Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 17, 1995 TAG: 9508170063
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S11 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Harris was an employee of the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference, which will evaluate the ongoing ministry.
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS of the Roanoke Valley have begun construction of a cottage for developmentally disabled women. On the grounds of the Baptist Children's Home and Family Services in Salem, the cottage is being built with a lot of donated labor.
A COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET, operated at West End United Methodist Church, 13th Street and Campbell Avenue Southwest, will reopen for the season on Aug. 26. The closet will be open on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Taylor Kauffman is director.
JOSH MCDOWELL, national Christian youth leader and several musical groups will perform at Carowinds Amusement Park in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 23 A bus, sponsored by Spirit FM radio, will leave First Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke at 6:30 a.m. Reservations for the $59 trip may be made by calling 774-9798.
A PROMISE KEEPER'S RALLY is scheduled Monday at First Baptist Church, 312 N. Jefferson St. Promise Keepers is a new evangelical Christian organization intended to encourage men to follow Christ in family and on the job. Roanoke Valley residents have attended its meetings in larger cities. The program will begin at 7 p.m.
THE VICTORS, a Roanoke gospel group, will perform Saturday at 7 p.m. and again on Sunday at 11 a.m. at First Church of God (Anderson, Ind.), 5008 Hildebrand Road N.W. A watermelon feast will be held after the evening program.
WINGS OF FAITH, a gospel singing group, will join New Grace, another Roanoke singing ensemble, in a program Saturday at Lord Botetourt High School in Daleville at 7 p.m.
WASHINGTON PARK REVIVAL SERVICES will begin Monday and continue through Friday at 7 p.m. under sponsorship of the Rev. Marvin Fields of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, a new congregation meeting at 1814 Carroll Ave. N.W. Preaching on successive nights will be the Revs. Antonio Thomas, Charles Whitfield, Ivory Morton, L.A. Lewis and Frank Saunders.
A CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, the first in the Roanoke area in many years, is being established. The Rev. William J. Turner, pastor, said it will be named Carter Memorial C.M.E. Church for a former minister, Joseph T. Carter, who served the Lynchburg congregation but lived in Roanoke.
Services are being held Sundays at 11 a.m. and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at Fizer Funeral Home, 1427 Melrose Ave. N.W. The mid-week service is a "come as you are" fellowship.
Turner served as pastor of Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church in Roanoke from 1990 to 1994.
CELEBRATE, an informal communion service with folk-style music and prayer, is scheduled Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at St. John Lutheran Church, 4608 Brambleton Ave. S.W.
CHARLES ''STEVE'' GARRETT, senior vice president of Hayes, Seay Mattern and Mattern, has been named bishop of the Second Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He succeeds Al Cooper who had served for five years. Garrett will be assisted by counselors Kenneth Currier and Elmer Hodge.
GRANDIN COURT BAPTIST CHURCH, 2660 Brambleton Ave. S.W., has scheduled a piano recital by Texas musician Joseph Martin for Tuesday at 7 p.m. A composer of sacred music used by many choirs, Martin has been nominated for a Dove award. His program is free.
A BLESSING OF ANIMALS service will be held Aug. 27 at Roanoke Unitarian Universalist Church, 2015 Grandin Road S.W. It will begin with a parade at 9:45 a.m. at the rear of the church. Participants who cannot bring a pet can substitute a stuffed animal or photo.
JOHN SCOTT, organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, will perform Oct. 16 at 4 p.m. at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church, 402 Second St. in downtown Roanoke. Scott played his first American organ recital at the church 14 years ago. He also now teaches in London. Call 344-6225 for information about tickets.
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH has raised enough money in its expansion campaign to expand its parish house and renovate other facilities for an estimated $3.6 million. The building program will include more efficient office, education and fellowship facilities as well as making the church fully accessible to those in wheelchairs. Later a community recreation center is planned.
RED HILL BAPTIST CHURCH has named Chris Kingery as its youth director. The new staff member, who is married and the father of a son, began work Aug. 1.
CAMPBELL MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH in Vinton has added steps and landscaping to the rear of its property at 1130 Hardy Road. The work was done by Steven Lee Faw as part of an Eagle Scout project.
EVANGEL FOURSQUARE CHURCH, 612 Bullitt Ave. S.E., has scheduled a program by Michael Brown, a Roanoke musical evangelist, for Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. Brown, music director at the Evangelical Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, has traveled internationally to present a message of freedom from drug addiction.
by CNB