
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 8, 1990                   TAG: 9003092119
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-4   EDITION: EAST 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

\ DISCARDED BUT USABLE FURNITURE is wanted by Roanoke Area Ministries. Wendy Moore, RAM director, said if such furniture is put out for special Roanoke pickup and designated for RAM, it will be transported to the ecumenical relief agency's center at 820 Campbell Ave. S.W. Moore said RAM wishes not only to help the destitute but also to reduce space in the regional landfill. It cannot pick up articles from homes, however.

\ RADFORD BAPTIST CHURCH at Moneta will present a study, "The Doctrine of Creation," Sunday through Wednesday nights from 7 to 9. Call 586-5280 for more information.

\ THE BEDFORD PARISH of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at Forest is using a video series, "Questions of Faith," for Lenten Thursday night study. It begins with a soup meal at 6 p.m. Call 804-525-8421.

\ THE LIBERATED WAILING WALL, a Jews for Jesus traveling evangelistic team, will be at Rainbow Forest Baptist Church Wednesday at 7 p.m. The teams seek to win Jews to Christianity. The church is at 3485 Rainbow Forest Drive in the Blue Ridge area.

\ THE REV. KIRK LASHLEY has begun his work as executive director of the Roanoke Valley Association of 71 Southern Baptist congregations. He has come from Danville. Lashley and his wife, Barbara, will be welcomed at a reception at the Baptist Children's Home and Family Services dining room March 18 from 2 to 4 p.m.

\ DAVID E. WOLFE, coordinator of pastoral care at Lewis-Gale Hospital, has been certified as a fellow in the College of Chaplains. Members of the professional group must be seminary graduates, have gained experience in a clinical residency and been on another job for at least a year. Several volunteers assist Wolfe in ministering to the spiritual needs of patients, families and staff.

\ JIM FORINGER, minister of Edgewood Christian Church for two years until his resignation several months ago, has begun a new fellowship in his home at 3760 Meadowlark Road S.W. Foringer, who came to Roanoke from Pennsylvania in 1987, said the new group "will emphasize the ministry of all believers and that we're not the only Christians but rather Christians only." Call 989-9226 for more information.

Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon in order to run in the following Thursday edition.

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