ROANOKE TIMES

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

DATE: THURSDAY, January 16, 1992                   TAG: 9201170297
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium


RELIGION BRIEFS

THE REV. DR. LOYD ALLEN of the faculty of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., will lead a study of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah Sunday through Tuesday nights at 6:30. It will take place at Grandin Court Baptist Church, 2660 Brambleton Ave. S.W. and is free.

\ WOMEN'S AGLOW DAY CHAPTER has scheduled a Salinas, Calif., musician, Patty Warner, for its meeting Wednesday from 9:30 a.m.-noon at the Woodmen of the World building, 2306 Peters Creek Road. The $2 donation covers refreshments; child care also is available by calling 774-6214 in advance.

\ A HOSANNA GOSPEL EXPOSE musical program by members of 15 Roanoke Valley church choirs will take place Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. at the Patrick Henry Hotel Grand Ballroom. Tickets for the semi-formal event cost $8 and may be bought at the door. Hosanna Chapter 517 of the Order of Eastern Star is sponsoring the event.

Leaders of the Hosanna Chapter will charter a new group Feb. 9. For information about membership and goals, call 342-2541.

\ THE PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE Collegiate Choir of Little Rock, Ark., will sing Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Paul United Methodist Church, Fifth and Gilmer Northwest. Stephen L. Hayes is director. The program is free and is sponsored by the Sanctuary Choir of High Street Baptist Church.

The choir, formed about 100 years ago by a Methodist missionary, toured the United States to help raise money for the college. One of the choir's directors was composer/arranger Ruth Helen Gillum, who arranged "There's No Hiding Place" for the choir.

\ LINDA MORROW NEVLING has joined the staff of Northminster Presbyterian Church as its director of Christian education.

The wife of the Rev. Michael Nevling, new pastor of Colonial Presbyterian Church, she is a 1985 graduate of the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond and took undergraduate study at St. Andrew's Presbyterian College in her native North Carolina.

She previously has worked at Presbyterian churches in North Carolina and Tennessee. Nevling will work part time at the Williamson Road church.

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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