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

DATE: THURSDAY, October 28, 1993                   TAG: 9310280214
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-14   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: NASHVILLE, TENN.                                LENGTH: Short

BAPTISTS TO START RECORD COMPANY

The Baptist Sunday School Board wants to reach people other than Southern Baptists, so they're starting a record label for contemporary Christian music.

Genesis Records will release its first albums by February, said Mark Blankenship, director of Genevox Music Group. Genevox is the board's trade music publishing division.

Among artists signed to the label are adult contemporary singer Amy Roth and Friends IV, a quartet featuring Terry Blackwood of the Imperials.

The label is part of the board's push to reach evangelical Christians through Christian book and record stores, said Blankenship. It is the board's first recording label.

The board is the nation's largest producer of Sunday school literature and teaching materials.

- Associated Press

by CNB