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I Vi VtViViVYiY 1 4 I i I 1 I I I lit I I I RELIGION DIGEST lowing Christian bookstores: United in Spirit, 4640 Park Pinellas Park; Berean Christian Supply, 6299 Central St. Petersburg; Tampa Christian Supply, 2908 Hillsborough Tampa; and at Sears stores at 2300 Tyrone Blvd. St. Petersburg and at 3302 Buffalo Tampa. Tickets also can be purchased at all Ticketmaster and Walt Disney World ticket outlets.

SPJC to offer pipe organ class St. Petersburg Junior College will offer pipe organ instruction for the fall session, Aug. 20-Dec. 14. All lessons are private.

Students can opt for a half-hour or hour session per week. Times will be arranged with organ instructor Robert D. Setzer during the first week of classes. Classes will be held at the campus, 6605 Fifth Ave. in St.

Petersburg. Registration for full-time and part-time students is Aug. 20. Registration for senior citizens is Aug. 27.

For information on course fees, contact the college at 341-3600 in St. Petersburg. SBC moderates to meet Aug. 23 HOUSTON Southern Baptist Convention moderates have called a national meeting Aug. 23-25 to consider what to do about the fundamentalist wing gaining full-scale control of the denomination.

The gathering in Atlanta was called to explore ways to uphold principles that differ with the new fundamentalist directions and to consider alternate means for channeling giving to missions. "I think we are ripe for God to use us in creating something new and visionary and historic," said the Rev. Daniel Vestal of Dunwoody, the moderates' defeated candidate in June for the denominational presidency. Black Baptist leader lures SBC dissidents LOUISVILLE, Ky. The president of the predominantly black Progressive National Baptist Convention has invited Southern Baptists "who are disillusioned with the far right" in their denomination to join his.

The offer was made here Aug. 6 by the Rev. Fred C. Lofton, president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, at a news conference at the beginning of the five-day national convention of his 1.8-million-member church body. Compiled from reports by AMY WELTY of the Times staff and news services' reports linked romantically with former Archbishop Eugene Marino and a local pastor, both of whom resigned when the relationships were revealed.

The purpose of the audit is to "lay to rest" any questions on improper financial arrangements between the clerics and Vicki Long, a 27-year-old former lay minister and singer, according to an archdiocesan spokesman. Archdiocesan officials disclosed last week that Archbishop Marino, who cited personal and medical reasons for his July 10 resignation, in fact stepped down because of his two-year relationship with Ms. Long. The Rev. Peter Dora, director of communications for the archdiocese, said that Archbishop Marino, the first black archbishop in the history of the U.S.

church, gave Ms. Long a sum of money each month. Last weekend a priest in the archdiocese, the Rev. Michael Woods, pastor at St. Jude's Catholic Church in suburban Sandy Springs, told his congregation he had also been "intimately" involved with Vicki Long and offered to resign.

Father Woods is the third priest in Georgia to have reportedly been involved with Ms. Long. Ms. Long has made no public comments on the relationships. Christianity Day at Busch Gardens TAMPA Mt.

Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Tampa is sponsoring a "Christianity Day" at Busch Gardens in Tampa on Aug. 18. Organizers say that the evening event will give Christians of all denominations in Florida the opportunity to get to know one another. Gates open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.

Children 3 and under are free: Tickets include access to all rides and two game tickets. Advance purchase of tickets is required, although a limited number of tickets will be available at the gate. For tickets, call 989-1229 or 621-2766 in Tampa. Disney World 'Night of Joy' is Sept 7-8 The eighth annual "Night of Joy" featuring contemporary Christian music will be held Sept. 7-8 at Walt Disney World, U.S.

192, north of Interstate 4, in Orlando. The celebration begins both days at 8:30 p.m. and continues until 1 a.m. Slated to perform are Petra, Carman, Steven Curtis Chapman, Shirley Caesar, DeGarmo and Key, and Rez Band. Admission to "Night of Joy" includes access to all Magic Kingdom attractions.

Cost per evening is $20.99 plus tax in advance or $22.50 plus tax at the gate. Advance tickets are available at fol Tough talk more church action needed to fight drugs, drug czar says U.S. drug czar William J. Bennett thinks the war against drugs begins at home, where he urges parents to use "straight, tough talk" in sending a message to their children that drug use will not be tolerated. The nation is slowly turning the corner in the drug war, but U.S.

churches need to make a stronger effort to back up the family message in the community, he said in an interview in the August edition of Columbia magazine, published by the Knights of Columbus. The Knights are a 1.5-mil-lion-member fraternal organization of lay Roman Catholic men. "I would like to see the churches be more active. I would hope we would hear more from our pulpits about this issue," he said. If drug use "isn't a sin," he said, "I don't know what is." Bennett is the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, a post he took after serving as U.S.

secretary of education from 1985 to 1988. Catholic bishop drops ordination of deacons; cites ban on women RICHMOND, Va. The Roman Catholic bishop of Richmond said one of the major reasons the diocese will not ordain married men to the permanent diaconate is because women are excluded from the office. Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, writing in a recent issue of the Catholic Virginian, states, "This diocese does not ordain deacons because we cannot ordain women deacons." He is the second U.S.

Catholic bishop in recent months to cite the controversial issue of women's role in the church as the primary reason for refusing to ordain any more men as deacons. Catholic officials in Atlanta seek audit following resignations ATLANTA The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta announced this week that it will investigate to see whether church funds were wrongly given to a woman United Methodist CHURCHES Christian Science PINELLAS PARK FIRST 9025-49TH STREET 546-5741 Minitteri: Roll M. Geiger James M. Smith Monty R. Ml, Miniiter of Mulic Worihip 8 25, 10:55 A.M., Church School 9 45 A.M.

4:30 Jr. High UMVF. 5:30 Sr. High UMVF Nursery Troniportation Provided 545 4527 FIRST UNITED METHODIST 3rd St. and 2nd Ave.

N. St. Petersburg Friendly Family Church Pasadena Community Church S. Paiadtaa Ave. at 2i Ave.

S. St.Petartbarg Worship Services 8:30 10:40 A.M. Sunday School 9:30 A.M. "Desperate People Do Desperate Things" SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, ST. PETERSBURG 6099 Central St.

Petersburg Sunday Service Sunday School: 1 0 a.m. Wednesday Testimony Meeting: 7:30 p.m. Reading Room: 6001 Central Ave. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, ST. PETERSBURG 253 Fifth Avenue North, St.

Petersburg Sunday Service Sunday School: 1 0:30 a.m. Wednesday Testimony Meeting: 7:30 p.m. Reading Room: 322 First Ave. ST. LUKE'S 4444-5th Avenue North, St.

Petersburg Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Patton: John G. Willis. Jock Stritnel "The Road Unseen" Rev.

Marshall MacClellan Worship Services at 8 30 am and 10 45 am 2. 3 4 4 Yr Old Preschool 9 30 am Sun School Dr Paul Hartsfield Rev Marshall MacClellan Ministers Dr. William A. Smailing. Counseling FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, SEMINOLE 6245 Seminole Blvd.

(Alt. 19), Seminole Sunday Service Sunday School: 1 0:30 a.m. Wednesday Testimony Meeting: 7:30 p.m. Reading Room: 6245 Seminole Blvd. THIRD CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, ST.

PETERSBURG 6333 First Street NE, St. Petersburg Sunday Service Sunday School: 1 1 a.m. Wednesday Testimony Meeting: 7 p.m. Reading Room: 2603 Ninth St. Dr.

John A. Stroman Music by Chancel Choir North ITuAtxiWHN 1570 AMI 0 00AM Eoch Sunday RIVIERA St Pctstriburt) Dr Gktrvn Quom. Minnln "Hard To Believe" Dr. dm Ouom 10:00. 10:45 A.M.

Sunday School 1 1 A.M. Worihip StrvicM Actm of Parking 9th St. N.ot87thAn.N. St. Petersburg ST.JAMES Rev.

Kenneth W. Cocker, Asst. John CriiweH "The New Age Movement ALLENDALE mltSS, 38th Ave. N. at 1 1th St.

Petersburg 8 30 am Divw Worihip 9: 15 am Sunday School Divin Worihip "Living With Christian Confidence" DoleA.EIzie AUG. 12th 10:30 AM 6 PM REV. MOSES VEGH Revealed 10:30 A.M. Worship Service 9:15 A.M. Sunday School 5:00 P.M.

U.M.Y.F. Comforting, Isn't It? Dr. Bert Blomquist Worship Services 8:30 and 10:45 Sunday School 9:30 am Nursery, Transportation Dynamic Music WT1S-AM 1110 9:30 am tW-10 Ave. North, St, Petersburg SEMINOLE 3919781 "Indeed, I Look Upon The Whole World As My Parish" WEEKLY SERVICE SCHEDULE 1st SUN. WORSHIP 2nd SUN.

WORSHIP 1 0:30 A.M. CHILDREN'S CHURCH 10:30 AM SUNDAYSCHOOL 5 NURSERIES THRU HIGH SCHOOL SINGLES CLASS COLLEGE 1 CAREER FAMILY LIFE CLASS 2 ADULT ELECTIVES SUN. EVENING 6:00 P.M. WED. EVENING 7:00 P.M.

SAT. PRAYER 6:00 P.M. CHURCH OFFICE 799-1618 INTERPRETING FOR HEARING IMPAIRED L. via Ministers J. Ralph Burton, Robert Par ton, Jr.

Morning Worihip 8 45 10:55 A.M. Sunday School 9:50 A.M. REV. MOSES VEGH, A DYNAMIC SPEAKER IN MUCH DEMAND AT CONFERENCES. SEMINARS, AND CHURCHES, IS A MAN Of SPIRITUAL STATURE, FILLED WTTH A CONSUMING FIRE TO STRENGTHEN AND EDIFY THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST.

AFTER MANY YEARS OF MINISTRY, REV. VEGH IS KNOWN BOTH NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY AS A GREAT MINISTER OF THE WORD. A i Worship With Us This Week! 8e ST. PETERSBURG TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 1, 1990.