• Rowan Redbuds Garden Club, 1 p.m. Thursday, Stanback Room of Rowan Public Library, 201 W. Fisher St. Speaker: Jean Woods, president North Carolina Native Plant Society. Open to public; free.

• Outreach Ministry of Fairview Heights Missionary Baptist Church, 704 Old Concord Road, will be at Brightmoor Nursing Home, 610 W. Fisher St., 2 p.m. Saturday. Speaker: the Rev. Jerome Allison, associate minister of Fairview Heights. Open to public.