Anyone who would like to experience a Roman Catholic Mass or to learn more about Catholicism is welcome. A light luncheon and question-and-answer session will follow the Mass.
For more information, call 639-5341.
Churches holding REVIVAL SERVICES this month:
Victory Temple Pentecostal Church of God, Christiansburg, will conclude its old-fashioned tent revival tonight at 7:30 at 411 Lester St. (Lester and Forest streets).
For more information, call 382-4370.
Presbyterian Church in America, 975 Memorial Drive, Pulaski, concludes a week of revival services with the Rev. Tom Irby of Harvester Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Call 980-5914 for more information.
West Radford Church of God, 1818 First St., will hold revival services with the Rev. Gary Riggs of Corbin, Ky., Sunday through Wednesday. Evening services start at 7.
For more information, call 639-5288 or 639-6562.
Revival services with the Rev. Gary Mickles will be held starting Sunday at 7 each night at the Willis Baptist Church community building, Virginia 758, one mile on the left from U.S. 221. Singing by The Bolt Brothers and others.
Evangelists James and Phil Dunn will hold revival services at Grace Assembly Church, 2030 Redwood Drive, Christiansburg, sponsored by Walton Pentecostal Holiness Church and Grace Assembly.
Services will be Sunday, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. and Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.
Pastor Bob Goldstein has details at 381-0055.
Mount Calvary Baptist Church, 2811 Den Hill Road, Christiansburg, will hold a revival Sunday through Wednesday with the Rev. Steve Witt of Rainbow Forest Baptist Church.
Services will be 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, and 7:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday.
\ GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH, Zigler and East Main, Dublin, will have evangelistic meetings with Albert Pruitt of Haines City, Fla., Sunday through Friday.
The meetings will begin with a roundup at the church today, with dinner at 2 p.m. There will be games and prizes for the best and worst cowboy boots, followed by an old-fashioned sing-along.
Services Sunday will be at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.
Pastor Glenn Arsnoe, 674-2908, can tell you more.
"Families Reflected in the Workplace" will be the topic of a presentation by Art Buikema Sunday, 10:30 a.m., at the UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY, 1301 Gladewood Drive, Blacksburg.
A discussion session will follow.
For more information, please call 552-5273 or 552-4749.
Buddy Farris of Marion will speak at DUBLIN PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH, Oak Grove Place, U.S. 11, Dublin, Sunday, 6 p.m. Farris is a Smyth County law-enforcement officer who tells a powerful story of life and death.
Pastor Don Sizemore has more information at 674-4729 or 674-5908.
Fall schedules are in effect at several area churches:
\ ST. MICHAEL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 2308 Merrimac Road, Blacksburg: Sunday services at 11 a.m. and Sunday school for all ages at 9:50 a.m.
Call Barbara Corbett, 231-8640 or 552-7048, for more information.
\ CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Church and Jackson streets, Blacksburg: Holy Eucharist each Sunday at 7:45 and 9 a.m. Sunday school follows the 9 a.m. service. There's an adult forum at 10:30 and a service of Holy Eucharist at 11:15 a.m., with morning prayer on the second and fourth Sundays.
A nursery is available during the 9 and 11:15 a.m. services.
Holy Eucharist is celebrated Wednesdays at 10 a.m., followed by Bible study by the Canterbury Fellowship for Episcopal students.
For additional information, call 552-2411.
\ PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF RADFORD, 201 Fourth St.: Sunday worship services at 11 a.m. There will be a Rally Day potluck breakfast Sunday at 9 a.m. to kick off this year's church-school program. Sunday school starts at 10 a.m.
\ NORTHSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1017 Progress St. N.W., Blacksburg: Sunday morning worship at 11. Church school classes meet at 9:30 a.m. for a fellowship coffee. The church school assembly is at 9:45 a.m. and individual classes - nursery through adult - meet at 10 a.m.
\ ST. JUDE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, 7318 Peppers Ferry Road, Fairlawn, celebrates Mass on Sunday mornings at 11 and Saturday evenings at 5:15.
For further information, please call 639-5341.
\ BLACKSBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Church and Eakin streets: Sunday worship services at 11 a.m., with fellowship to follow. Nursery and extended sessions are available for children up to age 5. Church school meets at 9:30 a.m.
Call 552-2504 to find out more.
\ LUTHER MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: Sunday morning worship services at 8:30 and 11, with Holy Communion weekly at the 11 a.m. service.
Call 951-1000 for more information.
\ CHRISTIANSBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 107 W. Main St.: Sunday worship service at 10:55 a.m.
Several BIBLE STUDY groups are starting up:
The Bible Study Fellowship will study the Gospel of Matthew this year. A daytime group meets Wednesdays, 9:10-10:15 a.m., at First Wesleyan Church, Giles Road, Blacksburg. There's also a program for preschool children (2 to 5 years old) of class members. Children should be registered before they attend.
An evening Bible Study Fellowship class meets Mondays at 7:30 p.m., at Blacksburg United Methodist Church, Church Street. There is no children's class.
For more information about the day class, call Elna Ribbe, 552-3437 or Dolly Thompson, 552-7378.
To find out more about the evening class, call Jean Vaughan, 951-4209.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is forming a Bible study group in the New River Valley.
Please call 381-0173,or 774-8746 for further information.
The Canterbury Fellowship for Episcopal students of Virginia Tech meets each Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, Church and Jackson streets, Blacksburg. The fellowship meets Wednesdays at 10 a.m. for Holy Eucharist followed by Bible study.
For more information, call 552-2411
A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION WORKSHOP will be held Sept. 30, 7:30-8:30 p.m., at Straight Street Teen Center, North Franklin Street, Christiansburg (above Dow's Car Wash). Christian educator Ron Richardson of Gospel Light Publications will share his experience in teaching methods, learning styles and how to involve students in learning.
Refreshments will be served.
Richardson also will address a Pastors' Breakfast Oct. 1., 8-9:15 a.m. at Straight Street Teen Center.
There is no charge for either event. Both the workshop and the breakfast are sponsored by New Life Christian Bookstores in Christiansburg and Blacksburg.
For reservations, call 552-7033 or 382-7676 by Sept. 27.
The FLOYD PARISH UNITED METHODIST YOUTH FELLOWSHIP will hold its first meeting Sept. 25, 6 p.m. at the parsonage. This will be a pizza party and planning session.
Young people ages 10 to 20 are welcome. Call 651-4490 to find out more.
The annual CROP WALK in Radford is set for Oct. 17, sponsored by the Radford-Fairlawn Ministerial Association. Volunteer walkers get pledges throughout the community to raise money to help alleviate world hunger through Church World Service programs.
Twenty-five percent of the amount raised during Radford's 6.2-mile trek will be divided among the Women's Resource Center, Radford-Fairlawn Daily Bread and the Radford Food Pantry. The hike starts at 2 p.m. at the Dedmon Center at Radford University. Call Polly Jackson, 639-1279, or Gina Rhea, 639-3288.
by CNB