Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 13, 1995 TAG: 9507140102
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-12 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
COLONIAL BIBLE INSTITUTE, a ministry of Colonial Baptist Church at Blue Ridge, is open for registration for its tenth year. It offers a diploma in General Bible Studies or a certificate in Advanced Bible Studies for evangelical Christians. Call 977-2936 for registration details.
ROANOKE CITY RESCUE MISSION, an evangelical Christian shelter for individuals and families, has opened its two camps for children for the summer. The new Jubilee Acres Day Camp near Salem provides recreation and care for youngsters whose parents are temporarily living at the mission and who need the freedom to seek work. Grace Bible Camp is a residential program for low-income children and teens held in the community of Goshen. The mission seeks scholarship funds for the children. Call 343-7227 for more information.
THE REV.DR. JOHN W."JACK"LOWE has become pastor of Peters Creek Church of the Brethren succeeding the Rev. Paris Bain. Lowe, whose name rhymes with "how,"has come from a four-year pastorate at Prince of Peace Church of the Brethren in South Bend, Ind. The native of Hanover, Pa., is 51 and a graduate of Juniata College and Bethany Theological Seminary and has a doctorate in education from Columbia University with Union Theological Seminary in New York. Married to Lorna Enrique Lowe, an accountant, the pastor has two grown sons and a daughter,Tina Kathryn, who is 6. He has been in professional Christian work in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York as well as in Indiana.
THE REV. JAMES W. TINNEY,56, is the new pastor of the Buchanan United Methodist Charge with congregations in Buchanan, Springwood and Lithia in Botetourt County. Reared in the Petersburg area, Tinney is a graduate of Virginia Tech and Candler School of Theology in Atlanta.He has come from a two-year pastorate at Blue Grass. Married to a microbiologist, Anne Carpenter Tinney, the pastor has twice been on the staffs of Roanoke Valley churches, West End and Southview. He also has had a Hampton pastorate and worked as a probation officer in Richmond.
DAVID LEWIS, a member of Bonsack United Methodist Church,is scheduled to return Sunday from a week in Moscow and Mozhaysk, Russia. He is a member of Voices of Youth, a United Methodist summer program that will take the group to churches throughout Virginia after their return from abroad.
THE REV. MARK A. SLAUGHTER, minister of music and outreach at Bonsack Baptist Church since 1991, will leave the staff July 23. He and his wife, Jody, and their son are moving to Owensboro, Ky., where he will join the staff of First Baptist Church.
The Bonsack Baptist congregation soon will add to its staff with the employment of a full-time youth minister. TheRev.Loresa Heyward will continue as minister of education. The change will become effective in January 1996.
ELDER DANIEL KOVACS, a former pastor of Roanoke Seventh-day Adventist Church, will be guest speaker Saturday at 11 a.m. at North Valley Adventist Church. He has recently become pastor of the Arlington and Capitol Memorial congregations in Northern Virginia. The North Valley SDA congregation worships at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 4909 Peters Creek Road N.W.
EMMA JEAN WOODARD, a licensed minister from Oak Grove Church of the Brethren, has become interim pastor of Cloverdale Church of the Brethren. The Rev.Steve Van Houten is going to a Springfield, Ohio, church after more than a decade in Cloverdale.
STEVEN MURRAY,a member of Cloverdale Church of the Brethren, has received the Sunshine Award from the Blue Ridge Community Service Board for his contributions as a mentally retarded adult to music and youth leadership at Camp Bethel and at Camp Jaycee. The recipient's mother, Dorothy Garst Murray,an author and advocate for the mentally retarded, received the award in 1977.
WEEKDAY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, an ecumenical Christian private program that has operated in Botetourt County for many years, is seeking funds to clear a $3,000 debt incurred during the past school year. The board has frozen teachers' salaries. According to the Rev. Clyde Carter, president of WRE's board, the classes reached more than 435 elementary school children in the past school year. Its yearly budget is $30,388. Contributions may be sent to Weekday Religious Education, Botetourt County, PO Box 451, Troutville, Va. 24175.
JOANI TABOR, Christian recording artist, will perform July 23 at the 11 a.m. service at Rosalind Hills Baptist Church, 2711 Laburnum Ave. S.W. The Roanoke singer has made several recordings of contemporary gospel music.
JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W., has scheduled a concert by the choir of Loudon Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ.) The program will take place Sunday at 5 p.m. The director is Fletcher Nichols.
COLONIAL AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH has sent a team of 23 adults and youth to Warsaw, N.C. on a mission work project. The group is leading a vacation Bible school, renovating a women's shelter and providing evening recreation for migrant workers.The week-long project will end Saturday
THE WEST END CLOTHING CLOSET,a mission project of West End United Methodist Church, is closed until Aug. 28. Over the past 10 months it assisted more than 900 people, including several Bosnian families, with clothing and household goods.
WINIFRED S.B. CUSHING, has retired as music director of Highland Park United Methodist Church and has been succeeded by Roanoker Jerry Stover.
WESTHAMPTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH, a Disciples of Christ congregation at 2515 Grandin Road S.W., has scheduled a program by youth of Beargrass Christian Church, a touring group. The program will begin with a potluck dinner at 6 followed by the concert, "Hitops," at 7. The program is free.
THE REV. WILLIAM RAMEY has begun his ministry at Raleigh Court United Methodist Church succeeding the Rev. Gregory Adkins, who has been transferred to Alexandria. Ramey, 58, has come from a five-year pastorate at Chester United Methodist Church south of Richmond. A native of Winchester, he was educated at Lebanon Valley College and the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. About 25 years ago he was pastor of Highland Park United Methodist in Roanoke when that was an Evangelical United Brethren congregation. Ramey, who has a daughter, Rita, living in Pittsburgh, also has served parishes in Harrisonburg, Richmond, and Winchester.
AT GREENE MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH the new pastor is the Rev. Robert Lewis Watts. Reared in Alexandria, Watts, 59, has previously served Calvary United Methodist of Salem and Highland Park Church in Roanoke. He also has been at congregations in Remington, Altavista, Lynchburg, Norfolk and most recently at Washington Street Church in Alexandria. Educated at the University of Virginia and Drew Theological Seminary, Watts is married to Jean Watts, a registered nurse. The family includes an adult son, Ben, who lives in Arlington. The Rev. Jerry Campbell, at Greene Memorial for seven years, has moved to Norfolk.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL is in progress through Friday at Mountain Pass Baptist Church on Virginia 311 in the Mason Cove community. Classes for all ages are from 7 to 9 p.m. Call 384-6791 for more information.
THE REV. AL THORNE, who began his ministry at Huntington Court United Methodist Church in Roanoke about 15 years ago, is the new associate pastor at First United Methodist in downtown Salem. Since then he has served parishes in Prices Fork, Montpelier, Chesterfield County, Fieldale and Newport, the latter for the past two years. The new associate, who is 44, is married to Cathy Thorne, a doctoral candidate in marriage and family therapy at Virginia Tech. The family includes Bryan, 13, and Michelle,10.
SCOTT TAYLOR, associate minister of Salem Church of Christ for more than five years, will leave the staff this fall to begin the organization of a new congregation in the Poughkeepsie area of New York. He will work with the Empire State Evangelizing Association. Taylor and his wife, Valeria, have four children being home-schooled by their mother.
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