Temple Sharon of Costa Mesa is sponsoring...

Temple Sharon of Costa Mesa is sponsoring a youth group for teen-agers. Activities will include a table tennis tournament and dance, a broom ball evening at a local ice skating rink and a concert. Further information about the group and its activities is available from Alice Natkin at 969-2317 or from the temple office at 631-3262.

The temple has begun a program of small-group discussions called “Parlor Talks.” Groups meet once a month at members’ homes. Information about the program is available from the temple office. The temple is at 617 W. Hamilton Ave., Costa Mesa. The Southern California chapter of the Sacred Dance Guild will hold its third annual festival from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. next Saturday at Riveria United Methodist Church, 375 Palos Verdes Road, Redondo Beach.

Carolyn Deitering will be the guest artist. She has led workshops at the Religious Education Congress in Anaheim and throughout the Southwest. Deitering is considered an expert in dance, liturgy, worship and movement.

The festival will include a morning workshop, afternoon sharing and workshop, guild meeting, dinner and evening worship in dance. Registration costs are $20 for guild members and $25 for others. Prices include dinner. Participants are asked to bring a sack lunch.

Further information is available from Desiree Rumbagh at 637-8894. The needs of the church secretary are the subject of a seminar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at Chapman College. Time management, newsletter production, communication and office equipment are some of the topics to be covered.

Further information is available from Vernon D. Ummel, director of church relations at Chapman College, at 997-6760. Nancy Marcus was elected a director of the Western Federation of Temple Sisterhoods. Marcus is the president of the Sisterhood of Temple Bat Yahm, Newport Beach/Irvine. Marcus has also been appointed to the nominating committee for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Regional Biennial Convention, which will meet this month at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel. The Step-Family Assn. of America in Orange County meets from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at 666 Baker St., Suite 405, Costa Mesa. The goal of the organization is to improve the quality of life for stepparents and stepchildren and to affirm the value of these relationships.

For further information, call 545-7038. Lamaze Prepared Childbirth classes will be offered in February at Shir Ha-Ma’alot Reform Temple. Registered nurse Sylvia Weiss will be the instructor. In addition to the preparatory instruction, Rabbi Bernard King and Nancy Levin, temple education director, will discuss issues of interest to Jewish parents-to-be. The topics will include naming and birth customs, the Jewish home and education goals for the Jewish child.

Early registration is suggested, as the class has a limited enrollment. The temple is at Eastbluff Drive and Jamboree Road in Newport Beach. For information or registration, call Weiss at 991-4899. A “Walk Through the Bible” seminar will be sponsored by South Coast Community Church from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. next Saturday. The seminar is designed to give Christians a running narrative of the Old Testament.

Information on the seminar cost and schedule is available at 854-7600. The church is at 5120 Bonita Canyon Road, Irvine. “His Stubborn Love,” a six-part film series featuring author Joyce Landorf, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. for six consecutive Wednesdays, beginning next week at Grace Lutheran Church.

The purpose of the series is to address problems common to many women trying to balance marriage, career and children while contending with the conflicting demands on their time and identities.

The church is at 6931 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach. For information, call 897-0361. The Golden Circle Church of Religious Science will conduct a 12-week “Science of Mind” course beginning Thursday. The Rev. Donald Ray Henderson will teach the course for three levels: preliminary, secondary and practitioner.

The church is at 600 Golden Circle Drive, Santa Ana. For information or reservations, call 541-3365. The formal installation of the Rev. James A. Nelson in two new pastorates will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday. Nelson will be installed as minister of the Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church in Costa Mesa and of the Saddleback Valley Unitarian Universalist Church of Mission Viejo.

Participants will include the Revs. Christian Schriner, Carol Edwards-Stern, Junella Hanson, Al Henriksen, Brandoch Lovely, Kenneth MacLean and Thomas Owen-Towle.

Nelson served as an intern minister for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Va., and as chaplain of St. Elizabeth’s Psychiatric Hospital in Washington, D.C. Two-thirds of his time is spent with the Costa Mesa church and the rest with the Mission Viejo church.

The installation will be at the Orange Coast church, 1259 Victoria St., Costa Mesa.

The 10:30 a.m. service Sunday at the Orange Coast church will focus on rituals. The Rev. Virginia Stevens, minister at Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Vista, will explore the significance of rituals in Unitarian Universalist life. A textual study of the National Council of Bishops’ recent pastoral letter on war and peace, “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response,” will be given in a four-part series beginning at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Justin Martyr Church.

Sister Kathleen Schinhofen will conduct the course. The following meetings will be on Jan. 17, 24 and 31. There will be a charge of $2 per session. The text of the document will be available for $1.50.

The church is at 2050 W. Ball Road, Anaheim. For further information, call 535-6111. Bob Turnbull, host of radio station KYMS’ “Music . . . and More” program, will give the sermon at the 8 and 10:45 a.m. services Sunday at Red Hill Lutheran Church. During the 9:30 a.m. Sunday school class, Turnbull and his wife, Yvonne, will conduct a six-week course for the couples class. The sessions are open to anyone interested, married or single. The course will run from Sunday through Feb. 10.

Turnbull’s radio program is broadcast from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Friday.

The church is at 13200 Red Hill Ave., Tustin. For further information, call 835-1063.