Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 31, 1994 TAG: 9403310166
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The Vigil of Easter service will begin Saturday night at 10:30 and includes readings, Baptism and Communion. Easter morning worship will be at 8:30 and 11.
\ ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, at Elm Avenue and Jefferson Street, will have Good Friday services at noon and 5:30 p.m. Baptism and Communion will take place Saturday at 4 p.m. Three Communion services at 7, 9 and 11 a.m. are planned on Easter Sunday.
\ CHRISTO EVANGELICAL WESLEYAN CHURCH on Bent Mountain has revival services in progress through Sunday with the Rev. Carl Berkshire, guest evangelist, preaching nightly at 7:30 and on Sunday at 7.
\ WEST END UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, at Campbell Avenue at 13th Street Southwest, has scheduled Holy Communion tonight at 7. On Good Friday, the church will be open for meditation from noon to 3 p.m. Special Easter anthems will be presented by the choir Sunday at 10:15 a.m. preceding the worship service.
\ A SUNRISE SERVICE will be held on the lawn of Westhampton Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) on Easter. It will be followed by a breakfast, worship at 8:30 and 11 a.m. and Sunday school at 9:45. Special music will be presented.
\ ROANOKE AVENUE BAPTIST and WOODSIDE PRESBYTERIAN are sponsoring a sunrise service Sunday at 7 at the Baptist church, 2202 Roanoke Ave. S.W. The Revs. Gary Kingery and Bruce Robinson will lead the service.
\ A SERVICE OF DARKNESS, Tenebrae, from the eighth century will take place tonight at 7:30 at South Roanoke United Methodist Church, 2330 S. Jefferson St. It will include Holy Communion, special music and extinguishing of the lights symbolizing Christ's desertion by his friends before his crucifixion the following day.
\ 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.
\ 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.
\ NANCY R. DELANEY will begin as organist and music director at Christ Lutheran Church in early April. The wife of the Rev. David Delaney of the St. John Lutheran staff, she holds degrees in music and organ performance from Wittenberg University in Ohio. She also has studied in Berlin and has directed music at three Virginia Lutheran churches.
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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