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DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003162210
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-7   EDITION: SOUTH 
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

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.

\ PARENTING BY GRACE, a seminar led by Roanoke pediatrician Douglas Pierce and open to the community, is scheduled March 25 at Colonial Avenue Baptist Church. The time has been changed to 6 p.m. The church is at Colonial Avenue and Virginia 419. Call 774-2084 to register.

\ THE KNOX COLLEGE CHOIR of Galesburg, Ill., will perform Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church, 2011 Brandon Ave. S.W. The 35-voice choral group will sing selections by Mendelssohn, Scarlatti and Faure as well as traditional and contemporary American works. The program is free.

\ COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1831 Deyerle Road S.W., has scheduled a recital by Michael Kelly Blanchard, Christian composer and performer. The recital will be Wednesday from 6:45 to 8 p.m. and will follow a dinner that costs $3 for adults and $1.50 for children. Reservations for the meal are needed by Monday and may be made by calling 989-3314.

\ 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 the 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.

\ A LAY WITNESS MISSION with leaders from Radford, Springfield and Newport News is scheduled Friday through Sunday at Cave Spring United Methodist Church, 4505 Hazel Drive S.W. For a schedule of spiritual renewal activities for all ages call 989-3673.

\ 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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