PULPIT EXCHANGE: Two San Fernando Valley congregations...

PULPIT EXCHANGE: Two San Fernando Valley congregations affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) will hear each other’s pastors and choirs Sunday morning, then join together at night in North Hollywood for a concert by the churches’ combined, 70-voice choir.

“Both churches have excellent music programs,” said the Rev. Robert M. Bock, pastor of North Hollywood’s First Christian Church, 4390 Colfax Ave., which will be the site of the 7:30 p.m. concert.

Bock will preach at the 8:30 and 11 a.m. services at Church of the Valley, 6565 Vesper Ave., Van Nuys. The Rev. Larry Keene, pastor of Church of the Valley, will preach at First Christian’s 10 a.m. service.

FAREWELL MASS: Father Ron Young, an associate pastor at St. Ferdinand Catholic Church in San Fernando, will celebrate the noon Mass on Sunday before departing for Rome to begin doctoral studies in theology at Gregorian University.

A member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate religious order, Young has been active in the Catholic charismatic movement and on the priests’ advisory board of the Southern California Renewal Communities (see story page B1).

A convert to Catholicism, Young was ordained a priest in 1988 after receiving master’s degrees at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley. He served at Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church in San Fernando for five years before being assigned to St. Ferdinand.

BOSNIA MISSION: Charlotte Franklin, who took part in a nursing mission to Bosnia organized by Hadassah, the international Jewish women’s organization, will be the guest speaker during the 8 p.m. Sabbath service Friday at Temple Ner Maarav, 5180 Yarmouth Ave., Encino.

The service will include general information about Hadassah and its 20,000-member Southern California chapters. More information is available from the Hadassah Greater Valleys Chapter office at (818) 783-3488.

NEW PASTOR: The Rev. William S. Trump Jr., 39, was recently chosen senior minister of the Congregational Church of the Chimes in Sherman Oaks--only the third senior pastor in the congregation’s 45-year history.

Trump, who is ending a nine-year pastorate at a Congregational church in Burlington, Iowa, will begin his ministry in the Valley church on July 9.

The congregation’s first senior minister was the Rev. Walter Staves. The Rev. Richard J. Bower followed Staves in 1978 and retired early this year.

BOOK SIGNING: Ex-trial lawyer James Scott Bell of Woodland Hills will sign copies of his novel, “The Darwin Conspiracy,” recently published by Vision House, an evangelical Christian publisher, at 3 p.m. today at Bookstar in Woodland Hills.

VICTIMIZATION: Patricia Tupper Hyatt, a speaker with the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will talk on “Freedom from Victimization: Your God-Given Right,” at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Thirty-sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, 4032 Whitsett Ave., Studio City.