April 3, 2013
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A Day You Won't Want to Miss: 

Feeding Our Souls for the Journey   

 

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This week's Please Note features an interview with Laurie Holden, chair of the Chartered Committee for Lifelong Christian Formation. The committee will host a day-long event called Feeding Our Souls For the Journey: A Feast of Faith, Fellowship & Fun for All Ages on April 13, from 8:30am to 3:00pm, at St. Paul's, Winston Salem . 

  

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Contact: Laurie Holden or Shelley Kappauf with questions. 

 

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Register now for the 16th Annual Youth Choir Camp at Trinity Center, August 15-18. 

 

April

  

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 - NC Council of Churches Legislative Seminar8:30am-3:45pm, St. Mark's United Methodist Church, Raleigh. This event provides information concerning critical issues facing the General Assembly and equips grassroots activists for social justice. Cost, including lunch, is $10 for students, $25 for all others.

 

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

 

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  


16 - Chartered Committee for Hispanic Ministry meeting, 10:30am-12:00pm, St. Mary's, High Point. Lunch and fellowship at a Mexican restaurant will follow.    

  

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 Moore, the "first" bishop of North Carolina.     

26 - Deadline for submitting grant requests to the NC Episcopal Church Foundation  

 

May

 

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

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Also check out this week's meditation from the Rev. Nils Chittenden, the eighteenth 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.
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Good Friday began at 7:30am with faithful who walked the stations of the cross through downtown Greensboro, continued with the Good Friday Liturgy with veneration of the cross at St. Mark's, Raleigh, and it now concludes with Tenebrae there.

"Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands if sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross.....We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world."


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Register now for SOUL (Spiritual Opportunity to Unite and Learn) 2013 Conference, May 23 - 27, 2013, at St. Augustine's University, Raleigh.The SOUL Conference provides a safe place for 
Episcopal youth and young adults of African descent from across the church to meet and grow together in relationship with one another and Christ while participating in workshops toward leadership development. The registration deadline in April 19.     

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.

10 - Speaking our Faith to Power: A Conversation with Rev Fletcher Harper, 2:30-3:30pm, Community United Church of Christ, Raleigh. Fletcher is an Episcopal priest and the Executive Director of GreenFaith. Commended by the Committee for Environmental Ministry.

10 - The Faith Voice in Environmental Advocacy: A Conversation with GreenFaith's the Rev Fletcher Harper, 7:00-8:30pm, United Church of Chapel Hill. Fletcher is an Episcopal priest and the Executive Director of GreenFaith. Commended by the Committee for Environmental Ministry.

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 as Music Director for the 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.

13 - Faith, Food and Farming, 11:00am, Campus Cinema in Witherspoon Student Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Join Dr. Norman Wirzba, research professor of theology, ecology and rural life at Duke Divinity School, for conversation and a free lunch. This event is co-sponsored by the NCSU Episcopal Campus Ministry. Register here.

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.

24 - Latino Legislative Day, 9:30am-3:45pm, Raleigh. Join the NC Congress of Latino Organizations, elected leaders, religious leaders and advocates for a day of advocacy related to immigration reform.

25-27 - 55th Annual Book Sale, St. Francis, Greensboro. This sale features more than 50,000 volumes. The book sale supports a variety of organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, Guilford Interfaith Housing Coalition, Barnabas Furniture Ministry, Room at the Inn of the Triad, Horse Power, Stop Hunger Now and Crop Walk.

 

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