Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 3, 1994 TAG: 9403030196
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The lay school is an annual project of Lutheran Cooperative Ministries, and Roanoke College faculty members will teach the classes: Robert Benne, "The Lutheran Sexuality Statement"; Gerald McDermott, "True and False Spirituality"; and Bobbye Au, "The Saved, the Damned and the Misbegotten."
A nursery will be staffed. Call 375-2342 for more information.
\ ROANOKE VALLEY SOUTHERN BAPTISTS, who sent many packages of garden seeds to Croatia last season, are expanding the ministry this year. In cooperation with other Virginia Baptists and following the thanks of church leaders in the war-torn Balkan country, they also will send seeds to areas in the African countries of Angola and Mozambique. Seeds are needed by April 15. Call 366-7631 for more information.
\ AWAKENING, a series of pre-Easter spiritual renewal services, will be held March 20-23. The services, sponsored by Roanoke Valley Churches of the Brethren, will be held at Central Church in downtown Roanoke nightly at 7:15. The Rev. Leland Wilson, developer of a new church in Dover, Del., will preach.
\ A DISASTER WAGON, a van equipped to feed victims of floods, storms, fires and other emergencies, is being put into service by the Virginia Men's Department of Southern Baptists. Volunteers who will use the wagon will be trained April 25-26 when the Roanoke Valley Baptist Association meets at Melrose Church.
\ CHURCH WOMEN UNITED will sponsor its 107th World Day of Prayer service Friday at Northminster Presbyterian Church, 3911 Greenland Ave. N.W. The service will start at 10 and has been organized by Christian women of Palestine.
\ RAY BOLTZ, a Christian song writer and performer, will present a concert Friday at First Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. program are $5 and are available at the church office or at several Christian bookstores.
\ WOMEN'S AGLOW evening group has chosen the Winn-Co. Building, 1224 Peters Creek Road N.W. as its new meeting place. The next gathering, at which Catherine Gray will speak, will be Tuesday at 7. Aglow is for women of charismatic Christian preference.
\ THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, which meets in North Cross School until its new building is erected on Grandin Road Extension Southwest, will expand its Sunday morning worship schedule effective April 3. An early worship will be from from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m., and the education period will be from 10 to 10:45 a.m. The later worship service will be from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
\ A PARENTING SEMINAR, led by Lynwood Day, a Roanoke clinical psychologist, is scheduled Sunday at Colonial Avenue Baptist Church. The program, which starts at 6 p.m., includes care for children under 12. Child-care reservations are needed today; call 774-2084. The church is at 4165 Colonial Ave. S.W.
\ CHRIST EPISCOPAL and ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHES have adopted a Lenten project that includes sending kits containing a towel, soap and salt to refugees from civil war in the Sudan.
\ ST. ELIZABETH'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2339 Grandin Road S.W., has "The Once and Future Church" as its theme for Lenten studies 6:30 p.m. Bishop A. Heath Light will speak on Tuesday. On March 15 and 22, the Rev. Dr. Loren Mead, author of a book on church renewal, will be the guest.
\ NEW COVENANT, a 25-member praise and worship team from Southeastern College, will perform on March 27 at Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church, 7422 Deer Branch Road, during the 10:45 a.m. worship.
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