Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins and actress...

Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins and actress Michele Lee will co-host Westwood Presbyterian Church’s 10th annual “Mission Musicale” on June 25 to benefit three local relief programs the church helped found.

Beneficiaries of the performances--which will be held at 3 and 7 p.m. in the church’s sanctuary--are: Child S.H.A.R.E., a temporary foster care program for abused and abandoned infants and children as an alternative to institutionalization; P.A.T.H., a residential and outreach program that provides housing, meals clothing, job referrals and counseling to help the homeless reconnect with society, and the Westside Food Bank, which purchases, picks up and delivers food free of charge to 33 social service agencies in Los Angeles County that feed the hungry.

The 90-minute program will feature songwriter Richard Sherman, who won an Academy Award for “Chim Chim Cheree” in the film “Mary Poppins,” and singer-songwriter Randy Phillips of the Phillips Singers, a family musical ministry that has performed with prominent gospel and country-Western stars.

A social hour with refreshments will follow each performance. Seating is limited. A minimum donation of $15 is requested. 10822 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. For tickets or information, (310) 474-4535.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

* The College of Islamic Studies of American Pacific International University in Los Angeles offers a new course, “Introduction to Islam,” which meets from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sundays, from June 25 through Aug. 25. Tuition is $250. 434 S. Vermont Ave. (213) 480-8828.

* A weekend series of 14 workshops on topics ranging from spirituality to crafts will be held at Marymount University’s Westchester campus from Friday through Sunday, June 25. Topics covered at the “Women’s Symposium on Religion, Culture and the Arts” will include: “The Modern American Family: Balancing Career and Motherhood in the 1990s,” “The Changing Face of the Church: Being Woman and Black in the Church” and “Mystic Moms: How to Raise a Family, Work Outside the Home and Still Have a Prayer Life.” Registration is $180 for the weekend; less for individual workshops. (310) 338-2799.

* The Tibetan Lama Geshe Kelsang Gyatso has opened the Khandakapala Buddhist Center in Los Angeles, offering courses that include stress reduction through meditation, working with anger and improving concentration, memory and insight. The center is a member of the New Kadampa Tradition, a Mahayana Buddhist organization. It seeks to preserve and promote the essence of Buddhist teachings in a form suited to the Western way of life. For information, (310) 820-3751.

GAY, LESBIAN SERVICES

* The Lesbian and Gay Interfaith Clergy Assn. is holding its annual “Service of Spirit and Pride” at 12:30 p.m. June 24 on the main stage of the Christopher Street West Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade festival grounds in West Hollywood. The Rev. Troy Perry, founder of Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches and a founder of the festival and parade, will deliver a sermon. Clergy members representing several religions will participate. (213) 656-6093.

* The Southern California (West) Synod Assembly has organized a Lutheran marching unit for the 1995 Christopher Street West Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade in West Hollywood June 25. (310) 498-7226.

MUSIC

* The Brandeis-Bardin Institute’s summer concert series begins this month, featuring evenings of Yiddish, Hasidic and Israeli songs; a chamber ensemble, klezmer music and show tunes. (818) 348-7201.

DATES

* First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles presents a program on stopping domestic violence, incorporating the music of oboist/singer/composer Anna Fisher, from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Sunday. $15 admission. 2936 W. Eighth St. (213) 382-7022.

* Mata Amritanandamayi , known also as Ammachi (Holy Mother), will hold free public programs at Mount St. Mary’s College in Brentwood at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday. She is regarded by many in her native India and elsewhere as a living saint. 12001 Chalon Road. A weekend retreat from June 23-25 will be held at Cal State Poly in Pomona. (310) 281-3038.

* Prospective employers wishing to participate in a job fair to be held July 15, at Greater Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles may call the church Tuesday-Friday (213) 759-4996.

HONORS

* A diocesan liturgy was held in San Bernardino on Sunday to thank Bishop Phillip F. Straling for his years of dedication and service. An endowment fund has been established in his honor to provide continuing education for priests. (909) 883-8991.

* The American Jewish Committee last week paid tribute to: the Hon. Christian Prosl, consul general of Austria, who received the C.I. Neumann Distinguished Achievement Award in International Relations, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which received the Dr. Max W. Bay Memorial Award for Interreligious Understanding.

* Veteran broadcast newsman Daniel Schorr, now the senior news analyst for National Public Radio, will talk about the impact of Jewishness on his life as a journalist at the fourth annual New Israel Fund Tzedakah Dinner on Sunday, honoring Lee and Luis Lainer for the establishment of a leadership fund grant.

* The California Heritage Preservation Commission has presented Msgr. Francis J. Weber, archivist for the archdiocese of Los Angeles since 1962, with its Archivist Award of Excellence for exceptional performance and sustained accomplishment.

* The Los Angeles Bureau of Jewish Education honored Simha and Sara Lainer Tuesday for seven decades of support for Jewish educational causes throughout the United States, Israel and Mexico at a fund-raising dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

* The Rev. Karen Sue Hernandez last month became the first Latino woman to be ordained as a minister in the Presbytery of Los Ranchos in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

* B’nai Tikvah Congregation in Westchester welcomed its new spiritual leader, Rabbi Michael Goldberg, at worship services last week and at its annual barbecue.

* The 1995 Los Angeles Clergy Network Summit Care Corporation Awards were presented last week. Recipients are: Maurice (Mickey) Weiss, creator of the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market’s Charitable Distribution Facility; Rena Bogin, founder and director of the South Bay Adult Care Center and co-founder of the Los Angeles Alzheimer’s Assn.; Juanita De Sosa, director of the San Fernando Valley Interfaith Youth Leadership; Bill Lamers, physician and medical director of the Hospice of the Canyon in Calabasas; Lori Litel, director of the East Valley Multipurpose Center for Seniors; Alma Patotzka, project director of the Nutrition Program and Meals to the Homebound in the San Fernando Valley.