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— MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT First Baptist Church, 62 Pleasant Valley Drive, will host Dino, “America’s Piano Showman,” in concert at 6 p.m. Sunday. (501) 227-0010.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, will present a free midsummer’s eve classic organ concert by Lynn Bauman at 5 p.m. Sunday. Reception following. (501) 753-4281.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi Ave., 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Friday. st-marks.com.

GATHERINGS Abundant Life Family Worship Center, 100 S. Eastern Ave., Jacksonville, will observe an Ushers’ anniversary service at 5 p.m. Aug. 12 with speaker Curtis Watts and special music. (501) 241-0210.

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 204 Locust St., Lonoke, will observe a Women’s Missionary Society worship service with speaker Edna Pettigrew at 8 a.m. Sunday. (501) 837-3361.

Community of Faith Ministries, 9300 Chicot Road, will have a rummage sale in the parking lot, 8 a.m.-noon Aug. 4. Proceeds will benefit the back-to-school giveaway. (501) 562-7704.

Evangelistic Baptist Church, 902 Atkinson St., North Little Rock, will observe Mission Sunday at 11 a.m. Sunday, with words from the Evangelistic Women of Faith. Transportation is available. (501) 952-1313.

First Baptist Church, 811 S.A. Jones Drive, North Little Rock, will kick off a revival with speakers Kenneth Robinson and Eric Alexander at 6 p.m. Aug. 19. Services at 7 p.m. Aug. 20-24. (501) 374-9394.

First Missionary Baptist Church, 701 Gaines St., will have revival services at 7 p.m. Aug. 6-8 with evangelist E.D. Lairry. (501) 372-2705.

Gaines Street Baptist Church, 1601 S. Gaines St., will host Taste of the Street, an outdoor event of food and entertainment, 3-7 p.m. today. (501) 376-8296.

Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 2420 Wolfe St., will host a carnival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 4. Food, fun, fellowship. Back-to-school packets for students. Youth revival services will be held at 7 p.m. Aug. 7-8. (501) 376-3531.

Greater New Freedom Missionary Baptist Church, 3900 W. 12th St., will celebrate First Lady Night, honoring Annetta Fairchild, at 6 p.m. today with speaker Mary Clinkscale. (501) 707-7476.

Greater Second Baptist Church, 5615 Geyer Springs Road, will host the Curtis Ridout Scholarship Fund banquet at 7 p.m. Aug. 10. $50 scholarship fund donation requested. (501) 569-9988.

Highland Valley United Methodist Church, 15524 Chenal Parkway, will host a series of services with guest preachers from the Little Rock area at 6 p.m. Sundays in August. Special music each evening. (501) 224-6047.

Morning Star Baptist Church, 105 N. Smothers St., North Little Rock, will hold revival services with evangelist Timothy Rogers at 7 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. (501) 376-3575.

New Establishment Word of Faith No. 2, 8211 Geyer Springs Road, Suites P-3 and P-4, will provide free meals for children 8:30-10:30 a.m. and noon-2 p.m. daily through Aug. 16. (501) 563-0984 or (501) 960-8405.

New Grace Baptist Church, 400 E. 17th St., North Little Rock, will observe Family and Friends Day at 9 a.m. Sunday, and will celebrate the anniversary of Virgil and Sabrina Taylor with a preanniversary service at 3 p.m. Aug. 15. (501) 563-9083.

New Hope Baptist Church, 1821 Edmonds St., North Little Rock, will offer a back-to-school health fair, 8 a.m.-noon Aug. 4. Free physicals, and dental and eye exams. School supplies given while supplies last. (501) 945-2923 or info@newhopefamily.org.

Pilgrim Progress Missionary Baptist Church, 1301 Magnolia St., North Little Rock, will celebrate its anniversary and mortgage burning at 10:15 a.m. Aug. 19. (501) 372-4429.

Pleasant View Ministries, 1117 N. Palm St., Pine Bluff, will hold a Back to School revival at 7 p.m. Aug. 9-11. Classes will be held at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 9-10. (870) 541-9330.

St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, 8300 Kanis Road, will have Bishop Philip Jones preach at the 8:45 and 11 a.m. services Sunday. (501) 614-6061 or sacl.org.

St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church, 8205 Arkansas 161 N., North Little Rock, will host a free fishing derby, 7 a.m.-noon today at Dupree Park, 1 Dupree Park Road, Jacksonville. Participants must bring their own tackle. (501) 835-5571.

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi Ave., will honor retiring organist-choirmaster Craig Chotard with a reception following its 10:30 a.m. service Sunday. st-marks.com.

St. Paul Baptist Church, 2603 Commerce St., will have a pre-anniversary celebration for the pastor and his wife with a first lady’s night at 6:30 p.m. today with speaker Pam Phillips-Woodall, and celebration services at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, and at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Aug. 5. (501) 375-0675.

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

— RUMI (1207-1273), Sufi mystic and poet

Religion, Pages 13 on 07/28/2012

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