Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 30, 1995 TAG: 9504010007
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-4 EDITION: METRO
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NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH OF CHRIST, meeting at the Clearbrook Civic League building on U.S. 220 South, has scheduled revival services April 7 through 9 with the Rev. Ed Bousman of Lynchburg, Ohio, the evangelist. Bousman, a preacher for 50 years, recites portions of the Bible from memory. He will speak each night at 7 and on Sunday morning at 9:30.
His wife, Naomi, will address women April 8 at 1 p.m. The Fagan Family of Connersville, Ind., will be song leaders.
THE FAITH, HOPE AND JOY SINGERS of the Glorious Church of God will present a concert Sunday at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. The concert is sponsored by Usher Board No. 2.
THE REV. HARRY LELAND has left the pastorate of Crystal Spring Baptist Church after four years to become minister of a church in Orange County. He was pastor of the former Jefferson Street Baptist Church for six years before its merger in 1991 with the former South Roanoke Baptist.
ROANOKE CHURCH OF CHRIST on Brandon Avenue Southwest has undertaken support of three missionary families. The families are working as medical missionaries and evangelists in Guatemala, on the island of St. Martin and in preparation for service in the former Soviet Asian state of Kyrgyzstan. The church also helps support the Bread for the World agency and a school in Honduras.
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH in downtown Roanoke has named Clif Collins coordinator of Christian education ministries. He comes from Cobleskill, N.Y., where he has been in administration for several years at the State University of New York.
OAK GROVE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 2138 McVitty Road S.W., has scheduled a "rock-a-thon" benefit project Friday night. Youth of the church will begin rocking in chairs at the church at 7 and continue until the next morning. The junior and senior high students will take pledges for several projects.
REVIVAL SERVICES are planned April 1 through 9 at Christo Evangelical Wesleyan Church on Bent Mountain. The Rev. W.L. Sarber will preach each night at 7:30 during the week and at 7 p.m. on Sunday. The church is on Patterson Drive, off Virginia 644.
ELDER MARVIN GRIFFIN, vice president for finance of the Potomac Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, will speak Saturday at the 11 a.m. service of the North Valley Adventist congregation. A luncheon will follow. The Adventists meet at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 4909 Peters Creek Road N.W.
A JEWS FOR JESUS PROGRAM will be presented Tuesday at 7 p.m. at First Wesleyan Church, 3706 Peters Creek Road N.W. Mitch Forman, a convert to Christianity from Judaism, will demonstrate elements of the Jewish Passover observance and relate them to the Lord's Supper. Call 563-4481 for more information.
AIRLEE COURT BAPTIST CHURCH has chosen the Rev. John Hamric as its next pastor. Hamric, an associate pastor at First Baptist Church of Staunton, will take up his new post in early April, succeeding the Rev. Eugene Burris, who left the pastorate in mid-1993.
The new pastor is married to Christy Hamric.
RABBI JEROME FOX of Beth Israel Synagogue in Roanoke will preside at a simulated Passover seder today at noon at First United Methodist Church in downtown Salem. The ritual meal has associations for Christians with Jesus' Last Supper.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
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