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

DATE: THURSDAY, September 1, 1994                   TAG: 9409030008
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W15   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

BRETHREN HERITAGE DAY, a celebration of Church of the Brethren history and culture, is scheduled Oct. 1 at Camp Bethel Conference Center near Nace in Botetourt County. The celebration will include a children's' court, food booths, sales area for crafts, education booths about church-related ministries, musical entertainment and an auction. Many participants will wear the simple dress of a century ago. Call 992-2940 for more information.

THE ROANOKE VALLEY MINISTERS CONFERENCE board of directors will recommend to the opening seasonal meeting of the membership on Sept. 12 that a proposed project based on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant be dropped.

The conference had considered beginning a human service project in cooperation with a helping agency on condition that no financial responsibility for keeping the program going would be required. Study of the proposal showed that an ongoing annual financial commitment of at least $11,000 would be expected.

The board unanimously agreed that the conference's need to support the Rev. Richard Harris in his $35,000-a-year job as jail chaplain prevents it from assuming further responsibilities.

OPERATION FIX-UP, a program of the Roanoke Valley Association of Southern Baptists, is seeking volunteers to assist needy people in the Roanoke Valley with home repair. Call Paul McDaniel at 977-2168 to offer skills and to be assigned to a project.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF ROANOKE will resume its winter schedule on Sept. 11 after the summer recess. The 11 a.m. worship at 2015 Grandin Road S.W. will be followed by potluck lunch. The education program for adults will begin Sept. 18 at 9:30 a.m. with that for children at the same hour on Sept. 25.

THANK GOD FOR KIDS, a program using live exotic and domestic animals to help children visualize Bible stories, will be presented on the lawn of First United Methodist Church in downtown Salem on Sept. 10. Part of the Olde Salem Days community fair, it will be led by the Rev. Dr. James Lavender of Richmond, who has used his show extensively in evangelism. Times will be 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

by CNB