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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 2004
Page
19
A Lent guidance piece urges combining prayer with a weight loss plan. It recommends joining weight control support groups, health clubs, and consulting a nutrition expert, plus regular exercise and prayer to seek spiritual serenity and better overall well being through disciplined lifestyle changes.
A schedule of sermons lectures and programs includes William Rossey at Cedar Rapids First Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning and Robert Kingdom at Iowa City Old Brick Church and Schaeffer Hall. Lorrie Brusha and Joan Hackbarth host An Evening of Biblical Women at Prairiewoods Monday evening. Additional events include Lenten meditations at Trinity United Methodist Cedar Rapids and REACT Center talks at Mercy Cedar Rapids with March dates for Mavis Thies and The Last Supper at Iowa City First United Methodist Church. The Ambassadors gospel group performs in Traer.
Intergenerational early morning Lent worships at First Presbyterian Cedar Rapids run Sundays at 9 a.m. through April 4. Contact (319) 3646148 for details. Also in Cedar Rapids a 9:30 a.m. service at Noelridge Christian Church includes a reception for Dr. Brady Novak and Paul Smith. An installation service for Rev. Gordon Salsman is at 10:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church and Church of the Brethren as part of a Come Together Service. Trinity Iowa City hosts an all day Anglican Liturgy workshop led by Ruth Meyers. Freewill
The Message Center promotes faith events including In Faith Women Shape the Future at St. Mark's Lutheran Church on 8300 C Ave NE Cedar Rapids with Panamanian World Day of Prayer program and a breakfast. Also scheduled are Dreams and Emotional Health at Prairiewoods Hiawatha and The Incredible Worth of a Woman at New Covenant Bible Church with a live video simulcast.
A dozen Maranatha Bible Church students in Cedar Rapids begin a 30 hour fast for World Vision to raise funds and awareness about global hunger. They stay at the church, replace meals with Scripture readings, and will visit a local food kitchen to meet a relief worker.
Joyce reports about $3,000 raised by students for World Vision 30 Hour Famine. Federal grants will multiply donations fourfold, enabling feeding plans. site notes 30hourfamine.org and contact details for press.
SummerVille Speedway will host Godspeed Week with a clergy race the Faster Pastor 100 and other church related events. No beer will be sold though fans may bring coolers and pastors will compete in races for ordained clergy and church staff at the 6,500 seat NASCAR track in Summeville.
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