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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 17, 1994                   TAG: 9403160145
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

FOLK GUITARIST CHARLIE KING, who also is a Christian humorist, will perform March 25 at Second Presbyterian Church to benefit Roanoke Area Ministries. A contribution of $5 is suggested. The program will begin at 8 p.m. at the church at 214 Mountain Ave. S.W.

The King concert offering will provide funds for prescription medicines that many poor Roanoke Valley residents are unable to afford. HOLY THURSDAY LITURGY on March 31 at Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church will include a procession into the church from the parking lot at 2505 Electric Road S.W. The procession will begin at 7 p.m. In the church, Mass will include a foot-washing ritual followed by another procession in which offerings, representing the worshipers, will be carried to the chapel. The service, which recalls Jesus' last evening with his friends before the crucifixion, will end with kneeling in the parish garden.

\ BELMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 1101 Jamison Ave. S.E., will join with its sister congregation, First Christian in downtown Roanoke, in hosting a Maundy Thursday service March 31 at 7:30 p.m. The service will include a visual presentation of the Last Supper and music by the combined choirs of the two Disciples of Christ congregations.

\ VINTON BAPTIST CHURCH is among those in the Roanoke Valley Association of Southern Baptists that are joining in the True Love Waits sexual abstinence campaign. To date, 20 youths from the church have agreed to refrain from sexual activity until marriage.

\ "THE CHOICE," a musical drama for Holy Week, is scheduled for two nights this year at Waverly Place Baptist Church. Performances will be at 7 p.m. on March 26 and 27 at the church at 1407 Kenwood Blvd. S.E. Patti Trail is the director. Eighty members are in the cast.

\ FOURTH SUNDAY MUSIC at Belmont United Methodist Church on March 27 will feature Camille Carothers, pianist, and James Glazebrook, violinist.

Carothers is on the staff of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and Glazebrook is concertmaster of the Roanoke Symphony. The program will be at the 11 a.m. service at the church at 806 Jamison Ave. S.E.

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