Sunday announcements
May 27, 2007 - The Day of PentecostNote: 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.
Services This Week
Mon., Tues., Wed. and Fri.
5:15 pm Evening Prayer
Monday, May 28, Memorial Day
12:15
pm
Noonday Prayer
Dr. Joyner
Wednesday, May 30
10:00
am
Holy Eucharist 1928
Mr. Zunes
Thursday, May 31
5:15
pm
Holy Eucharist Rite II
Ms. Lee
Next Sunday, June 3
Trinity Sunday
7:30 am
Holy
Eucharist Rite I
Mr. Frazelle
9:00
am
Holy Eucharist Rite II
Mr. Elkins-Williams
10:00
am
Holy Eucharist Rite II
(Carolina Meadows)
Ms. Jamieson-Drake
11:15
am
Holy Eucharist Rite I
Mr. Elkins-Williams
5:15
pm
Holy Eucharist Rite II
Mr. Elkins-Williams
Readings: Isaiah 6:1-8 Psalm 29 or Canticle 2 or 13 Revelation 4:1-11 John 16:(5-11)12-15
Adult Education This Week:
Pentecost Picnic at Umstead Park - 12:45 pm
Adult Education Next Week
Admitting Pauli Murray (Chapel)
Announcements
A message from the Rector
I want to thank the High School class for their thoughtful suggestions of additions to the Prayers of the People. They have asked that we pray for our enemies, for the mentally ill, and several other petitions. You will hear those added to Forms 1 and 6 today.
Episcopal Youth Community
No EYC this week! We hope to see you at the Pentecost Picnic. Please remember to join us next Sunday at 5:30 pm in the dining room. Don't forget extra clothes and towels!! I am thinking GROSS relays followed by lots of WATER!
Pentecost Picnic
The Pentecost Picnic is today! Seating is limited at Umstead Park so please bring a blanket or lawn chairs if you have them handy. If you did not buy a ticket but would like to come, do! Just bring a bag lunch and join the fun. There will be music, cake (to celebrate the church's birthday), fellowship and a retelling of the story of Pentecost.
Directions from the church: turn right out of the parking lot onto Franklin Street. Turn left on Hillsborough Street. Cross Martin Luther King Jr Blvd./Historic Airport Road and continue on Umstead Road through two stop signs. Umstead park is on the left.
Next Week
Admitting Pauli Murray
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and the John Hope Franklin Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center, 2006-2007, will speak about Durham native Pauli Murray, who challenged segregation at the University of North Carolina in the 1930s, went to jail in 1940 for refusing to move to the back of a bus, followed Gandhi from the Harlem Ashram, and led sit-ins in the nation's capital during World War II. Pauli Murray also became a lawyer and a founder of the National Organization for Women. Deeply religious and a practicing Episcopalian throughout her life, Murray was among the first group of women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church and the first black woman. For over fifty years, she fought discrimination wherever she encountered it, but her hardest struggle was to reconcile her abiding faith with the fact that she was gay.
Parish Notes
Fundraiser thank-you
Many thanks to everyone who participated in the Foreign Currency Fund-raiser for the Youth Mission trip to New Orleans!!! We were able to make $715. This was nearly enough to provide three half scholarships for our trip.
Volunteers Needed
Chapel of the Cross is looking for a few good people to volunteer in the office and print center on Friday afternoons. Take the opportunity to get to know your fellow parishioners and serve God at the same time! If you are interested please contact Mary Anne Handy in the parish office at 929-2193.
Search for Director of Stewardship and Development
The Personnel Committee has started the search process for a Director of Stewardship and Development (funded initially through the Capital Campaign). The person in this position will provide vision, direction and staff support for stewardship programs. Initial emphasis will be to implement a successful capital campaign including the advanced and major gifts program. Longer term work will include direction and support for annual budget giving and planned giving programs, develop and coordinate year-round stewardship education, and develop a communications plan for stewardship activities. The person selected will be a college graduate with strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. Campaign experience is essential. If you know a person who has these skills, please forward his/her name to the Personnel Committee.
Youth Readers Needed
We have a few openings for new youth readers at the 9 am service during the 2007-2008 school year. Youth readers typically have the opportunity to read once or twice within a quarterly Liturgical calendar cycle on regular Sunday as well as special holiday services. Training will be offered in late summer in time for the fall calendar. Please contact Mark Pandick at pandick@us.ibm.com .
Summer Book Reading
The Adult Education Committee has chosen Bishop John Shelby Spong's most recent book, Jesus for the Non-religious for this year's summer reading group. Discussion will follow a simple supper on the last three Wednesdays in June (13, 20 and 27) starting at 6:30 pm. Craig and Linda Everhart will host the supper and discussion at their home. The book is readily available online. Please sign-up in the church office.
Email notice for Cross Roads
The recent increase in postage rates applies not only to first class postage but also to bulk mail rates that we use for large mailings. We can now offer the option of sending email notices when a new issue of Cross Roads is available on the parish website, allowing parishioners to read it online. Both PDF and HTML formats will be available. If online reading of Cross Roads is not an acceptable option, we will continue to mail a copy to your home. If you want to continue receiving a mailed copy, you need to do nothing. If you wish to receive an email notice rather than a paper copy of Cross Roads, please notify the parish office and be sure we have your current email address. Similar options will apply to parishioners who receive the Liturgical Calendar. You may receive an email notice when a new copy of the calendar is posted on the web site. It will be in a PDF format only. You may also pick up a paper copy from the parish office. If neither of the first two options is workable for you, a copy will be mailed to your home. As with Cross Roads, please notify the parish office of your preference and be sure we have your current email address. Please send information about your choices for delivery of these two mailings and confirmation of your current email address to our Administrative Assistant Mary Anne Handy at mahandy@thechapelofthecross.org. We thank you for your flexibility and cooperation in helping reduce both postage and paper costs in as effective a manner as possible.
Vacation Church School to be Filled Soon
Registration is ongoing for our July 23-27 morning program, but some classes are nearing capacity and the "completed kindergarten" class is now filled. If you plan to attend, please register now. Forms are available outside the Educators' office and in the dining room. We have changed the week and the ages of participation. Children must be entering kindergarten in the fall to register for this summer.
Graduate and Professional Students
If you are interested in fellowship with fellow Episcopalians, join us weekly for "Fridays on the Front Porch" at the Carolina Inn. The festivities are every Friday during the summer and include bluegrass music and food! We meet at the church at 4:45 and head over to the Carolina Inn (the corner of Columbia and Cameron Streets). We also schedule a variety of other activities. If you would like to stay updated on what we are doing, join our Facebook group, UNC Episcopal Grad and Professional Students, or join our listserv, egp@listserv.unc.edu. You may also contact John Derrick at jderricknc@aol.com or Jimmy Satterwhite at jimmysa@alumni.unc.edu.
Mark your Calendars
Play for Par Golf Tournament
Our parish's seventh annual "Play for Par" Golf Tournament is Monday, September 17th at The Preserve at Jordan Lake. Proceeds from this tournament are a critical part of our funding to build Habitat for Humanity houses in Orange County. Registration begins at 12:00 pm with a shotgun start at 1:00 pm. The entry fee is $125 per person, and sponsorships are available. The steering committee is also looking for corporate sponsors to help reach our $25,000 goal. Contact Brian McRae at mcraebj@gmail.com.
Stewardship
Thompson Child & Family Focus
If you haven't had a chance to stop by the Thompson table in the dining room to pick up a heart to help with our Summer Clothing Drive, please do so today. The Drive will end June 10 and there's still a great need for all items. Financial contributions and department store gift cards are also welcome. For more information, please call Susan Thomason or Dina Urquhart. Thank you for your support!
Community Notes
Club Nova Thrift Shop
Located in Carrboro, Club Nova promotes and provides opportunities for individuals living with mental illness to lead meaningful and productive lives of their choice in the community. Open Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 6 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, Club Nova Thrift Shop gladly accepts both material and monetary contributions during regular business hours ( all donations are tax deductible). To learn more, call the shop coordinator, Camellia Morton, at 967-6985.
New IFC Food Pantry Needs
Our donations to the IFC food pantry during Lent and the first weeks of Easter were very much needed and appreciated; each delivery was welcomed by smiling faces in the IFC office by staff and clients. As the seasons change, IFC needs change. The following items are now requested in order to help the food pantry continue supporting walk-in requests: soup, tuna, Vienna sausage, applesauce, canned salmon, canned navy beans and snacks. No breakable containers, please. Baskets for our food offerings are located in the parish office and in the tower entrance to the church. Thank you for your continuing attention to this need in our community.
Caring for our Troops
Those who wish to support our troops in Iraq should look to the USO Cares program (www.usocares.org/src/uso_home.htm) and Operation Iraqi Children (www.operationiraqichildren.org) as means of getting resources to US troops and Iraqi citizens.
Art Exhibit - "Strong Women of God"
An exhibit at the Chapel Hill Bible Church from June 3 through August 3 will represent historical or contemporary women of God as well as the abstract ideals of the spiritual strength of women. We are accepting paintings, sculpture, mixed media, collage, photographs, drawings, fabric art, or other media. Children and youth may also submit. All works must be ready to hang and include a paragraph naming the work and giving the reason why this represents a strong woman of God. Entry forms are available at www.bible church.org. Submit entries May 23-May 30 to Cyndi Whisnant. If you have questions contact cyndiw@biblechurch.org ext. 116.
Thank You and Farewell
Today, the Day of Pentecost, marks my last Sunday to serve as your deacon. After much discernment and prayer this past year, I am now answering God's call to retirement. While I plan to continue with some of my ministries in the community and the diocese, retirement will allow me to spend more time with my family and to pursue some other interests.
The past ten years since my ordination at the Chapel of the Cross have been wonderfully rich and fulfilling. I am very appreciative of the direction and guidance given me by the rector, Stephen Elkins-Williams, and working with such a capable and committed staff has been a joy. It has been a great privilege to work and serve with so many of you. I have learned a lot and grown in immeasurable ways, and I am deeply grateful for your love and support to me and my family. The " varieties of gifts" you all so faithfully bring to the service of God in the parish and in the community are indeed inspiring!
Thank you and God bless you!
Martha Hart
A Message from the Rector
The Rector made the following announcement at all the services last Sunday:
Your Vestry and I had a wonderful retreat this weekend at Avila Retreat Center in Durham. I am happy to tell you that we elected Melody Savage, Sr. Warden and Anne Henley, Jr. Warden, to whom I am grateful. We also reelected Nancy Kelly as Clerk (for her 15th year!) and Bill Daniell as Chancellor.
Most of our time together, however, was spent in faithful and honest discussion with one another in response to a letter that I had written the Vestry articulating why I think we at the Chapel of the Cross should now engage in a discernment process about widening our pastoral care to include the blessing of gay unions. Led by a priest of our diocese as facilitator, we prayerfully and respectfully listened to each other's convictions and concerns. The Vestry unanimously agreed to continue in an active discernment process with me and to take steps to engage the parish in that process. In another week or so, I will be sending you a letter outlining my thoughts about this and why I think we should proceed in this way. I ask your prayers and understanding as we now take further steps in facing what continues to be a very divisive issue in our Church and in our society.
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Last updated: May 25, 2007
