Community events

Church open house on birthday

St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church of Country Homes, 9706 N. Division St., will celebrate its 50th birthday with a brunch and open house next Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.

On June 6, worship will begin at 10 a.m. and be followed by a program in Whitworth College’s Cowles Auditorium, 300 W. Hawthorne Road.

The church first conducted services on June 6, 1954, in a store building at 10117 N. Pend Oreille Highway. That building is now the El Sombrero restaurant on the Newport Highway.

The congregation moved to Whitworth Elementary School on the corner of Division and Hawthorne in September 1959 and then to 9704 N. Division St. on May 28, 1961. In April 1977, construction began for the church’s current building and was completed on April 16, 1978.

For more information, call 467-5256 or 467-5257.

Concerts

• Frank Peretti and the Northern Cross Blue Grass Band will host a benefit concert for Christ Clinic, a nonprofit medical clinic, on June 6. The performance will be at Grace Baptist/Christ the Redeemer Church, 1523 W. Mallon Ave., at 6 p.m. Admission is free; donations will be accepted.

For more information, contact Sharon Hunter at 534-9045 or the clinic at 325-0393.

• The Eisenhower Senior High School Orchestra of Yakima will perform Friday at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 127 E. 12th Ave.

The orchestra will perform sacred musical selections under the direction of David Walter beginning at 7 p.m.

Admission is free. Call 838-4277 for more information.

Gospel men’s luncheon

The Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International will host a weekly men’s spiritual luncheon in Deer Park beginning Wednesday.

Tim White, pastor of the Deer Park Tri-County Christian Center, will lead the weekly meetings on Wednesdays at noon in the banquet room of the Pizza Factory, Highway 395.

Marlin Roberts, owner of the Strings and More Music Store in Deer Park, will lead the group in songs.

Speaker for Wednesday’s meeting is Tom Stradling, president of the Spokane chapter.

For more information, call Tim White at 276-5484 or Marlin Roberts at 276-3123.