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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 12, 1990                   TAG: 9004130831
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-14   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

BEDFORD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, an ecumenical and interracial service agency providing food, clothing and emergency help to the needy, has employed the Rev. Francis Ports as its administrator.

Ports, a permanent Roman Catholic deacon, is retired from a steel plant in Baltimore. He lives in Bedford County and is active in Holy Name of Mary Church. Ports is at the 303 E. Washington St. center on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. He said the center, which may be sold, is expected to be used by BCM for another year.

\ FLINT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH, Moneta, has scheduled revival services April 22-26. Worship will be each night at 7:30.

\ EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS, like those who attend Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox and St. Ambrose American Orthodox parishes, will celebrate Easter this year with Christians who follow the Latin calender. The two branches of Christendom, separated administratively for nearly 1,000 years, often have different Easters because of the way of calculating the date of Jesus' resurrection.

At Holy Trinity, the opening Passion of Christ [Maundy Thursday] devotions will begin tonight at 7. Good Friday afternoon liturgy starts at 3 and 7:30 p.m. with Holy Saturday devotions at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. and the Resurrection service starting at midnight.

\ THE REV. SEABURN DANIEL, director of missions for the Strawberry Bapist Association, will preach for revival services April 25-29 at Glade Creek Baptist Church at Blue Ridge. A nursery will be available for the 7:30 p.m. worship.

\ RABBI DONALD BERLIN, who served Temple Emanuel Reform congregation from 1965 to 1971, will preach at the April 20 worship at the temple. Berlin now is rabbi of a Baltimore congregation and is a coming as part of the centennial celebration of the temple. Call 342-3378 for more information.

\ AN ECUMENICAL SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE for victims of Hitler's Holocaust is scheduled April 22 at 3 p.m. at the Roanoke Unitarian/Universalist Church, 2015 Grandin Road S.W. The Rev. Alvord M. Beardslee of the Hollins College faculty will be the speaker. Members of the Acting Company will dramatize a reading.

\ BISHOP THOMAS B. STOCKTON , spiritual leader of Virginia United Methodists, will speak April 22 at the 11 a.m. worship at Rockingham Court Church, 4615 Bryan Road S.E. The occasion will be Heritage Day with worshipers invited to wear outfits of an earlier time. Call 345-4193 for information on the luncheon that will follow the service.

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.

by CNB