Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 11, 1995 TAG: 9505110057
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
LEN McMILLAN, who holds a doctorate in family counseling, will speaker at the North Valley Seventh-Day Adventist congregation Saturday. He is family life coordinator for the Potomac Conference of Adventists. Worship will begin at 11 a.m. at the St. Paul Lutheran Church building, 4904 North Lake Drive, and will be followed by a luncheon and seminar.
A WOMEN'S CONFERENCE will be held May 19-21 at Guiding Star Church of God in Christ, 804 Madison Ave. N.W. It will begin with a 9 a.m. May 19 prayer breakfast at which Willie May Ingram will speak. A concert is planned at 8:30 that evening.
May 20 program begins at 10:30 a.m. with speaker Barbara Ward of Bedford. A banquet and fashion show at the Holiday Inn-Tanglewood will start at 6 p.m. at a cost of $20 in addition to the $10 registration fee.
The conference will close with two worship services May 21, at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. The afternoon program will be led by Barbara Thomas of Roanoke.
LOUDON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, a Disciples of Christ congregation at 730 Loudon Ave. N.W., plans revival services Monday through Wednesday. Guest preacher for the 7:30 p.m. worship will be the Rev. A. Lincoln James Jr., pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Richmond.
ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 502 Gilmer Ave. N.W., will hear Shirley Whitlock Gunn as its Mother's Day speaker Sunday at 11 a.m. She is a special education teacher at Patrick Henry High School and active in Loudon Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
The congregation will honor Annie Hanson Bowles as its Mother of the Year. She is a native of Montgomery County and has been active in the old John Wesley United Methodist Church in Salem, the Boy Scout movement and, for many years, in St. Paul as a Communion steward and leader in the women's and cultural service organizations.
A MIRACLE NIGHT SERVICE is scheduled Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Valley Christian Center, 4265 Cloverdale Road near Bonsack. It will have a focus of healing from addictions. Call 977-2382 for more information.
WOMEN'S AGLOW, an organization for charismatic Christians, will hear Sara Mullenex of Leesburg on Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. This day group will meet at the Garden Patch Restaurant. Call 362-4849 for luncheon reservations.
ANOTHER TOUCH is the theme of the Greater Roanoke District meeting of Churches of God in Christ that is in session at Holiness Tabernacle, 1130 Melrose Ave. N.W., through Friday. Services are at 7:30 p.m., and Bishop Samuel L. Green Jr. is presiding.
MIKE CARROLL has joined the staff of Oak Grove Church of the Brethren as youth coordinator. The graduate of Salem High School also is a full-time electronics technician.
GARDEN CITY BAPTIST CHURCH, 3536 Garden City Blvd. S.E., will observe Mother's Day with a message by Meredith K. Robertson, a past president of Virginia Baptist Homes with offices in Culpeper. He also has been vice president of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board.
FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE has added Will Roberts, a former member of the congregation who has been pastor of the Boones Mill Church of the Nazarene, to its staff. Roberts, 38, is associate pastor for outreach and discipleship.
CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH'S Chancel Choir will present a cantata, "Alleluia - Praise the Lamb" at its 11 a.m. worship Sunday. The church is at 428 S. College Ave. in Salem. Kimberley Hardy will direct.
FAITH FELLOWSHIP, 529 Apperson Drive, Salem, has scheduled a gospel concert with the Dixie Melody Boys on May 21 at 6 p.m. An offering will be taken.
A FESTIVAL MASS to mark the 175th Anniversary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond and the 25th anniversary of Bishop Walter F. Sullivan's consecration is scheduled Sunday at 4 p.m. at St. Andrew's Church, 630 N. Jefferson St.
Sullivan, 66, will officiate at the church, where he was on the staff more than 40 years ago. The service will include music by a choir made up of members of five nearby parishes. The Roanoke service is one of several being held this year throughout the diocese and covers Region 9 and its 13 congregations.
AT FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 301 Patton Ave. N.W., Woman's Day will be observed May 21 at 11 a.m. The guest speaker will be Katherine E. Pullens, a retired professor of English at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, who has returned to her childhood home of Roanoke and is active in Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was educated at the former Lucy Addison High School, Virginia Union and Howard University, and she has taken further graduate studies. She also taught in Roanoke before going to Cleveland.
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