Sunday Announcements
July 5, 2009
Note: Personal phone numbers are removed from the Web version of the Sunday announcements. Please consult your Parish Directory, use e-mail if an address is given, or call the parish office at 919-929-2193 to find out more about the news.
Archives
Services this Week
Mon., Tues., Wed. and Fri.
5:15 pm Evening Prayer
Wednesday, July 8
10:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite 1928
Mr. Elkins-Williams
Thursday, July 9
5:15 pm Baptism and Holy Eucharist Rite II
Mr. Elkins-Williams
Next Sunday, July 12 - The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 10
8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I
Mr. Frazelle
10:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite II
Mr. Frazelle
4:00 pm Holy Eucharist Rite I (Carol Woods)
Mr. Frazelle
5:15 pm Holy Eucharist Rite II
Mr. Frazelle
Readings: 2 Samuel 6:1-5,12b-19; Psalm 24; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:14-29
Events and Meetings
Monday - Friday
9:00 am English as a Second Languague
Today
7:00 pm Orange County Organzing Committee
Monday, July 6
6:30 pm Website Committee
7:00 pm Women’s Voices Rehearsal
Tuesday, July 7
4:30 pm Annual Giving Committee
5:00 pm Centering Prayer
6:00 pm Environmental Stewardship Committee
Thursday, July 9
5:00 pm Adult Education Committee
7:00 pm AA Group
7:30 pm Renewing Hearts Meeting
Friday, July 10
1:00 pm SAA Recovery Group
Saturday, July 11
9:00 am Awakening Heart
6:30 pm NA Group
8:00 pm Northwest Boychoir Concert
Sunday, July 12
7:00 pm Orange Count Organizing Committee
IFC Needs
The IFC request for this week is tuna. Donations may be left in baskets at entrances to the church.
Environmental Stewardship Green Tip:
Protect creation on your vacation: explore by walking and biking! You will be amazed how much more of your destination you will see.
This Week
Parish Office Closed
The parish office will be closed tomorrow for the Independence Day holiday.
Benefit Concert by The Northwest Boychoir of Seattle
Please join us this Saturday at 8:00 pm as this internationally renowned choir presents a concert to benefit TABLE, a weekend backpack project that serves local children at risk for hunger. While admission to this concert is free, we are asking for donations - suggested $15 for adults, $6 for children. Learn more here and here.
Parish Notes
Help Update Parish Database
If you are not receiving copies of The North Carolina Disciple, our diocesan newspaper (which also includes the national Episcopal Life), and would like to, please contact the parish office.
VCS Craft Supplies
We are collecting empty Altoid or Sucrets tins for a craft project at Vacation Church School. Donations can be left in the designated box outside Gretchen Jordan’s office.
Pictorial Directories
If you had a photo taken by Olan Mills to be included in the parish directory, a free copy of the directory is available from Barbara Schliebe in the dining room following all services today. They can also be retrieved from the parish office during the work week.
Prayers for Honduras
Please pray for our friends in Honduras. As you know from the news a military coup was enacted and President Zelaya was removed from the country. Power was off for a while and people were asked to stay in their homes. Those from the Chapel of the Cross who have been on missions to San Patricio, our sister parish in Honduras, especially feel the pain of our friends in Christ.
Striving For Justice: Ideas Needed!
The parish team working with the Orange County Organizing Committee is holding a series of discussions on this topic the week of July 12, and we want to hear from you! Come give your thoughts about how you see our parish living out our baptismal covenant, and learn more about how we are working with other faith communities to improve life for all of us in Orange County.Please join us for one of the following sessions: July 12 - 11:15 am (following the 10:00 am service), Parlor; July 13 - 7:30 pm, at the home of Nancy Tunnessen; July 14 - 7:30 pm, at the home of Nancy Tunnessen. Refreshments will be served. If you would like to attend, or for directions, please email Nancy.
Stewardship Opportunities
Help Refugee Children Have Fun
The Resettlement Team has lined up free/low cost summer opportunities for the eight Karen children whose families the parish sponsored. The families lack transportation and we need parishioners to drive the children to and from summer day camps and swim lessons. A full list of dates and times is posted on the office door as well as on the Outreach Ministry Board in the dining room. You can also find it on the parish website here. Questions? Contact Lorraine McBride (call office for number) or Barbara Trembley (call office for number).
Support Team Volunteers Needed
A Support Team is a defined group of persons organized to provide practical, emotional, and spiritual support to persons with health concerns or other special needs. Team activities may include a ride to the doctor or grocery store, or help with household or yard chores. A Support Team Member can share a prayer or communion but it is always based on the needs of the person being visited. The most important thing to ask Team Members is, “What do you love to do for others?” It’s different for everyone, and a Team approach allows that flexibility. Contact Vicky Jamieson-Drake to volunteer, 929-2193.
Community Notices
IFC Meal Team Needs
Would you like to help feed hungry people in our community while working with a like-minded group of parish volunteers? The Chapel of the Cross IFC meal team that serves dinner at the Community Kitchen on Rosemary Street on the fourth Tuesday of each month needs a few more volunteers. For more information or to volunteer call Trenna Corey at (call office for number).
Pastors for Peace Potluck
Please join the IFCO/ Pastors for Peace travelers to Cuba at a pot luck dinner Sunday evening, July 12, around 6:00 pm at the Church of Reconciliation, 110 N. Elliott Road. The caravan is expected to arrive in the late afternoon with medical supplies, bicycles, and a variety of needs and discussion will follow the dinner. Chapel of the Cross is hosting them for the night, so please come to the dinner. For more information, email Jerry and Cathy Markatos.
For General Convention
God our Wisdom, who eternally makes all things new: encourage by your Holy Spirit those who prepare for General Convention to labor together for the building up of your world and your Church; counsel them when to act and when to wait; turn their hearts always toward those in greatest need, and away from their own preoccupations and fears; help them never forget that love and mercy are your greatest gifts given us all to offer one another as we see in them Jesus Christ who alone is our joy, our way, our truth, and our life. Amen.
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