Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 10, 1995 TAG: 9508100097
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-4 EDITION: METRO
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DOUG ECHOLS, a student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., will be ordained into the Gospel minstry at Zion Hill Baptist Church, near Fincastle, on Sunday at 3 p.m. Echols is a graduate of James Madison University. He currently is associate pastor of Edgemont Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, N.C. He is the son of Larry and Bonnie Echols of Botetourt County.
LYNN HAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH of Vinton has sent six members on a mission team to Mexico City, Mexico. They will return Saturday.
AT VINTON WESLEYAN CHURCH, Jefferson at Poplar avenues, vacation Bible school, "Sunshine Ranch," will end Sunday night. Hours are 6:30 to 8:30. For transportation, call 345-3385.
NORMAN ARRINGTON, a Christian monologist from West Virginia, will be a guest at vacation Bible school at Riverdale Baptist Church. It will be in session from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday through Aug. 18 at 1624 Edgerton Ave. S.E. Children from age 2 through sixth grade will be enrolled.
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH, 929 Murray Ave. S.E., will present Tom Schuj, an evangelist to youth, Sunday at the 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. services. The guest, who has received national recognition, is a converted runaway delinquent. He and his wife, Angela, live in Chambersburg, Pa.
VALLEY CHRISTIAN CENTER, 4265 Cloverdale Road, plans a camp meeting Aug. 20 thrugh 24 with four guest speakers. Services will begin at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. For more information call 977-2382.
DIANE KELLY has succeeded her uncle, James I. Kelly as organist at Mill Creek Baptist Church in Botetourt County. The elder Kelly, who remains a substitute organist, played for 34 years at Mill Creek.
THE MULTICULTURAL YOUTH CHORUS, sponsored by the Lutheran Brotherhood Southwest Virginia Branch 8462, will sing Sunday at 7 p.m. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Palmetto and Olive Avenues Northwest. The chorus is directed and accompanied by Michael Brown, music director at the Evangelical Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit and a recording artist who has just returned from an evangelistic tour of Great Britain. An offering will be taken.
NEW GRACE, a southern gospel group, will join the Wings of Faith gospel band Aug. 19 at 6:30 p.m. for a concert at Lord Botetourt High School.
THE REV. WILLIAM LEE, a chaplain at the Salem Veterans Medical Center and pastor of Loudon Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), is on a three-week tour of Ghana and Zimbabwe as part of a group of African-American pastors in the Disciples and United Church of Christ denominations. The cross-cultural experience is intended to bridge gaps between the United States and African churches and encourage more joint mission projects.
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH has added to its staff. Laura MacBean is the new coordinator of youth activities. A native of England, MacBean currently is on a three-week mission project in Nicaragua and will move to Roanoke later in August. She most recently has been a staff member of Habitat for Humanity in Richmond and assisted at St. James Episcopal Church there.
BISHOP JOSEPH DADSON will be guest speaker Sunday at 10 a.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in downtown Roanoke. He serves in Ghana, where the Roanoke congregation works with an Anglican mission church at Binaba.
A VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL concluding program takes place tonight at 6:45 at Red Hill Baptist Church, 6251 Franklin Road in the Clearbrook area.
A CUBAN REFUGEE FAMILY, that of Rafael Ramor, is being resettled by members of Oak Grove Church of the Brethren. The couple with their two children arrived July 19.
VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH, a Divine Science congregation worshiping at 5000 Carriage Drive in the Oak Grove community, will sponsor a six-week course, "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind," beginning Aug. 22. It will be taught by the Rev. Maurita Wiggins, pastor. To register for the $35 program, call 774-2704.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH, a Disciples of Christ congregation in downtown Roanoke, has added to its staff Christina Irene "Chrissie" Anderson, 24, a 1993 graduate of Emory & Henry College and resident of North Tazewell. She will serve as program coordinator. A Disciples member, Anderson has previously worked at the Tazewell County Public Library.
THE REV. DR. DIOGENES ALLEN, a professor and author from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, will be the Dobbins Series guest preacher at Salem Presbyterian Church on Sept. 17. "Spiritual Life, Yesterday and Today" will be his theme at 9:45 and 11 a.m. and at 4 p.m. A nursery will be open for all programs at the church in downtown Salem. The series was endowed by the late Curtis G. Dobbins , a Salem business leader.
THEATER 'N THEOLOGY, a free public presentation of religious films, will feature "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 314 Turner Road in Salem. Discussion of the story of Sts. Francis and Clare will be led by the Rev. Gregory Kandt, pastor.
CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 428 S. College Ave. in Salem, is sponsoring a gleaning program this month for children in cooperation with the Society of St. Andrew of Bedford County. The Harvest of Hope program in Botetourt County will permit children to pick commercially useless produce and take it to the City Rescue Mission for Roanoke's needy.
LOCUST GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH has sent four of its members to the Stavropol, Russia, area to carry on evangelistic ministry at Kozack Camp through Aug.22. The mission trip is led by Margy Murray who went to Russia in 1994 and began the congregation's involvement in the international relationship.
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