Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 1, 1995 TAG: 9506020016
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-5 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, an evangelical Episcopal parish, will break ground in mid-June for a 27,000-square foot facility. The building will be the first the congregation has owned since it was founded nine years ago and will be on 17 acres on Merriman and Cartwright roads in Southwest Roanoke County. The worship area is being planned to seat 500.
ROANOKE VALLEY SOUTHERN BAPTISTS are completing an international relationship with Hungary and Mexico City and will soon begin another cooperative venture with Slovenia and Panama. The relationship encourages individual valley congregations to work with churches in impoverished countries when leaders invite them for construction work, evangelism or other needs.
A national program also is in place with Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. At its recent spring meeting, the Roanoke Valley Association of Southern Baptists approved a three-year relationship with the Greater Pittsburgh Association.
GLAD TIDINGS ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH, 7422 Deer Branch Road, Hollins, has scheduled a concert by a New Covenant worship team on June 25 at 6 p.m. The seven-member group comes from Southeastern College in Lakeland, Fla., and presents both music and Christian testimony.
ABUNDANT GRACE, a women's quartet from Warner Southern College in Lake Wales, Fla., will present a program Sunday at 6 p.m. at First Church of God, 5008 Hildebrand Road N.W. The group includes Western Virginia members and comes from a school affiliated with the branch of the Church of God with headquarters in Anderson, Ind.
THE REV. DR. R. QUIGG LAWRENCE JR. has been awarded the doctor of ministry degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. The rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit, an evangelical Episcopal parish, completed the four-year working pastor program with a dissertation on "Blinded by the Light," an evangelical Christian analysis of near-death experiences.
AT BELMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 1101 Jamison Ave. S.E., 32 youths from Peachtree Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Atlanta will present a contemporary Christian musical, "Let's Go to the Rock," on June 11 at 7 p.m. in the fellowship hall. The Georgia group is on a northeastern tour, and Belmont is the first stop.
THE HUNTER FAMILY, a five-member gospel group from Roanoke, will perform Sunday at Belmont Presbyterian Church, 1005 Ninth St. S.E. The informal dress program will begin with a free breakfast at 9:30, followed by the concert at 11 a.m.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH of Roanoke has chosen Donna K. Hopkins, a recent graduate of The Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, as its associate pastor for family ministries.
Hopkins' father, the Rev. Dr. Clint Hopkins now of Chesapeake was on the Calvary staff at the time of her birth. She will begin her work July 1. She took undergraduate studies in communications at James Madison University and has done mission service in the African nation of Ivory Coast and served on the staff of a Richmond church.
DOWN BY THE CREEK BANK, a children's musical, will be presented Sunday at 6 p.m. at Virginia Heights Baptist Church, 2014 Memorial Ave. S.W. The performance will climax the children's choir year.
AN INFORMAL EVENING COMMUNION, sponsored by several Roanoke Valley Episcopal parishes, will begin at 7 Saturday at St. Elizabeth's Church, 2339 Grandin Road S.W. The contemporary-style Eucharist will include music by a combined folk group. Dress is informal.
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH is welcoming extended family members of Bred Sehovic, a refugee from Bosnia whom the congregation helped resettle last year. Several specific articles are needed for the new family of four adults . Call Connie Vermillion for more information.
PICCOLO SPIRITO, a musical program by several vocal and instrumental performers, will be held Saturday at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Roanoke, 2015 Grandin Road S.W.
The summer schedule with no formal Sunday worship services begins June 4 at the Unitarian church. Other weekly educational and social activities are scheduled, however. Call 342-8888 for a schedule.
KIRK TALLEY, a nationally traveled gospel singer, will perform Sunday at 7 p.m. at Cave Spring Baptist Church, 4873 Brambleton Ave. S.W. Call 989-6136 for more information.
A 50TH ANNIVERSARY PICNIC, open especially to former members and friends of Grandin Court Baptist Church, is planned for June 25, beginning at 1:30 p.m. at Penn Forest Park. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for children 4 through 10, with a maximum of $20 per household. Reservations are needed by June 10; call 774-1684 .
EVELYN CONNER, a gospel singer from Salem, will perform Sunday at 6 p.m. at Waverly Place Baptist Church, 1407 Kenwood Blvd. S.E. An offering will be taken.
HELEN JOHNSON has been honored at First United Methodist Church in Salem for her 30 years of service to its preschool program. She has both taught in and directed the school.
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