Rock Concert Admission To Warm Homeless

“Five Bucks and a Blanket” is the snappy name for a benefit performance by the rock groups Black Eyed Sceva and Dime Store Prophets.

The Los Angeles-area bands will play at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Gryn in the basement of Central United Methodist Church at Third and Howard.

The Christian rock bands’ Northwest tour is sponsored by Los Angeles’ 5 Minute Walk Records, an independent record company. Group members hope to raise money and gather used blankets - 2,000 blankets - for the homeless.

Admission is $5 and a blanket. The blanket doesn’t have to be new, just in good shape.

Intimacy workshop

“Choosing Genuine Intimacy” will be the topic of a discussion by Ken DeSeve, a clinical psychologist, at First Presbyterian Church, 318 S. Cedar, from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

DeSeve will tackle the misconception that intimacy equals sex. According to the psychologist, all friendships have potential for genuine intimacy, and sex is the part God reserves for marriage.

A question-and-answer period will follow DeSeve’s talk, sponsored by the Single Adult Ministries of First Presbyterian.

For more information, call 747-1058.

Unitarian church under way

The Rev. William H. Houff, minister emeritus of Spokane’s Unitarian Universalist Church, has accepted the position of consulting minister for the North Idaho Unitarian Universalist Church in Coeur d’Alene.

“We call it a consulting ministry, but really it’s the same as a minister - just part time,” Houff said. “The idea is to help a new congregation get started.”

Houff, ordained in 1964, retired from the Spokane Unitarian church in 1988 after serving 15 years as minister. For the following five years he served as an interim minister in churches across the United States and Canada.

Among Houff’s duties at North Idaho will be conducting services and rites of passages, leading workshops and counseling.

Services will be the first and third Sundays of each month at the Senior Citizens Center, 1916 Lakewood Drive.

For information about the church, call (208) 772-7749.

‘Concerts for Prayer’

All Spokane-area churches are invited to join this month’s citywide “Concert for Prayer” from 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Zion Christian Center, 545 E. Wellesley.

The concerts, sponsored by Dan and Robby Grether of Free Indeed Ministries, are intended to unite all Christian denominations in praying for the city, nation and world.