ROANOKE TIMES

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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 18, 1993                   TAG: 9302180451
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium


RELIGION BRIEFS

GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE, 2308 Highland Road S.E., has scheduled an evening of gospel music at 7 on March 6. The Kingerys and The Fellowship Trio will be featured.

An offering will be taken.

\ THE SOUTHERN STATESMEN gospel group will perform March 6 at 7 p.m. at Ninth Street Church of the Brethren, 1103 Ninth St. S.E. The program is free.

\ 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.



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