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

DATE: THURSDAY, January 20, 1994                   TAG: 9401200332
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

KITS FOR THE SUDAN are being assembled at a number of Churches of the Brethren to give three basic articles to refugees from the civil war-torn areas in the Central African country. Each kit contains a standard-size bath towel, a 26-ounce cylinder of iodized salt and a bar of soap.

Further donations are being sought. Church sources say that thousands of people are homeless and starving in the southern part of the country where many are Christian. The Church World Service organization is distributing the kits. For more information, call 362-1816.

\ COLONIAL BIBLE INSTITUTE, a ministry of Colonial Baptist Church at Blue Ridge, is beginning its second semester of classes leading to a three-year general diploma or a one-year certificate. Classes, which started Monday, are on Monday nights from 7 to 9:45 with nursery available. Classes also may be audited.

The school has been in operation for eight years. Call 977-5683 for more information.

\ THOMAS KNOLL, religious liberty director for the Potomac Conference, will preach at the North Valley Congregation of Seventh-day Adventists Saturday at 11 a.m. The Adventists meet at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 4909 Peters Creek Road N.W.

\ FIRST WESLEYAN CHURCH, 3706 Peters Creek Rd. N.W., has scheduled gospel musicians Rick and Phyllis Webb in concert Sunday at 11 a.m. Rick Webb has led music for the Clyde Dupin evangelistic meetings and appeared on TV. He also has recorded with contemporary Christian musicians Re'Generation and Bill and Gloria Gaither.

\ WALTER R. FRANKE of Salem has been re-elected to a five-year term on the board of the Pension Fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). A former pastor of First Christian Church of Salem, Franke is now an investment counselor and member of the Salem School Board. His work with the church's national pension fund involves more than 11,000 church employees and their families.

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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