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UMD Food Pantry Drive
Right now, UMD's Food Pantry is distributing about 4,000 pounds of food a month. With more families than ever accessing the Food Pantry we want to kick off our efforts with a food drive to collect 12,000 pounds of food - enough to keep the Pantry stocked for 3 months. The need for a food drive is more important in the summer because hundreds of children who receive free breakfasts and lunches at school do not have that opportunity in the summer. The result: demand goes up and resources go down. That's where you can make a real difference.
St. Philip's and partnering congregations will bring in non-perishable foodstuffs as listed below. With 12 churches participating we should be able to reach this ambitious goal. Plus, each food item donated in the month of April has the potential to be matched $1 per item by the Feinstein Foundation.
So the more you donate, the more UMD benefits, both in food and cash. The following list of foods was developed with the input of UMD staff, and remember, all food must be nonperishable.
Peanut butter and jelly, powdered milk, canned meats (tuna, salmon, stews, Spam or Treet), canned soups, dried beans, rice, and pasta, canned tomatoes, tomato paste, pasta sauce and fixins', canned green and yellow/orange vegetables, pork 'n beans and other canned beans, macaroni and cheese, canned fruit and applesauce, cereals, oatmeal, grits, and other breakfast foods, juices, teas and coffee, sugar and non-sugar sweeteners, flour, salt and pepper, condiments, baby foods.
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Diocesan Weekly Newsletter
If you're interested in signing up for the Diocesan weekly newsletter, "Please Note," go to the Diocesan Web site: www.episdionc.org and click on "Join our e-mail list." You'll see that the newsletter that's currently on the Web site includes a familiar face! The current issue also features Del and Jill as members of the Diocesan Global Missions committee: http://www.episdionc.org/please_note/article241676c3473834.htm .
Jonah+
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Beloved Community 2009 - Lunchtime | |
Volunteers Are Needed for Beloved Community
We still have any volunteer opportunities available to help out with the Beloved Community event at on May 22. Please consider volunteering for one or more of the following "shifts" and contact Rich Ball Damberg at richdamberg@gmail.com or 688-4141 (evening). Thanks !!
During the week before the event:
- We need volunteers to invite residents and hand out flyers in nearby neighborhoods.
- Do you have an 8 foot table or pop-up shade canopy we can use? If so, please drop it off at the Queen Street entrance to the Parish Hall on Friday afternoon, May 21.
- And of course.....bring more food for Urban Ministries!
On the day of the event (Saturday, May 22)
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
12 more to help with setting up
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
2 more greeters (spanish speakers would be great)
2 more t-shirt sellers
1 more person to staff the St. Philips table in the resource area
2 more to help with anything and everything
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
12 more to help with food service
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
2 more greeters (spanish speakers would be great)
2 more t-shirt sellers
1 more person to staff the St. Philips table in the resource area
3 more to help with children's arts and crafts
2 more to help with anything and everything
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
10 more to help with clean up
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Beloved Community 2009 Music! | |
Happening This Week
Monday, 5/24
6:30 p.m. Bible Workbench, Library
6:30 p.m. MDG Meeting, Parlor
Tuesday, 5/25
7:30 p.m. Stephen's Ministry, Parlor
Wednesday, 5/26
6:30 p.m. Prayer Bead Ministry, Library
6:30 p.m. Lay Ministry Meeting, Parish Hall 7:30 p.m. Choir Rehearsal
Saturday, 5/29
8:50 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Jail Ministry
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Singing at Beloved Community 2009 | |
MDG committee meeting
All interested parishioners are invited to come to the Millennium Development Goals committee meeting on Monday, May 24, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. in the Parlor. Topics will include an update on the Bromley School and Haiti relief efforts.
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IHN returns June 6
The Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network (DIHN), an outreach ministry to homeless families in Durham, is returning to St. Philip's soon. Up to three families will be spending the evenings with us at the church June 6 - 13. Volunteers are needed as drivers, dinner chefs, dinner hosts, and overnight hosts especially on Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday of our IHN host week. For more information, please contact Alec Motten 383-4176, afmotten@duke.edu or see the sign-up sheets in the in the parish house foyer.
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ESL Summer Reading!
The ESL youth ministry will be continuing through the summer! We meet Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at El Buen Pastor. During that time we tutor kids from 1st grade to 10th grade in reading and math. This summer we will be working on reading with lots of fun books and activities! If you are interested in helping Hispanic youth improve their reading skills while having fun, then the ESL youth ministry is for you! We are looking for volunteers who can donate one night a week or one night every other week through the summer months. You do not need to know any Spanish and all materials will be provided. Please contact Kess Ballentine at 717-798-7132 or kess.ballentine@gmail.com, if you are interested in volunteering.
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Community Garden Volunteer Call
This summer we will be hosting two sessions of summer camp, one for children living at Genesis Home and the other for children living at Urban Ministries. Each session will be a two week period, with evening camp Monday-Thursday and a Saturday late morning trip to a local farm. There are several ways that you can help:
Session 1 is July 5-9 and 12-15 (Mondays-Thursdays), 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. We need two counselors and two cooks for each night of camp.
Session 2 is July 19-24 and 26-29 (Mondays-Thursdays), 5:30-8:30 p.m. We need three counselors and two cooks for each night of camp.
For each of the Saturday farm trips (July 10th and 24th, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.), we need two chaperones to help supervise the trip.
In total that is 68 opportunities to volunteer! You can help out with one night of camp, an entire week, a certain night every week, or any combination that suits you The summer program is being coordinated by Allison Scherberger thanks to grant funding from the Diocesan Chartered Committee on Grants. Allison, a graduate student at the Nicholas School, will be working in the garden for 6 weeks beginning June 28. We are excited for this summer in the garden and hope you will join us! To volunteer, contact Elizabeth Newman enewman@nc.rr.com, 919-949-7258.
Also, we will be hosting Wednesday night community dinners in the garden this summer, so keep an eye out for those announcements!
Upcoming Work Days from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.:
Monday, May 24 Wednesday, May 26 Wednesday, June 2 Saturday, June 5 Saturday, June 19
Summer Community Picnic Volunteers Needed:
Beginning June 16 and going through the end of July, we will have a picnic each Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m. to bring together St. Philippians and members of the surrounding community for food, fellowship and music. These picnic dinners will feature produce from our Community Garden and gather outdoors (weather permitting)! We are looking for groups or ministries within St. Philip's to cook, host, and serve meals as a way of highlighting their presence and work. This is an especially good opportunity for ministries related to feeding, outreach, and hospitality! If you and your group are interested in hosting a picnic this summer, please contact Joshua Caler by e-mail: joshua.caler@duke.edu.
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GlaxoSmithKline volunteers working in St. Philip's Community Garden | |
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St. Philip's Youth Mission Trip
How You Can Be Involved!
June 16-18, 2010
"Get up and go!"
There are 16 teens signed-up for our mission trip to Newton Grove and Episcopal Farmworker Ministry. There is still time to sign-up! Pink sign-up forms are in the Parish House on the credenza and can be completed and returned to the Youth Mission Trip basket.
Even if you are not going, you can still participate! We are accepting donations for the supplies requested for the workers. Donations can be added to the offering plate, with a note in the memo line, or, they can be given to any member of the Planning Committee: Leigh Bordley; Laura Branton; Holley Broughton; Ronnie Lilly, Greg Rakauskas; the Rev. Arianne Weeks. The committee will then be purchasing these items and we will organize and distribute as a part of our trip.
All are invited to join us - Saturday, 6/12, 9:00 am - 12:00 p.m. Food for the Journey, Parish Hall.
All teens participating and their families, along with anyone else who enjoys cooking together! We will make food for some of our meals as well as food to distribute to the migrant workers and their families.
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Planning Ahead: Sunday Adult Formation this Summer
Sunday Mornings
May 30, Bible Study - The Rev. Jonah Kendall will lead a bible study. Please join us in the Library.
Summer Bible Study: Epistles of Paul - Beginning June 13 there will be a bible study every Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in the Library. This bible study will be facilitated by the clergy and will focus on Colossians and Galatians, St. Paul's letters to those early faith communities. All are welcome to join.
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9:00 a.m. Service - Sharing Eucharist | |
| Children's News
Vacation Bible SchoolThe Habitat for Humanity VBS theme is "Building Community," something we know a little about since we live into the idea of Beloved Community at St. Philip's.  VBS is brought to life by folks like YOU! We still need volunteers to help the week of Vacation Bible School, June 21-25. Please join us, even if only for one morning.
We have some vacancies for:
- Outreach coordinator: Someone who can send VBS info to other groups (e.g.) and follow up with a phone call or e-mail.
Early morning supervisor: Someone who can supervise and entertain early arrivers from 8:20 - 8:45 a.m.
- Crew leaders: 2 adults manage a group of children and take them from station to station. Crew leaders need to be available for a full morning, 8:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
- Station leaders: Children of different ages rotate through a specialized station. We need station leaders to help with snacks, games, Bible study, crafts, drama and music. Station leaders should be available from 9:15 - 11:45 a.m.
- Transportation coordinator: Can work at any time and organizes our field trip on Friday to see a Habitat neighborhood.
- Clean up crew: assist teachers and sexton with clean up on Friday, June 25.
To volunteer, contact Molly Reingruber, Director of Children's Ministries at 919-475-2227 or mollyr@stphilpsdurham.org.
We have plenty of space available for children ages 3-12. Register today and invite a friend to come with you! Forms are available in the church and online at http://www.stphilipsdurham.org/pages/VBS2010/index.html.
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Father Jonah seen through the eyes of a child in Level II Atrium. | |
Urban Ministries
 Let's Go Italian!
May's casserole recipe for Urban Ministries is "Italian Pasta, Beef and Spinach" a favorite that is used by many families for their own meals! It is easy to make and delicious to eat. The recipe and pans are available on the resource table in the Parish House. No time to cook? Contact Clark Grundler who will cook for you for the cost of the ingredients. He can be contacted at clarkg56@msn.com. Questions? Contact Sarah 491-2364 or sarah.nevill@gmail.com.
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Outdoor Service 2009
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Outdoor Service & Potluck Picnic
June 6, 10:00 AM Sunday, June 6th, St. Philip's will be "getting out of the box", literally. We'll be having our service outside at Forest Hills Park, 1639 University Drive. There's nothing quite like worship in the beautiful outdoors. SERVICE - begins at 10:00 a.m.
BRING YOUR LAWN/BEACH CHAIRS
FOOD - bring a dish. If your last name begins with:
A - H - Main Dish
I - P - Dessert
Q - Z - Fruit or Vegetable
Drinks will be provided
GAMES - We'll have a family fun day with games after the service and meal.
RAIN - In the event of rain, the service and potluck will be held at the church
STEWARDS OF GOD'S CREATION - If possible, be earth friendly and bring your own reusable, plates, utensils, cups and napkins. We'll have paper products available for anyone who needs them and a compost container for used paper products.
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Enjoying lunch at 2009 church outdoor service and picnic.
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Retirement Ministry Group
If you are retired or looking towards retirement please consider joining us for a meeting to discuss a new ministry group at St. Philip's. Retirement brings about many challenging issues and this group, structured around selective written materials and talks by experts on subjects related to retirement and the aging process, hopes to be a forum for discussion, support and learning. We will meet for a series of 8 weekly sessions at a time the group will determine. Join us on Monday, May 24 at 5:30 p.m. in the Church Parlor to be a part of this process. If you have questions please contact Bob George at robertmgeorge@gmail.com or speak to one of the clergy.
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| Social Hour Restocking and Sign Up
Sunday Social (or Coffee Hour) takes place after the 11:00 service. It is a great opportunity for fellowship.
- Be a part of the Social Hour Team
- Host a social hour Sunday (sign up in the hallway). You can host any Sunday for any reason, in honor of a birthday or in memory of a loved one. Your ministry can host a Sunday and highlight your ministry.
- Bring food and beverages to contribute to social hour. It's time to restock! We need items that can be stored or frozen. Powdered drinks and frozen juices are helpful.
Contact Donna Rewalt for more information, drewalt@earthlink.net or 572-0277.
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United Thank Offering May 23rd
With our offerings we are continuing the 121-year tradition of United Thank Offerings. Every penny we put into the blue envelopes will go to well-chosen grants that support the Millennium Development Goals. That is possible because a long established trust fund pays all UTO administrative costs.
Supporting the United Thank Offering gives us a chance to show our gratitude for the many blessings we enjoy, and when we give generously, people in need across the globe are helped.
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Bulletin and Epistle Policy and Deadline
Announcements for the Sunday bulletin and electronic Epistle are due by Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. Please submit them in paragraph form. The length should be a maximum of two to three paragraphs as longer articles tend to be overlook and not read and space also becomes an issue.
For longer features we will send out a stand-alone Epistle that features only that article.
Typically community announcements are not included in the Epistle unless it involves participation of a ministry or team from St. Philip's but they are placed in the bulletin.
Photographs of events at St. Philip's are always welcome and will be used as often as possible and credit will be given for the photographer.
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Highlighted Program
Summer Schedule at St. Philip's
June 6
8:00 a. m.
Eucharist,side chapel
10:00 a.m. Eucharist & Parish Picnic at Forest Hills Park. Bring lawn chairs.
On June 13 we begin our new summer schedule:
8:00 a.m. Said Eucharist, Side Chapel
9:00 a.m. Adult Bible Study, Library
9:20 a.m. One-Room Sunday School for children facilitated by the Clergy, 2nd Floor Gathering Room
10:00 a.m. Choral Eucharist, Sanctuary
5:00 p.m. "Come as You Are" Eucharist in the Parish Hall with music
Outdoor Service & Picnic
Sunday, June 6th, at 10:00 a.m. St. Philip's will be "getting out of the box", literally. We'll be having our service outside at Forest Hills Park. There's nothing quite like worship in the beautiful outdoors.
SERVICE - begins at 10:00 a.m.
- BRING: YOUR LAWN/BEACH CHAIRS
- FOOD - bring a dish
If your last name begins with:
A - H - Main Dish
I - P - Dessert
Q - Z - Fruit or Vegetable
Drinks will be provided
- GAMES - We'll have a family fun day with games after the service and meal.
- RAIN - In the event of rain, the service and potluck will be held at the church
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Beloved Community Photos Submitted by Amanda Smith and Pat Murray
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