Women refresh spirits

The Spokane Faith Center, 3330 W. Central Ave., will present the Virtuous Women’s 2007 Endurance Conference Wednesday at 7 p.m., and next Thursday and April 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. and at 7 p.m.

The conference will represent a refreshment station where women can find the word of God to refresh their spirits.

The evening sessions are free, and the full conference is $30 or $15 for one day.

The conference also will feature a tea party for girls in the sixth through the eighth grade next Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. The cost of the tea party is $5. For more information, call the Spokane Faith Center at 327-9673.

Choir concert

The Whitworth Choir will present “Songs of Hope, Joy and Peace” Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, 428 W. 19th Ave.

The 45-voice choir will perform Hafso’s “Missa Pacem (Mass of Peace)” for mixed chorus, piano and percussion, selections from Benjamin Britten’s “Five Flower Songs,” Charles Ives “Circus Band” and Daniel Pinkham’s interpretation of the Thomas Campion poem “Author of Light.”

The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors. For more information, call 777-3280.

Lectures

•Whitworth College and Gonzaga University will present a series of lectures, “Physics and the God of Abraham,” Monday through Wednesday.

The series will discuss the relationship between faith and science.

Monday at 7 p.m. Rev. Robert Spitzer of Gonzaga University will speak on the topic, “Cosmology and Creation” in the Robinson Teaching Theatre in Weyerhaeuser Hall on the Whitworth campus, 300 W. Hawthorne Road.

Steven Baldner of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, will speak on the topic,”Medieval Views of Creation” Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Wolff Auditorium of Jepson Center on the Gonzaga campus, 502 E. Boone Ave.

William Carroll of Oxford University will discuss “Divine Agency and Modern Physics” Wednesday at 7 p.m., also in the Wolff Auditorium.

The lectures are free.

For more information, call Julie Riddle at 777-3729.

•James Waller, the appointed Edward B. Lindaman chair and psychology professor of Whitworth College, will speak on the topic “From Ruin to Renewal: Religious Institutions and Genocide” Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Robinson Teaching Theatre in Weyerhaeuser Hall on the Whitworth campus, 300 W. Hawthorne Road.

The lecture will focus on discuss how the church can respond to genocidal violence. Admission is free.

For more information, call 777-4738.

Special service

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, 1926 W. Chelan Ave., will offer a worship and witness service “Celebrating the Enduring Witness of Christianity in the Middle East” Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

The service is part of the church’s focus of “The Resurrection Hope” and is part of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.

For more information, call the church office at 326-1252.

Book sale

•First Presbyterian Church, 318 S. Cedar St., will present its annual Colossal Book Sale Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Shoppers can find best sellers, children’s books, fiction, religious and inspirational books, videos and more.

Proceeds of the sale benefit the church’s adult and children’s libraries.

For more information, call the church office at 747-1058.

Classes at Unity

The Unity Church of Truth, 2900 S. Bernard St., is presenting Prosperity Class, “The Trance of Scarcity” on Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. now through May 7.

The cost of the class is by donation.

The Unity Church will present its Spiritual Cinema Wednesday at 7 p.m.

The movie, “In to See Me,” deals with heartbreak and healing. Admission to the film is by donation.

For more information, call the church office at 838-6518.