Classics cars: The second annual “Blessing of the Classics” will be held at St. Ann’s Feast on Saturday from 6 to 10:30 p.m. at the corner of Charles and Hawkins streets.

The Italian food tent will feature homemade eggplant parmigiana, sausages, onion and pepper sandwiches, meatballs, pasta, hotdogs, hamburgers, fried dough, homemade desserts and menna bread.

Music will be from the 50s and 60s.

St. Pius V Church: The church on Eaton Street will host a holy hour of healing Friday, Aug. 1, from 7 to 8 p.m. There will be a benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, hands-on healing, prayers, meditation and reconciliation.

Children are welcome. The church is handicap accessible.

Healing services are held on the first Friday of the month.

For information, call Roberta Narrin at (401) 353-5982.

The Mothers Circle program: There may be as many as 200,000 non-Jewish mothers nationally who have agreed to raise their children Jewish within the context of skyrocketing Jewish intermarriage. Since 2002, the Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI) has sponsored a program called The Mothers Circle to provide these women with free education and support in raising a family in an unfamiliar faith. The program, which began in Atlanta and launched nationally in 2005, has expanded to more than 30 communities across the country, and in September, the program will be offered in Rhode Island.

Kit Haspel, a former psychologist with a master’s degree in Jewish studies, will be the Rhode Island facilitator.

The program, which is sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education in partnership with the Jewish Community Center and funded by the Helene and Bertram Bernhardt Foundations, has a number of components. The course is an eight-month, bi-weekly educational program. It is open to mothers in all family constellations, and participants do not need prior knowledge. Family events are offered throughout the year, and a personal rabbi is on call to answer questions one on one.

The Mothers Circle also offers a national e-mail discussion listserve for all mothers of other religious backgrounds raising Jewish children, even if they live in communities where the course is not yet available. The listserve provides a supportive online community of peers from across the country to share their experiences, thoughts and questions once they sign up at www.TheMothersCircle.org.

Conversion is not a goal of the program.

For information, call program coordinator Kit Haspel at the Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island, 130 Sessions St., at (401) 331.0956 ext. 184, or e-mail khaspel@bjeri.org.

Chapel Gallery: “Faces and Places from Turkey, II,” photographic works by Cemal Ekin, continues on exhibit through Wednesday in the Chapel Gallery of Mathewson Street United Methodist Church, 134 Mathewson St.

On Aug. 1, the photographic exhibit of Jake Hegnauer, “Dry Season — 21 Days Across Namibia and Botswana,” will open and run through Aug. 29.

Hegnauer is a self-taught freelance wildlife and nature photographer who uses modern photographic equipment, digital processing and archival printing. The exhibit features wildlife from Namibia’s Etosha National Park, the Okavango River Delta and the Chobe National Park in northeastern Botswana.

Documented in the exhibit are wild elephants, hippos, leopards, fish eagles, a pride of lions and “the most amazing people, with whom I had the privilege to connect,” according to the photographer.

Gallery hours are Sunday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and by appointment.

For information, call the church at (401) 331-8900, or e-mail churchmouse02903@yahoo.com.

Prayer Ministry Team: Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church, 163 Bellevue Ave., holds a prayer ministry on the first and third Mondays of the month at 6:30 p.m.

Everyone is welcome.

For information, call team director Sister Stephanie Jones-Pringle, at (401) 274-9050.

Prayer group: The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Chapel, 399 Fruit Hill Ave., North Providence, offers a prayer group for families on Tuesdays at 5 p.m.