When Harold I. Rice of Encino is...

When Harold I. Rice of Encino is installed as the new chairman of the Board of Jewish Homes for the Aging in Reseda on Sept. 9, Israeli Consul General Ran Ronen will be the keynote speaker. The nonprofit organization has provided a traditional Jewish environment for 78 years and now serves 875 ambulatory and nursing residents from Los Angeles, Riverside and Ventura counties. Rabbi Emeritus Jacob Pressman of Temple Beth Am will install Rice, who is also a director and past vice president of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles.

CONFERENCE

About 45,000 delegates and guests of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A.--the nation’s third-largest Protestant denomination--are expected to fill the Los Angeles Convention Center when the Rev. T. J. Jemison of Baton Rouge, La., gavels the 110th annual session to order at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Jemison, reelected last year to a five-year term, will give the president’s address at 10:30 a.m. Thursday and the choir of his church, Mt. Zion First Baptist, will sing. Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak Thursday afternoon at 3:30. Jemison will close the meeting of the predominantly black denomination after his 10 a.m. sermon on Sept. 9.

EVENTS

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) is not a denomination noted for its emphasis on charismatic healing services and conferences on biblical prophecy. But the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood is “waging war on sickness and disease” through “A Prophet Speaks Ministries.” The husband-and-wife team of Christian and Robin Harfouche, who hold 200 such meetings around the country each year, will speak and minister at the church on Gower Street at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday. “We will pray for the sick as well as impart to the church a spirit of might,” said Christian Harfouche. Robin Harfouche “ministers in a prophetic anointing with powerful demonstrations of the spirit.”

Another unusual gathering will be held from noon to 10 p.m. Sunday at the Los Angeles Baha’i Center on Rodeo Road. The Creative Resources Guild and the Baha’i community have teamed up to sponsor several local peace and environmental groups for the first Heal the Earth Music and Arts Festival. Music, dance, theater, comedy, speakers and information booths will emphasize the relationship between world peace and the ecology movement while accenting spiritual solutions to global problems.

MUSIC

Gospel music will be featured this weekend at the 1990 African Marketplace and Cultural Faire at Rancho Cienega Park on Rodeo Road. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, Sunday and Monday, the Los Angeles event will celebrate the influence of African culture worldwide and will include Trinidadian, jazz, reggae, gospel, Latin, blues and other music; dancers from Australia, Senegal, Brazil, Cuba and Africa, and local and New York companies and choirs. African Marketplace is sponsored by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and the Friends of William Grant Still Arts Center.

MEDIA

As part of its outreach to U.S. military in the Persian Gulf, the Van Nuys-based Voice of Hope radio broadcast will begin live programming for the troops next week. The daily three-hour feature, “Desert Hope,” will be transmitted by High Adventure’s radio station in Lebanon. Desert Hope will also provide recorded personal greetings to GIs from family and friends in the United States, according to Don Otis of High Adventure.