Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 27, 1994 TAG: 9410290013
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
One-fourth of the money remains in the Roanoke Valley for food pantries and shelters while the rest is distributed elsewhere by the Church World Service organization.
EARL REYNOLDS,city manager of Martinsville and a former Roanoker, will be the Laity Day speaker Sunday at 11 a.m. at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 502 Gilmer Ave. N.W. He is a former assistant city manager of Roanoke. Rose E. Moore is lay leader of the parish.
VASHTI JOHNSON HOPKINS, a Lynchburg retired educator, will speak Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at High Street Baptist Church, 2302 Florida Ave. N.W., for a Missionary Awareness program sponsored by the General Missionary Society.
Hopkins is a 1938 graduate of the former Lucy Addison High School and has a doctorate in education from the University of Virginia. She taught in the Lynchburg public schools and at the Virginia Seminary and College. She is active in Grace Memorial Episcopal Church in Lynchburg and in Church Women United. A world traveler, she also has been recognized for her poetry and art.
UNITY OF ROANOKE VALLEY, 3300 Green Ridge Road, will have the Rev. Alden H. Studebaker Jr. as its guest speaker Sunday. One of three candidates for the pastorate, Studebaker is a native of Indiana and was ordained to the Unity ministry 10 years ago. He has served churches in California, Washington and Texas. His family includes his wife, Donna, and three children.
On Nov. 6, the Rev. Sherman Olson, ordained 12 years ago as a Unity minister, will be the guest speaker. Olson, a native of Wisconsin, and his wife, Marilyn, have a team ministry. They serve in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
THE REV. DR. JOHN L. HUFFAKER has begun his ministry at Ninth Street Church of the Brethren in Southeast Roanoke. He and his wife, Sue Huffaker, have come from Mannheim, Pa. The new pastor has served congregations in Maryland, Illinois and Pennsylvania in his 27 years of ministry. He was educated at Bethany Theological Seminary and earned the doctor of ministry degree in 1978. The couple has two grown sons and five grandchildren.
Huffaker is a member of the General Brotherhood Board of his denomination and is on the regional board of Heifer Project International.
ROANOKE VALLEY CATHEDRAL OF PRAISE has scheduled its next "Feed the Hungry Day" for Dec. 17. A collection for the hungry is taken at the Garden Patch Restaurant and volunteers from the church then prepare a free meal at a location convenient to needy people. This will be the fourth such project the church has undertaken in 1994. An event in October benefited the West End of Roanoke. To participate in the next event, call Ric Hansen at 342-2951.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, Va. 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
by CNB