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CONTACT: 	Linda Bloom
(10-21-71B){179}
		New York (212) 870-3803			 March 25, 1998

NOTE: This story is a sidebar to UMNS #178.

United Methodists distribute
nearly $300,000 to burned churches

		by United Methodist News Service

	To date, the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries has
approved grants totaling $299,350 to assist burned churches.
	The latest distribution came March 16-20, when board
representatives met with denominational conference officials and pastors
of burned churches in South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi.
	Grants included:
*	$35,000 to Solid Rock Baptist Church in Miami, Fla.;
		*	$24,000 to Bluff Road United Methodist Church in
Columbia, S.C.;
		*	$50,000 to South Richland Bible Way Church in
Gadsden, S.C.; and
		*	$25,000 to Long Suffering Baptist Church in
Columbus, Miss.
Previously distributed grants included $90,000 to First Rocky Point
Missionary Baptist Church in Summitt, Miss.; $65,300 to Mt. Olive Full
Baptist Church in Riverdale, Ga.; $3,050 to Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist
Church in Ladonia, Texas; and $7,000 to Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist
Church in Wolfe City, Texas.
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