March 20, 2013
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NetsForLife GOAL REACHED!!!!!!!! 

This week's Please Note features a thank you video from The NetsforLife� Inspiration Fund, which has successfully exceeded its $5 million goal due to the incredible generosity of supporters across the Episcopal Church and beyond. Over the 2010-12 triennium, thousands of individuals joined congregations, dioceses, schools and organizations in this church-wide grassroots effort to unite Episcopalians in the fight against malaria. The Diocese of North Carolina raised 34,966 nets for $419,595 dollars. 

 

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Rectors, email the Diocese's Episcopal Relief & Development representative, Jan Lamb, to receive updates about ERD and to let her know who your congregation's ERD representative is.

   

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Save the Date for Clergy Conference 2013Feature

This year's Clergy Conference will take place October 8-10 at The Hawthorne Inn in Winston-Salem. The keynoter will be Dwight Zscheile, author of People of the Way: Renewing Episcopal Identity, which applies Diana Butler Bass's insights to the Episcopal Church and to real Episcopal congregations. Read more about Zscheile here


Upcoming Diocesan EventsUpcoming

Find more information about events here, or view the diocesan calendar here.     

 

Does you church host special worship services for Palm Sunday, Holy Week or Easter? Would you like help publicizing them? Submit your church's special services using this form.

   

March

 

21 - Clergy Quiet Day, Renewal of Ordination Vows and Blessing
of Holy Oils
, 10:00am-2:30pm, Holy Comforter, Burlington. The Rt. Rev. Stacy Sauls will conduct the day.    

 

28 - Apr.1 - Diocesan offices closed for Easter 

 

April

 

1 - 2012 Annual Deacon Reports due

 

3 - Spring Youth Event registration deadline 

 

4 - Fresh Start, held regionally. Contact Canon Buerkel Hunn 

 

6 - Committee on Ministry in Higher Education meeting, 10:00am-2:00pm, St. Mary's House, Greensboro. 

 

10 - MRST grant applications due

 

11 - Durham Clericus meeting, 12:00-1:30pm, St. Luke's, Durham. Elective contemplative prayer begins at 11:30am. 

 

11 - NC Council of Churches 2013 Legislative Seminar8:30 a.m. - 3:45 p.m., St. Mark's United Methodist Church, 4801 Six Forks Rd., Raleigh. This event provides info on critical issues facing the General Assembly & equips grassroots activists for social justice.  Cost, including lunch, is $10 for students; $25 for all others.

 

12-14 - Spring Youth Event, Haw River State Park, Browns Summit. 

 

13 - Feeding Our Souls for the Journey: A Feast of Faith, Fellowship & Fun for All Ages, 8:301m-3:00pm, St. Paul's, Winston-Salem. This event that will broaden our ideas about traditional church and give us some tools to help enhance our spiritual lives, as well as the courage to journey to Galilee, wherever that may be.     

 

13 - Discovering the Diaconate, 2:00-5:00pm, All Saints, Concord. Learn more about the diaconate; the differences between priests, ministry and deacons and getting a deacon in your parish.   

  

15 - Standing Committee meeting

  

20 - History Day 2013: The Borrowed Bishop, 10:00am-4:00pm, St. John's, Fayetteville. This year's History Day examines the episcopacy of Bishop Channing, the "first" bishop of North Carolina.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Holy Week and Easter Services 

Find a list of local Holy Week and Easter services here.

The Bible ChallengeChallenge

Consider starting the Bible Challenge as a Lenten discipline.


Also check out this week's meditation by the Rev. Steve Rice, the sixteenth weekly Bible Challenge reflection from clergy across the Diocese.

Join the Pink Tape Protest 
 
North Carolina plans to issue drivers' licenses to young illegal immigrants who have been granted federal protection from deportation for two years. A mockup of the license, provided by the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles, displays the words "No Lawful Status" in red letters, along with "Limited Term" on the side of the license and a bright pink bar across the top.

The North Carolina Council of Churches invites you to place a small piece of pink tape on your licenses as a sign of solidarity with those who are being unfairly singled out. Learn more here.
Outreach SpotlightOutreach

Faith & the Arts at Grace, Lexington   

As part of the parish's Faith & the Arts series, on Tuesday, Mar. 19, a representative from Second Harvest Food Bank will assist members of Grace, Lexington, to paint  pottery bowls.

These bowls will be donated to The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC for its fundraiser, "Annual Empty Bowls." For $25-30, donors receive a lunch of soup, salad and dessert, along with one of the hand-painted bowls to take home.
Learn more about the project here.

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March

 

21 - The Gospel Jubilators in Concert, 7:30 pm, St. Matthew's, Hillsborough. This all-male vocal group based in Durham performs a cappella music highlighting vocal traditions of the golden age of '30s and '40s gospel. Using "only the instruments God gave them," the Jubilators have kept the Jubilee tradition alive going on 40 years. Tickets are $15 and are on sale through the church office.

22 - A Benefit Evening for Botswana's Hospice of the Holy Cross, 7:00pm, St. Anne's, Winston-Salem. Enjoy music by The Unbroken Circle (Wake Forest's multi-generational string band), a report on Botswana by Sharita Womack and a poetry reading by Ed Wilson. Donations gratefully accepted.

23 - Milestones, 7:15am-2:00pm, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte. Niner United, UNC-Charlotte's campus ministry, is hosting an event for first-generation college students and their families. Milestones is a program designed to supplement the Explore UNC-Charlotte campus visit days by providing support often needed by first-generation college students and their families.

25 - Registration deadline for Healthy Eating Equipment grant, 5:00pm. These grants (up to $5,000 for one year) can be used to purchase commercial refrigerators or freezers, kitchen  equipment, materials to start a garden, etc.Sponsored by a partnership of The North Carolina Council of Churches and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation.

30 - Downtown Greensboro Way of the Cross, 7:30 am, Diocesan Office (301 N. Elm St.). Episcopalians and others will gather in bear solemn witness to Christ's suffering and rejection while offering our prayers and hope for all in the city. We will walk a 1.5-mile route from 7:30-8:30am, rain or shine. Contact The Rev. Robert Black or the Rev. Audra Abt with questions.

April

5-7 - Silent Retreat, St. Francis Springs Prayer Center, Stoneville. This weekend away will provide time to lay down those things that press upon us so relentlessly so that we might walk more closely with God for a while.The Rev. Winston Charles will lead the retreat. Registration and deposit due by March 15.

12 - Peter Ostroushka and Danny Gotham in Concert, 7:30pm, St. Matthew's, Hillsborough. St. Matthew's Faith and the Arts series presents Peter Oustroushka. Peter has spent more than 25 years as a frequent performer on A Prairie Home Companion, and he did a stint for a few seasons as Music Director for the popular radio show. He is regarded as one of the finest mandolin and fiddle players in acoustic music.

13 - St. Augustine's Spring Open House, 9:00am, Enery Gymnasium, St. Augustine. Register to attend at admissions.st-aug.edu/open-house.

14 - The Quest for a Just Peace in Israel-Palestine: U.S. Military Aid and Human Rights, 2:00-5:00pm, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The Abrahamic Initiative on the Middle East invites faith leaders and human rights activists to a consultation. Four presenters will speak to the spectrum of opinions on the efficacy of U.S. aid.

19-21 - Hope and Love: The Jack Gray Lecture Series Presents the Rev. J. Pittman McGehee, St. Timothy's, Wilson. The Rev. Dr. J. Pittman McGehee, Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychology and Spirituality, will deliver a lecture entitled "Hope for the 21st Century" at 7:00pm on Friday and a second entitled "The Paradox of Love" at 9:15am on Saturday. Tickets are required for both events. The Saturday lecture, including lunch, costs $10.

20 - Acolyte and Verger Festival, 9:00am-3:00pm, St. John's, Charlotte. This festival, a celebration of our Anglican identity and of lay ministers, is for acolytes and vergers of all ages. The day includes workshops, Episcopal Jeopardy!, Liturgical Olympics and a Festival Eucharist. Register here.

20 - Latino Music Workshop with Julio Cuellar, 1:30-5:00pm, St. Cyprian's, Oxford.This workshop

will celebrate the contributions of Latino members to the Church. Music directors, choirs, clergy, and parishioners young and old are all invited to attend. There is no charge, but donations are  

gratefully accepted. Contact the Rev. Harriette Sturges to register. 


21 - Good Shepherd Sunday, 11:00am, Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount. At the Holy Eucharist, the Good Shepherd Choir will sing Schubert's "Mass in F (German Mass)" and other choral works celebrating our patronal feast day.

 

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