ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, May 18, 1996 TAG: 9605200012
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: B-9 EDITION: METRO
Nominees visit Salem
The five Episcopal nominees for bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia will be at St. Paul's Church in downtown Salem today from 2 to 4 p.m. The clergymen will meet church members, clergy and lay delegates who will vote for bishop June 22 in Roanoke. The nominees, John Lawrence, David Pittman, Frank Powell, H.W. Reeves and Mark Sullivan, also will be at Stuart Hall school in Staunton from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday to answer questions, submitted in writing, about church and personal issues.
Political workshop
The first in a statewide series of workshops on political responsibilities for Roman Catholics will be held Monday at Our Lady of Nazareth Church.
The Most Rev. Walter F. Sullivan, bishop of the diocese of Richmond, will be the keynote speaker. The $8 registration fee includes lunch. The workshop, titled "Be Involved, Not Used," runs from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Sullivan says the church can provide "a place where people of faith can thoughtfully reflect on the moral and human dimensions of public policies. Our task is not to tell people how to vote; it is instead to lift up human concerns."
The workshops will attempt to "give Catholics the moral language and framework to respond to the narrow political agendas of both left and right," a news release says.
Information and registration is available by calling the diocesan Office of Justice and Peace in Richmond at (804)359-5661.
Golden to be ordained
A Lynchburg native is one of three men who will become ordained priests for the Roman Catholic diocese of Richmond today.
The Rev. Patrick D. Golden, 32, was born in Lynchburg and attended Holy Cross School there. He graduated from Radford University and worked as a blacksmith before entering St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore in 1990 to study for the priesthood.
The other new priests are the Rev. Ven Ilano, 56, a native of the Philippines, and the Rev. Terry Lenning, 40, of Wisconsin.
Pastor to leave Lexington
The Rev. A. Lee Zehmer, associate pastor of Lexington Presbyterian Church for the past five years, is expected to become minister of Monroe Presbyterian Church in North Carolina. He told the Lexington congregation that he wishes to leave the staff effective June 16.
Dobyns to retire
Roy A. Dobyns, president and chief executive officer of Bluefield College, a Virginia Southern Baptist school on the Virginia-West Virginia border, will retire June 30. Dobyns, 65, has held his post for seven years. Recently, he was granted a three-year contract by the school's trustees, but he elected instead to step down. Since Dobyns has been at Bluefield, enrollment has climbed by 130 percent - reachingreached an all-time high of 853 students - and several new programs, including those for the disabled and for church business management, have been added. Trustee Chairman Joe E. Burton of Radford said an interim president will be named soon.
Conference registration
The U.S. Conference of the World Council of Churches, for which registration is now open, will meet May 28-30 at the Adams Mark Hotel in Winston-Salem, N.C. The city's Moravian churches will be hosts to the meeting, which will include addresses by Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the WCC, and several other leaders from world headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and American offices in New York.
For details about the meeting, write Philip E. Jenks, World Council of Churches, Room 915, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y.,10115, or e-mail him at PEJWCC-COE.ORG.
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