Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, January 19, 1995 TAG: 9501240068
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
RAM is now seeking applicants for the 25-hour per week job that includes recruiting, training and scheduling volunteers and working with the Family Advocacy program. Call the Rev. Julie Hollingsworth, director, at 345-9786 for more information. RAM is an ecumenical and interfaith agency that offers crisis help and day shelter to Roanoke Valley needy.
DEALING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE will be the theme at a breakfast for religion professionals Tuesday in the Lewis-Gale Hospital cafeteria. Darlene Young, who directs the Salvation Army Turning Point, a shelter for battered women, will be the presenter.
The program is from 7:45 to 9 a.m. and is sponsored by the hospital. The meal is free, but reservations must be made by Friday by calling the Rev. David Wolfe at 776-4000.
TALEIGH COURT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1837 Grandin Road S.W., will offer a Thursday morning study of the work of several devotional writers beginning Feb. 2 and continuing through May.
The Rev. Gene Edmunds, associate pastor, will lead the study that is based on a book, "Devotional Classics," and will cover the basic thought of seven Christian leaders from Reformation to contemporary times. The study is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Call 343-5541 for more information.
DANICE HUNT, who was named Virginia's Ms. Senior Citizen for 1994, will present a gospel concert Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. A $4 donation to benefit the trustee board is suggested.
BARBARA B. LEMON, an elder in Second Presbyterian Church of Roanoke, has been named to the board of trustees of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. Lemon has been active in special education, garden club, historical society and Junior League organizations in Western Virginia, as well as in Presbyterian church groups.
MORE FREQUENT COMMUNION SERVICES are in effect at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Old Southwest at the main 11 a.m. service each first and third Sunday rather than monthly as has been the practice for many years.
The Rev. John M. Hawn, pastor, said a goal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is to celebrate Communion at a major service every Sunday and noted several Roanoke area parishes are now doing that. Early Christian writings show that this practice was followed in apostolic times, he noted.
BARBARA B. LEMON, an elder in Second Presbyterian Church of Roanoke, has been named to the board of trustees of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. Lemon has been active in special education, garden club, historical society and Junior League organizations in Western Virginia, as well as in Presbyterian church groups.
JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W., has changed the time for its Sunday morning worship. The services now start at 10:45 a.m. The congregation is meeting in its W.N. Hunter auditorium while renovations are being made at the church.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
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