ROANOKE TIMES

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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 18, 1993                   TAG: 9302180485
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium


RELIGION BRIEFS

THE REV. LEE LEWIS, pastor of Morning Star Baptist Church, will preach during community revival services at People's Baptist Church, 617 Twine Hollow Road, Monday through Feb. 25. The host church and Big Hill, First Baptist of Elliston and Shawsville Baptist churches are sponsoring the 7:30 p.m. services. Call 380-4013 for more information.

\ ROBERT JEFFREY ETHRIDGE will be ordained to the gospel ministry Sunday at 7 p.m. at Salem Baptist Church, his home congregation. Ethridge, a graduate of Mid-America Baptist Seminary, now is pastor of Iron Gate Baptist Church.

\ 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.

\ 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