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

DATE: THURSDAY, June 14, 1990                   TAG: 9006150568
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-13   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By Frances Stebbins
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RELIGION BRIEFS

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.

\ THE. REV. DR. ARTHUR D. THOMAS has announced that he will leave New Hope Presbyterian Church in Salem later this year. Thomas said the time of his departure depends on his acceptance at a seminary for the study of spirituality. He has been at the Salem church since early 1987.

\ 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.

\ CAVE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH will send 15 youth and adults to Harlan County, Ky., to help poor families with construction projects. The Appalachian Service Project will be June 24-30 and led by associate pastor the Rev. Linda Kusse-Wolfe.

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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