ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, May 2, 1996 TAG: 9605030022
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
OUTREACH
Wings of Healing, a new center for family worship with an emphasis on spiritual wholeness, is now in the former Jefferson Street Baptist Church at 19 Albemarle Ave. S.E. The congregation that occupied the historic building merged several years ago with South Roanoke Baptist Church to form Crystal Spring Baptist; the building has been vacant. Pastors of the new Full Gospel congregation are the Rev. Larry Lykens and the Rev. Ric Hansen, who follow a Pentecostal style of worship leadership. Sunday services are at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. WOW! - Worship on Wednesday - is a "come as you are" program weekly at 6. Call 343-4200 for more information. Hansen said the church will "minister healing to hurting people from all walks of life."
RAM House, an ecumenical day shelter for the inner-city needy, will benefit financially from the First Fridays at Five downtown Roanoke social Friday. Staff and volunteers from the shelter will be at the center near the First Union Tower from 5-9 p.m. Rain date is May10. |CHURCH PEOPLE| Betty J. Easter, a former member of First Baptist Church of Roanoke and graduate of Roanoke College, has been appointed a missionary worker in Europe by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Easter, who has been living in Charlotte and attending Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, formerly was a bank employee. She is a daughter of Joyce Easter of Roanoke and the late Deward Easter. The future mission worker will be trained in August in Maryland before beginning her assignment.
Deborah Moore Clark, long active in Grandin Court Baptist Church, will be ordained to the gospel ministry there Sunday at 4 p.m. Clark and her husband will move soon to Charlotte, N.C., where she expects to minister in music and in writing Christian education materials. The ordination service will include laying on of hands by representatives of the congregation as well as by clergy, a practice followed in some Southern Baptist churches.
Carol McCann, a staff member of Belmont Baptist Church for two years with responsibilities for education, youth and children, has been ordained to the gospel ministry there.
Three interim pastors have recently begun service at Roanoke Valley Southern Baptist congregations where permanent ministers are being sought. Retired pastors Charles Doyle and Conrad Johnston are working with Fincastle and Enon churches respectively. Bill Harding, formerly at Enon, now is at Midland Church near Vinton.
The Rev. Walter Bingham, part-time associate pastor at Westhampton Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) for more than a decade, will be honored Sunday on his retirement. The noon program with potluck lunch also marks the 42nd anniversary of the founding of the Grandin Road congregation.
The Rev. Deborah Hentz Hunley, rector of Christ Episcopal Church of Roanoke, will be on sabbatical leave for the three summer months. Hunley, who has been on the church staff for 10 years, said she will spend part of the time studying at the Shalem Institute for spiritual leadership near Washington. |MUSICAL EVENTS| Williamson Road Church of the Brethren will honor its retiring pastor, the Rev. Dr. Harold S. Moyer, with a concert May 19 at 8 p.m. The program, directed by Garnett L. Carroll, will include both choral and instrumental selections from many musical periods. Moyer, who will leave in October, has been at the church for 35 years. The church is at 3110 Pioneer Road N.W.
A musical drama, "Moses and the Freedom Fanatics," will be presented by the children's choirs at St. John's Episcopal Church Sunday at 10:15 a.m. The presentation will be in the Parish Hall at Elm Avenue and Jefferson Street in downtown Roanoke.
The C.B.C. Ensemble of Cloverdale Baptist Church will present a program Sunday at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. Narrator is J.D. Tucker, with Rolando Twine the director.
Music and spiritual health will be the theme of a workshop Sunday from 2-5 p.m. at Unity of Roanoke Valley, 3300 Green Ridge Road. James E. and Nanette Borling, certified music therapists, will be the leaders. Cost is $15. Call 562-2200 for more information. |REVIVAL SERVICES| Salem Baptist Church, 103 N. Broad St. in Salem, has scheduled revival services Sunday through Wednesday with the Rev. Michael "Dusty" Reynolds the preacher. He is pastor of a new congregation in Savannah, Ga., and formerly served in the Macon, Ga., area. Worship will begin at 6 p.m. on Sunday and nightly at 7 during the week.
At Edgewood Christian Church, 1006 Peck St. N.W., Bob Chambers, a Scottdale, Pa., evangelist, will preach for revival services May 19-22. Worship will begin Sunday at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. and during the week at 7 p.m. A nursery will be provided.
Saved by Grace Holiness Church, 1201 Gilmer Ave. N.W., has scheduled a revival service Friday at 7 p.m. with Joyce A. Harper of Chicago the evangelist. She began preaching more than 20 years ago and is the founder and director of World Works Ministries. The church will mark Woman's Day on Sunday.
Roanoke Avenue Baptist Church, 2202 Roanoke Ave. S.W., plans revival services Sunday night through Wednesday. Each service follows a potluck meal at 6, with the church providing food for guests. Worship with special music will be held on the church lawn if weather permits. The revival meeting will begin with homecoming Sunday morning, starting at 10 and including lunch in the fellowship hall. Call 345-5624 for more information.
Revival services will begin Sunday and continue through May 10 at Glenvar Baptist Church, 4804 Stanley Farm Road, Salem. Evangelist Cary Grant of Greenville, S.C., will be the preacher at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday and nightly at 6 during the week. Grant is a graduate of Bob Jones University and a former church camp director. |SPECIAL EVENTS| Roanoke Valley Catholics have begun a financial drive to enlarge and upgrade the facilities of their parochial school on the hill on North Jefferson Street. The first phase, expected to cost $3 million, will erect a multipurpose building, renovate the present high school and overhaul the lower school. The new structure will include an auditorium to serve both younger and older pupils as well as a central cafeteria, offices, a new library, and special-purpose rooms for science, art, music and a pre-school. Everything will be accessible to those who cannot climb steps. The school work will be done in stages, with the eventual cost to be more than $5 million. According to the Catholic Virginian, diocesan newspaper, the Diocese of Richmond will budget $100,000 to the project for the next three years.
May Fellowship Day, one of five annual assemblies of Church Women United, is scheduled Friday beginning with Bible study at 9:45 a.m. "Loving Our Neighbor in a Broken World" will be the theme at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W.
Mother's Day will be observed May 10 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Praise Cafe, 2727 Ferndale Drive N.W. The cafe, part of Sheraton Inn, is a smoke-and alcohol-free center for Christian teens. Cover charge is $3 to cover special music. A buffet meal is also available.
Bethlehem Bible College, an evangelical Christian program sponsored by Bethlehem Baptist Church, has scheduled its graduation for Monday night at 7. It will be held at Faith and Hope Church of God in Christ, 1802 Orange Ave. N.W. The Rev. Lee A. Lewis
and the choir of Morning Star Baptist Church will lead worship. Lewis is dean of the college.
Kimberly McNair, executive director of Bethany Hall, will speak for Woman's Day service on May 19 at 11 a.m. at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 301 Patton Ave. N.W. McNair, a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and Radford University, is active in Loudon Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Bethany Hall is a home for recovering female alcoholics and drug addicts.
Central Baptist Church, 1502 Staunton Ave. N.W., has scheduled its Homecoming May 26 beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing with a 3 p.m. service. The Rev. Kenneth S. Terry and the choir of St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, W.Va., will lead worship.
The Rev. Drema Franklin Calloway of First Baptist Church at Hollins will lead worship for a special Missionary Society service Sunday at 4 p.m. at Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Music will be by the Ruby Walker Memorial Ensemble of Union Baptist Church of Glasgow. Price Memorial is at 506 15th St. N.W.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491, by noon Thursday. Please include a day time telephone number.
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