Show Features Beverly Sills

Congregation B’nai Emet’s Sisterhood is sponsoring a one-woman show about opera star Beverly Sills with Roberta Randall at 7 p.m. today.

The temple is at 4645 Industrial St., Unit 2C, Simi Valley. Tickets are $15 and include coffee and dessert. For information, call 581-3723.

Methodist Church Plans Services

United Methodist Church in Simi Valley will hold services at 8 and 10 a.m. Sunday. The Rev. Frank Witman will be guest speaker at both services.

Child care is provided for infants and preschoolers.

Sunday School for all ages begins at 9 a.m., and a Spanish service is at 1:30 p.m.

Blood pressure screenings will be available after the 8 and 10 a.m. services and before the 1:30 p.m. service. The Discovery Club for pre-kindergarten through grade six and youth fellowship for junior and senior high school students meet at 6 p.m.

The church is at 2394 Erringer Road. For information, call 526-6231.

Rabbi to Speak on Trip to Israel

Temple Beth Torah in Ventura will host a brotherhood brunch at 9:30 a.m. Sunday during which Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller will speak on her recent trip to Israel, followed by a question-and-answer session.

In January, she and her husband, temple educator Rabbi Seth Hochberg-Miller, participated in a mission trip to Israel with 30 other Reform American rabbis, with an eye toward returning next year with members of their congregation and the community.

The public is invited to the brunch. Cost is $7 with reservations or $10 at the door.

The temple is at 7620 Foothill Road. For information, call 647-4181.

Farewell Planned for Missionary

“I Believe in Christ” will be the opening song and theme of a missionary farewell for Daniel Christian Needham, 19, during the sacrament meeting at the Thousand Oaks First Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Needham will serve as a full-time missionary for two years in Birmingham, England. He will arrive in England on Wednesday and train in Preston for two weeks.

About 60,000 missionaries for the church serve missions teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world at their own expense.

The church is at 1600 Erbes Road.

Concert at Sonrise Fellowship

Gospel singer Twila Paris will perform in concert at 7 p.m. Monday at Sonrise Christian Fellowship in Simi Valley.

The concert will also feature a children’s and adult choir, orchestra and gospel singer Fernando Ortega.

Tickets are on sale at the church office and local Christian bookstores, online at www.ccauthority.com and at the door. The cost is $18 per person and $15 for students. Group rates are available.

The church is at 2350 Shasta Way. For information, call 581-1628.

Night Blooming Jazzmen to Play

The United Methodist Church of Thousand Oaks will sponsor an afternoon of jazz and hymn-alongs featuring the Night Blooming Jazzmen from 3 to 5 p.m. Feb. 19.

Concert tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. A portion of the proceeds will go toward a Habitat for Humanity home in Piru.

The church is at 1000 E. Janss Road. For information, call 495-7215.

Creation to Be Topic of Talk

Calvary Community Church in Westlake Village will hear Phillip Johnson, author of “Darwin on Trial” and “Reason in Balance,” speak about creation during the 9 and 11 a.m. worship services, at a pizza lunch for teens at 1 p.m. and during a seminar at 4 p.m. Feb. 20.

All events are free and open to the public.

The church is at 5495 Via Rocas. For information, call (818) 991-8040.

Interfaith Panel Discussion

The Ventura Interfaith Ministerial Assn. and Oxnard Ministerial Assn. invite the public to an interfaith panel discussion on “What My Faith Means to Me” at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 in the sanctuary of the First Christian Church in Ventura.

John Sherwood, president of the Ventura Interfaith Ministerial Assn., will be the moderator. The panel will include the Rev. Amy Aitken, First United Methodist Church; practitioner Chuck Filbert, Christian Science Church; Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller, Temple Beth Torah in Ventura, and the Rev. Stephen Klaas, Ventura Friends Church.

There is no charge for the program, which has been organized so the speakers can share what their faith means to them and give information on their beliefs concerning the nature of God, prayer, meditation, marriage, life after death, love, morality, angels, demons, healing and other interests. Five-minute presentations by each speaker will be followed by 1 1/2 hours of questions and answers.

The church is at 38 Teloma Drive. For information, call 985-8253.

Family Building Ministry Offered

A new family building ministry is being offered at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Ventura beginning March 1 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Hurley Hall.

The public is invited and there is no charge.

The church is at 3175 Telegraph Road. For information, call Sister Teresita at 289-3499.

Art Exhibit on Display at CLU

A mixed-media art exhibit titled “The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse” by A. Nancy Snooks will be on display through Feb. 27 at Cal Lutheran University’s Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture in Thousand Oaks.

Snooks, a printmaker and professor emeritus who has received international recognition for her art, works out of her studio in Ventura and lectures at the Carnegie Museum in Oxnard. She has been working on the Book of Revelation series for 30 years using a process that incorporates collage, drawings and photocopying.

For information, call 493-3151.

LDS Offering Classes for Family

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invites the public to learn about the faith and worship together with meetings and classes for the family during Sunday services and monthly family and personal enrichment meetings for women.

The Fillmore church meets at 10 a.m. Sunday, and has family and personal enrichment meetings at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday and first Wednesday of every month. The Fillmore church is at 1017 1st St. For information, call 524-0807.

The Ojai church meets at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday, and has family and personal enrichment meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday and first Wednesday of the month. The Ojai church is at 411 San Antonio St. For information, call 646-9783 or 646-8553.

The Spanish branch in Santa Paula meets at 10 a.m. Sunday for worship services. The church is at 604 Ojai Road. For information, call 524-5712.

The English branch in Santa Paula meets at 9 a.m. Sunday and has a monthly family and personal enrichment meeting at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday. For information, call 524-8774.

There are two branches in Ventura. The church at 3501 Loma Vista Road meets at 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday, and has monthly family and personal enrichment meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first and second Tuesdays. For information, call 648-7500 or 650-9708.

The other Ventura church, at 10400 Henderson Road, meets at 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Sunday, and has monthly family and personal enrichment meetings at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday and second Wednesday. For information, call 659-0412 or 671-5643.

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