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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 28, 1991                   TAG: 9103290606
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

RELIGION BRIEFS

VILLA HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH, 4080 Challenger Ave. N.E., has scheduled revival services April 7-10 nightly at 7:30. Guest evangelist will be the Rev. Vander Warner Jr. of Grove Avenue Baptist Church of Richmond. A nursery will be available.

\ THE REV. R. TYLER BURKETT has joined the staff of Green Ridge Baptist Church as minister of education and youth. He came from Huguenot Road Baptist Church in Richmond where he worked with youth. A graduate of Mary Washington College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Burkett also was minister of education and youth at the Oak Grove Church of Richmond for more than three years.

His wife, Annette, formerly of Christiansburg, has worked for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in Richmond and WDBJ-TV in Roanoke.

\ THE REV. ALVORD M. BEARDSLEE of the Hollins College religion faculty will present a lecture, "Islam," for the April 5 service at 8:15 p.m. at Beth Israel Synagogue, Franklin Road at Highland Avenue Southwest.

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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