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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 28, 1994                   TAG: 9404280130
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
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RELIGION BRIEFS

THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, in which prayers will be made for the community, state and nation, will be observed May 5 during a 20-minute service at Salem Baptist Church. Peggy Johnson, a supporter, said the public is invited to join a group from the church at noon in front of the Salem city offices on Broad Street, across from the church.

\ SALEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH will launch a campaign to raise $30,000 on Sunday. The money is the church's share in a national Presbyterian Bicentennial Fund drive. Gifts will be paid over a three-year period starting July 1.

More than half of the funds raised will remain in Presbytery of the Peaks to help with the West End Center, the Pastoral Counseling Center of the Roanoke Valley, camp scholarships, a tutoring program at Belmont Church in Roanoke and to aid specific missions in Central America. An additional $6,000 will help institutions for children and adults in the Synod of the Mid-Atlantic.

\ FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH in downtown Salem has attained its goal of $16,000 needed to start construction of a Habitat for Humanity house in Northwest Roanoke. Church members expect to join other congregations of the denomination in erecting several houses in mid-June.

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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