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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 26, 1992                   TAG: 9203260396
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-15   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH has dedicated a new $200,000 wing at Colorado Street and Bowman Avenue. The addition on the east side of the property contains five classrooms and a library and brings the building into full accessibility for the handicapped. It has an elevator and restrooms for those in wheelchairs.

\ WORD OF LIFE CENTER, 402 Colorado St., Salem, has scheduled a special music program Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Gospel singer AnaBel will be featured. The program is free.

\ FAITH WESLEYAN CHURCH, Alleghany Drive in Salem, has scheduled a concert by Second Chance, a Christiansburg gospel singing couple, for a program Sunday at 6 p.m.

Second Chance also will sing Saturday at 8 p.m. at Good News Cafe, 5411 Williamson Road, and Sunday at 11 a.m. at Wabun Congregational Holiness Church.

\ UNITY OF ROANOKE VALLEY will present a seminar, "Taking Charge of Your Life," April 5 at 3300 Green Ridge Road. Joyce Duco, author of several books on self-improvement and the subject of a 1972 TV show, "The Weekend Nun," will lead the seminar. Duco also will speak at the 9 and 11 a.m. services the day of the seminar.

The seminar costs $20 and will be from 1:30 to 5 p.m.

\ THREE LENTEN LUNCHEONS are scheduled Wednesday and April 8 and 15 at Huntington Court United Methodist Church, Williamson Road at Huntington Boulevard. Those attending are asked to bring a financial gift to help relieve Roanoke Valley hunger.

The meals, to be served by three different parish groups, will follow services that start at noon. Speakers on the successive Wednesdays will be the Rev. Gregory Atkins of Raleigh Court United Methodist, the Rev. Emory Tarpley of Grace United Methodist and the Rev. John Sylvester-Johnson of St. John's Episcopal Church staff.

\ BRUCE PENN is the new manager of the Baptist Book Store on Williamson Road. He was transferred from a similar position in St. Louis. The native of Georgia was reared in Anderson, S.C., and graduated from Western Carolina University. He worked for Walt Disney World before joining the network of stores eight years ago.

Penn succeeds Ted Powitz, who has managed the Roanoke store since 1985 and has moved to management of the Richmond store.

\ 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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