Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 7, 1995 TAG: 9509080040
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
MORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOUSES are scheduled to be built jointly by groups of Presbyterians and Episcopalians this fall. Five homes eventually will be built on Cleveland Avenue, near 13th Street Southwest.
Six parishes in the Williamson Road area - Huntington Court and Grace United Methodist, Trinity Lutheran, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox, Hollins Road Church of the Brethren and St. James Episcopal - have committed to build in the 2000 block of Peters Creek Road in the spring of 1996.
ALMA HUNT, a Roanoker who retired from national leadership in the Woman's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention, will get a cottage named in her honor. The proposed cottage on the grounds of the Virginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services in Salem is for mentally retarded women.
WILSON GUNN, pastor of Peace Presbyterian Church, has completed requirements for a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Peace Church also supplied more than 400 pounds of produce from a congregational garden to help feed the Roanoke Valley needy.
A PRAISE CONCERT, featuring several Roanoke Valley Christian performers, will take place Sunday at 7 p.m. at Preston Oaks Baptist Church, 102 Preston Ave. N.E. Both vocal and instrumental selections will be on the program.
THE VICTORS a gospel music group, will present a concert Sunday at 6 p.m. at Emmanuel Baptist Church, 625 Churchland Road, N.W.
PATRICIA A. LOWRY,formerly on the staff of Pathway Counseling Services, has joined the Rev. Dr. Douglas Keffer at New Beginnings Counseling Services, an agency with Christian perspective. New Beginnings, which started in the Roanoke Valley two years ago, moves Sept. 18 to 2362 Peters Creek Road.
CATHEDRAL OF PRAISE, a congregation of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) will sponsor Solemn Assembly prayer services tonight through Saturday. Prayer with confession and fasting is scheduled at the church, 8100 Angel Lane, Hollins, from 7 to 9 tonight and Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday.
A SERVICE OF SPIRITUAL HEALING, suspended for the summer, has resumed each Wednesday at noon at St. John Lutheran Church, 4608 Brambleton Ave. S.W.
THE REV. KENNETH STOFFT has begun a two-month sabbatical from the pastorate of Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church. Stoft, who is marking 20 years in the priesthood, said he will spend the time in Philadelphia in a spiritual growth program.
The Rev. Robert L. Cummins, is on temporary assignment to the parish.
THE CLOTHING CLOSET, operated by Ghent Grace Brethren Church at 1511 Maiden Lane S.W. needs volunteers to serve its clients and sort garments Tuesday mornings from 9:30 to 11:30. Call 345-2788 to help.
NINTH STREET CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 1106 9th St. S.E., starts a Venture Club Wednesday night Christian education program for neighborhood children on Sept. 2. Children in kindergarten through fifth grade will meet at 6 while youth in sixth through ninth grades will begin their activities at 6:45. Activities will be educational and spiritual as well as recreational.
A VALLEYWIDE GOSPEL SING will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. at First Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) at 2021 Hardy Road in Vinton. Three groups, The Kingerys, New Grace and the Full Gospel Singers, will be featured.
AN ADULT RESPITE MINISTRY in which elderly persons will be cared for for short periods during the day to allow some free time to their caregivers, will begin Monday in Vinton. A ministry of Vinton Baptist Church, the program will be housed in a building next to the church downtown. Trained volunteers will be available. Call the Rev. David Elks at 343-7685 for more information.
BELMONT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 806 Jamison Ave. S.E., is adding additional praise songs and choruses to make a less formal liturgy to its Sunday morning services each second and fourth week.
A time for prayer, with the laying on of hands will be held on the third Sunday, after dismissal from the morning service. Encouragement also will be given to offering more prayers of individual thanksgiving and petition during worship.
A NEW SCHEDULE to make worship time more convenient for Sunday workers and others with special needs will go into effect Sunday at Jordantown Wesleyan Church, Virginia 619 near Vinton. An informal service with praise music will take place at 9 a.m., followed by the usual worship at 11 a.m. Education for all ages will begin at 6:30 p.m.
For the beginning Sunday, guest musicians, Jim and Violet Long of Blacksburg will perform. A nursery will be available for the services.
THE REV. JANET RAMSEY, a former pastor of St. Timothy Lutheran Church at 1201 Hardy Road in Vinton, will preach there Sept. 17 at 11 a.m. Ramsey, a counselor and teacher, recently completed a Virginia Tech doctoral program.
JOSHUA RUBONGOYA, assistant professor of political science at Roanoke College, will speak Sept. 18 at First United Methodist Church, Langhorne Place in downtown Salem. He has traveled extensively in the Third World. Reservations for the 6:30 p.m. dinner meeting may be made by calling 389-5459 by Sept. 15. The meal is $6.
JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH'S W.N. Hunter Gospel Choir will present its annual hat show Sunday at 4 p.m. at 1016 Norfolk Ave. S.W. The show honors the memory of James Perry and Ethel Cunningham.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, Va. 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
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