RELIGION BRIEFS

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

DATE: THURSDAY, February 6, 1992                   TAG: 9202060584
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium
RELIGION BRIEFS
BETHLEHEM BIBLE COLLEGE, a ministry of Bethlehem Baptist Church in the Mount Pleasant area, has extended registration through Feb. 20. Classes are held on Mondays and Tuesdays from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Course offerings for the spring semester include Genesis 2, Joshua, the Triune God or Job.
For more information, call 362-2586.
Bethlehem Church also hold its Brotherhood fellowship and installation of officers Sunday at 3 p.m. The Rev. Frank Feather, pastor of Forest Park Baptist Church, will be the guest speaker.
\ NOON ORGAN RECITALS are scheduled Wednesdays through February from 12:05 to 12:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, South Jefferson at McClanahan Street.
\ THE VIRGINIANS QUARTET, gospel singers, will perform Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Mayflower Hills Baptist Church, 3852 Rutrough Road S.E.
\ VOLUNTEERS IN MISSION, an on-going service ministry of Roanoke District United Methodist Churches, will undertake two projects this year. The first, for which $7,000 currently is being raised, will be constructing a house for a needy family in Robeson County, N.C. The second, costing $3,500, is the building of a United Methodist church in Hidalgo, Mexico. Two teams of volunteers from several parishes will work on the North Carolina project in June and July. A third team will be in Mexico from July 18 to Aug. 1. Volunteers other than Methodists serve on the teams.
For more information on the projects, call 989-3335.
\ MEREDITH R. HOFFMAN, a graduate of Patrick Henry High School and Elon College, will speak Sunday at 9 a.m. at the Second Ward meeting of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Cotton Hill Road Southwest.
Hoffman, daughter of Wilson and Donna Hoffman, has returned from Mormon mission service in Portland, Ore. She has been accepted to the law school at Washington & Lee University.
\ THE REV. DR. DENVER J. DAVIS has retired as chaplain at Friendship Manor retirement complex. Davis, also a former pastor of Rosalind Hills Baptist Church, and his wife will continue to live at the North Roanoke manor.
\ 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.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB