Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 17, 1995 TAG: 9508170064
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
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.
CHRIS CALDWELL has returned from a week of ministry to youth in Puerto Rico. The Bridgewater College student is a member of Ninth Street Church of the Brethren.
THE REV. RICHARD HARRIS has resigned after serving as chaplain to Roanoke Valley public institutions since 1981. Harris will be honored Monday at 6 p.m. at a dinner at High Street Baptist Church, 2302 Florida Ave. N.W. Reservations for the $10 meal may be sent to the Rev. Charles Green,1731 Hanover Ave. N.W., Roanoke, 24017, or called into 342-6167.
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 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.
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.
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.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491 by noon Thursday. Include a daytime telephone number.
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