Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 6, 1995 TAG: 9507060102
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
THE REV. GARVIN L. DYKES has begun his ministry as senior pastor of Colonial Baptist Church at Blue Ridge. Dykes, who was ordained in 1963, comes from Douglasville Baptist Temple, a congregation he founded in suburban Atlanta in 1987. He was educated at Campbellsville College in Kentucky and at Temple Theological Seminary in Chattanooga, Tenn. Dykes is married to the former Faye Dennis, and the family includes three sons and a foster daughter.
HEATHER STEPHENSON, a member of Hollins Road Church of the Brethren and a former student at Virginia Western Community College, has begun a year of Brethren Volunteer Service at Cross Keys Village, a denominational retirement home in New Oxford, Pa. There, she is coordinating programs and special activities, doing outdoor repair work and visiting with residents. Adults accepted into BVS receive room, board and a small stipend in exchange for work in a variety of church-related programs and institutions. Stephenson's special interests are music and drawing.
COLONIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, 106 Hillcrest St. in Blue Ridge, has scheduled its annual Neighborhood Bible Time July 30 through Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. The program is open to all ages. Call 977-5683 for more information.
MAPLE GROVE CHRISTIAN CHURCH at Paint Bank has scheduled a homecoming Aug. 27 beginning at 10 a.m. Guest speakers will be two former members now in Christian service, David Tingler and Dolan Baker. A potluck picnic and a song service will follow on the grounds. The rain site is the Paint Bank firehouse.
WINGS OF FAITH GOSPEL BAND will perform July 16 at 3 p.m. at Blue Ridge Baptist Church. Admission is free.
VOLUNTEERS IN MISSION, a United Methodist service project in which church members offer repair and other assistance to needy or elderly people, sent 36 adults and youth to Ridgeville, S.C., for 10 days. The group returned last week after working on mobile homes occupied by members of the Edisto tribe in the Charleston area.
ST. GERARD CATHOLIC CHURCH will begin a new mentorship program for girls age 12-15 this summer. Sessions will be held July 11-13, July 18-20, and July 25-27 from 9 a.m. until noon, with some evening events. The program will be directed by Mignon Chubb-Hale, a public school teacher and president of Creative Teaching Services. The $10 cost covers materials and instruction in several skills. Call Chubb-Hale at 563-4813 for more information.
JEREMY FOLKS, a member of the Roanoke Third Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has left to begin a two-year assignment in Brisbane, Australia. The 1994 graduate of Northside High School is a son of Don and Linda Folks of the Hollins area of Roanoke County. As a missionary of the Mormon Church, Folks will be engaged in service and evangelistic ministry.
BRAMBLETON BAPTIST CHURCH congregation has moved to a new building at 4122 Cresthill Drive S.W. The building, which includes a 200-seat auditorium, 10 Sunday school rooms, library, office, fellowship hall and kitchen cost about $400,000, with much of the work done by members under the direction of the Rev. Phillip L. Whitaker, who founded the church in 1979. The new church occupies a tract of more than three acres. About 100 people are attending services, which include Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. along with services at 6 p.m. on Sunday and 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Brambleton Baptist, an independently constituted group, formerly was at 3634 Brambleton Ave. S.W. in a building now used as a carpet shop.
A TAIZE MUSIC GROUP, open to amateur musicians of any faith, will learn to sing and play spiritual songs from a Christian community in France. Its first practice will be July 16 from 4 until 5:30 p.m. at Central Church of the Brethren, 416 Church Ave. S.W. in downtown Roanoke. The pastor of Central, the Rev. David Yingling, was part of a group that visited the Taize community earlier this year. The new hymnals of several denominations contain one or more of the hymns. Call Becky Rhodes at 343-5781 for more information.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL will take place July 24-28 from 9 a.m. until noon at Raleigh Court United Methodist Church, 1706 Grandin Road S.W. Open to the community, the school is requesting $1.50 per child for snacks and supplies. Classes will be provided for children age 4 through the fifth grade level. Call 344-6011 to register for the school, which will have the acts of the Apostle Paul as its theme.
ROANOKE'S FOUR CATHOLIC CHURCHES have established a ministry to those in the valley's four major hospitals. Each Sunday the Sacrament is taken by trained lay ministers to Catholics who request it. Our Lady of Nazareth serves Roanoke Memorial, St. Andrew's volunteers go to Community Hospital, Our Lady of Perpetual Help works with Lewis-Gale and St. Gerard's members care for the Veterans Medical Center. The ministry to sick and shut-ins also includes regular visits to those in nursing homes.
LAKESIDE BAPTIST CHURCH, 447 Dalewood Ave., Salem, will observe its 25th anniversary Sunday beginning at 10 a.m. A former pastor, the Rev. E.G. Robertson, will speak. Music will be led by Randy Price, a member of the music faculty of Tennessee Temple University.
JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH will celebrate Men's Day Sunday at its 11 a.m. worship service. Deacon King Harvey is the guest speaker. The church's men's chorus will perform. The public is welcome.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, PO Box 2491, Roanoke, 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
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