Religion Briefs
Saturday, January 19, 2002
Jewish singer-songwriter performs next weekend
Songwriter and singer Sam Glaser will present a concert of traditional Jewish songs and his own contemporary compositions on Sunday, Jan. 27, at Temple Emanu-El. Glaser, of Los Angeles, performs on a keyboard.The 7 p.m. concert in the temple at 2550 Pali Hwy. is open to the public. Donations will be accepted to help support the temple music program.
Visiting pastor has ideas on dynamic spirituality
An Alabama pastor and author will present practical ideas for churches to remain spiritually vital and dynamic in a lecture series beginning tonight and continuing tomorrow and Monday.The Rev. Gary Fenton, author of "Your Ministry's Next Chapter," is the guest speaker in the Alec & Belle Waterhouse Lecture Series hosted by Waialae Baptist Church. He is pastor of the Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in Birmingham.
His first talk, "Where Are You in Your Spiritual Journey?" will be at 6 p.m. today at the church at 1047 21st Ave.
He will speak at 6 p.m. tomorrow on "Rekindling Your Spiritual Passion" and at 6 p.m. Monday on "Crisis and Decision: Building an Ark, Not a Dam."
All talks are free and open to the public. For reservations or information, call the church office, 732-5561.
The lecture series was endowed by the trust of the late Alexander Cooke Waterhouse, a longtime member of the church.
Presbyterian Church scraps Olympics center
LOUISVILLE, Ky. >> Financial woes have forced the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to drop plans for a denominational welcome center at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.The denomination had hoped to raise up to $7 million to build a center for worship and hospitality.
"We scrapped the project because it was just too much money and not enough time," said the Rev. Robert Sheldon of the Rocky Mountains synod. "It was just impossible."
The Welcome Center was to house big-screen televisions broadcasting Olympic events while offering Bible lessons and worship in a 10,000-square-foot sanctuary.
Multimedia presentations on Presbyterian missions were also planned.
14 poor Catholic schools closing in Chicago area
CHICAGO >> The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago plans to close 14 elementary schools in the city and suburbs because of continued low enrollment and dwindling finances.The archdiocese also will consolidate two schools and open three new ones.
The changes are expected to uproot 2,390 students in the nation's largest Catholic school system. Displaced students and staff will be sent to other archdiocese schools, according to the announcement.
Many of the schools scheduled to close are in poor neighborhoods, where parishes are not able to subsidize the schools on their own.
Methodists make last payment to clergy fund
NASHVILLE, Tenn. >> The United Methodist Church has made its final payment from a $23 million fund created to address pay inequities between the denomination's white and minority clergy.The Temporary General Aid Fund was created in 1964 as Methodists planned for the integration of white and racially segregated sections of the denomination, which occurred four years later.
The money was used to increase pension and minimum salaries in the former Central Jurisdiction and the Rio Grande Annual Conference, the divisions for black and Hispanic members respectively, which were formed in 1939.
The final payment of $11,000 was made at the end of last year, marking the dissolution of the Temporary General Aid Fund.
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