ROANOKE TIMES

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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 18, 1993                   TAG: 9302180428
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium


RELIGION BRIEFS

WES CHAPPELL AND PETE HASTINGS, members of No Strings Attached, will present the Third-Sunday Music Program at Windsor Hills United Methodist Church, Mudlick and Windsor roads Southwest, Sunday at the 10:45 a.m.

\ KATHERINE J. REIER will leave the staff of Christ Lutheran Church as organist and choir director effective Sunday The musician, who also is employed as a registered nurse, will be honored at both the 8:30 and 11 a.m. services.

She has been on the staff for eight years and active in the Roanoke Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

\ JESUS' PRAYER LIFE as revealed in Luke's Gospel is the theme of a Wednesday morning Bible study at Cave Spring United Methodist Church, 4505 Hazel Drive S.W. Led by former staff member the Rev. Linda Kusse-Wolfe, it is in session for the community from 10 until 11:30.

\ AN INTERRACIAL FELLOWSHIP, sponsored by United Methodists of the Roanoke District and open ecumenically, will supply a van for travel to Blacksburg Monday to hear poet Maya Angelou.

To reserve space, call 774-6569. The trip will follow a 5:15 p.m. dinner at Quincy's restaurant in Salem.

\ WOMEN'S AGLOW members will hear B.D. Hyman, author of "My Mother's Keeper," at their meeting Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Woodmen of the World Building, 2306 Peters Creek Road N.W.

Breakfast is available for $2 per person; call 362-2518 or 774-1478 for reservations. A nursery is provided.

\ AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC of the gospel tradition will be performed Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in Whitman Auditorium of Virginia Western Community College. Among the performers will be the Inspirational Choir of Garden of Prayer 6 of Roanoke, Gladys Dickerson of Rocky Mount and the Community Choir of the Roanoke County community of Kingstown.

The concert is free and is sponsored for Black History Month by the Minority Affairs Committee and the Black Student Organization at the college.

\ A PRAYER BREAKFAST, from 9 to 11 a.m., is planned Feb. 27 at First United Methodist Church in downtown Salem. Sponsored by the Roanoke District of United Methodist Women, it will include a message by Nancy Wheeler, program director at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem.

The $4.75 cost will be donated to a program for the emergency care of Virginia children. Call 774-5729 by Friday for reservation.

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.



by Archana Subramaniam by CNB