Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, January 30, 1992 TAG: 9201300463
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
RELIGION BRIEFS
FAITH EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH is expanding its usable land area by excavating a hill at the rear of the property on Eighth Street at Carolina Avenue in Salem. The Rev. Sam Harris, pastor, said there are no immediate plans for building, but more than 800 loads of dirt have been trucked to a Colorado Street site where a new day care center's property is being leveled. Harris said the church will use its new space for a playground and parking.\ ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES board has elected Deborah Oehlschlaeger, a lawyer active in Christ Lutheran Church, as its new president.
Other new leaders of the ecumenical agency to help the needy are the Rev. James Parke of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic and the Rev. Kenneth Lane of Trinity Lutheran, vice presidents; Bess Rhodes of Melrose Christian (Disciples of Christ), secretary; and Clyde Ware of Windsor Hills United Methodist, treasurer.
The board sets policies for RAM's ministries, which are coordinated by paid staff the Rev. Julie Hollingsworth and Debbie Denison.
\ A TRADING CARD SHOW to benefit the ministry of the Rev. Richard Harris as chaplain to jails and a public nursing home is scheduled Feb. 8 in the fellowship hall of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Salem. For the admission price of 50 cents, participants may buy and trade racing, baseball, football and basketball collectors' cards. The show is sponsored by the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference, which helps support Harris' work.
Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491, by noon in order to run in the following Thursday edition.