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

DATE: THURSDAY, May 24, 1990                   TAG: 9005250486
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Frances Stebbins
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

THE REV. LINDA SUE MITCHELL, a new associate pastor, will join the staff of Christ Lutheran Church in July. Mitchell, ordained Saturday at the Lutheran convention in Roanoke, is from Waynesboro and educated at Virginia Tech, James Madison University and the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. Her training has included youth work and an interfaith ministry with AIDS patients in Charleston, S.C. She is 33.

\ JIMMY AND DEBBIE CAMP, youth and education staff members of Virginia Heights Baptist Church, will end their work there June 7. The Camps, who came to Roanoke 21 months ago from Southeastern Seminary studies, will move to Greer, S.C., where Jimmy Camp will become minister of youth and education at Riverside Baptist Church.

\ THE WORLD OF ISLAM, an adult study, will be presented Sunday at Greene Memorial United Methodist Church, Second and Church in downtown Roanoke. The Rev. Alvord M. Beardslee of the Hollins College religion faculty will lead the study. The program will begin with potluck supper at 5:30 p.m. The presentation will start at 6:30. A nursery will be available.

\ IT'S YOUR FUTURE, a program to inform senior adults about the legal aspects of power of attorney, living wills, joint accounts, guardianships and living trusts, is scheduled June 6 at 10:30 a.m. at Raleigh Court United Methodist Church, 1706 Grandin Road S.W. Robin Dearing, a Roanoke lawyer, will lead the session. A potluck lunch will be held after the program. Call 344-6011 for more information.

\ ROSALIND HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH has added Becky Proctor to its staff as minister of youth and education. Proctor is a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

\ A "LORD, HEAL MY HURTS" class begins tonight at 7 at Calvary Memorial Church across from Towers Mall upper level. Registration still can be made by calling 387-2125.

\ A NEW PIPE ORGAN, believed to be one of the largest in the Roanoke Valley, will be installed over the next two months at South Roanoke United Methodist Church. Its $300,000 cost has come partially from a bequest and from member donations.

\ SEVEN ADULT MEMBERS\ of TEMPLE EMANUEL have undergone the ritual of bat and bar mitzvah. The service for the coming of age in the Jewish faith was not held at the usual early teen period for Jane Bender, Dr. Edward Cornbleet, Jane Davidson, Barbara Hicks, Paula Kaplan, Charlotte Lippmann and Carol Shields. Their service of choice was a first for the temple.

\ JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W., has scheduled its annual Memorial Day service for Monday at 1 p.m. The service is sponsored by the Women's Day Committee.

\ CAVE SPRING BAPTIST CHURCH has joined others in the Roanoke Valley in discontinuing the use of plastic foam cups at church socials. China cups will be used for all general fellowship events.

\ JEAN COOLEY, a former staff member of Roanoke Area Ministries and Salem Presbyterian Church, will graduate Sunday from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. Cooley will become associate dean of the faculty of the seminary and work in guidance. Her husband, William, formerly pastor of Green Ridge Presbyterian Church, is now serving a Richmond congregation.

\ THE PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, an ecumenical ministry to the needy based at 1228 Jamison Ave. S.E., has scheduled an open house June 3 from 1:30 to 6 p.m. George Pollash, director, said the center has recently been refurbished with new furniture, painting and rugs.

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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