The Virginian-Pilot
                            THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, July 3, 1995                   TAG: 9507030044
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

THE SPIRIT MOVED THEM

ILLUSTRATION: Color staff photos by Beth Bergman

Parishioners of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Virginia Beach

march Sunday from their old church, a small building where

worshipers had gathered for more than 100 years, to a new, larger

site about a half-mile away.

Wesley Ferebee, 7, listens during the service at the new church as

his 3-year-old sister, Ashley, sleeps.

Congregation members wait outside the new Pleasant Grove Baptist

Church on Kempsville Road about a half-mile west of Centerville

Turnpike.

by CNB