Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 31, 1994 TAG: 9403310141
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The church has also scheduled its annual Missions Convention April 15-17. The Rev. Sam Johnson, pastor of Crown Christian Center, in Charlotte, N.C., will be the keynote speaker.
Johnson, who also directs a television ministry reaching 50 countries, will speak at a 7 p.m. April 15 banquet, at 7 p.m. April 16 and at 10:45 a.m. Sunday.
\ CHURCH OF THE HARVEST, a new congregation worshipping at 5530 Williamson Road N.W., has scheduled a revival meeting Sunday through Wednesday. The Rev. Roy Chappell of Joplin, Mo., will preach Sunday at 10:30 p.m. and week nights at 7:30.
\ ZION HILL BAPTIST CHURCH, near Fincastle, will begin Easter Sunday with a sunrise service at 7:30. Breakfast will be held after the service, and Sunday school will be at 9. The worship service is at 10. The usual evening service will not be held.
\ AT MAPLE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, 902 Fairfax Ave. N.W., the Rev. Paul E. Johnson and the choir of Williams Memorial Baptist Church will lead a Communion service tonight at 7 as part of a Holy Week series sponsored by several churches.
Good Friday worship will be at Williams Memorial with the Rev. Thomas A. Woods and the choir of Bethlehem Baptist in charge.
An Easter Sunday sunrise service will start at 6:30 at Slate Hill Baptist Church, 4354 Elmview Road S.W. Speaking will be the Rev. Marvin Fields of Maple Street.
\ PATTERSON MEMORIAL GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH, 5512 Hollins Road, will present Remnant, a sextet from Grace College in Winona Lake, Ind. The three men and three women will present "Identity in Crisis: A Face-to-Face Encounter with Christ" on April 7 at 7:30 p.m. The team will use drama, music, mime and choreography.
\ AT WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA, 2216 Peters Creek Road N.W., a drama will be presented Friday at 7:30 p.m. Entitled "What Really Happened the Night He was Betrayed," it is free. A nursery will be provided.
\ GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 4404 Williamson Road, has planned these Holy Week services: Maundy Thursday Communion tonight, at 7:30, Good Friday prayer time at 6:30 followed by a service at 7:30 p.m., sunrise service on the lawn at 7 on Easter followed by Sunday school at 9:15 and worship at 10:30 a.m.
\ MILDRED TANNER, a member of Melrose United Methodist Church, has been elected president of the Virginia Auxiliary of Gideons International.
\ ROANOKE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR UNION will sponsor its 57th annual Easter Sunrise Service Sunday at 6:30 at Cedar Lawn Memorial Park on Cove Road, near Peters Creek Road. The rain site is the nearby Westminster Presbyterian Church in America.
\ AN EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE is scheduled Sunday at 6:45 on the lawn of Connelly Memorial Baptist Church, Hershberger Road at Westside Boulevard Northwest. The service moves inside if the weather is bad.
\ A RENOVATED WORSHIP CENTER, under construction for several months, will be used for the first time Sunday at Oakland Baptist Church, Oakland Boulevard at Roundhill Avenue Northwest.
\ THE EVENING CHAPTER of Women's Aglow will hear Mary Jane Bevan, music evangelist, April 12 at 7. The group for women of charismatic Christian preference meets at Winn-Co. in the 1200 block of Peters Creek Road Northwest.
\ THE REV. MARVIN L. CUDD, pastor of East End Baptist Church from 1974 to 1985, will return there to preach Easter Sunday at 11 a.m. He and his family live in Fayetteville, N.C. The church is at 1030 Mecca St. N.E.
\ WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES, an evangelical Christian agency to promote the distribution of Scriptures in native languages, has scheduled its annual promotional banquet April 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Inn-Airport. The event is free. For more information, call Jose Mercado at 890-3447.
\ WHOLENESS IN HEALING is the theme of a April 16 seminar from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church, at Elm Avenue and Jefferson Street.
The speakers will include: George Branham-Whitewolf of the Monacan Indian Tribe in Amherst County, on Native American spirituality; the Rev. Kirk Brown of the church staff, on pastoral care; Dr. David W. Hartman, psychiatrist from Lewis-Gale Clinic, on mental health; Martha J. Hunter, hospital bereavement counselor, on the hospice movement; and Dr. Stephen S. Kennedy, specialist in cancer and blood diseases, and Gerald R. McDermott of the Roanoke College religion faculty, on spiritual health. The program is free, but reservations are requested. Call 343-9341.
\ SOUTHERN BAPTISTS of the Roanoke Valley Association's 70 congregations will try to start a human service ministry this summer to people in the neighborhoods they serve. The congregations will put emphasis on the ministry, known as Hope for Hurting Humanity, June 19-July 31.
The Rev. Kirk Lashley, executive director of the association, said backyard Bible clubs is one such ministry. The projects are scheduled to precede simultaneous revival meetings in 1995.
\ THE REV. DR. CYNTHIA HALE, who is pastor of a church in the Atlanta area, will preach for revival services April 10-12 at Melrose Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 4807 Cove Road N.W. Hale, a former Roanoker, is active in the denomination on a national level and founded the Ray of Hope congregation in Decatur, Ga. A nursery will be available, and fellowship time will follow each service.
\ TERRY HOUFF, folk and gospel guitarist, will perform April 9 at 7 p.m. at Summerdean Church of the Brethren, 6604 Plantation Road, Hollins. Houff was a member of the church 20 years ago and served as a counselor at Camp Bethel.
\ RISEN TO SAVE, an outdoor drama and musical, is planned on Easter at 8 a.m. at Brookhill Baptist Church, 4725 Bandy Road S.E.
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