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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003162066
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-5   EDITION: NORTH 
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
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RELIGION BRIEFS

STUDENTS FROM HOLLINS AND ROANOKE COLLEGES will paint and repair RAM House on April 7. The project is part of a National Student Campaign Against Hunger effort which raises funds for the needy and service projects related to poor nourishment. This year the Hunger Cleanup will include students from 600 schools in 45 states. RAM House is a day shelter for the homeless in inner-city Roanoke supported by religious and secular groups and individuals. For more information, call Jeri Suarez, 362-6382.

\ PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH, 1238 Rugby Blvd. N.W., has scheduled the Robinson Brothers of Youngstown, Ohio, for a concert Saturday at 8 p.m. at the church. The following day the John Hubbard Memorial Ensemble will sing at 4 p.m.

\ THE FAYETTEVILLE UNIVERSITY CHOIR from North Carolina will perform Friday at 8 p.m. at High Street Baptist Church, 2302 Florida Ave. N.W. Under the direction of Augustus J. Pearson Jr., the singers will present such works as Beethoven's "Hallelujah." The program is free.

\ SOUTHVIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH is engaged in a Lenten evangelism program that includes individual prayer and invitation to Easter services for those not active in a church.

\ METHODIST WOMEN from three groups represented in Western Virginia will gather March 25 at 3:30 p.m. at Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Nina Medley will lead the rally with Lessie Polk as song leader. Besides the A.M.E. Zion, other churches represented will be the United Methodist and the African Methodist Episcopal. The church is at 15th Street and Moorman Road Northwest.

\ THE HIGH STREET BAPTIST SANCTUARY CHOIR will sing Sunday at 7 p.m. at Colonial Avenue Baptist Church, Colonial at Virginia 419.

\ THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE of Roanoker Rick Bradshaw and the spiritual journey of Staunton resident Steve Henderson will be the theme of a program Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the Salem Civic Center. Henderson, a counselor who has worked with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, has faced death many times since receiving an artificial kidney in 1966. Bradshaw, who has been on national television, survived being crushed by automobiles in 1976 when he was 19 years old.

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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