Religion briefs 4/5/03

National Day of Prayer speaker announced

Former Missouri Secretary of State Bekki Cook of Cape Girardeau will be the featured speaker during the Mayors' Prayer Breakfast May 1 at the Osage Community Centre. A community choir also will perform.

The event is part of the area's National Day of Prayer observance. The breakfast will be from 6:45 to 8 a.m. at the Osage Centre and is a continental breakfast.

A noon service will be held at the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse steps in Jackson.

For ticket information or to help with the event, contact Dee Dee Wilson at 335-0576.

Creation science group to present video program

The REACH Creation Science Support Group -- Revealing Evidence and Answers for Creation Using Hermeneutics -- is sponsoring a video program from 7 to 8 p.m. April 28 at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. The video titled "Did God really create in six literal, 24-hour days?" will be shown. Refreshments and door prizes will be presented.

Future topics will include "Is there evidence for a worldwide catastrophic flood?" "Did dinosaurs live with humans?" "Do animals really evolve?" "Is there really a God?" "Why is there death and suffering?"

Christian Women's Club to meet for 'blessing'

The Cape Girardeau County Christian Women's Club will meet April 14 at noon at the Holiday Inn.

Luncheon and day-care reservations are due by Thursday. Call Bonnie Macke at 243-2860 to make reservations.

The program is "Showers of blessing" by Barbara Holst of Jefferson City, Mo.

The Christian Women's club is an interdenominational organization that charges no membership fees or dues. There are 2,300 chapters of the club in the United States and Canada.

Church to host Jewish Passover presentation

Perkins Baptist Church will host a program called "Christ in the Passover" to explain more about Passover, a Jewish tradition.

Nicci Smith with Jews for Jesus will answer questions about Jesus' last supper and the Passover during a presentation at 7 p.m. Friday at the church.

The presentation aims to explain the Jewish background for the communion celebrated in Christian churches. The speaker will set a table with traditional Passover items for the audience to see.

The presentation is open to the public.

Passover will be observed at sundown April 16.

Cape church to perform musical on Palm Sunday

First Baptist Church of Cape Girardeau will present a Palm Sunday cantata titled "Wondrous Love" during the 10:45 a.m. worship service April 13.

Church announces spring "bridge-building" events

Faith Baptist Temple in Cape Girardeau will begin its spring campaign "Building a bridge for the next generation" this week.

Sunday will be Senior Day during the 10 a.m. worship. First-time visitors age 55 and older can win a Cracker Barrel gift certificate.

Teenagers will be recognized during the April 13 service, with a chance to win tickets to Six Flags.

Easter Sunday, the church will recognize its children with an Easter egg hunt and a raffle for a mountain bike.

The church is planning a revival April 21 and 22, with services at 7 p.m. Speakers are Dr. Darrell Cox and Pastor Greg Ogle.

Good Friday walk in Cape planned for downtown

The Downtown Council of Churches is sponsoring "Walk with Jesus on the way of the cross" during the lunch hour on Good Friday, which is April 18.

The event begins at 12:15 p.m. at participants gather at Old St. Vincent's Church downtown.

The route includes 14 stations or stops for prayer and Scripture reading. The stops include the Red House, Old Town Cape's outdoor shelter, the clock at Themis and Main streets, the Broadway gate at the Mississippi River, The Boys and Girls Club, media plaza near the offices of the newspaper, radio and television stations, the Common Pleas Courthouse, May Greene Garden, City Hall, the site of the new federal courthouse, House of Prayer, the Cape Girardeau police station, Sav-A-Lot grocery store and Indian Park.

In case of rain, devotional readings will be read in Old St. Vincent's Church.

Gospel meeting will held at Church of Christ

Cape Girardeau Church of Christ will hold a gospel meeting, "The Unity of All Believers," Sunday through Wednesday. Mike Glenn will be the featured speaker.

Times are 9 and 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, and 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday.

The church is located at 328 S. West End Blvd.

-- From staff reports