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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 2, 1994                   TAG: 9403030223
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

THE LAY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, an ecumenical series of Sunday night classes during Lent, will open Sunday at Christ Lutheran Church, at Grandin at Brandon roads. The classes, which have a $10 enrollment fee, are held from 7 to 8:30 through March 27.

The lay school is an annual project of Lutheran Cooperative Ministries, and Roanoke College faculty members will teach the classes: Robert Benne, "The Lutheran Sexuality Statement"; Gerald McDermott, "True and False Spirituality"; and Bobbye Au, "The Saved, the Damned and the Misbegotten."

A nursery will be staffed. Call 375-2342 for more information.

\ ROANOKE VALLEY SOUTHERN BAPTISTS, who sent many packages of garden seeds to Croatia last season, are expanding the ministry this year. In cooperation with other Virginia Baptists and following the thanks of church leaders in the war-torn Balkan country, they also will send seeds to areas in the African countries of Angola and Mozambique. Seeds are needed by April 15. Call 366-7631 for more information.

\ CHURCH WOMEN UNITED will sponsor its 107th World Day of Prayer service Friday at Northminster Presbyterian Church, 3911 Greenland Ave. N.W. The service will start at 10 and has been organized by Christian women of Palestine.

\ RAY BOLTZ, a Christian song writer and performer, will present a concert Friday at First Baptist Church in downtown Roanoke. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. program are $5 and are available at the church office or at several Christian bookstores.

\ WOMEN'S AGLOW evening group has chosen the Winn-Co. Building, 1224 Peters Creek Road N.W. as its new meeting place. The next gathering, at which\ Catherine Gray will speak, will be Tuesday at 7. Aglow is for women of charismatic Christian preference.

Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. 


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