Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 10, 1994 TAG: 9410200030
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: B9 EDITION: METRO
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Carman, Christian singer and evangelist to youth, will perform Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. at the Roanoke Civic Center. The concert is free, but an offering will be taken.
Ministers conference
Three speakers representing the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Roanoke Valley will be the focus of the opening meeting of the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference Monday at Second Presbyterian Church fellowship hall.
The speakers will represent the parent of a mentally ill child, a business man who has learned to live with mental illness and a professional counselor.
The conference is interfaith in scope and open for membership to lay as well as ordained religion professionals. It begins at 10 a.m.
Professor to speak
The Rev. Dr. Glenn Hinson of Richmond will speak Sept. 23 through 25 at Troutville Baptist Church on U.S. 11. He is professor of spirituality and church history at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond.
Services are at 7 on the opening Friday night, at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. the following day and at 9:45 and 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Sept. 25. Hinson also will address the Roanoke Valley Baptist Ministers Conference on Sept. 26 .
Life Renewal Series
The Harry Y. Gamble Life Renewal Series, sponsored annually by Calvary Baptist Church of Roanoke, will feature the Rev. Dr. Roy B. Wyatt of Boiling Springs, N.C., as its speaker Oct. 2 at 11 a.m.
He is professor of Old Testament at Gardner-Webb University's Divinity School and spent more than 25 years in foreign mission service. Wyatt also will be at informal meetings of the congregation over the weekend.
New pastor
The Rev. Steven P. Ridenhour, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pulaski, will become pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Wytheville effective Oct. 17.
Ridenhour, who has been at the Pulaski church for more than a decade, will succeed the Rev. Roger Kluttz, who has retired.
Religion lecture
Peter Steinfels, religion editor for the New York Times, will lecture Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m.in the Sutton Ballroom of Roanoke College, Salem.
"Religion and the Media" will be the theme of the free lecture.
Airport too busy
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte-Douglas International Airport wants to quit observing the Sunday morning hours of worship quite so religiously.
Traditionally, the airport has rerouted jets around neighboring congregations. But the airport is too busy to do that now, and officials await approval to insulate six churches and reactivate a runway they avoid using Sunday mornings.
Living in the shadow of the nation's 14th busiest airport, the Rev. Clark Thompson of Shopton Road Baptist Church is resigned to the fact planes may soon be flying overhead during his sermon.
Since opening its north-south runway in 1979, the airport has tried to keep it clear of traffic between 9:30 a.m. and noon Sundays - part of the deal made at the time with neighborhood churches.
Then, the airport had about 20 flights during those hours. Now, some 70 flights fly in and out on Sunday mornings, which means air traffic gets backed up on the two runways being used at that time.
by CNB