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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 28, 1994                   TAG: 9404280115
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

THE REV. NELSON HARRIS, pastor of Ridgewood Baptist Church, has been elected president of the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference, an interfaith group of religion professionals who meet monthly from September through May. He and other officers will be installed Monday at Camp Bethel Conference Center. The other officers are: George Hill and the Rev. David Henderson, vice presidents; the Rev. Philip Motley, treasurer; and the Revs. Michael Nevlin, Gene Edmunds and Carl Savage, secretaries for correspondence, minutes and yearbook editing.

\ AN ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA GALA to mark completion of restoration and additions to the 68-year old pipe organ is scheduled Friday at 8 p.m. at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church in downtown Roanoke. Richard Cummins, organist at the church, and Carolyn Victorine and Rebecca Wallenborn, pianists, will perform. The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, directed by Victoria Bond, also will perform. The organ celebration is part of the Greene Memorial Fine Arts Series with additional sponsorship by the orchestra. Call 344-6225 or 343-9127 for the $20 tickets.

BUDDY CRUMPACKER, maintenance supervisor at Camp Bethel Church of the Brethren Conference Center in Botetourt County, has left the staff to return with his family to his former home in Lynchburg. Crumpacker had worked at the center for two years.

\ THE REV. K. LANDON MADDEX, a Southern Baptist pastor, has marked 50 years in the ordained ministry. Maddex served from 1944 to 1979 as pastor of Villa Heights Church and has been active in visiting residents in nursing homes.

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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