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DATE: THURSDAY, February 6, 1992                   TAG: 9202060520
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

THE REV. DR. DENVER J. DAVIS has retired as chaplain at Friendship Manor retirement complex. Davis, also a former pastor of Rosalind Hills Baptist Church, and his wife will continue to live at the North Roanoke manor.

\ OAKLAND BAPTIST CHURCH, 3623 Roundhill Ave. N.W., will observe Race Relations Day Sunday night at 7. A combined choir form High Street Baptist Choir will provide music.

\ BETHLEHEM BIBLE COLLEGE, a ministry of Bethlehem Baptist Church in the Mount Pleasant area, has extended registration through Feb. 20. Classes are held on Mondays and Tuesdays from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Course offerings for the spring semester include Genesis 2, Joshua, the Triune God or Job.

For more information, call 362-2586.

\ NOON ORGAN RECITALS are scheduled Wednesdays through February from 12:05 to 12:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, South Jefferson at McClanahan Streets. Robert Chapman and Tom Baugh will perform for the first concert.

\ VOLUNTEERS IN MISSION, an on-going service ministry of Roanoke District United Methodist Churches, will undertake two projects this year. The first, for which $7,000 currently is being raised, will be constructing a house for a needy family in Robeson County, N.C. The second, costing $3,500, is the building of a United Methodist church in Hidalgo, Mexico. Two teams of volunteers from several parishes will work on the North Carolina project in June and July. A third team will be in Mexico from July 18 to Aug. 1. Volunteers other than Methodists serve on the teams.

For more information on the projects, call 989-3335.

\ THE WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION will sponsor a seminar on the issues of latch-key children, grief recovery and illiteracy Feb. 15 from 10 a.m. until noon at Fort Lewis Baptist Church, 4215 W. Main St. Salem. For more information, call 989-6812.

\ 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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