Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 28, 1994 TAG: 9404280139
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ AN ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA GALA to mark completion of restoration and additions to the 68-year old pipe organ is scheduled Friday at 8 p.m. at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in downtown Roanoke. Richard Cummins, organist at the church, and Carolyn Victorine and Rebecca Wallenborn, pianists, will perform. The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, directed by Victoria Bond, also will perform. The organ celebration is part of the Greene Memorial Fine Arts Series with additional sponsorship by the orchestra. Call 344-6225 or 343-9127 for the $20 tickets.
\ NORTHSIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 5110 Florist Road N.W., has scheduled a presentation by Robert Varsano for Sunday at 6 p.m. Varsano, who converted from Judaism, became HIV positive by his now deceased wife. He will deliver a Christian testimony on living with possible terminal illness.
\ VALLEY REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 3475 Read Mountain Road, has scheduled a missions conference Sunday through Tuesday with three guest leaders. On Sunday at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., the Rev. K.G. Zoellner of Montreal, Canada, will be the speaker. Monday he will be joined by Ron Gray, a Charlottesville resident, who recently returned from a four-year study period in France. Song leader for the meeting will be John van Voorhis of Greenville, S.C. Week night services will start at 7. A nursery will be open.
\ BUDDY CRUMPACKER, maintenance supervisor at Camp Bethel Church of the Brethren Conference Center in Botetourt County, has left the staff to return with his family to his former home in Lynchburg. Crumpacker had worked at the center for two years.
\ THE REV. K. LANDON MADDEX, a Southern Baptist pastor, has marked 50 years in the ordained ministry. Maddex served from 1944 to 1979 as pastor of Villa Heights Church and has been active in visiting residents in nursing homes.
\ THE REV. NOEL C. TAYLOR, pastor of High Street Baptist Church, is being honored during May services marking his 33rd anniversary at the church. The congregation will honor Taylor, former mayor of Roanoke, at a salad social Sunday. A donation is asked.
An anniversary musical, under the direction of William Keen, will be held May 15. The final event will be May 22 when the Rev. P.L. Barrett will preach at a special service. All events will begin at 4 p.m. and are at the church, 2302 Florida Ave. N.W.
\ AT JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W., youth revival services are in progress through Friday. The Rev. M.D. Mays, pastor of Otterville Baptist Church in Amherst, is the guest evangelist. Special music is being presented nightly at 7.
Also, at Jerusalem, the J. Eugene Young Mass Choir will observe its sixth anniversary Sunday at 5 p.m. Worship will be led by the Rev. Leonard Hines and the Mass Choir of First Baptist Church at Cloverdale.
\ THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, in which prayers will be made for the community, state and nation, will be observed May 5 during a 20-minute service at Salem Baptist Church. Peggy Johnson, a supporter, said the public is invited to join a group from the church at noon in front of the Salem city offices on Broad Street, across from the church.
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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