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

DATE: THURSDAY, August 26, 1993                   TAG: 9308260282
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

RELIGION BRIEFS

REFUGE TEMPLE CHURCH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST at 2620 Cove Road N.W. has scheduled opening services and a revival meeting beginning Sept. 5. Bishop Thurman Hargrove Sr. is pastor.

The Sept. 5 service will begin at 6 p.m. Elder Joseph Griffin, pastor of Temple Emanuel Church of God in Christ in Bridgeport, Conn., will lead nightly revival services Sept. 6-10 at 7.

A second series of services at 7 p.m. will be held Sept. 13-17 with Elder Michael Johns, assistant pastor of Greater Refuge Temple in Washington, preaching.

\ THE TURNING POINT, a shelter for battered women and children operated by the Salvation Army, received nearly $950 from a recent benefit concert by Holy Wind, a contemporary Christian music group, at Calvary Baptist Church.

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