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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 31, 1994                   TAG: 9403310212
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: BY FRANCES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

RELIGION BRIEFS

COLLEGE LUTHERAN CHURCH'S sixth-grade Sunday school class has collected food and money for the Salem Community Food Pantry as a Lenten project. A celebration of the effort will take place Sunday at the 9:40 education period.

The pantry, an ecumenical Salem project, is housed at St. Paul's Episcopal Church and is staffed by volunteers from many congregations.

\ OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CATHOLIC CHURCH, 314 Turner Road, Salem, will begin the Passion Weekend liturgies with a 7:30 Mass tonight followed by a vigil from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Good Friday services will begin at noon and 7:30. An Easter vigil starts on Saturday at 8 with the Sunday morning Masses at 9 and 11:30 a.m.

\ WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES, an evangelical Christian agency to promote the distribution of Scriptures in native languages, has scheduled its annual promotional banquet April 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Inn-Airport. The event is free. For more information, call Jose Mercado at 890-3447.

\ WHOLENESS IN HEALING is the theme of a April 16 seminar from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church, at Elm Avenue and Jefferson Street.

The speakers will include: George Branham-Whitewolf of the Monacan Indian Tribe in Amherst County, on Native American spirituality; the Rev. Kirk Brown of the church staff, on pastoral care; Dr. David W. Hartman, psychiatrist from Lewis-Gale Clinic, on mental health; Martha J. Hunter, hospital bereavement counselor, on the hospice movement; and Dr. Stephen S. Kennedy, specialist in cancer and blood diseases, and Gerald R. McDermott of the Roanoke College religion faculty, on spiritual health.

The program is free, but reservations are requested. Call 343-9341.

\ SOUTHERN BAPTISTS of the Roanoke Valley Association's 70 congregations will try to start a human service ministry this summer to people in the neighborhoods they serve. The congregations will put emphasis on the ministry, known as Hope for Hurting Humanity, June 19-July 31.

The Rev. Kirk Lashley, executive director of the association, said backyard Bible clubs is one such ministry. The projects are scheduled to precede simultaneous revival meetings in 1995.

\ THE EVENING CHAPTER of Women's Aglow will hear Mary Jane Bevan, music evangelist, April 12 at 7. The group for women of charismatic Christian preference meets at Winn-Co. in the 1200 block of Peters Creek Road Northwest.

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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