The Press Democrat from Santa Rosa, California • 14

14A PRESS Friday, January 8, 1982 Religion Christian radio stations come to Sonoma County Ink A I- fj Jl- Ml former disc jockey on for San Francisco station KFRC, founded the organization. Nancy Steele, a spokeswoman for KCLB, said the station's broadcast signal will be able to reach most of Sonoma County. Plans are to broadcast on a 24-hour basis, though money must still be raised to accomplish this, she said. The Federal Communications Commission is expected to give final approval by late February, she said. Benelli and Steele said their groups are making their moves now because "the opportunity presented itself." Christian Media Ministries has been seeking to purchase a radio 'station for the past two years, Steele said.

Its leaders hope to eventually hook their station to cable systems and broadcast to all nine Bay Area counties. Similarly, Benelli said of his church, "We definitely believed radio was in our vision." KMLS owners offered to sell the station, and the church accepted eagerly, he said. Both Benelli and Steele said their stations aren't targeted at the same people, though both will focus on music and will play "contemporary Christian music." KSON will feature Christian rock 'n' roll, with such names as Joe English, Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Bramlett and Bob Dylan. Benelli said other types of music also will be played, along with programs ranging from Bible teachings to interviews and Christian comedy. KCLB will feature "adult contemporary Christian music, which is not Christian rock," said Steele.

"It will be a little more middle-of-the-road." Artists like B. J. Thomas, Andre Crouch, Amy Grant and Dylan will be featured on KCLB, according to information released by Christian Media Ministries. Besides radio broadcasting, Christian Media Ministries also seeks to set up a telephone response ministry and an information center for events within the Christian community. Benelli and Steele said their stations will reach non-Christians through music and will support and work with area churches.

Neither station will have paid advertisements; both will be funded through listener support. Benelli said KSON should have little problem raising money because cable stations are relatively cheap to run the main reason his church was able to get on the air and play their type of music. Cable stations don't need expensive equipment to send radio signals over the airwaves, simply telephone 4Jhru Dawson The Rev. Ken Benelli can be heard nightly on KSON. She also said KCLB has saved three months of operating expenses as required by the FCC.

To date, about 80 percent of the money raised for KCLB has come from outside Sonoma County, she said. KSON'S phone number is 546-7283, and the number for KCLB is 528-92FM. Steele said KCLB seeks to raise $175,000 to pay for the station and other "start-up expenses." Monthly expenses will total about $10,000, she said. Steele said she wasn't sure how much money has been raised, but KCLB is trying to locate 38 county residents willing to donate between $1,000 and $5,000. wires.

Such stations aren't even regulated by the FCC, a second important difference. Benelli said the station cost the church $30,000, and he expects operating costs won't exceed $1,000 a month. Nearly all the labor is volunteered and the church saves rental costs becailse the station is on its own property, he said. By ROBERT DIGIT ALE The new year brings two Christian radio stations to Sonoma County, both offering contemporary religious music as their daily bread and butter. The county, which for years lacked local Christian radio, suddenly finds itself with a Santa Rosa cable station and a broadcast station that is scheduled to begin serving the county in March.

The cable station is KSON, 91.5 fm, formerly rock station KMLS. Since its opening Jan. 1, it has broadcast from 6 to 9 p.m. each day to homes subscribing to Santa Rosa's Total Television cable system. KSON is the brainchild of Harvest Community Fellowship, a Santa Jtosa church that formerly had its own radio program on station KJAM.

Additionally, it sponsors a number of contemporary music concerts, including last year's Joe English performance and this Monday's Sweet Comfort concert. The Rev. Ken Benelli, the pastor of Harvest Community Fellowship, said he hopes the station will start broadcasting from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in February.

The other station is KCLB, 92 fm, the old Christian station located at the Luther Burbank Center for the Performing Arts, formerly Christian Life Center. It has been bought by Christian Media Ministries, a non-profit corporation based in Walnut Creek. Bob Anthony Fogal, a Presbytery's ex-moderator to be speaker Church Women United will hold its annual meeting at noon Jan. 15 at First Presbyterian Church, 1550 Pacific Ave. The speaker will be Harriet Nelson, a former moderator of Redwoods Presbytery and a past president of United Presbyterian Women.

She is a representative for her denomination with the National Council of Churches' overseas ministries. Her topic will be "Chosen For if Reservations for the accompanying luncheon are required by Monday and can be made by calling 545-4077 or 542-0470. Woman rabbi thinks social customs hinder reform certain commandments and religious obligations, such as praying in communities at fixed times. "Because of this exemption, women didn't develop the tradition of regular prayer or regular study. Also there are some other traditional restrictions for women that are relevant; they are not permitted to be witnesses in certain circumstances.

In the Jewish community religious law was the same as civil law." Ms. Geller insists that the 100-year lag in the creation of the Reform movement and the ordination of women "has to be understood as an issue of social custom," with reference to underlying religious beliefs. "Even among people who see no legal problems, there are some psychological problems people have with the ordination of women," she said, and much of that relates to their view of God and what religion is all about. The result of this conservative tradition is that women were not permitted to lead the community in prayer, and one of the expectations of a modern rabbi, said Ms. Geller, "is that he or she will lead the community in prayer, and in the traditional sense, be capable of acting as a witness, such as in matters of ritual conversion." But the Reform movement had a different relationship to Jewish law than the Orthodox community, so large congregations.

The reason for that is we're not old enough yet," said Ms. Geller, 31. She acknowledged that the road to ordination of women, even in the more liberal Reform tradition, was not an easy one, and believes the resistance has as much to do with nearly-subconscious religious beliefs as with social custom. "The Reform movement from the beginning was committed to equality between men and women, and it still took close to 100 years for women to be ordained," she, said. "In traditional Judaism, there is a distinction in the appropriate roles for men and women," she explained.

"Women are exempt from LOS ANGELES (AP) One of the first 40 women rabbis in the United States, Rabbi Laura Geller, believes that the nine-year-old practice of ordaining women rabbis in the Reform and Reconstructionist movements has implications that may shake up Jewish people's most deeply held views of God and religion. The first woman rabbi was ordained in 1972, said Ms. Geller, director of the Hillel-Jewish Center at the University of Southern California. Ms. Geller, ordained in 1976.

said women seem to have found positions in all different forms of rabbinical work. Some have their own congregations, such as Rabbi Deborah Prinz of Temple Beth Am in Teaneck, N.J. Others are assitant rabbis. "But one place you don't find women yet is as senior rabbis of GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH (C.B.A.) 2100 Petaluma Hill Santa Rosa Sunday School 9 45 a Worship. 11 a.m.

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Services 88 Middle Rincon Rd. mock no of Hy 12) They were looking for a living faith, a foundation for regeneration, strength, and healing. And they found it. RAVI ZACHARIAS EVANGELIST You can find the same inspira tion bv studying the Bible lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly. They include citations ALL NEW SANTA ROSA Contemporary Christian from Science ana Meaitn with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

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Private Consultations by Appt. 526-4878 or 408984-4911 Christian Life Center 50 Mark West Springs Santa Rosa Sunday, January 10th 10:30 aim. Worship Service. Pastor Fred Muster 6 p.m. Youth Night Water Baptism (Cable) For more Information, phone S46-KSON Christian Science Reading Room 531 5th Rosa Open Monday through Saturday 9:30 im.

to 4:30 p.m. FOR CHURCH SERVICES, SEE LISTING IN DIRECTORY ON OPPOSITE PAGE Santa Rosa BIBLE CHURCH HERITAGE SINGERS IN CONCERT fk Family Church with Bible Emphasis '-7 Celebration Concerts, in association with Harvest Community Fellowship and KSON 91.5 FM (Cable) present SWEET COMFORT BAND Santa Rosa Vets Memorial Bldg. 1351 Maple Ave. Monday, January 11 7:30 P.M. Tickets $4 in advance, $5.00 at door TICKET LOCATIONS: One Way Book Shop 528-8937 Christian Book Store of Rohnert Park 584-5111 Harvest Community Fellowship 546-7283 WHAT IS AN EVANGELIST SUPPOSED TO DO? the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ and of the knowledge of the Son of God, "(Taken from Ephesians 4:12,13) WHAT DOES 'EVANGELIZE' MEAN? "To announce the good news of Jesus Christ." RAVI ZACHARIAS was born in India in 1946 and was won for the Lord there in his late teens.

He felt a definite call into the service of Jesus Christ as an Evangelist after he had established himself at the management level in the hotel industry. He is an International Evangelist with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and holds the Chair of Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at the Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York. RAVI is one of the world's most gifted preachers, and his speaking wilJ be complimented by a fine musical program. JANUARY 10-15 AT MARK WEST NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH (5901 Old Redwood Highway Near Shiloh 838-9136) 7:00 P.M. NIGHTLY AND 11:00 AM SUNDAY, JANUARY 10TH The Principles of Forgiveness" TWO MORNING WORSHIP SERVICES 8:15 a.m.

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