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

DATE: TUESDAY, July 3, 1990                   TAG: 9007030491
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

CHURCH MEETING THIS WEEK

A service to mark the clearance of a $400,000 debt on the Virginia headquarters and campground of the pentecostal branch of the Church of God is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday.

It will be part of the annual conference and camp meeting that opened Monday near the Hollins exit of Interstate 81.

An open-air tabernacle, district offices, homes for top administrators and dining hall are among the facilities used each Fourth of July week for more than 5,000 who come to Roanoke for worship and fellowship.

Pentecostal services will be held at 7 p.m. each day through Friday. They will be led by Loran Livingston, a Charlotte, N.C., pastor.

The Rev. Roger Daniel, a Fresno, Calif., pastor, will lead Bible study at 9:30 a.m. today through Saturday.

The Bible studies will be followed by a service at 11 each day. Preachers will be: today, the Rev. V.R. Mitchell, who leaves Roanoke this year after a four-year assignment as district evangelism director; Wednesday, Mary Ruth Stone, director of women's ministries at the national Cleveland, Tenn., headquarters; Thursday, the Rev. Dr. Ray H. Hughes, an assistant overseer from Cleveland; and Friday, Douglas Small, youth worker in Largo, Fla.

The camp meeting, which is open and free to the public, will end at noon Saturday. Participants are expected from throughout Virginia and several nearby states, a staff member said.

by CNB