Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990 TAG: 9003162234
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: S-7 EDITION: SOUTH
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Liggins, who founded Guiding Star Church of God in Christ on Madison Avenue nine years ago, was in Roanoke recently to gain support for his project.
He conducted revival services at Living Water Church of God in Christ at 2330 Orange Ave. N.W. Both congregations are affiliated with a Pentecostal denomination based in Memphis, Tenn.
Liggins, who said his proposed home for 30 youths has the support - though no money - from the COGIC denomination, is seeking $200,000 to buy a 138-acre farm. He said that even before buildings can be erected he hopes that young offenders from a nearby correctional center can be put to work growing vegetables on the property.
Bastrop political and law-enforcement leaders have endorsed Liggins' plan and are supporting a proposal to win an $800,000 Farmers Home Administration grant to get the farm started.
Liggins, 60, said he spent considerable time in Roanoke in the early 1980s following the death of COGIC Bishop J.P. Dabney, long associated with Holiness Tabernacle of the COGIC group.
The work he established is now being carried on at both the Guiding Star and Living Water congregations in Northwest Roanoke.
For more information about the project call (318) 728-3610. Contributions may be sent to Paradise Village Childrens' Home Inc., P.O. Box 711, Bastrop, La. 71269.
by CNB