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— Lunches address

business topics

  • The Summit Business Persons’ Luncheon will begin its 2013 season on Thursday with guest speaker Tommy Spaulding. The luncheon is from 11:50 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. at Cross Church Pinnacle Hills, 2448 Pinnacle Hills Parkway.

Spaulding is president of Spaulding Companies Corp., which specializes in leadership development and executive coaching. Future speakers will address topics ranging from human resources management to leadership principles.

Albert Mohler, author of The Conviction to Lead, will speak Jan. 31. Mohler is president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

Other speakers this season include Coleman Peterson, president and chief executive officer of Hollis Enterprises LLC; Pastor Ronnie and Jeana Floyd, who have served Cross Church for 26 years; Becky Shaffer, co-founder and director of Saving Grace in Rogers; and Donnie Smith, president and chief executive officer of Tyson Foods. Also featured will be Monica Guffey, executive director of With Open Eyes missions agency; and Joel Manby, president of Herschend Family Entertainment, owners of Silver Dollar City in Branson and Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., as well as other theme parks.

Tickets to the weekly gatherings are $9 and can be bought at the church office or online at nwasummit.com. Information is available by calling (479) 271-7799.

Beautiful Girls

Retreat Feb. 1-2

ROGERS - The fifth annual Beautiful Girls Retreat will be Feb. 1-2 at Embassy Suites, 3303 Pinnacle Hills Parkway. The Christian conference will feature speakers Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting. The event will include a fashion show, ballroom dinner, premiere of an independent Christian film, a giant sleep-over and small group discussions.

The retreat is for ages fifth grade through college, as well as mothers of all ages. Registration is available online at nwabeautifulgirls.org. Deadline is Jan. 28.

Share Your Faith

workshop slated

FAYETTEVILLE - Covenant Presbyterian Church is offering a Share Your Faith workshop 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 26.

Participants will learn simple ways to share the Gospel developed by Evangelism Explosion International.

The church is at 4511 Wedington Drive. Cost is $25 and includes lunch. Registration is available by calling (479) 442-5267 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Author, minister

to speak Friday

CLARKSVILLE - The Rev. Robin R. Meyers, author, speaker and educator, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the University of the Ozarks as part of the Walton Arts & Ideas Series.

Meyers, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a professor in the philosophy department at Oklahoma City University, will also sign copies of his recent book, The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus. The lecture will be in Rowntree Recital Hall in the Walton Fine Arts Building.

The HBO documentary The Execution of Wanda Jean will be shown at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 26 in the university’s Rogers Conference Center, followed by a discussion led by Meyers on the death penalty and conflicts it presents to the Christian faith.

Both events are free and open to the public. Information is available online at ozarks.edu.

Communities of Faith is a compilation of church and religion news for Northwest Arkansas. Deadline for submissions is noon Monday before Saturday publication. Send information, including a phone number, to Christie Storm, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, P.O. Box 7, Springdale, Ark. 72765, fax it to (479) 365-2984 or e-mail: [email protected]BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW

Sunday is World Religion Day, started in 1950 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the

United States. The

day calls attention

to the harmony of the world’s religions and emphasizes that the aims of religion are to create unity, to ease suffering and to

bring about peace.

  • Holidays, Festivals, and

Celebrations of the World Dictionary

QUOTE OF THE DAY “We need to find God, and He cannot

be found in noise

and restlessness.

God is the friend

of silence. See how nature - trees,

flowers, grass - grows in silence; see

the stars, the moon

and the sun, how they move in silence.

... We need silence

to be able to touch souls.”

  • MOTHER TERESA (1910-

1997), Roman Catholic nun

Religion, Pages 11 on 01/19/2013

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