Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 4, 1995 TAG: 9505050019
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES, formerly administered from the denominational children's home in Salem, has moved its headquarters to 2609 McVitty Road S.W., freeing space in the former headquarters for the Minnick Education Center. Regional centers now operate in Hampton, Richmond, Harrisonburg, Bedford, Tazewell, Wytheville and Marion.
THE COVENANT PLAYERS, an Oxnard, Calif.-based group of actors who present original contemporary religious plays throughout the nation, will perform twice in the Roanoke Valley on Sunday. They will be at Northside Christian Church, 5110 Florist Road N.W., at 11 a.m. and at Salem Baptist Church, 103 N. Broad St., Salem, at 6 p.m. An offering will be taken.
BETHLEHEM BIBLE COLLEGE, a ministry of Bethlehem Baptist Church, has scheduled its ninth annual graduation service for Monday at 7 p.m. The ceremony will be held at Forest Park Baptist Church, 812 29th St. N.W.
The major speaker will be Irvin Cannaday Jr., assistant principal of Woodrow Wilson Middle School. Music will be by the Virginia Western Community College Choral Ensemble. The college offers degrees and certificates for adults seeking leadership in evangelical Christian congregations.
GREATER MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, 1810 Grayson Ave. N.W., has scheduled a concert Sunday at 4 p.m. The LeJure Mass Choir of First Baptist Church at Hollins will sing for the program sponsored by the Paradise Gospel Chorus of the host church.
DONALD BRUBAKER, who was reared in Williamson Road Church of the Brethren, has been licensed to ministry by the Virlina District of that denomination. He will graduate later this month from Regent University with a divinity degree.
HIGH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH is honoring its pastor, the Rev. Noel C. Taylor, on his 34th anniversary of coming to the pastorate. A series of events will begin Sunday at 4 p.m. with a salad meal, for which a donation is requested. On May 21 at 4 p.m., an anniversary musical will take place. The final event will be a service on May 28 at 4 p.m. with the Rev. Charles Charlton as the guest preacher.
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CONGREGATION will have a procession from the church at Elm Avenue and South Jefferson Street to the Hotel Roanoke on Sunday, starting at 9 a.m.
At 10 a.m., a celebration Eucharist service will begin to mark the completion of a building drive for enlarging and remodeling the 103-year-old building in downtown Roanoke. A brunch will follow. To fulfill all goals of the drive will require $5 million, but a lesser amount will provide for gradual improvements, church staff members have said.
A NEW HABITAT HOUSE is under construction at 825 Kellogg Ave. N.W. under sponsorship of St. John's Episcopal Church and Deliverance Church Ministries. Completion is expected by late June.
VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH, a Divine Science congregation, has scheduled an open house beginning at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Refreshments and a tour of the facilities at 5000 Carriage Drive S.W. will follow a message on beliefs of the church by the Rev. Maurita Wiggins, pastor.
THE REV. DAVID ``KIRK'' BROWN, an associate rector of St. John's Episcopal Church for the past three years, will leave the staff to become chaplain of the Episcopal Christ School in Arden, N.C. Brown taught in a similar school before entering theological seminary.
JAMES LELAND, organist at Hollins College, will present a recital Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Salem. The program is free.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491 by noon Thursday. Please include a phone number where you can be reached during the day.
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