ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, August 26, 1993                   TAG: 9308260379
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-10   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 Michael Johns, assistant pastor of Greater Refuge Temple in Washington, preaching.

\ LULA PRING, who has been playing sacred and secular music in Roanoke Valley churches and auditoriums for more than 70 years, has been honored on her 90th birthday by the Colonial Avenue Baptist congregation. The native Roanoker has been organist there for nearly 25 years after her retirement from Calvary Baptist in 1966.

\ TWICE BORN,a Christian contemporary music ensemble, will perform Sunday at 6 p.m. at First Evangelical Methodist Church, 1920 Lucas St. in Salem. A nursery will be staffed. Offering will be received.

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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