Gospel Harmony Boys to appear at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
The Gospel Harmony Boys, West Virginia’s leading gospel artists and one of America’s most distinctive gospel music groups, will be in concert at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church on Sunday, June 28, at 11 a.m. The church is located at 4930 Country Club Road, Troutville.
The Gospel Harmony Boys have presented concerts in churches, auditoriums, amphitheaters, fairs, and festivals all across the United States and Canada. They will present a unique program designed to entertain and inspire.
The folks at Pleasant Hill Baptist are excited to invite everyone to this special Sunday morning service. This is a free concert. A love offering will be received.
Fincastle UMC offering free dinner
Everyone is welcome to the free Terrific Tuesdays Church and Community Dinner at Fincastle United Methodist Church’s Family Life Center, at 137 S. Church Street, on Tuesday, June 30. Dinner will be served from 5:30-7 p.m.
Solomon’s Mission pausing donations; open July 4
Solomon’s Mission will not be receiving donations July 2-5, and will resume accepting donations on July 6. The Thrift Store will be open regular hours on Saturday, July 4. Solomon’s Mission is on Lowe Street in Buchanan.
Lapsleys Run Homecoming July 12
Lapsleys Run Baptist Church will celebrate the annual Homecoming Day on Sunday, July 12. The morning service will begin at 11 a.m. The speaker will be Brother Edgar Freeman.
Lunch will be served following the morning service.
The afternoon service will begin at 2 p.m. Guests will be the Rev. Preston Tyler and the choir and congregation of Hill Street Baptist Church of Roanoke.
Regular services are held on the second and fourth Sundays of each month at 11 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend these and all services at Lapsleys Run Baptist Church, 608 Zion Hill Road, Fincastle.
Cloverdale Thrift Store ready for summer
The Thrift Store at Cloverdale Church of the Brethren has bathing suits for $1 and $2, and sandals and shorts for $1. The shop needs girls’ clothes, sizes 2T to 6X.
Donations are welcome. The Thrift Store is open 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on Saturdays.
MacPhail is new bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia
The service of ordination and consecration for the Rev. Karin MacPhail, seventh Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, was held Saturday, June 13, at historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in Roanoke.
Elected on Saturday, Jan. 31, during the annual diocesan convention, MacPhail is the first woman to serve as bishop in the 107-year history of the diocese. MacPhail succeeds the Rt. Rev. Mark Bourlakas, who served as the diocese’s sixth bishop from March 2013 to May 2025.
MacPhail, a priest for more than 22 years, most recently served as rector of St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Roanoke, and before then served at Christ Church in Millwood and St. Paul’s Memorial Church in Charlottesville, both in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and a Master of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. She and her husband, the Rev. Alexander MacPhail, live in Roanoke and have two college-aged children, Maggie and Peter.
MacPhail will begin her episcopate with a visit to Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Covington, Virginia on Sunday, June 21, and visits to the five regional groups of churches in the coming weeks.
One of the three orders of ordained ministers in the Episcopal Church, bishops are charged with the work of leading, supervising, and uniting the Church and are called to provide vision and leadership for their dioceses. Bishops serve as chief pastors of the Church, exercising a ministry of oversight and supervision, and they hold jurisdiction in their dioceses with particular responsibility for the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Church.
