ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, January 25, 1996 TAG: 9601260040
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
OUTREACH
Souper Bowl Sunday, a national effort to raise money and supply canned food to the hungry by those who will watch the football classic, will be observed at Second and Salem Presbyterian churches. Youth will collect donations in soup kettles.
Roundtable, a midweek after-school program operated as a ministry of Salem Presbyterian Church, is holding registration. The program, which begins Feb. 7, is open to any children in the Salem area in grades K-12. The fee is $10 per child, with $25 maximum for a family. Activities are held on Wednesdays. Call Pat Kirk, director, at 389-3881 for more information.
St. John Lutheran and St. Paul's Episcopal churches will support Third World mission workers. The Lutheran parish will help send the Rev. Kevin Ogilvie, whose parents are retired in Roanoke, to teach in a rural seminary on the African island of Madagascar. The Episcopal congregation is helping to support Elizabeth Newport, an English linguist who will work in another African country, the Sudan, translating Scriptures into an unwritten dialect.
PEOPLE
Barry Green, will become minister of music of Bonsack Baptist Church by March 1. He is coming from Northminster Baptist Church in Richmond where he has had a similar position for eight years. An honor graduate of Gardner Webb College, Green has led music for many Virginia Baptist church events. Green and his wife, Ann, have two small children.
Bryan Edward Keith, a former Roanoker, has become youth pastor of Christ Covenant Church, a Presbyterian Church in America congregation in Knoxville, Tenn. Keith, a son of Virginia and Edward Keith of Roanoke is a 1981 graduate of Patrick Henry High School and received further study at Covenant College and the Reformed Theological Seminary. Ordained in November, he previously served churches in Fort Oglethorpe and Decatur, Ga., and in Kissimmee, Fla. He is married to Tracey Webb Keith, formerly of Callaway.
Kenneth Witt, a data processing manager and member of South Roanoke United Methodist Church, is the new president of the Camp Alta Mons board of directors. He will work with the new full-time manager, Bob Giesy, in operating the camp and retreat center near Shawsville.
MUSICAL EVENTS
The Rockingham Male Chorus, a volunteer all-male choir observing its 30th year, will perform twice in the Roanoke Valley on Feb. 4. The 50 singers, who represent a variety of vocations and ages, will be at Central Church of the Brethren, 416 Church Ave. in downtown Roanoke, at 3 p.m.
At 7 p.m. the chorus will perform at Lynn Haven Baptist Church, 1501 Washington Ave. in Vinton. An offering will be taken at each place.
Al Denson, recording star of contemporary Christian music, will be at Cave Spring High School in Southwest Roanoke County on Feb. 24 for a 7:30 p.m. program. It is sponsored by Spirit FM radio station. The $6 tickets are available at Christian book stores.
Marty Haugen, liturgical composer and recording artist, will present a workshop and recital Feb. 2 and 3 in Antrim Chapel of Roanoke College in Salem. Registration begins Feb 2 at 6:30 p.m. with the music at 7:15 and then a reception. Events Feb. 3 begin at 8:30 a.m.
The recital is $5, and the workshop is $10. Call 375-2300 to register or for more information.
The Virginians Quartet, singers of contemporary Christian music, will perform Sunday at 11 a.m. at Valley View Wesleyan Church, 2302 Oakland Blvd. N.W.
SPIRITUALITY CLASSES
Bethlehem Bible College, an evangelical Christian training program operated as a ministry of Bethlehem Baptist Church, has extended its registration for the spring semester through Feb. 8. Courses to be taught are The Triune God, Romans II, Nehemiah, Luke's Gospel, Old Testament Survey, New Testament Survey and Homiletics. For registration information call 362-2586.
OTHER EVENTS
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 20th-century theologian and martyr in Nazi Germany, will be the subject of four, free lectures to be presented Feb. 1-5 in the Roanoke Valley. The conference will be led by three leaders in a translation project of Bonhoeffer's complete works.
Presentations will be Feb. 1 at 11:15 a.m. at Roanoke College, on Feb. 2 at 12:30 p.m. at Grandin Court Baptist Church, on Feb. 4 from 8:30 a.m. to noon at both Christ Lutheran and Westhampton Christian (Disciples of Christ) Churches and on Feb. 5 at 10 a.m. at Second Presbyterian Church. Call 774-5394 for conference details.
Church Women United, an ecumenical and interracial fellowship, will install Janice Hale as its new president Friday at the annual meeting at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1008 Franklin Road S.W.
Kimberly McNair, the new director of Bethany Hall, will speak. Church Women United established Bethany Hall more than 20 years ago as a halfway house for women who are chemically dependent.
Roanoke Valley Baptist Singles will sponsor a Valentine dinner Feb. 10 at Bethel Baptist Fellowship Hall, 1601 Colorado St., Salem. After-dinner music will be performed by several singles groups. Call 774-9798 for more information.
A Ministers' Wives Support Group will have its first meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. at New Beginnings Counseling Center, 2362 Peters Creek Road N.W. A program will be presented by Patricia Lowry , a member of the staff and former pastor's wife. She has a master's degree from Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio and has been a therapist in Roanoke since September. Call 562-5068 for more information.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, 24010-2491 by noon Thursday. Please include a day time phone number.
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