Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, October 28, 1995 TAG: 9510300064
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Roanoke's Sweet Union Baptist Church will be host to about 300 persons affiliated with the Virginia State Ushers Fellowship at its annual convention Nov. 2-4. The organization, an auxiliary to the Virginia Baptist State Convention, was formed at Sweet Union 12 years ago and now has units throughout the state. The major speaker will be one of the founders, Dorothy Wilson Jones of Chesapeake. The meeting will include special music and workshops for church leaders involved in ushering. Call 345-3043 for more information.
Faure's 'Requiem'
The oratorio, ``Requiem'' by Gabriel Faure will be presented Sunday at 4 p.m. at Heritage United Methodist Church, 582 Leesville Road in Lynchburg. The performance is in observance of All Saints Day and will include a vespers service with nursery staffed. Presenting the work will be the Heritage Church Choir and the Lynchburg Symphony String Ensemble. An offering will be taken. Gabriel Faure, a French composer, was born 150 years ago.
Liturgy workshop
Celebration!, a quintet from an Episcopal community in Aliquippa, Pa., will lead a workshop on contemporary liturgy Nov.10-12 at St. John's Episcopal Church in downtown Roanoke. Open to anyone with an interest in new worship forms, a Saturday workshop will be in session from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It will be followed by an evening rally for youth throughout the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. There is a $20 fee for the workshop, for which registration is needed by Monday; call 343-9341. Celebration leaders include David Ritter, Mimi Farra, Erba Ritter, Bill Farra and James von Minden. St. John's is on Elm Avenue at S. Jefferson street.
Price to speak
A former Western Virginian who now heads a national training program for church volunteers in disasters will be the World Community Day speaker Friday at 7 p.m. at Northside Presbyterian Church in Blacksburg. Anne Haynes Price of Laguna Beach, Calif. grew up in Bassett and has degrees from Bridgewater College and the University of Virginia. A professional counselor, she is a member of the Church of the Brethren. Price trained Brethren Volunteer Service workers 30 years ago and now oversees a program in which laity from many denominations volunteer time and service to communities struck by natural and other disasters. The program is an annual project of the Church Women United ecumenical and multi-racial organization. A children's choir will sing. Call 552-4327 for more information.
Fund-raising bazaar
To benefit a building addition, Emmaus United Methodist Church on Virginia 749 near Moneta has scheduled a bazaar Nov.10 from 4 to 8 p.m. and the following day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Children's hayrides will be included on Saturday as well as sale of food and crafts.
Overnight retreat set
Registration is open for an Advent overnight retreat Dec. 1 and 2 led by the Rev. Christine Payden-Travers, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Franklin County. Consisting of silence, meditation and journaling, the program will be at the Phoebe Needles Retreat Center, 732 Turners Creek Road between Callaway and Ferrum. Cost is $45 if registration is received before Nov. 10. Call 483-338. The event is open to those of any faith wanting to deepen their spiritual life while preparing for Christmas .
'Godspell' performances
``Godspell,'' a musical celebrating Jesus' message in contemporary terms, will be presented Nov. 10, 11, 16,17 and 18 in Olin Hall Theatre of Roanoke College in Salem. Offered by drama students at the college, the show will start at 8 p.m. Call 375-2333 for $5 general admission tickets; $3 for students.
Rutter's 'Te Deum'
"Te Deum," a work by contemporary composer and arranger John Rutter, will be sung Sunday at the 10:30 a.m. 50th Anniversary Homecoming service at Grandin Court Baptist Church, 2660 Brambleton Ave. S.W. It will be presented by the Sanctuary Choir and Adult Ensemble. The service will include the return of former staff members Robert M. Hamner, pastor emeritus; Carol H. Johnson, Jerry Jones and Sally Goff.
Liberian to speak
Bishop Arthur F. Kulah, spiritual leader of the United Methodist Church in the African nation of Liberia, will be guest speaker Sunday at 11 a.m. at Memorial Chapel on the campus of Emory & Henry College at Emory. Kulah, educated at Cuttington College in Liberia and a pastor and district superintendent there more than 30 years ago, has been a bishop since 1980. His tenure has been marked by church and civil strife through which he has sought to be a reconciling figure. He is the author of a book on Christian education in his country. Call 944-6130 for more information.
Pornography attacked
PROVO, Utah - Mormon Church President Gordon B. Hinckley has urged Brigham Young University students to shun pornography and to act kindly toward others.
Hinckley spoke recently to an overflow crowd of 23,000 students and faculty at the Marriott Center, the first time a president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has spoken at a BYU devotional since the late church President Ezra Taft Benson spoke in 1987.
Pornography ``is a vicious brew of slime and sleaze, the partaking of which only leads to misery, degradation and regret,'' Hinckley said.
Nineteen BYU students were disciplined last year for accessing erotic material on the Internet.
Hinckley told students to perform daily acts of kindness for others and to reach out to those who may be struggling. He said the church expects them to be benevolent to everyone.
``Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality,'' he said. ``It demands that we be straightforward, unequivocal, in walking the straight and narrow line of what is right and true. It is so easy to cheat. At times it is so enticing to do so. Better a poor grade than a dishonest act.'
by CNB