Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 27, 1994 TAG: 9411120022
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E15 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. STEPHEN WINGFIELD, president of Steve Wingfield Ministries and a former Roanoke Valley resident, will conduct special services Sunday at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. at First Wesleyan Church, 3706 Peters Creek Road N.W. A nursery will be open.
Wingfield is a graduate of Eastern Mennonite College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Fifteen years ago, he founded the Roanoke Chapter of the National Association of Evangelicals.
CONNELLY MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, 3907 Hershberger Road N.W., has scheduled revival services Sunday through Wednesday . Guest evangelist will be the Rev. John D. Wilson, a former Southern Baptist worker in South Africa who lives in Mississippi. He will speak Sunday at 11 a.m. and each night at 7. Child care will be provided.
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.
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.
REVIVAL SERVICES will begin Sunday at Salem Church of God, 600 Craig Ave., Salem, and will continue through Nov. 4. The Rev. Perry Stone Sr. of Cleveland, Tenn. will be the guest preacher. Services will begin at 6:30 on Sunday night and at 7:30 p.m. during the week.
GREATER MOUNT ZION will celebrate Men's Day Sunday at the 11 a.m. worship service. The Rev. Robert Lewis Taylor, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Alexandria, will be the guest speaker.
Music from the male chorus of Mount Zion will be featured.
HOMECOMING will be observed at Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church Sunday at the 11 a.m. and the 3 p.m. services.
The Rev. G.G. Johnson will give the morning sermon; the Rev. Anthony Johnson and his choir and congregation from Wesley Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in Danville will be the guests at the afternoon service. Dinner will be served at 1:30.
A Homecoming concert will be given Saturday at 6 p.m. by the Stewart Jones Ensemble.
GREEN RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH will present a benefit concert for Patty Whitby Saturday at 7 p.m.
Offerings will be taken to help defer medical costs for Whitby, who needs a bone marrow transplant. Music by All For The Lord, Sincerely His, Wings of Faith and Holywind will be featured.
For further information, call 562 2723.
\ Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, Va. 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
by CNB