Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, November 3, 1994 TAG: 9412230085
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N3 EDITION: METRO
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"Go See and Act as Sisters" is the theme. An offering will be taken for blankets and other needs. Registration is at 10 a.m.
ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES, an interfaith service ministry that staffs a day shelter in inner city Roanoke and supplies other emergency needs, received $14,000 at a recent benefit party. The Rev. Julie Hollingsworth,director, said RAM's clothing closet at Central Church of the Brethren needs warm jackets, sweaters and socks for men. Items may be taken to the church at 416 Church Ave. S.W. Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 310 N. Jefferson St., will be the site of a service uniting all Baptist women Monday at 10 a.m. in an annual program promoted by the Baptist World Alliance. The service will be followed by luncheons in the Vinton and Hollins areas.
A second service for those who work during the day will be held at 7 p.m. at Garden City Baptist Church, 3536 Garden City Blvd. S.E.
THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY will sponsor its annual Mass to honor the living and the dead on Friday. The mass will be held at St. Elias Catholic Church, 4730 Cove Road N.W. at 10 a.m.
ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH has chosen the Rev. Antony Seel as its next rector. Seel, 38, is assistant rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn, Ill., near Chicago. He has been on the staff there for three years.
Reared in New Jersey, he entered the ministry after several years of military service and was educated at Augusta College in Georgia and at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, near Pittsburgh. His wife, Mary, has taught at the college level. The couple has a daughter.
Seel will begin his ministry at the North Roanoke church on Dec. 4 with his installation set for Jan. 8. The Rev. Alfred Whitelock has served the parish since the death of the Rev. Kenneth Emmerling last year.
ST. MATTHEW CHURCH OF GOD APOSTOLIC,1422 Abbott St. N.W., plans three special programs. Friday at 7 p.m., Bishop Walter Anderson, pastor at St. Paul Outreach Center at Chatham, will be heard.
On Nov. 12 at 7 p.m., the Spiritual Seven, a Wertz gospel group, will perform, and on Nov. 13 at 11 a.m., Elder Claude Thomas of Winston-Salem, N.C., will preach at a service where the congregation will honor its pastor, the Rev. George Hash.
THE BOTETOURT FOOD PANTRY, housed at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Fincastle, is in need of commercially canned food and essential household products, as well as money. November is annually observed as stock-up time for the pantry. Financial contributions may be sent to St. Mark's Pantry Fund and mailed to P.O. Box 277, Fincastle, Va., 24090.
MOUNT OLIVE CHURCH, 1113 Centre Ave. N.W., has revival services in progress through Friday. The guest evangelist is Ramona Moore of Beckley, W.Va. Worship starts each night at 7:30.
HEALTH CARE DECISIONS will be the theme of a Lay Ministry Conference scheduled Nov. 12 from 9 a.m. to noon at St. John's Episcopal Church in downtown Roanoke. Featured speakers for the free event will be Bishop Heath Light, Dr. David A. Scott, Dr. Stephen S. Kennedy and the Rev. Jacqueline S. Gravatt.
Scott is a professor of ethics at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria; Light is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia; Kennedy is a cancer specialist; and Gravatt is director of chaplains at a Norfolk hospital.
Reservations are requested; call 343-9341.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, Va. 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
by CNB