ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, January 13, 1996 TAG: 9601150016
SECTION: RELIGION PAGE: B7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
King Mass
"Marching Toward the Dream" will be the theme of a commemorative Mass for Martin Luther King Jr. to be held Sunday at 1:45 p.m. at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Richmond. The service will begin with a gospel concert featuring the choir of St. Gerard Catholic Church of Roanoke. Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond and the Rev. Maurice Blackwell of the Archdiocese of Baltimore will preach.
Bonhoeffer conference
A conference to commemorate the 90th birthday of the late German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is scheduled in Roanoke from Feb. 1-5, with all presentations open to the public. Bonhoeffer, a Christian martyr in Nazi Germany in 1945, wrote several books on personal discipleship that still are widely read. His complete works, including letters and diaries, are now being translated and compiled.
Four authorities on Bonhoeffer's life and works will lecture at four different times and places. On Feb. 1 from 11:20 a.m. to noon, Dr. Wayne Floyd will speak at the Roanoke College Campus Center on "Political Responsibility and Bonhoeffer's Way of Discipleship." Floyd is general editor and director of the translation project and teaches at the Lutheran Seminary of Philadelphia.
The second lecture will be given on Feb. 2 at 12:30 p.m at the Philo Club at Grandin Court Baptist Church, 2660 Brambleton Ave. S.W. Its presenter will be Dr. Clifford Green of Hartford Seminary, who also is part of the translation project. His theme will be "Ecumenical Engagement in the Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer."
The Feb. 4 morning session will begin at 8:30 and continue to noon at both Christ Lutheran and Westhampton Christian churches on Grandin Road Southwest. Green and the Rev. Dr. Paul Matheny, Westhampton's pastor, will share leadership. "Community and Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer" will be their topic. Matheny is editing the papers of Bonhoeffer's early life.
The conference will conclude Feb. 5 with a two-hour presentation beginning at 10 a.m. at Second Presbyterian Church, 214 Mountain Ave. S.W. Discussing "The Heritage of Bonhoeffer Theology" will be Matheny, Green and Mary Glazener, who has published a novel, "The Cup of Wrath," based on the theologian's life.
For more information, call 774-5394.
`Souper Bowl Sunday'
On Jan. 28 several Western Virginia congregations will participate in ``Souper Bowl Sunday,'' a national program to raise funds for the needy in local communities. The plan is for each person attending morning worship the day of the Super Bowl football classic to contribute $1 to a fund that will be donated to service programs chosen by the church. Youth customarily stand at the doors to receive the offering.
Begun by a South Carolina Presbyterian congregation in 1990, the plan last year involved more than 60 Virginia churches of several denominations. Seven of these were in Western Virginia. The name "Souper" refers to a staple of diets, and the offering is collected in soup kettles. Church leaders wishing to join this year's effort may call 1-800-358-SOUP.
Church will be tribute
First United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, Okla., will break ground April 19 for a $5.7 million building to replace one heavily damaged by the terrorist bomb that struck the Murrah Federal Building across the street last year. The church, for which funds have come from many church and secular sources throughout the nation, will seat 1,500. The senior pastor, the Rev. Nick Harris, said the building "will be a tribute to goodness and life, not to terror." To be begun on the first anniversary of the bombing, the church will also include an education area that will utilize the walls of the old worship center as a memorial to the more than 160 people who died in the blast. Since the bombing the congregation has worshiped in a nearby Baptist church. The 700 who worship there now represent an increase over the former congregation, Harris said. The new plant will be built in stages.
Support group
Spirit Lifters, a support group for those with mental illness and their loved ones who want an interdenominational Christian perspective, is being organized for the community that includes Bedford. It will meet in the Joy Room of Heritage United Methodist Church on Leesville Road west of Lynchburg. Meeting time is Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Call Ed or Linda Ann DeWillers at (804) 993-3552 afternoons and evenings until 9 for more information.
Women's Aglow
Registration is open for a Women's Aglow conference March 22-24 to take place at Holiday Inn - Airport in Roanoke. "Loving the Shepherd; Feeding the Sheep" will be its theme. The meeting, which covers the West Central region of the charismatic Christian organization, will feature Lorene Carlson, the executive vice president of Aglow International. In addition, youth will hold a separate session with Nancy Kelly, president of the Roanoke Aglow day chapter, its keynoter. Deadline for registration is March 1. For details and registration form, call Elaine Delafield, 774-2229, or write Bea Lester, 200 Woodlawn Road, Collinsville, Va. 24078.
New presiding bishop
SALT LAKE CITY - H. David Burton has been named to succeed Merrill J. Bateman as presiding bishop of the Mormon Church, the First Presidency announced.
Burton, 57, previously was the first counselor to Bateman, the new president of Brigham Young University.
Richard C. Edgley, 59, who was the presiding bishop's second counselor, will replace Burton as first counselor. Keith B. McMullin, 54, managing director of the church's Welfare Services Department, was named second counselor.
Under the direction of the First Presidency of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Presiding Bishopric oversees physical facilities, welfare services, materials management and other temporal affairs of the church.
Burton was secretary to the presiding bishop for 14 years and served under both Bateman and his predecessor, Bishop Robert D. Hales, who now is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Burton also was an assistant church budget officer.
A former executive with Kennecott Copper Corp. and the Utah Tax Commission, Burton earned a degree in economics from the University of Utah and a master's of business administration degree from the University of Michigan.
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