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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 24, 1994                   TAG: 9402240376
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

FIRST BAPTIST AND PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCHES will share evening services on Sunday. Worship for the Third Street Southwest Baptists will be changed from the usual Sunday night time to 3:30 p.m. and will be held at Pilgrim, 1415 Eighth St. N.W. This is the third time the congregations have sponsored the shared worship to mark Brotherhood Month.

\ UNITY OF ROANOKE VALLEY has chosen the Rev. Harriet Baumeister as its interim minister. Now working temporarily at a Unity congregation in St. Petersburg, Fla., Baumeister will begin her work in Roanoke on March 15. As a minister with special training in short-term pastorates, she has served churches in several parts of the nation.

\ OUR LADY OF NAZARETH CATHOLIC CHURCH is celebrating its 80th anniversary by renovating its worship area. New acoustical panels are being installed, and a new organ given by a parish family will be in place by Easter. A new sound system also is being added, and the kitchen has been renovated. Members of the parish also have reduced the debt on the building on Virginia 419.

\ FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH in downtown Salem will help Greene Memorial And Cave Spring United Methodist parishes in constructing a Habitat for Humanity house on Kellogg Avenue Northwest. The congregation is raising the necessary $16,000 to begin construction in the summer.

\ WILDWOOD GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH, Wildwood Road in Salem, has scheduled a Christ life crusade Sunday through March 4. Harold Vaughan, an evangelist who has preached in 40 states and two foreign countries, will speak at 11 a.m. and each night at 7. Special music will be provided, and a nursery staffed.

\ LOCUST GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH has a adopted installing a sanitary system at the home of a neighborhood resident as a mission project. The congregation is raising funds for the $1,200 project.

\ OBSERVANCE OF LENT has begun at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Salem. Each Tuesday at 5:30, an evening prayer service is scheduled. At 7:30, the usual Prayer and Praise Communion and discussion will be expanded March 1 through 22. On March 14, Ed Kilbourne, a contemporary Christian musician and storyteller, will perform after a potluck meal at 6.

\ OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CATHOLIC CHURCH, 314 Turner Road, Salem, has scheduled the Stations of the Cross liturgy for Fridays during Lent at 7 p.m. An additional weekly Eucharist is celebrated at noon each Friday. Small reflections groups also are open; call 387-0491 for more information.

\ "PEOPLE OF THE PASSION" is the theme of Wednesday night Lenten services at College Lutheran Church, 210 College Ave. in Salem. All begin at 7 with a dramatic monologue of the Bible characters of Pilate, Barabbas, Peter, Dismas and the Centurion featured each week. Child care is provided.

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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