Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 8, 1995 TAG: 9506090022
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-39 EDITION: METRO
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The first session (children 3 years through first-grade) will be June 19-21 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The cost is $5. The second session (children in grades 2 through 6) will be Aug. 14 -18 from 9 a.m. until noon. The cost is $10.
Both sessions are open to boys and girls in the Roanoke Valley regardless of church affiliation. Call 344-6011, to register. Enrollment is limited.
THE REVS. CHARLES TUSING and VIRGIL A. MOYER JR., retired Lutheran pastors who have lived in the Roanoke area for many years, were honored during a recent assembly of the Virginia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Tusing has completed 60 years as an ordained pastor, and Moyer was named bishop-emeritus of the synod as he marked 50 years since ordination.
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH has chosen W. Frank Allen as its next assistant rector. The recent graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary will succeed the Rev. Kirk Brown, who is going to North Carolina to become a preparatory school chaplain.
Allen will begin his work July 16. Reared in Dallas, Texas, he is a 1981 graduate of Duke University and spent 11 years as director of development for a Philadelphia construction firm. As a lay person he was active in youth leadership in his church before entering seminary. His wife, Amy, is a pediatrician and plans to practice in the Roanoke Valley.
JOE and BECKY KENNEDY, Roanoke church organists, will present a duo-recital Sunday at 3 p.m. at South Roanoke United Methodist Church, South Jefferson and 24th streets. The free, family program is sponsored by the Roanoke Chapter of the American Guild of Organists as part of his summer organ program. All churches are air conditioned, and informal attire is appropriate.
The recital schedule is as follows: July 2, Richard Cummins at Greene Memorial United Methodist, 402 Second St. S.W.; July 9, Marianne Sandborg at Second Presbyterian, 214 Mountain Ave. S.W.; July 16, Jim McConnell and David Fitzgerald at Grandin Court Baptist, 2660 Brambleton S.W.; July 23, Dorothy Porter at Calvary Baptist Church, 608 Campbell Ave. S.W.; July 30, Mildred Heimlich at College Lutheran, 210 College Ave. in Salem; Aug. 13, Katherine Reier, St. Paul's Episcopal, 42 E. Main St., Salem; Aug. 20, Karen Anderson at First Baptist, 310 N. Jefferson St.; Aug. 27, Robert Chapman at First Presbyterian, 2101 S. Jefferson St.
JUDY BARGER, minister of music and children's work at Belmont Baptist Church for the past nine years, will retire June 30. Barger said she will spend time with her family and traveling.
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS recently honored 22 Roanoke Valley teens for their completion of a four-year Christian gospel study course focusing on the Old and New Testaments, the Book of Mormon and other Latter Day Saints scriptures. The students are Ryan Reeves, Matthew Arritt, Holly Sampson, Heather Whiting, Shaun Farris, Karl Mann, Shanan Shorter, Alisa Blaze, Heather Bohon, Heather Christley, Carrie Garrett, Laura Nininger, Stacie Pearce, Michael Arrington, Jacob Hambrick, Jarom Richardson, Ashleigh Seymour, Jennie Pack, Kenneth Bowes, Tracie Waldron, Gina Nasca and Justin Hall.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491 by noon Thursday. Please include a daytime phone number.
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by CNB