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

DATE: THURSDAY, July 5, 1990                   TAG: 9007060585
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-3   EDITION: METRO 
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RELIGION BRIEFS

THE SAMARITAN INN, a ministry to street people conducted by the Rev. Jerry Clevenger, will benefit from a project in progress at Northview United Methodist Church. Members, who have been supplying the mission with soup for more than six years, are filling a donated 1982 car with cans of soup.

When the vehicle is loaded - mid-August is the expected date - it will be driven to the mission. Clevenger then will receive not only the soup but proceeds from the sale of the car.

Community donations also are being received at the church on Plantation Road at Ridgecrest.

\ BROOKHILL BAPTIST CHURCH has sent two of its youth, Sara Cochran and Shara Wegner , on a month-long mission trip to Hawaii, the Philippines and Korea. Both 17, the girls are serving as music and youth evangelists under sponsorship of Word of Life Fellowship, an evangelical Christian program based in Schroon Lake, N.Y. Members of the congregation helped raise the necessary $2,675 per participant after the girls attended a Word of Life camp in 1989. The pair are scheduled to return July 21.

\ A FREE TRAINING EVENT, sponsored by Caring for Life Ministries of Vinton, is in progress through July 22 at 126 Lee Ave. Fred Ellsworth, director of the ministries, is leading the series of Sunday night classes from 6:30 to 8. Their theme is "Christian Care Giving and Lay Ministry Training." For more information, call 343-6200.

\ THE ANNUAL HOME GARDEN MARKET, sponsored by Main Street United Methodist Church in Bedford will be open Fridays for the summer starting July 13. Proceeds from the market, which also includes home-baked goods, go to several community projects for help the needy. The market is at 212-220 E. Main St.

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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