Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, January 19, 1995 TAG: 9501240070
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RAM is now seeking applicants for the 25-hour per week job that includes recruiting, training and scheduling volunteers and working with the Family Advocacy program. Call the Rev. Julie Hollingsworth, director, at 345-9786, for more information. RAM is an ecumenical and interfaith agency that offers crisis help and day shelter to Roanoke Valley needy.
CHURCH WOMEN UNITED, an ecumenical and interracial group organized for service to the Roanoke Valley and the world, will focus on the work of the League of Older Americans at its annual meeting Jan. 27. Amanda Crabtree, a staff member of the LOA-Area Agency on Aging, will speak at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church, 402 Second St. S.W., at 10:30 a.m.
DEALING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE will be the theme at a breakfast for religion professionals Tuesday in the Lewis-Gale Hospital cafeteria. Darlene Young, who directs the Salvation Army Turning Point, a shelter for battered women, will be the presenter.
The program is from 7:45 to 9 a.m. and is sponsored by the hospital. The meal is free, but reservations must be made by Friday by calling the Rev. David Wolfe at 776-4000.
THE REV. E.T. BURTON, pastor of Sweet Union Baptist Church, will speak Feb. 8 at 6:15 p.m. at Colonial Avenue Baptist Church, 4165 Colonial Ave. S.W.
His theme will be: ``Why Is 11 on Sunday Morning the Most Segregated Hour of the Week?''
Burton, who is black, and the church's pastor, the Rev. Branan Thompson, who is white, have worked together in the Roanoke Valley Ministers Conference since 1968.
DANICE HUNT, who was named Virginia's Ms. Senior Citizen for 1994, will present a gospel concert Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. A $4 donation to benefit the trustee board is suggested.
BARBARA B. LEMON, an elder in Second Presbyterian Church of Roanoke, has been named to the board of trustees of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. Lemon has been active in special education, garden club, historical society and Junior League organizations in Western Virginia, as well as in Presbyterian church groups.
JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W., has changed the time for its Sunday morning worship. The services now start at 10:45 a.m. The congregation is meeting in its W.N. Hunter auditorium while renovations are being made at the church.
Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.
by CNB