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

DATE: THURSDAY, June 14, 1990                   TAG: 9006150464
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

DOUGLAS W. PEDIGO of Vinton has been ordained to gospel ministry by his home congregation, Vinton Baptist. Pedigo, an organist, is completing studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and is on the music staff of a church near there.

\ FIRST CHURCH OF GOD of Roanoke is among congregations where a drive is in progress to raise $150,000 to install a sprinkler system at Shenandoah Homes. The high-rise apartment house for the elderly has been the site of several deaths from fires. The home is affiliated with the denomination, which is based in Anderson, Ind.

\ GENE EDMUNDS, Presbyterian lay leader and peace activist, has been awarded a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. Edmunds will become associate pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charleston, S.C. She entered the seminary from Second Presbyterian Church of Roanoke.

\ SUSAN EMMONS BENTLEY, a former Roanoker, will be ordained to the preparatory order of deacon in the Episcopal ministry June 25 at 7:30 p.m. The service will take place at Christ Episcopal Church, 1101 Franklin Road S.W., where Bentley formerly was Christian education director. Bentley and her husband, Michael, an educator, will live in Radford, where she will join part time the staff of Grace Episcopal Church.

She has recently completed studies at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Chicago.

\ CURTIS WALLACE has resigned after an 18-month tenure as organist/choir director of St. Mark's Lutheran Church. In July, he will become the full-time music minister for a Roman Catholic parish in Winter Park, Fla. Wallace is 27 and a graduate of Roanoke College.

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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