Saturday
Chicken and rib dinner and auction fundraiser, 4 to 8 p.m., Aug. 7, Slate Chapel United Methodist Church, Slate Creek Road, West Virginia 14.
Yard sale, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Aug. 6 and 7, First Church of the Nazarene, 100 Mill Creek Road.
Sunday
Madcap Puppet Productions will present Aesop's Fables, 3 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 8, The Living Word Outdoor Drama amphitheater; seating at 2 p.m.; (740) 439-2761 or www.livingworddrama.org.
"Great-Grace Fellowship," weekly Bible teaching, musical worship, fellowship, prayer, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. each Sunday, Betsey Mills Club, Fourth and Putnam streets, Marietta; presented by Chris and Sandy Longgrear.
"Good News from Christ," radio program of worship and music from Christ United Methodist Church, Marietta, 10:06 a.m., each Sunday, on WMOA, AM 1490; 374-3438.
"Acts of Prayer," a special series, continues at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday, Gilman United Methodist Church parking lot, 312 Gilman Ave., Marietta; Pastor Diann O'Bryant delivers messages.
Wednesday
WIGBY, (Wednesdays In God's Back Yard), through Aug. 18, held each Wednesday evening during the summer, 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m., Marietta First Church of the Nazarene, 100 Mill Creek Road, Marietta; games, music, story time, crafts and end each evening with sno-cones; for children three years old to sixth grade; 373-5406.
Thursday
Singles fellowship, 7 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday, Sand Hill United Methodist Church, Boaz, W.Va.; do not have to be a church member to participate; (304) 375-2802 or (304) 580-1118.
Weekly bible study, 10 a.m. Thursdays, in office complex at Crown of Life Lutheran Church, Third and Wooster streets, led by Pastor Joel Vogel; public is invited.
Friday
Reformers Unanimous, meeting, 7 to 9 p.m. every Friday, Souls Harbor Baptist Church, 115 Caywood Road, Marietta; a Bible-based addictions program; 373-8118.
The Religion calendar appears each Saturday on Focus on Faith. To submit information, send to Christy Hudson, The Marietta Times, 700 Channel Lane, Marietta, Ohio 45750; e-mail to chudson@mariettatimes.com; submit through the Virtual Newsroom at The Times' Web site (www.MariettaTimes.-com); fax to 376-5475; or call 376-5446.
