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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991                   TAG: 9102220443
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

BLACK HISTORY REFLECTIONS, led by Roanoke television personality Greta Evans and several choral groups, will be featured Sunday at 4 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 310 N. Jefferson St.

\ GOSPEL, CULTURE AND MEDIA will be the theme of Alvin Horton on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church, 402 Second St. in downtown Roanoke. Horton, an ordained United Methodist minister, is editor of The Virginia Advocate, semi-weekly publication of the Virginia Conference. He also will preach at 11 a.m.

\ HANDBELL MUSIC will be performed Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in the gym of First Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke. A number of Roanoke Valley bell choirs will participate in the annual regional festival, which includes a free concert.

\ ISSUES OF THE MIDDLE EAST will be the theme of a seven-week Sunday morning class starting March 3 at First Presbyterian Church, Jefferson at McClanahan Southwest. The Rev. Alvord M. Beardslee of the Hollins College religion faculty will discuss religion and culture from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

\ WOMEN'S AGLOW, an organization for women of charismatic renewal conviction, will hear Helen Frye of Staunton during its Wednesday meeting. Frye, a homemaker of United Methodist background, will speak at Hidden Valley Country Club following a 9:30 breakfast. Call 366-9054 to reserve the $4 meal.

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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