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

DATE: THURSDAY, January 20, 1994                   TAG: 9401200364
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-3   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. 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.

\ 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.

\ TRUE LOVE WAITS, a program developed by the Southern Baptist Convention to encourage sexual abstinence before marriage, will be used for youth in grades six through 12 from Feb. 5 through March 12 by two Salem congregations. The program will be held at Fort Lewis Baptist Church, 4215 W. Main St., and is supported by Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church.

Sessions will be held Saturdays at 7 p.m. and are also open to the parents of teens. Call 380-2044 for information.

\ 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.

\ FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH in downtown Salem has completed the installation of electronic chimes in its steeple. A selection from 58 hymns will be heard daily at noon.

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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