Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, December 29, 1994 TAG: 9501060023
SECTION: S4 PAGE: NEIGHBORS EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
A NEW CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATION has been formed in the Roanoke Valley and is meeting on Campbell Avenue at Fifth Street in downtown Roanoke. Paul L. Sanders is the evangelist. Bible classes begin each Sunday at 10 a.m. with worship at 11.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST YOUTH from congregations in the Roanoke Valley Association will gather Friday night at First Baptist in downtown Roanoke to begin their first New Year's Eve Eve All-Nighter. The Rev. Kirk Lashley, associational executive, said more than 600 teens have registered for the event, which will include food, bowling, skating and other activities lasting from 9:30 p.m. to the following morning. A concert by East to West, a Christian rock group, will open the event. Lashley said that although registration fell short of the 750 goal, representatives will come from many of the approximately 70 churches in the association.
WAVERLY PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH,1407 Kenwood Blvd. S.E., will begin on Jan. 14 a Christian weight-loss program. It will begin at 9 a.m. and will run for 13 weeks with the only cost being for materials. Call 344-5527 for more information.
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE, 728 Highland Ave. S.E., has scheduled a special New Year's Day Communion service Sunday at 6 p.m. open to the community for Christian resolutions.
A TWELFTH NIGHT CONCERT, which has become a tradition at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Fincastle, is scheduled Jan. 5 at 7:30 p.m. This year the Lynchburg music group Folk Salad will be featured. The trio of Mary Lynne Bumgarner, Gale Weisman and Jimmie Ping will perform on guitar, banjo and mountain dulcimer. Tickets for the event, which marks the end of the church observance of Christmas, cost $4 and are available by calling 992-1959 or 473-2370. A social time follows.
EDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH,1006 Peck St. N.W., will begin on Jan. 4 a Wednesday night program called Jesus and Me Time. It will be from 7 to 8 and is for children 2 through sixth-grade level. Call Willie Purdee, youth minister, at 986-0414 for more information.
GLAD TIDINGS ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH, Deer Branch Road in the Hollins area, will have a guest speaker Wednesday at 7 p.m. Angel Berrios is a 1986 graduate of Central Bible College and has carried on mission work in Central and South America as well as in Europe. He currently is in a graduate program at Liberty University in Lynchburg.
THE REV. DR. J. MICHAEL PALMER, pastor of Green Ridge Baptist Church , has been awarded the doctor of ministry degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. The degree represents completion of a program for religion professionals in which they carry out the academic requirements while on the job.
CAVE SPRING BAPTIST CHURCH members have voted to build a Habitat for Humanity house in the spring of 1995. The congregation is raising the necessary $16,000 to get the home for a working poor family under way.
THE REV. GLEN R. PEARCE has received a master of arts degree in religious education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Pearce joined the staff of Cave Spring Baptist Church as its minister of education several months ago.
THE REV. DR. JAMES R. HENRY, associate rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Roanoke, has been initiated into the Kappa Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, a professional honor society for counselors. The event took place at Lynchburg College.
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH will undergo renovation of its worship area in 1995 with the expenditure of $260,000. New floor covering and changes in the chancel will be made to give more space for lay people and clergy to lead worship. Funding for the renovations was made possible by bequests from parishioners that have accumulated over the past three years, according to the Rev. Deborah Hentz Hunley, rector. The Old Southwest congregation also expects to give $30,000 to the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia and to establish an endowment to cover maintenance and other expenses for which the annual operating budget does not provide.
ST. ELIZABETH'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2339 Grandin Road S.W., plans New Year's Eve fellowship Saturday beginning at 9:30 p.m. It will precede Holy Communion service at 11:15.
THE FOOD PANTRY, sponsored by Salem and West Roanoke County churches for the needy of that area has increased its service by about 100 orders in 1994 over what was distributed in 1993. More than 100 volunteers staff the pantry, which is open for four hours daily during the week for those cleared through social service agencies. Canned fruit, paper products and personal grooming articles are especially sought. Residential food drives by community agencies have kept canned vegetable in good supply, according to Beverly White, a board member.
COLLEGE LUTHERAN CHURCH, 210 College Ave. in Salem, will resume on Feb. 1 an alternative worship service on Wednesday nights beginning at 6:45. A November experiment with a midweek service with contemporary music and conversational-style preaching indicated a liking for such a service, according to the Rev. Dwayne Westermann, pastor. The service always will include Holy Communion. It ordinarily will be held in the fellowship hall but will move to the nave during Lent.
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