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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003162476
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-7   EDITION: EAST 
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
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RELIGION BRIEFS

\ STUDENTS FROM HOLLINS AND ROANOKE COLLEGES will paint and repair RAM House on April 7. The project is part of a National Student Campaign Against Hunger effort which raises funds for the needy and service projects related to poor nourishment. This year the Hunger Cleanup will include students from 600 schools in 45 states. RAM House is a day shelter for the homeless in inner-city Roanoke supported by religious and secular groups and individuals. For more information, call Jeri Suarez, 362-6382.

\ METHODIST WOMEN from three groups represented in Western Virginia will gather March 25 at 3:30 p.m. at Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Nina Medley will lead the rally with Lessie Polk the song leader. Besides the A.M.E. Zion, other churches represented will be the United Methodist and the African Methodist Episcopal. The church is at 15th Street and Moorman Road Northwest.

\ FAMILY ENRICHMENT SEMINARS, open to the community and led by the Rev. Dr. Ronald Rand of Cincinnati, Ohio, are scheduled April 1 and 2 at Bedford Presbyterian Church. From 7 to 9 p.m., they will include child care for preschoolers; other children will be included in the programs. For more information call 586-8903. Rand has published two books on Christian family life and is a Presbyterian minister.

\ JOHN TRESCH, dean of students at Bluefield College, will speak for revival services Sunday through Wednesday at Vinton Baptist Church on Washington Avenue downtown. The meeting begins with the 11 a.m. worship. Evening programs start at 7. For reservations for a Wednesday night meal, call 343-7685.

\ BEDFORD CROP WALK, a 6.2-mile hike to raise funds for the undernourished, is scheduled for April 8. The walk will start at 1:30 at the Chamber of Commerce office. Hikers may obtain sponsor forms by calling 586-5050.

\ THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE of Roanoker Rick Bradshaw and the spiritual journey of Staunton resident Steve Henderson will be the theme of a program Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room of the Salem Civic Center. Henderson, a counselor who has worked with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, has faced death many times since receiving an artificial kidney in 1966. Bradshaw, who has been on national television, survived being crushed by automobiles in 1976 when 19 years old.

Deadline for religion briefs for Neighbors is Thursday. Material must be delivered to Neighbors Religion Briefs, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke 24010, by noon in order to run in the following Thursday edition.

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