Church Of Jesus

On December 21, 2007, KENNETH A. IMES. Friends may visit at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Saturday at United Church of Jesus Christ, 934 Gorsuch Avenue at 11:30 A.M., followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

Thomas Appiah and his wife, Katrina, have no problem with all the curious new questions about their Mormon faith. The couple recalled attending a recent event at a nondenominational church and entering into a discussion about Jesus. As Thomas Appiah spoke on the Scriptures, people became captivated, and many asked whether he were a pastor and where they could hear him preach. When he told them he was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the crowd turned. "All of a sudden, that desire to befriend me, that desire to embrace me, it all turned to animosity.

FireWestminster: Firefighters from Westminster and New Windsor responded at 8: 24 p.m. Thursday to a house fire in the 400 block of Old New Windsor Road. Units were out 65 minutes.PoliceWestminster: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Johahn Drive told police on Tuesday that someone spray-painted a building and lighting fixture. Damage is estimated at $150.Pub Date: 11/09/98

FireWestminster: Firefighters from Reese and Manchester assisted Westminster at 3: 47 p.m. Sunday, responding to an apartment fire in the 300 block of Pleasanton Road. Units were out 56 minutes.Westminster: Firefighters from Pleasant Valley assisted Westminster at 4: 22 p.m. Saturday, responding to an oven fire in the 600 block of Thornbury Court. Units were out 35 minutes.PoliceWestminster: A resident of Avenel Circle told police Saturday that property was stolen from his vehicle while it was parked outside his home.

Elder Huckabee and Elder Jackson, two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints clad in the familiar white shirts, ties and black name tags, are working the Harford Road corridor in Hamilton on a steamy summer morning."

Margaret McGrath Rockefeller,80, a prominent conservationist and wife of philanthropist David Rockefeller, died Tuesday in New York after complications from heart surgery.In 1970, she founded the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, which has since conserved more than 66,000 acres in the state. She also was a founding member of the American Farmland Trust and was a trustee of the New York Philharmonic.Carl Edward Stegmaier Jr.,75, whose lifetime study of insects won him worldwide professional acclaim, died Monday of cancer in Tallahassee, Fla. As an entomologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he published 38 papers on fruit flies, weevils and mites, and on the eradication of ragweed throughout Russia.

AMERICAN FORK, Utah -- On a bluff here above Utah Lake, with the snow-dusted Wasatch Mountains for a backdrop, the Mormon Church has raised a building whose pale granite surface reflects the dazzling Rocky Mountain sunlight. A gilt inscription atop one wall identifies it as "the House of the Lord."It is a temple, the latest in a remarkable era of worldwide construction of such sacred spaces by the church. The inscribed words are meant literally, signifying a place designed so that God would feel at home within.

While walking the streets of West Baltimore recently, young Brigham Colton, a Mormon missionary, found himself standing between two men who were completing a sidewalk drug deal.L Then he had the feeling he wasn't in Salt Lake City anymore."I often think," says the cherubic-looking 19-year-old, "how different it is here."As dismaying as the sight was, Elder Colton did not dwell on the spectacle. Just as his missionary partner, Shane Campbell, did not long ponder the body he happened on one day in Pimlico.

"Why would anybody do something like this? What goes through their minds to set fire to a church?"A member of the Essex ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (better known as the Mormon Church) posed those questions Sunday as she and other shocked congregants examined the damage done to their chapel by a Saturday night fire. The blaze, eventually brought under control by 120 firefighters, was a case of arson, according to the Baltimore County fire department. A gym inside the building was also destroyed.

Carroll man serving as missionaryCraig Finkner, 19, recently left Westminster to take up residence as a missionary for the next two years at the Spanish-speaking Mission of San Jose in San Jose, Calif., operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.A son of Ron and Debby Finkner of Westminster, he is a 1991 graduate of Westminster High School and attended Carroll Community College. Following completion of his missionary work, he plans to attend Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

On October 1, 2009, CHERYL YVETTE MORRIS. On Thursday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 4 to 8 P.M. On Friday, Ms. Morris will lie in state at The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, 4100 St. Johns Lane, Ellicott City, MD, where the family will receive friends from 11 to 11:30 A.M with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

On September 24, 2009, NORMA LEE YOUNG. Survived by a host of family and friends. The family will receive friends on Thursday, October 1, from 3 to 7 P.M., at the Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue. Wake Friday, October 2, 10 A.M., New Galilee Church of Jesus Christ, 3016 Oakley Avenue with Funeral Service to follow at 10:30 A.M. Interment King Memorial Park Cemetery.

On May 8, 2009, ISABELLE C. HOPSON. Friends may visit the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 a.m., where the family will receive friends from 5 p.m. to 7p.m. The family will also receive friends on Friday at the First Apostolic Faith Church of Jesus Christ, 27 South Caroline Street at 11 a.m. with funeral to follow at 11:30 a.m.

On December 18, 2008, Randolph O. Gregory, Sr On Monday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 8728 Liberty Road from 5 to 8 P.M. On Friday, Mr. Gregory will lie instate at Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, 5150 Baltimore Nat'l Pike, where the family will receive friends from 10 - 10:30 A.M. with service to follow. Inquiries to 410-655-0015.

On Sunday, November 30, 2008 JAY ALLEN WHITE, of Sykesville. Beloved husband of Janice Lee White (nee Widdison); devoted father of David, Timothy and Christopher White, Erin Hansen, Lauren Markham and Matthew White; dear brother of Christine Ventura. Also survived by 16 grandchildren. Friends may call at the Burrier-Queen Funeral Home & Crematory, PA 1212 W. Old Liberty Road, Winfield (beside South Carroll High School) on Wednesday, 7-9 PM. Funeral Service will be Thursday, December 4th at 10:00 AM. at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-Mt.

On October 30, 2008, CALVIN, beloved son of Annie Jones and devoted brother of Cleven, Marvin, Bonnita and Sharon. He is also survived by sons, Calvin and Shannon, daughter Sharnia, five grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives. Funeral services today at Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, 5150 Baltimore National Pike. The family will receive friends 11 to 11:30 a.m. Funeral 11:30 a.m. Arrangements by JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOMES, INC.

Bishop Monroe Randolph Saunders Sr., who was founder and senior pastor of the First United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic, now Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, died Friday of cancer at his Ashburton home. He was 89. Mr. Saunders, the son of farmers, was born and raised in Florence, S.C. He was high school valedictorian and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College for Negroes, now Virginia State University, in Petersburg. After the death of his eldest brother, he left college and moved to Baltimore to help his sister-in-law raise their four children.

DENVER - A Texas judge allowed parents yesterday to begin retrieving more than 400 children taken by the state during a raid on a polygamist sect's compound in April. District Judge Barbara Walther issued the order after the state Supreme Court ruling last week that found Texas authorities had overreached when they moved the children into protective custody. On Friday, Walther refused to sign an agreement between the state and lawyers for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that would have provided for the children's release.

On May 17, 2008, JOHNNIE ANGELO; beloved husband of Barbara Jones. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Tuesday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Wednesday at the Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, 5150 Baltimore National Pike, at 10:30 A.M. followed by funeral service at 11:00 A.M.

On March 16, 2008, EZARICK ODELL KEY. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Ave., on Thursday after 8:30am. The family will receive friends on Friday at Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, 5150 Baltimore National Pike at 5pm with Funeral Service to follow at 6pm.