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  • Donations to help Rockwood Ministerial Association

    The Rockwood Ministerial Association recently received monetary contributions from two community sources.

    A donation from Holston Gases in Rockwood and a $1,000 contribution from the Rockwood Masonic Lodge will help the group stock its Food Pantry, which is open from 10 a.m. to noon each weekday and from 2 to 4 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

    Rockwood residents are welcome to go to the Food Pantry once a month for a generous package of canned and boxed foods.

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  • Church Calendar

    FRIDAY, FEB. 25
    • Bradbury United Methodist Church, Kingston, will have a two-day yard sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Feb. 26. Breakfast and lunch will be served both days. The church is at 3506 Buttermilk Road West. Call the church office at 376-2990 for details.

    SUNDAY, FEB. 27

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  • Methodist supt. to be revival speaker

    Adam E. McKee III, superintendent of the Oak Ridge District of the Holston Conference of  the United Methodist Church, will be the guest speaker for the upcoming spring revival at Bradbury United Methodist Church, Kingston.

    The revival will be March 20-24 in the church at 3506 Buttermilk Road West. Services will begin at 7 p.m. daily.  Special music is planned.

    McKee has served as pastor at Lennon-Seney United Methodist Church, Knoxville District, since 2003.

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  • Singing to help Hands of Mercy

    Three East Tennessee gospel groups will be featured during a singing this weekend to benefit Hands of Mercy Food Bank.

    The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Feb. 26 in Youngs Chapel Church fellowship hall, Kingston. Admission is free; those attending are asked to bring a donation of nonperishable food.

    Featured singers will be Dudley Evans and The Evans Family of Rockwood, The Foothills Quartet of Rockford and The Chapel Voices of Kingston, which will sing gospel classics in the style made famous by the nationally acclaimed Chuckwagon Gang.

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  • Knights support Michael Dunn Center

    Knights of Columbus representatives from Father Callahan Council 8273, Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Harriman, present checks totaling $7,047 to the Michael Dunn Center.

    On hand for the presentation are, from left, Grand Knight Bill Copeland, Knight Joe Cochran, Michael Dunn Center Vice President and Director of Development Wade Creswell, Knights Financial Secretary Bob Capell and Michael Dunn Center board member Barbara Capell.

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  • Young named Episcopal bishop for ET diocese

    The Rev. George D. Young III of Fernandina Beach, Fla., was elected on Feb. 12 as the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee.  

    St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Harriman is one of more than 50  churches comprising this diocese.

    Young, 55, rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Fernandina Beach, was elected on the eighth ballot out of a field of five nominees.

    He received 107 votes of 142 cast in the lay order and 59 of 84 cast in the clergy order.

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  • Church Calendar

    SUNDAY, FEB. 13
    • Bradbury United Methodist Church, Kingston, will have a special veterans celebration during the 11 a.m. service. Veterans will be honored; Col. Mike Charles will be the guest speaker. Special music is planned. A lunch will be served after the program. The church is at 3506 Buttermilk Road West. Call the church office at 376-2990 for details.

    MONDAY, FEB. 14

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  • Christian life-skills workshop planned at Roane SDA

    Award-winning author Lee Gugliotto is coming to Roane County to present a Christian life-skills 101 workshop.

    The workshop will be Feb. 11-16 in Roane Community Seventh-day Adventist Church.

    Sessions will begin at 7 p.m. daily in the church at 336 Patton Lane. Call 354-3410 for details.

    The workshop is designed to train people to develop a more dynamic relationship with Christ through inductive Bible study, deep personal prayer and by showing others how it’s done through biblical homes and home Bible fellowships.

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  • Freeman to be guest speaker at Beech Park

    Beech Park Baptist Church, Oliver Springs, will have a special service with Evangelist Ken Freeman on Jan. 23.

    The service will begin at 11 a.m. in the church at 1085 E. Tri County Blvd.

    Freeman will also lead a youth event at 6:30 p.m.

    With an ability to connect to people of any age group, culture or background, Freeman has a passion to bring people to know Christ and to make a deeper, more intimate, commitment to Him.

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  • RMC seeks guidance from area clergy

    Roane Medical Center, Harriman, will seek the direction of spiritual care leaders of Roane County during a spiritual care forum on Feb. 5.

    “We are always looking for ways to better meet the spiritual needs of our patients and staff, as this is an important component to the patient care provided at the hospital,” said Jim Gann, president and chief administrative officer of Roane Medical Center.

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