Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 2, 1994 TAG: 9406020210
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The bishop's wife, the Rev. Lula G. Williams, is the missionary supervisor of the Fifth Episcopal District. Besides churches in the two adjoining states, the conference includes those in the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas as well as in India and in the British Isles.
The daily services for the delegates are open to the public. Williams will preach at the final Sunday morning service. The service will be followed by a musical program, memorial recognition and the reading of appointments to churches in the conference.
Call 345-9203 for program details.
\ A FAREWELL RECEPTION for the Rev. James Parke is scheduled Sunday from 1:30 to 5 p.m. at Holiday Inn/Tanglewood. Parke, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Salem for a decade and host of a radio talk show, has been transferred to Ascension Catholic Church of Virginia Beach. His successor will be the Rev. Gregory Kandt, who begins work Monday.
\ NICOLE RILEY, president of the Baptist Student Union at Roanoke College, has been elected president of the BSU on the state level for the next year. Susan Walters is the volunteer Baptist campus minister at the Roanoke College.
\ THE PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER, an ecumenical ministry based at Second Presbyterian Church of Roanoke, has named Lillian Hagan chairman of its board. Other officers include: the Rev. Dwayne Westermann, pastor of College Lutheran Church in Salem, vice chairman; Ira Peters, treasurer; and George Kegley, secretary. The Rev. Leo Howard, who has directed the center since its opening 20 years ago, continues in his position of family counseling.
\ CALVARY TABERNACLE congregation, a nondenominational Christian group led by the Rev. Ben Peyton, is meeting at 3025-A Peters Creek Road until a new building is completed on Sanderson Drive. The former church building at 18th Street and Orange Avenue Northwest has been sold to Faith and Hope Church of God in Christ, which formerly worshiped on Peters Creek Road.
Calvary Temple's Sunday program includes education at 10 a.m., and worship at 10:55 a.m. and 6 p.m. The church also sponsors a prayer service Mondays at 12:30 p.m. and Bible study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
Peyton said the first unit of the new church will be a combined worship and fellowship building costing about $350,000. About 100 people are active in the congregation.
\ THE ST. JAMES COMMUNITY CHOIR of Washington D.C., will perform June 12 at 4 p.m. at Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1810 Grayson Ave. N.W. The choir includes 43 members from 12 churches. The M.T. Coker Choir, which is observing its sixth anniversary, is sponsoring the program.
\ REVIVAL SERVICES are planned Sunday through Wednesday at St. Mark's United Methodist Church on U.S. 220 in Daleville. Guest evangelist for the 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. services will be the Rev. Earl Tyson of Scottsville. For more than 20 years, he has represented Virginia United Methodism in evangelistic meetings throughout the world.
The meeting also will include morning Bible study Monday through Wednesday starting at 10:30.
\ ROANOKE VALLEY BAPTIST TEMPLE, 10th Street at Hillcrest Northwest, will have the Movin Up Quartet of Winterville, N.C., in a gospel concert June 11 at 7:30 p.m.
\ DR. WILLIAM A. FINTEL, a Salem cancer specialist and co-author of a book on physical and spiritual aspects of the disease, will speak June 19 at the 10 a.m. service at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 1201 Hardy Road, Vinton. Fintel and his colleague, Gerald McDermott of the Roanoke College faculty, have received national attention for "Living With Cancer" since its publication a year ago.
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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