Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 30, 1995 TAG: 9504030005
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-4 EDITION: METRO
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WEST SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 500 Turner Road, will sponsor a Walk Through the Old Testament seminar Sunday with registration at 2:30 p.m. and continuing until 7:45 p.m. The cost is $6. The nationally recognized program surveying the Bible will be conducted by Steve Keyes, who also will speak at the 9:45 and 11 a.m. services. To reserve child care, call 389-2129 before Sunday.
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.
A WOMEN'S WORKSHOP featuring feminist theologian Georgia Masters Keightley, author and professor, and Blacksburg artist Martha Dillard will be offered Friday beginning at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. at Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church, 2505 Electric Road S.W. The Women's Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond is co-sponsor. Cost is $20. Call 375-3259 for more information.
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.
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.
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.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
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by CNB