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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 30, 1995                   TAG: 9504040006
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-4   EDITION: METRO 
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RELIGION BRIEFS

A WOMEN'S WORKSHOP featuring feminist theologian Georgia Masters Keightley, author and professor, and Blacksburg artist Martha Dillard will be offered Friday beginning at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. at Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church, 2505 Electric Road S.W. The Women's Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond is co-sponsor. Cost is $20. Call 375-3259 for more information.

THE FAITH, HOPE AND JOY SINGERS of the Glorious Church of God will present a concert Sunday at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. The concert is sponsored by Usher Board No. 2.

A COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE, sponsored by 17 North Roanoke city and county congregations and Hollins Fire and Rescue Unit 5, will be held April 6 at St. Philip Lutheran Church, 8155 Williamson Road. Blood donations will be taken from from 1 to 7 p.m. Last year 15 congregations participated in the first drive, and 105 units of blood were collected for the American Red Cross.

ELDER MARVIN GRIFFIN, vice president for finance of the Potomac Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, will speak Saturday at the 11 a.m. service of the North Valley Adventist congregation. A luncheon will follow. The Adventists meet at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 4909 Peters Creek Road N.W.

A JEWS FOR JESUS PROGRAM will be presented Tuesday at 7 p.m. at First Wesleyan Church, 3706 Peters Creek Road N.W. Mitch Forman, a convert to Christianity from Judaism, will demonstrate elements of the Jewish Passover observance and relate them to the Lord's Supper. Call 563-4481 for more information.

GRACE BAPTIST TEMPLE, 1527 Gilford Road N.W., plans a concert by Mission, a contemporary gospel group, at 11 a.m. Sunday. Vernon Brewer, president of World Help Mission organization of Lynchburg, will speak.

AIRLEE COURT BAPTIST CHURCH has chosen the Rev. John Hamric as its next pastor. Hamric, an associate pastor at First Baptist Church of Staunton, will take up his new post in early April, succeeding the Rev. Eugene Burris, who left the pastorate in mid-1993.

The new pastor is married to Christy Hamric.

JOANI TABOR, a singer of contemporary gospel music, will present a program April 9 at 10:30 a.m. at Northside Christian Church, 5110 Florist Road N.W. Tabor has performed on television more than 100 times and has given 1000 programs coast to coast.

THE REV. HARRY LELAND has left the pastorate of Crystal Spring Baptist Church after four years to become minister of a church in Orange County. He was pastor of the former Jefferson Street Baptist Church for six years before its merger in 1991 with the former South Roanoke Baptist.

A GOSPEL SING is planned Saturday at 7 p.m. at William Byrd High School in Vinton. Featured will be the Singing Cookes/Cooke Brothers of Kingsport, Tenn., The Chandlers of Corryton, Tenn., and The Spencers of Mansfield, Ohio. Call 362-5943 for ticket information.

Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.

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