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

DATE: THURSDAY, July 29, 1993                   TAG: 9307290369
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-11   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

THE REV. RUDY JONES, a graduate of William Byrd High School, will become minister of children, youth and activities at Oakland Baptist Church on Aug. 8. He succeeds the Rev. Michael Woody, who became pastor of Buchanan Baptist Church nine months ago.

Jones, 37, is coming from a similar position at First Baptist Church in Manteo, N.C. A specialist in recreational leadership, he was educated at Carson-Newman College and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

\ THE REV. JO ELLEN HETHERINGTON has begun her pastorate at Rockingham Court United Methodist Church in the Garden City area. She has come from a four-year pastorate at Mount Zion United Methodist Church at Mount Solon, near Staunton. Hetherington, who was disabled by polio in 1950, spent six years in Washington as a U.S. Senate advocate for people with disabilities.

Later she was a director of Christian education at churches in Danville and Richmond. She was educated at Radford University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Christian education and at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. She was ordained an elder at the recent Virginia Conference in Hampton.

\ NINTH STREET CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 1103 Ninth St. S.E., has scheduled vacation Bible school in the evening, Aug. 9-13, from 6:45 to 8:45. Classes will be available for all ages including adults.

"Brethren Beliefs and History" will be a special offering by the Rev. David Shumate, Virlina District executive.

\ COLONIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, 106 Hillcrest St., Blue Ridge, will hold neighborhood Bible time beginning at 7 p.m. each night Aug. 1-6. Classes are available for preschoolers through adults.

Additional information is available by calling 977-5683.

\ THE NORTH VALLEY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, will be organized Saturday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at 4909 North Lake Drive. Ralph W. Martin, president of the Potomac Conference of Adventists will speak at the 11 a.m. worship hour.

Saturday morning services convene each week with Sabbath school meeting at 9:25 a.m. followed by worship hour at 11 a.m. John W. McGraw is the pastor of the church.

\ THE REV. LONNIE BARNES, pastor of Westminister Presbyterian Church in America for more than a decade, has left to become director of Patrick Henry Boys Plantation near Brookneal. Currently the church is being served by Randy Farthing, minister of youth.

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 CNB