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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, November 3, 1994                   TAG: 9412230084
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S3   EDITION: METRO 
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RELIGION BRIEFS

CHURCH WOMEN UNITED, an ecumenical organization of Christian women of any racial or ethnic group, will mark World Community Day Friday at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 712 Front Ave. in Salem.

"Go See and Act as Sisters" is the theme. An offering will be taken for blankets and other needs. Registration is at 10 a.m.

ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES, an interfaith service ministry that staffs a day shelter in inner city Roanoke and supplies other emergency needs, received $14,000 at a recent benefit party. The Rev. Julie Hollingsworth,director, said RAM's clothing closet at Central Church of the Brethren needs warm jackets, sweaters and socks for men. Items may be taken to the church at 416 Church Ave. S.W. Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 310 N. Jefferson St., will be the site of a service uniting all Baptist women Monday at 10 a.m. in an annual program promoted by the Baptist World Alliance. The service will be followed by luncheons in the Vinton and Hollins areas.

A second service for those who work during the day will be held at 7 p.m. at Garden City Baptist Church, 3536 Garden City Blvd. S.E.

THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY will sponsor its annual Mass to honor the living and the dead on Friday. The mass will be held at St. Elias Catholic Church, 4730 Cove Road N.W. at 10 a.m.

THE VIRGINIANS GOSPEL QUARTET will perform Saturday at 7 p.m. at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church, 3009 Mount Pleasant Blvd.

GREENE MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST MEMBERS have dedicated a Habitat for Humanity house they constructed at 1701 Chapman Ave. S.W. The house has been under construction since May .

A HABITAT HOUSE built jointly by members of Virginia Heights and Calvary Baptist congregations will be dedicated Sunday at 12:30 p.m. The house is at 808 Kellogg Ave. N.W. and was among several started on the street in a "blitz" in mid-June.

HEALTH CARE DECISIONS will be the theme of a Lay Ministry Conference scheduled Nov. 12 from 9 a.m. to noon at St. John's Episcopal Church in downtown Roanoke. Featured speakers for the free event will be Bishop Heath Light, Dr. David A. Scott, Dr. Stephen S. Kennedy and the Rev. Jacqueline S. Gravatt.

Scott is a professor of ethics at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria; Light is bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia; Kennedy is a cancer specialist; and Gravatt is director of chaplains at a Norfolk hospital.

Reservations are requested; call 343-9341.

Send information to Frances Stebbins, Neighbors, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, Va. 24010-2491 by noon Thursday.



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