Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 21, 1991 TAG: 9103220651
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ BELMONT BAPTIST CHURCH is preparing to celebrate its 90th anniversary on Oct. 6. Three former pastors are expected to speak. An anniversary project will be the renovation of a room for meetings and social events.
\ THE REV. OTTAWA PULLEN of Blue Ridge Baptist Church will lead worship at 4 p.m. Sunday at a Heroines of Jericho celebration. It will be at the Masonic Hall at 533 Centre Ave. N.W.
\ A SINGLES CONFERENCE, led by Ann Alexander Smith, a consultant for the Southern Baptist Convention, will held in session Friday and Saturday at First Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke. Sessions will begin at 7 p.m. and 9 a.m. and will include help in starting a church singles ministry as well as a workshop on adjusting to divorced status. Cost is $10. Call 342-9720 for more information.
\ HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, established in the Roanoke Valley five years ago, has now erected 12 homes for the working poor in Northwest and Southeast Roanoke. Volunteers from businesses as well as churches have provided labor and materials with prospective homeowners also contributing labor. Two Southwest County congregations, Cave Spring Baptist and Cave Spring United Methodist, each did all the work on a house.
The organization is now raising money to build more houses on donated lots in the Gainsboro and Belmont neighborhoods.
\ A WORKSHOP\ SERIES to introduce the principles of the Eckankar belief system is scheduled April 11, 18 and 25 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the downtown Roanoke Public Library. For more information, call 774-4437.
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.
***CORRECTION***
Published correction ran on March 28, 1991.
Because of a reporter's error, an item in the Religion Brief's column in the March 21 editions incorrectly identified the Rev. Ottawa Pullen. He is former pastor of Blue Ridge Baptist Church.\
Memo: CORRECTION