Dear Friends

A Little Paper Called Cross Roads

Cross Roads, September 30, 1987

From Cross Roads, Vol.1, No.1, September 15, 1929, Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.

This is the first issue of a paper which we hope to publish every week, except during the summer. We want every Church member to read it regularly, as its purpose is to keep the congregation informed as to what is going on, and also to provide a means through which the rector can reach everyone. We cannot afford to mail it, so it will be placed in the Church every Sunday morning and everyone is asked to take a copy.

As a name for this paper, we have tried to find one with a certain significance for this parish. The original chapel built in colonial times was situated at the cross roads, where at that time the two great highways, the one going north and south, and the other going east and west, met. The place was near where the Carolina Inn now stands. Again, cross roads nearly always used to be the site of the country store ... the source of news for the neighborhood. So we hope you will come to this present "Cross Roads" to find the news, and at the same time to remember the past in order to go on to a better future.

It will cost about $25 to get this little paper out for the year. We hope some members of the parish will be willing to defray this expense …. [The Rev. Alfred s. Lawrence, Rector].

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Dear Friends,

A lot has changed in the last fifty-eight years. This "little paper" now runs to an average of 8 pages, plus frequent inserts, though it is no longer weekly. We can now afford to mail it to every parish household, though the cost of producing this "little paper" for a year has gone up about 6000% in the last sixty years.

The significance of the title, however, has not changed. The parish itself is the cross roads of the lives of its parishioners as we come together to offer our lives to God in worship, study, and service to each other and our neighbor; and this newsletter reflects our intersections.

In this issue, as always, you will find out what is happening at this particular time in the life of the parish. The United Thank Offering calls us to give thanks for our blessings by giving to the service of the Church through programs sponsored by the Episcopal Churchwomen. The Social Ministries insert calls us to give freely of ourselves to help our neighbor. The Fall Conference, "Who is Our Neighbor? The Next Step ....." will help us to take real individual and communal steps to better serve our neighbors.

There's a lot of information packed into this "little paper," and it remains a place where we can all 'meet.' I encourage "every Church member to read it regularly." ---Stephen