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Sunday, November 8, 2009
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FAITH
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The members of St. John Baptist Church have long known about their pastor’s servant’s heart. They’ve watched him serve as a teenager singing in the choir, as a young man teaching Sunday school and as their pastor for 13 years leading the church in service to the surrounding community.
The faith of a few led to the founding of the Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church. That same kind of faith has brought the church to a very special place in its history: its 100th year anniversary with the theme “We’ve Come This Far by Faith.” Radionthon/Harvest Fest: 7 a.m., WTQT 94.9, 3313 Government St., celebrating the radio station’s four-year anniversary. The Cenacle Retreat House in Metairie is offering a selection of retreats leading into the holiday season. Bishop Charles E. Jenkins retires at year’s end and Diocese of Louisiana delegates will meet Dec. 5 to pick his successor. The excerpts on this page came from longer biographies found online at http://www.edola.org. The interviewer didn’t bring up religion. She didn’t ask about the afterlife. But time and time again, as registered nurse Camille Pavy Claibourne spoke with terminally ill patients for her doctoral research, they talked about faith in God and their hopes for the hereafter Halloween and All Saints’ Day have deep religious layers, each added as a new culture came around. BBUMC 5 K Road Race & Walk: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Bayou Blue United Methodist Church “When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks and broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him …” — from Luke 24:30-31 Working as an airline stewardess helped Coco Thompson’s ministry rise to another level. Thompson, the pastor of Bible Teachers International, has enjoyed a varied career. But she said her three years as a flight attendant gave her a keen understanding of people. Aaron Posner, 12, has decided that instead of receiving gifts next spring when he becomes a bar mitzvah, a Jewish boy who’s reached the age of religious responsibility, he’ll invite people to consider donating to research. American Samoa has put on a look familiar to a relief worker from Louisiana. Blue tarps and tents dot the island territory’s landscape and provide shelter to survivors of last month’s earthquake and tsunami. His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will visit Louisiana to preside over “Restoring Balance: The Great Mississippi River,” a Religion, Science and the Environment Symposium, which begins Wednesday in New Orleans. Call it “a scattering of people from here to yonder.” That’s how it started out, because John DeChiaro founded the Carlow Choir immediately after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. PurpleStride 5K fun walk/run for Pancreatic Cancer: 8 a.m., Chapel on the Campus, 3355 Dalrymple Drive, benefiting the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. $30. ANGOLA — With an invitation for “Miss” Beverly Shea to wear a swimsuit to a talent contest, the man who would become “America’s Beloved Gospel Singer” knew it was time to do something about his “girl” name. Church didn’t play a role in Calvin Brasley’s early life. “I didn’t like church,” the 40-year-old said. “I hid from going to church.” Prayer Breakfast: 9 a.m., Greater Saint James Baptist Church, 1919 Arizona St., with Judge John Michael Guidry of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal as speaker. |
