Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 7, 1992                   TAG: 9203060313
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BRIEFS

Several hundred members of Churches of God in Christ in Virginia are expected in Roanoke Monday through March 15 for the 70th annual Workers' Conference. It will be held Holiness Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, 1130 Melrose Ave. N.W. The Second Jurisdiction, which sponsors the conference, includes 72 Virginia congregations.

Services at the church, all of which are open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. with day meetings and Bible study starting at 10. The final services on March 14 and March 15 will be at the Roanoke Civic Center and are expected to attract several thousand. Bishop Samuel Green, pastor of the host church, will preside. Other leaders are Mary Featherston of Norfolk and Mary Powell of Roanoke.

Theme of the services will be "The Beatitudes: the Fundamental Teachings of Jesus."

Spiritual life institute will mark its centennial

The centennial observance of Bridgewater College's Spiritual Life Institute will feature Dr. Graydon Snyder, professor of New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary, and Dr. Paul J. Achtemeier, professor of Biblical interpretation at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. The event, which is open to the public, will be March 17-19 at the Church of the Brethren college near Harrisonburg. Call 703-828-2501 for details of the conference.

History professor's talk focuses on Spanish Jews

"1492-1992: What We Owe to the Spanish Jews" will be the theme of a free lecture April 3 at Temple Emanuel, Brambleton at Persinger Southwest. It will be given by Dr. Martin Cohen, professor of history at Hebrew Union College and is part of the Charlotte Lippmann Scholar-in-Residence Weekend.

The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. It commemorates the expulsion of Jews from Spain the same year Columbus discovered America. These highly cultivated Jews migrated with some settling in colonial America.

The lecturer has been on the faculty of the college for 32 years and has taught at Antioch College, Temple University and Hunter College. He has published several works on the politics of early Judaism and Christianity.