Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 27, 1995 TAG: 9505300021
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The Rev. Thomas Magri, pastor of St. Jude Catholic Church in Radford, will leave the parish effective June 5 to become campus minister to Catholic students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. Magri, who has been in Radford for more than a decade, also will serve as part-time assistant at St. Bede Church in Williamsburg.
He will be succeeded in Radford by the Rev. James Grealish, who is returning from a sabbatical.
Among the annual assignments of pastors by Richmond diocesan Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, the Rev. Michael Schmied, a former Roanoke priest, is leaving St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Petersburg to become a mission worker for three years in El Salvador. The Rev. David L. Nott will become pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Covington in a move from being an assistant at St. Bridget's Church in Richmond.
Fund-raising campaign
Vision of Victory, a campaign of Churches of Christ in Virginia to establish new congregations, seeks to raise $200,000 in a 1995 drive, which begins on June 4. If reached, the goal will provide two new congregations. Since 1990 the $360,000 that the drive has provided has resulted in the organization of three new congregations.
Racism retreat
An overnight retreat with a focus on racism and the church is scheduled June 2 and 3 at the Phoebe Needles Retreat Center near Callaway in Franklin County. Beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday, the retreat will be led by the Rev. William Boatright of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. The cost is $40. The program is jointly sponsored by the retreat center and St. John's Episcopal Church in Roanoke. Call the Rev. Carlotta Cochran at 343-9341 or the center at 483-3381 for more information.
Strawberry festival
To raise funds for the Childress Memorial Foundation of Floyd and Carroll counties, a strawberry festival is planned on June 3 at Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church at Virginia 626 and 628 (Childress and Buffalo Roads) near the county line. The festival, which will be in progress from 4 to 7 p.m., will include gospel music and the sale of a barbecue or hot dog meal, along with strawberry shortcake, for $4.50 for adults and $3 for children. The foundation, made up of members of six rural congregations founded by the late Rev. Robert W. Childress Sr. more than 60 years ago, seeks to preserve the religious heritage described in a book about the pastor, "The Man Who Moved a Mountain."
Gleaning program
The Society of St. Andrew's gleaning program, in which volunteers salvage from commercial fields fruits and vegetables unsuitable for sale in stores, has already in 1995 reached more than a dozen communities. Catharine Gillespie, director of the society's gleaning network from its headquarters in Bedford County, said the recent opening of offices in Texas and Florida has made possible earlier harvesting. The food is trucked to centers for the needy in many cities with church and civic groups paying the transportation costs as part of their outreach ministries.
by CNB