Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 14, 1995 TAG: 9509140029
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
THE REV. DR. DIOGENES ALLEN, author and professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, will be the Curtis Dobbins Lecture speaker Sunday at Gresham Hall of Salem Presbyterian Church. "Eight Deadly Thoughts and Their Remedies" will be his theme at 4 p.m. lecture at the downtown Salem church.
WOMEN'S AGLOW DAY FELLOWSHIP will hear Connie Gallaghan of Concord at its Wednesday meeting at 11:15 a.m. at the Garden Patch Restaurant in downtown Roanoke. Call 362-4849 for reservations and more information.
HERITAGE DAY, an annual event to celebrate the Church of the Brethren's religious and cultural background and to raise operating funds for Camp Bethel, is set for Oct. 7 at the conference center in Botetourt County. An auction, craft sale and folk concert will be included in events from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. The center is at 2743 Bethel Road. Last year the get-together raised $17,000.
THE CATHOLIC MUSEUM at 624 N. Jefferson St. has added a gift shop which, like the museum itself, is open each Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Jean Forrest, director, said that during the past year more than 350 people visited the collection of artifacts assembled from Roanoke area parishes.
A REFORMATION SUNDAY SERVICE is scheduled Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. in the National Cathedral in Washington. A concert by the Thiel College Choir will be featured. To reserve a seat on a bus from Roanoke, leaving at 9 a.m. the day of the service, call 389-5251. Cost is $37.
MARY SINK ST. JOHN, program director at Camp Bethel Conference Center for the past five years, has left the staff to devote more time to her family. A search for her replacement is under way.
WOMEN'S DAY will be observed Sunday at the 10:45 a.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. Melinda Jordan Payne, a member of the Roanoke School Board, will speak. Special music will be provided by a Women's Day choir.
Payne, a member of Blue Ridge Baptist Church, is the New River Valley circulation manager for The Roanoke Times and works with numerous community groups, including the United Way.
EDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH,1006 Peck St. N.W., has scheduled revival services Sept. 24 through 29. O. George Stansberry, a nationally traveled evangelist, will preach Sunday at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., and nightly at 7.
A HOLLINS COLLEGE SERVICE on Sunday night at 7:30 in duPont Chapel will include music by the Chapel Choir and a message by Meg Young, a senior active in the Religious Life Association.
AT PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH,1415 8th St. N.W., Donald Etheridge of Charlotte, N.C., will present a concert Sunday. The 5 p.m. concert is sponsored by the John Hubbard Memorial Ensemble.
THE REV. DR. ALFRED S. PRUNTY, 69, will be honored Sunday with a 5 p.m. dinner and reception at Tanglewood Holiday Inn. Prunty is leaving the pastorate of Slate Hill Baptist Church in Southwest Roanoke County after 17 years. Prior to that he served the Big Hill Baptist Church, west of Salem. He also retired nine years ago as a social work associate at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Prunty said he will be available for supply work in the Roanoke Valley.
CAROLYN COTTON, administrative assistant at Windsor Hills United Methodist Church, will retire Oct. 15 after more than 23 years on the staff.
The church is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and on Sunday, the founding pastor, the Rev. David H. Smith and his wife, Judy Gattis Smith of Richmond, will be guests at the 10:45 a.m. service.
A reception with the Smiths also is planned Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Garden at 3591 Windsor Road S.W.
SOUTH ROANOKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, South Jefferson at 23rd Street, is registering children for its weekday preschool, which is open for children 15 months old to 5 years old. Call 982-3707.
A REFUGEE FAMILY, unable to remain in the former Soviet Union because of economic conditions and religious discrimination will be resettled by members of the Roanoke Jewish Community Council early next year.
An estimated $1,050 will be needed to bring Boris Zelikovitch and his family to join a brother, Stan Zelikovitch, in Roanoke. Those wanting to help may call 343-3751.
RALEIGH COURT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,1837 Grandin Road S.W., will offer a community devotional book class on Thursdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. beginning Sept. 21. Participants will discuss the life and works of a Christian writer included in Devotional Classics. Call 343-5541 for more information.
DEMYSTIFYING THE MYSTICS will the theme of a new Wednesday class for adults at St. John's Episcopal Church from Sept. 20 through Nov. 15. The Rev. Thomas O. Dell, rector, will lead the class from 7:15 to 8 p.m. Although the class is free, study books will cost an estimated $30. Call 434-9341 to register.
A PRAISE EUCHARIST SERVICE employing folk-type instruments and vocal music will begin Wednesday at 6 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in downtown Roanoke. A dinner that is optional will be held after the service.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM,an ecumenical ministry for children and youth of Southwest Roanoke's inner city, has begun its after-school Wednesday activities. Based at Trinity United Methodist Church on Third Street Southwest, it includes youth guidance, tutoring and character-building activities for which volunteer leaders are needed. Call Debbie Mooty,director, at 342-3501.
LYNN HAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH, 1501 Washington Ave., Vinton, is seeking choir members for a Singing Christmas Tree. The programs are set for Dec. 7, 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 10 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
The first rehearsals will be Sept. 23 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and Sept. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. with the usual practice times Tuesday nights at 7. Call 342-6102 for more information. This will be the second year the church has produced the Advent seasonal concerts.
ADVENTURE CLUB, a new Sunday night program for Southeast Roanoke children in kindergarten through sixth grade, will begin Sept. 24 at Belmont Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 1101 Jamison Ave. S.E. Sessions will be weekly from 6 to 7:30 and will include recreation, character-building activities and refreshments. For more information, call Steve Cook, youth minister, at 343-7502.
CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH in Salem has named Rev. Don Baldwin as youth minister. Baldwin, married with two children, is a student at Liberty University and previously worked with the Young Life program and at Central United Methodist Church. He is an ordained Southern Baptist.
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH of Salem has named Rose Mary Hudson, a senior music education student at Radford University, as the part- time director of handbell and children's choirs. She has most recently been interim music director at Blacksburg Baptist Church.
A DIVERSITY CELEBRATION to bring together church people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds is scheduled Oct. 1 at 3 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church, 428 S. College Ave. in Salem. The gathering will include a Worldwide Wide Communion service.
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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