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

DATE: THURSDAY, August 24, 1995                   TAG: 9508250034
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

MICHAEL BROWN, music evangelist from the Evangelical Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, will present a program Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Bonsack United Methodist Church, 4483 Bonsack Road. Brown, who has won national acclaim for his praise music, is performing as a benefit for the Pastoral Counseling Center of the Roanoke Valley; an offering will be taken.

THURSDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY will begin Sept. 7 at Christ Lutheran Church, 2011 Brandon Ave. S.W. The sessions, taught by pastors Mark W. Radecke and Robin Henrickson, will continue through Nov. 30 and will explore the Scripture lessons for the following Sunday. A light lunch will be available after the 11 a.m. sessions.

EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH in Kingstown will celebrate its annual homecoming rally Sunday. The Rev. Jonny R. Stone, pastor-elect of Hill Street Baptist Church will preach at the 3:30 p.m. service.

MARY EDEN WOHLFORD will speak Sunday at 9 a.m. at the Cotton Hill Road Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 1992 graduate of Cave Spring High School will leave Sept. 2 for Provo, Utah, to begin training for her two years of Mormon mission service in Chile.

The missionary candidate is a daughter of Trudy and Michael Wohlford and has attended Rex College in Idaho for two years.

WILLIAM E. BROWN III, a 1994 graduate of Glenvar High School, begins training in Provo, Utah, in September to prepare him for volunteer service at Guatemala City South Mission. A member of the Salem congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brown is taking a two-year leave from engineering studies at Brigham Young University.

Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010-2491 by noon Thursday. Please include a daytime telephone number.

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