Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 12, 1994 TAG: 9405120088
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
\ AN UPDATE ON MISSIONS is scheduled Sunday at noon at Westhampton Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 2515 Grandin Road S.W.\ William Drake of the national church office in Indianapolis, Ind., and the\ Rev. Marilyn Taylor of the Virginia Region office in Lynchburg, will lead the program. Those attending are to bring a bag lunch.
\ VIRGINIA LUTHERANS from throughout most of the state will gather Friday through Sunday at Roanoke College for their annual Synod Assembly. They will come from the 165 congregations that are affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Youths will have their own convention but will join older members for some sessions.
\ VILLA HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH, 4080 Challenger Ave., will hold the 26th annual memorial service for public safety workers on Sunday at 11 a.m. The service honors police, firefighters, rescue squad personnel and their auxiliaries.\ The Rev. Harold C. Lewis, pastor, will preach.
\ JUDY MILLS REIMER, a member of Williamson Road Church of the Brethren, will be ordained there to the gospel ministry on May 29. The\ Rev. Dr. Eugene Roop, president of Bethany Theological Seminary from which Reimer is graduating, will be guest preacher at the 11 a.m. service.
Reimer, a longtime resident of the Roanoke area, is the national moderator-elect of the Church of the Brethren. A fellowship time will follow the service.
\ BONSACK BAPTIST CHURCH on U.S. 220 Alternate in Botetourt County, is 114 years old. It was started as rural Hebron Baptist Church in 1880 and is now a rapidly growing suburban Roanoke congregation.
Heritage Day will be marked May 22 at 10:30 a.m. when a former member, the Rev. Dr. Steve Spangler of Beulah Baptist Church in Lynchburg, and his wife, Ruth, will present a drama on the history of the church.
\ GLAD TIDINGS ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH, 7422 Deer Branch Road, Hollins, has scheduled revival services May 22-25. Guest evangelist will be the Rev. Betty Davis, worker in jail and youth ministry and a missionary to Haiti. Services will be at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday and at 7 p.m. on week nights.
\ HOLLINS ROAD CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN is having a Heifer Project International Walk on May 21 at 9 a.m. Participants will choose a goat, sheep, flock of chickens, rabbits or hive of honeybees on which pledges will be taken. Funds needed for each of these food sources range from $30 to $120. To pledge or participate, call 366-6922.
\ ALL FOR THE LORD, a contemporary gospel singing group of six members of Green Ridge Baptist Church, will perform there May 22 at 7 p.m. The sextet, Carol Tuttle, Linda Landis, Jan Moore, Rodney Smelser, Ben Bryant and Bernard Atwood, all have performed in previous groups.
Moore is minister of music at the church.
The concert is free, and a nursery will be open. The church is at 5521 Green Ridge Road.
\ AMANDA FRAZIER, a student at Mars Hill College, will join the staff of Ridgewood Baptist Church from June 5 through Aug. 14 as a summer missionary to children and youth. This will be the second year Frazier has been engaged in Baptist summer ministry in the Roanoke Valley.
\ THE ROANOKE COMMUNITY CHOIR, directed by Jimmy Cook, will sing Sunday at 5 p.m. at Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1810 Grayson Ave. N.W. The Paradise Gospel Chorus is the sponsor.
\ THE REV. LORRAINE ALSTON, pastor, and the choir of Deliverance Church of Christ will lead worship at a special Stewards' Board ceremony Sunday at 4 p.m. at Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 506 15th St. N.W.
\ SEVERAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOUSES are being planned by Roanoke Valley congregations for a "blitz" on June 18 when 14 sponsoring groups will get dwellings under way, most on Kellogg Avenue Northwest.
Some Lutheran and Presbyterian churches are working jointly on houses. Virginia Heights and Calvary Baptist congregations are sharing the cost and work for another house. Greene Memorial United Methodist has begun its house at 1701 Chapman Ave. S.W. Meanwhile, a two-story house on Moorman Road Northwest, which has been under construction for several months by St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem, is nearing completion.
\ BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 3017 Ivyland Drive S.E., will observe Woman's Day Sunday at 3 p.m. The Rev. Andrea Cornett-Scott and the choir of Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church will lead the worship.
\ BETHLEHEM BIBLE COLLEGE, will hold commencement Monday at 7 p.m. The program will be held at High Street Baptist Church, 2302 Florida Ave. N.W. The Rev. James P. Beatty, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Cave Spring area, will speak.
\ THE REV. DR. BAXTER MOW, a former Roanoker and now the oldest living Rhodes scholar, recently marked his 102nd birthday in a Loris, S.C., retirement home.
\ CHERRY MANN, an employee of Channel 38 Christian TV network, is a serving as an evangelist in Caxias Do Sul, Brazil. She is a member of a 12-member team sponsored by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board.
Mann is active in First Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke. The team will return on May 21. RIVERDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, 1624 Edgerton Ave. S.E., will sponsor a picnic for the community on May 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The picnic is open especially to fire and police personnel who serve the members without the support of church tax dollars.
\ BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH, 1601 Colorado St., Salem, will sponsor a workshop for the parents and grandparents of teens on May 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. Tom Barber, a Salem City school psychologist, will lead the workshop.
\ A GOSPEL MUSIC RECITAL, featuring Diane Muise of Auburn, Maine, will be held Sunday at 6 p.m. at First Evangelical Methodist Church, 1920 Lucas St. in Salem.
The guest singer has performed nationwide, and in 1993 won an award from the Maine Country Music Association. Call 387-0326 for more information.
\ William and Sylvia Mooney, missionaries to Austria, will visit First United Methodist Church in downtown Salem Sunday at the 8:45 and 11 a.m. worship.
\ COLBY WARR, a Salem member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will leave later this month for language training in preparation for a two-year mission in the Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic. A graduate of Salem High School, Warr is an Eagle Scout and a student at Brigham Young University.
A farewell service will be held May 22 at 9 a.m. at the church at 6311 Wayburn Drive in Salem.
Warr's parents are Jan and Bonner Warr.
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