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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 14, 1991                   TAG: 9103150795
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

THE REV. WILLIAM BOLDIN of Shenandoah and THE REV. JEFF MARBLE of Luray will present a musical program Friday at 7:30 p.m. to benefit the Roanoke Area Ministries. The two Lutheran clergymen will play bluegrass/gospel/folk style selections at Trinity Lutheran Church, Williamson Road at Epperly Avenue Northwest. A minimal offering of $1 is requested along with a can or package of food.

\ GREEN RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH has selected R. Tyler Burkett as its minister of youth. He is coming from a similar job at Huguenot Road Baptist Church in Richmond.

\ THE REV. DWIGHT STEELE of Pilgrim Baptist and THE REV. J. EUGENE YOUNG of Jerusalem Baptist Church, will present special music Sunday at 7 p.m. at Jerusalem, 1014 Norfolk Ave. S.W. The program is to benefit the Jerusalem Youth Choir.

A fashion show, featuring clothing for youth and young adults will be held Saturday at6:30 p.m. at Jerusalem to benefit the youth choir. Patricia Bruce and Nathaniel Dent are coordinators. A $5 donation is requested.

\ MERRILL and ALMA GRUBBS, a missionary couple, will speak Monday at 7 p.m. at Green Ridge Presbyterian Church on Alpine Road in the Hollins area. A potluck supper will be held at 6, before the program by the Grubbs, who are on furlough from Korea.

\ MARY SINK, a member of Ninth Street Church of the Brethren, has become interim resident program director of Camp Bethel Conference Center in Botetourt County.

\ FIRST WESLEYAN CHURCH, 3706 Peters Creek Road N.W., has scheduled the Rev. Norman G. Wilson, radio speaker, for revival services March 22-24. Wilson, general director of broadcast ministries for the denomination and speaker on The Wesleyan Hour, will be at the church for nightly services at 7 and on Palm Sunday at 11 a.m.

\ THE FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES, which has groups in 13 Western Virginia high schools, will hear Willie Sinkfield March 21. The monthly breakfast will be at 7 a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church. Sinkfield, FCA representative for the Hampton Roads area, won all-star honors in several sports in a Tennessee high school. He is preparing for ministry in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

\ A STUART EVANGELIST, Evon Gammons, will conduct revival services Friday through Sunday at Maranatha Fellowship Church, 2715 Green Ridge Road. Gammons, from Harvest Worship Center, will preach weeknights at 7:30 and on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.

\ THE REV. NELSON HARRIS, pastor of Ridgewood Baptist Church, is the author of "Understanding Alcoholism," which appears in the current issue of "The Deacon," a Southern Baptist magazine.

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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