Gift market
* St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 901 W. Emory St., Dalton, Ga.; noon-3 p.m. Sunday; holiday shoppers can choose from Heifer International Living Market, which allows people to buy living gifts that will help people in the U.S. and around the world become self-sufficient through livestock utilization, or Ten Thousand Villages, which sells handmade items created by artisans receiving a fair wage; 706-278-8857.
Lecture
* Lynn Wood Hall chapel, Southern Adventist University, Collegedale; 7 p.m. Tuesday; Institute of Archaeology lecture, “Ancient Coins of Khirbet Qeiyafa: A Stronghold on the Road to Jerusalem,” presented by Yoav Farhi of Hebrew University of Jerusalem; free; 236-2027.
Music
* Gospel Assembly Church, 9610 Barbee Road, Soddy-Daisy; 7 p.m. today; benefit gospel singing featuring Sonshine News and other groups.
* First Baptist Church, 401 Gateway Ave.; 2 p.m. Sunday; program of opera arias and duets, Schubert lieder and Broadway songs by tenor Philip Rice and baritone Kim Thompson with accompaniment by Penny Tullock; free; 316-7034.
* Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal, 211 Franklin Road, Lookout Mountain; 6 p.m. Sunday; concert by Chattanooga-based Moccasin Brass Quintet of familiar and new brass music; free; 821-1583, www.goodshepherdlookout.com.
* Collegedale Church of Seventh-day Adventists, 4829 College Drive; 7:30 p.m. Sunday; Southern Adventist University Symphony Orchestra concert; free; 236-2164.
* New Haven Baptist Church, 1058 Graysville Road; 6:45 p.m. Monday-Friday; music by The Diplomats Quartet, accompanied on Tuesday by Victory Baptist youth choir of North Augusta, S.C., and on Friday by Calvary Baptist Church choir of Powder Springs, Ga. (in conjunction with revival messages by Larry Brown of Victory Baptist and Snyder Turner of Calvary Baptist); 855-4910.
* Sequoyah Church of God, 10916 Hixson Pike; 6 p.m. Thursday; gospel singing (refreshments offered); 332-1139.
* First Wesleyan Church, 7725 Shallowford Road (fellowship building); 7 p.m. Friday; Christmas and gospel singing featuring Jim Ricketts and the Willow Creek Quartet; refreshments served; free; 894-5254, 598-2337.
* World’s Church of the Living God, 2110 Glass St.; 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20; 2 Deepwithin anniversary gospel concert; $10 donation (refreshments served; partial proceeds to Chattanooga Community Kitchen).
* Galilee Baptist Church, 2000 Jackson St.; 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20; 25th pre-Thanksgiving concert by Chattanooga Mass Choir features New Emanuel Mass Choir, Resurrected Praise Team and praise dancer Uhonta Hollis; freewill offering taken and nonperishable food items accepted for choir’s help fund; 902-9947 or 521-3383.
Retreat
* Benedictine Sisters Retreat Center, 916 Convent Road N.E., Cullman, Ala.; 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. CST Saturday, Nov. 20; “Cross and Compassion: The Spiritual Quest of St. Edith Stein,” Day of Reflection retreat on the Carmelite saint, Teresa Benedicta, will be led by Sister Elisabeth Meadows; $30 (includes lunch); 256-734-8302 or retreats@shmon.org.
Thanksgiving meals
* St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, 2514 Williams St.; 1-3 p.m. Sunday; community Thanksgiving dinner, with one dinner per donation of nonperishable food items; 267-6869.
* First Baptist Church, 401 Gateway Ave.; 4 p.m. Sunday; international Thanksgiving meal (and worship) for community students of English as a second language, their teachers and others; guests asked to bring covered dish; reservations appreciated; 267-3794.
Women’s event
* Mighty Warriors Church, 7510 Lee Highway; 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20; Ray Hughes, who recently addressed Aglow International’s United States National Conference, guest speaker via DVD for monthly dinner meeting of Chattanooga Aglow Lighthouse; guests asked to bring covered dish; 697-9866 or 332-9715.