Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 23, 1995 TAG: 9509250019
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The executive board of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia has voted to sell the Woodberry Inn motel and restaurant near Meadows of Dan. The facility was given to the diocese in July in honor of the Rev. Claud McCauley, a clergyman long active in the diocese who now lives at Hot Springs. The inn will remain open through mid-November with an interim manager. In discussion of its future, a majority of board members said maintaining its standard as a for-profit facility would tax the staff and financial resources of the church, which could better use the money for its ministries to people. The property has been valued at $750,000.
Sunday sing set
A free hymn sing led by a nationally known church musician, Ray Glover, is scheduled Sunday at 7 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in downtown Roanoke. Glover was general editor of the Episcopal Hymnal 1982 and currently is on the staff of Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. The church is on Elm Avenue at South Jefferson Street.
The event is open to those of any denomination.
Unitarian conference
Workshops in conflict resolution, churches on the Internet, ministerial issues and social justice causes will be among the topics of workshops at a Unitarian Universalist leadership conference to be held Oct. 6 and 7 in Roanoke. Sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson District of Unitarian Universalist congregations, it will be held at the Roanoke house of worship on Grandin Road at Brandon Avenue Southwest. The main speaker will be Bill Sinkford of Boston, director of district services and extension for the church on the national level. Call Terry Smith at 774-5797 for more information.
Programs for leaders
"Empowering the Minister," a series of programs for professional religious leaders, will begin Tuesday at Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem. The first of the breakfast meetings starting at 7:45 will be led by the Rev. Collier S. Harvey, retired Presbyterian pastor and administrator of Salem, who will discuss "Maintaining Your Spirituality." On Oct. 10 "The Vocational Integrity of the Clergy" will be the theme of the Rev. Dr. Edward A. White of Washington. He is on the staff of the Alban Institute and will lead a two-hour workshop on church personnel issues following the breakfast. The final program, "Clergy Networking: How to Find a Two-Legged Pal," will be led by the Rev. Branan G. Thompson Jr., pastor of Colonial Avenue Baptist Church for more than 25 years. The programs are jointly sponsored by the Mental Health Association of the Roanoke Valley and the hospital's department of pastoral care. The meals are free, but reservations are needed by the preceding Friday. The White workshop costs $10. Call 776-4730 or 344-0931 for more information.
Musicians workshop
The Roanoke Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will sponsor a church musicians workshop Oct. 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Held at St. John's Episcopal Church in downtown Roanoke, it will cost $30 for morning and afternoon sessions and will include groups for leaders of adult choirs, handbells, organ and children's choral groups. Registration deadline is Oct.6. Checks may be made payable to AGO and sent to Becky Kennedy, 2605 Guilford Ave. S.W., Roanoke. 24015-4113.
Presbyterian ministry
Presbyterian Home and Family Services, based in Lynchburg, is expanding its ministry to people of all ages. The former Genesis Cottage House for children has been reopened after remodeling. The Terry Cottage now houses four to seven young people with younger children living in the original Genesis Cottage. Dr. E. Peter Geitner, president of the board, also reported that the Zuni Presbyterian Center near Suffolk has over the past five years changed its facilities from dormitory to cottages to better care for mentally retarded residents.
Hens recycled
The Society of St. Andrew, a Christian community based at Big Island and devoted to relieving hunger, recently processed a shipment of hens donated by a prison in Houston. The prison had used the fowl to supply eggs for inmates. When the chickens grew too old to produce, the Houston Food Bank put the prison donors in touch with the society, which arranged shipment of the hens to a low-income Mississippi community.
Fund-raising banquet
Wycliffe Associates, a support agency for Wycliffe Bible Translators, will sponsor a free banquet Oct. 20 at Sheraton Inn-Airport. For tickets, call 366-8075. Featured will be Larry Lyman, a worker for 30 years with the Zapotec people in Choapan, Mexico. The dinner is a fund-raising event for the international agency that trains linguists to translate Scripture into dialects spoken by relatively few people in underdeveloped areas of the world.
Land donated
A service to mark the acquisition of land for a Monacan Indian museum in Amherst County will take place Oct. 7 at 4 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Bear Mountain. Bishop A. Heath Light of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia will officiate. A year ago the diocese, which formerly owned the land and the small church that served the Indians for decades, agreed to donate enough of the grounds for the museum to be developed by the Monacan Tribe. The service will be part of homecoming.
by CNB