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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 10, 1994                   TAG: 9403100205
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

CHURCHES OF GOD IN CHRIST in the Virginia Second Jurisdiction have scheduled the 72nd annual Workers' Conference for Monday through March 20. The Pentecostal denomination, which includes several congregations in the Roanoke Valley, will meet at Holiness Tabernacle, 1130 Melrose Ave. N.W. Bishop Samuel L. Green, Mary M. Featherston and Mary M. Powell will lead the meeting, which has a theme of "Soul Winning."

Services will begin at 7:30 p.m., but a Bible institute and day services start at 10 a.m.

\ THREE UNITED METHODIST PARISHES, First of Salem, Cave Spring and Greene Memorial, have begun raising funds to erect three Habitat for Humanity houses during a major Habitat drive in the summer. The houses will be on a tract on Kellogg Avenue Northwest. Each church must provide $16,000 and sufficient volunteers to build a house. The occupants, who will be members of a working family with limited income, also will help with the construction.

\ BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP, a women's interdenominational study of Scripture, has developed a new course, The Life of Moses, which will begin in September. Registration for the day class will be March 30, May 4 and May 11 at 9:10 a.m. at Grandin Court Baptist Church. Call 774-4973 for information on this group.

Evening class registration will be April 11, April 18, May 2 and May 9 at 7:25 at Southview United Methodist Church. Call 977-0468 for more about this group.

\ THREE BOTETOURT COUNTY CHURCHES - Fincastle United Methodist, Fincastle Baptist and Fincastle Presbyterian, will unite for a Palm Sunday procession through the town on March 27. Members of the congregations will gather at 10:45 a.m. at the Botetourt Courthouse. After a brief service, they will walk to their respective buildings for the usual worship. The procession will symbolize the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem before his crucifixion and resurrection.

The United Methodist parish will be the site of a Maundy Thursday "service of darkness" on March 31, beginning at 8 p.m. On Easter Sunday members of the churches will unite for an 8:30 a.m. service in Godwin Cemetery. Breakfast will be held at the nearby Methodist church after the service.

\ THE REV. HARRIET BAUMEISTER begins her work March 20 as interim minister of Unity of Roanoke Valley. Before being ordained as a Unity minister in 1981, she taught classes in church doctrine and served as an alcoholism and drug counselor after taking graduate work at the University of Utah. She also served a permanent pastorate before entering temporary work. Following the 11 a.m. service, a potluck welcoming lunch will be held.

\ VALLEY VIEW WESLEYAN CHURCH, 2302 Oakland Blvd. N.W., has scheduled a concert by One Faith, a Southern gospel quartet from Greensboro, N.C., on March 20. The singers will perform at 9:45 and 11 a.m.

\ THE REV. EDWARD T. BURTON will observe the 35th anniversary of his coming to the pastorate of Sweet Union Baptist Church on on Sunday. The Rev. George Hamilton, chaplain at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, will preach at the 11 a.m. service, and the Sweet Union Gospel Chorus will provide the music. Lunch will be served after the service.

At 4 p.m., the Rev. Antonio Thomas and a choir from Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church will lead worship. Sweet Union is at 521 Madison Ave. N.W.

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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