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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 21, 1991                   TAG: 9103220811
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-4   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: By Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

A THIRD SERVICE, at 8:30, will be added for Sunday morning worship at West Salem Baptist Church effective Easter. It is to relieve overcrowding at the 9:45 and 11 a.m. times. The third service will enable members to adjust their schedules around the 9:45 education time.

\ SPRING REVIVAL SERVICES will be in progress March 31 through April 3 at Mountain Pass Baptist Church, 2975 Catawba Valley Drive, Salem. The Rev. Ira Tolliver, pastor, will speak nightly at 7.

\ GREEN RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH, 5521 Green Ridge Road, will sponsor a youth revival Saturday through Monday nights at 7. The guest preacher, Rodney Gage, has addressed teens throughout the Southern Baptist Convention on avoiding alcohol abuse. Gage also will preach at the 11 a.m. service and will visit several Roanoke Valley high schools.

\ 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.

***CORRECTION***

Published correction ran on March 28, 1991.

Because of a reporter's error, an item in the Religion Briefs column in the March 21 editions incorrectly identified the Rev. Ottawa Pullen. He is former pastor of Blue Ridge Baptist Church.

Memo: CORRECTION

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