ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, April 17, 1997               TAG: 9704180004
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                PAGE: N-12 EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DIANE HOCKENBERRY

RELIGION BRIEFS

SPECIAL EVENTS

Partnership with the Poor: A Religious Response to Welfare Reform, a workshop sponsored by Roanoke Area Ministries, is scheduled at Second Presbyterian Church, 214 Mountain Ave. S.W., on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration is $10 per person and must be received no later than Friday at RAM, 824 Campbell Ave S.W., Room 5. For more information, call 345-8850.

A praise and worship gathering is scheduled Saturday at Belmont United Methodist Church, 806 Jamison Ave. S.E., from 7 to 9 p.m. Mount Pleasant and Rockingham Court United Methodist churches will be among those attending. A nursery is provided.

A parenting seminar is sponsored by Cave Spring Baptist Church, 4873 Brambleton Ave., from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, with humorist and storyteller Walter Moore speaking. Effective communication and teaching values and responsibility are among the topics to be addressed. For more information, call 989-6136.

The Roanoke Valley Baptist Annual Spring Associational Meeting will take place at Colonial Avenue Baptist Church, 4165 Colonial Ave., at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

A Red Cross bloodmobile will take donations April 24 from noon to 7 p.m. at St. Philip Lutheran Church, 8115 Williamson Road. A form of identification is necessary to give blood.

John Hagee, author and evangelist from San Antonio, Texas, will hold a citywide crusade at the Roanoke Civic Center at 7:30 p.m. April 24 and 25. Music will be presented by Cornerstone Singers and Crusade orchestra. Admission is free, but an offering will be accepted. |REVIVAL SERVICES| Mineral Springs Baptist Church, Vinton, will hold a revival Sunday through Wednesday with evangelist John Wilton from Mississippi. Services Sunday are at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Monday through Wednesday, at 7 p.m. A nursery will be provided. For more information, call 890-4465.

Bethel Baptist Church, 1601 Colorado St., Salem, is presenting revival services April 20 to 24 led by the Rev. Dale Riddle. Sunday programs are at 10:55 a.m. and 7 p.m.; programs Monday through Thursday are at 7 p.m. A nursery is provided.

Green Ridge Baptist Church, 5521 Green Ridge Road N.W., will hold revival celebrations Sunday through Wednesday. Jeff Whisenut will speak Sunday at 11 a.m. with special music presented by Michael Combs at 7 p.m. Phil Hoskins will speak Monday and Tuesday at 7 p.m., with Combs performing at the Monday service. Michael Grooms will be the final guest speaker at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For more information, call 562-0225. |MUSICAL EVENTS| Macedonia Baptist Church, 2910 Cove Road N.W., will host Dr. J. Eugene Young and the Rev. Dwight O. Steele in concert at 6 p.m. Sunday.

High Street Baptist Church, 2302 Florida Ave. N.W., will celebrate the first anniversary of its Youth Handbell Choir at 4 p.m. Sunday. The Youth Handbell Choirs of First Presbyterian Church of Roanoke and Harvest Ministries Church of God of Prophecy of Blue Ridge will participate in the program. |PEOPLE| Mary Eden Wohlford, daughter of Trudy and Michael Wohlford of Roanoke, has returned from an 18-month evangelistic ministry with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Santiago West Mission in Chile.

Wohlford is a 1992 graduate of Cave Spring High School and attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho.

|--| Diane Hockenberry compiles the Religion Briefs column weekly. Send information to her in care of Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon Thursday.

E-mail DianeHxc2Roanoke.com or fax 981-3346.

|SPECIAL EVENTS| Partnership with the Poor: A Religious Response to Welfare Reform, a workshop sponsored by Roanoke Area Ministries, is scheduled at Second Presbyterian Church, 214 Mountain Ave. S.W., on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration is $10 per person and must be received no later than Friday at RAM, 824 Campbell Ave S.W., Room 5. For more information, call 345-8850.

A praise and worship gathering is scheduled Saturday at Belmont United Methodist Church, 806 Jamison Ave. S.E., from 7 to 9 p.m. Mount Pleasant and Rockingham Court United Methodist churches will be among those attending. A nursery is provided.

A parenting seminar is sponsored by Cave Spring Baptist Church, 4873 Brambleton Ave., from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, with humorist and storyteller Walter Moore speaking. Effective communication and teaching values and responsibility are among the topics to be addressed. For more information, call 989-6136.

The Roanoke Valley Baptist Annual Spring Associational Meeting will take place at Colonial Avenue Baptist Church, 4165 Colonial Ave., at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

A Red Cross bloodmobile will take donations April 24 from noon to 7 p.m. at St. Philip Lutheran Church, 8115 Williamson Road. A form of identification is necessary to give blood.

John Hagee, author and evangelist from San Antonio, Texas, will hold a citywide crusade at the Roanoke Civic Center at 7:30 p.m. April 24 and 25. Music will be presented by Cornerstone Singers and Crusade orchestra. Admission is free, but an offering will be accepted. |REVIVAL| |SERVICES| Mineral Springs Baptist Church, Vinton, will hold a revival Sunday through Wednesday with evangelist John Wilton from Mississippi. Services Sunday are at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Monday through Wednesday, at 7 p.m. A nursery will be provided. For more information, call 890-4465.

Bethel Baptist Church, 1601 Colorado St., Salem, is presenting revival services April 20 to 24 led by the Rev. Dale Riddle. Sunday programs are at 10:55 a.m. and 7 p.m.; programs Monday through Thursday are at 7 p.m. A nursery is provided.

Green Ridge Baptist Church, 5521 Green Ridge Road N.W., will hold revival celebrations Sunday through Wednesday. Jeff Whisenut will speak Sunday at 11 a.m. with special music presented by Michael Combs at 7 p.m. Phil Hoskins will speak Monday and Tuesday at 7 p.m., with Combs performing at the Monday service. Michael Grooms will be the final guest speaker at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For more information, call 562-0225. |PEOPLE| Mary Eden Wohlford, daughter of Trudy and Michael Wohlford of Roanoke, has returned from an 18-month evangelistic ministry with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Santiago West Mission in Chile.

Wohlford is a 1992 graduate of Cave Spring High School and attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho.

Diane Hockenberry compiles the Religion Briefs column weekly. Send information to her in care of Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon Thursday. E-mail DianeH@roanoke.com or fax 981-3346.

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