Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 17, 1995 TAG: 9508180005
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N8 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 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.
GREEN RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH, 5521 Greenridge Road, has scheduled a praise concert Sunday at 7 p.m. Featured will be Robert Barnes, pianist and composer, and Debbie Williams, vocalist. Both musicians are from Fort Mill, S.C.
The recital is free and a nursery is provided.
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.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, the first for the congregation, will be held Monday through Friday nights from 6:30 to 8 at Roanoke Valley Church of Christ, 3622 Hershberger Road N.W. The school is open to children 3 through 12. Call 563-5978 for more information.
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.
COMMUNITY WEEK-DAY BIBLE STUDIES will begin Wednesday at Melrose Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 4807 Cove Road N.W. A survey of the Gospels will be led by the Rev. Ken Burger, interim pastor, each Wednesday at 10 a.m. through Sept. 13.
Beginning Aug. 28 at 6:30 p.m., the same class will be offered through Sept. 25. Call 562-4055 for more information.
THE BLACKWOOD BROTHERS, a gospel quartet, will perform Aug. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Airlee Court Baptist Church, 4827 Delray St. N.W. An offering will be taken.
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.
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.
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.
SALEM WESLEYAN CHURCH, 424 Chamberlain Lane in Salem, will present Donna Pruett, a gospel singer who has appeared on national television, for a Seniors Recognition Service on Sunday at 11 a.m. Homecoming will take place Sept. 17 with the Rev. Dick Whitener as speaker.
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