• Star Party open to public, hosted by Astronomical Society of Rowan, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Carolina International School, 9545 Poplar Tent Road, Concord. Mr. Kukielski, 704-455-4672; Barbara, 704-664-6939; Shannon, 704-236-6933; or Ralph Deal, 704-855-1591 or www.astrowan.org

• International Tea, noon Saturday, St. John AME Zion Church, 145 Martin Luther King Jr. Road, Mocksville. $15. Tickets available from Missionary Department members. Speaker: Victoria Turner Brown.

• Outreach Ministry of Fairview Heights Missionary Baptist Church will be at Brightmoor Nursing Home, 610 W. Fisher St., 2 p.m. Saturday. Speaker: Evangelist Shelia Bush, associate minister.