Sunday announcements

The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 12 - July 29, 2007

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.

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Services This Week

Mon., Tues., Wed., and Fri.

5:15 pm Evening Prayer

Wednesday, August 1

10:00 am Holy Eucharist 1928
John Zunes

Thursday, August 2

5:15 pm Holy Eucharist Rite II with Healing
Mr. Elkins-Williams

Next Sunday, August 5

The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost - Proper 13

8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I
Mr. Elkins-Williams

10:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I
Mr. Elkins-Williams

10:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite II
(Caroline Meadows)
Susannah Smith

5:15 pm Holy Eucharist II
Mr. Elkins-Williams

Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:12-14; 2(1-7, 11) 18-23; Psalm 49 or 49:1-11; Colossians 3:(5-11)12-17; Luke 12:13-2

Next Sunday

Sunday Summer Parish Breakfasts

The next breakfast is scheduled for next Sunday at 8:30 am. The Sunday Summer Breakfast was resurrected on Sunday, July 8, with breakfast being prepared and served by the following parishioners: Valerie Bateman, Sankey Blanton, Duane Gilbert, Robert Hook, Dave Scocca, Jay Reeves, Henry Thomas and Tony Hawkins. We'd like to thank our cooks and new Sexton, Ron McGill, for their help and cuisine. A hearty thanks and appreciative hand to Ken Stynes who supplied Tony and now Duane Gilbert with the menu and directions for working the breakfasts.

Parish Notes

Dinner on the Grounds

There is one remaining dinner this summer. Please join us in the fellowship of shared dinner after the 10 am service on August 19. Please bring a dish to share. Drinks will be provided.

Parish Distribution List

The parish maintains an email list of those who would like to receive the weekly prayer list from the bulletin, notices of deaths of parishioners, and other time-sensitive parish information. In order to protect the privacy of those receiving messages and their e-mail addresses, all messages are sent as "blind carbon copies". If you would like to receive this information, please send your e-mail address to the Parish Communications Coordinator, Vivian Harris Varner, at vvarner@thechapelofthecross.org.

Contribution Statements Mailed

Contribution statements for the first six months (through June 30) of 2007 were mailed on Tuesday, July 10, to all those who made pledges to the Chapel of the Cross for 2007. Please check these statements for accuracy and contact the Parish Accountant, Debby Kulik, in the parish office if you find any discrepancies or have any questions. Note that these statements include all contributions recorded through June 30 but, because contributions are counted and recorded on Monday mornings, may not include contributions received after the last Sunday in June. Such contributions will be recorded in July and reflected on the next quarterly statement. Note also that payments received in 2007 but credited to a prior or future year pledge are not reflected on these statements.

Rector's Letter copies available

Copies of the Rector's Pentecost letter to the parish about the discernment process concerning gay unions are available in the dining room and in the back of the chapel. Also available (as mentioned in the letter) are copies of his booklet from the series two years ago, "Pastoral Reflections." It may also be accessed online at www.thechapelofthecross.org/2005/PastoralReflections.pdf.

Vestry Discussions

Over the next several months, members of our congregation are invited and encouraged to communicate with members of the clergy and Vestry regarding the question of whether our parish is called to widen our pastoral care to include the blessing of same-gender unions. The Vestry will be organizing more formal opportunities for education and discussion later in the summer or early fall, but do want to hear from you now regarding your concerns or convictions. Contact information for individual vestry members may be found on the back of Cross Roads. Clergy may be reached through the parish office or by email/mail. A resource that the Vestry has found to be very helpful is the book "To Set our Hope on Christ: A response to the Invitation of Windsor Report Paragraph 135" This book is available for $5.00 through Education/Liturgy Resources in Oxford, NC phone (919)693-5547 or may be downloaded from the web at www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/ToSetOurHopeOnChrist.pdf.

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 Jimmy Satterwhite at jimmysa@alumni.unc.edu.

Preschool Opening

Preschool at the Chapel of the Cross has a Monday through Friday opening for the 2007-2008 school year for a 4 year old girl, beginning August 6, 2007. She must turn 4 years old by October 16, 2007. If interested, call Laura Gelblum at (call office for number), Dana Campbell at (call office for number) or email pccenrollment@gmail.com.

Mark Your Calendar

Summer Reading Opportunities

There is one remaining summer book discussion. On Wednesday, August 15 at 7:30 the discussion will focus on the UNC summer reading book The Death of Innocents by Sister Helen Prejean. Both meetings will take place in the parlor. Please join us!

Community Notes

Flying Solo Conference

Episcopal Singles Ministry offers this intergenerational conference for single adults August 31 - September 3 at Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville. The theme, "On Pilgrimage," will be led by keynote speaker Dr. Brett Webb-Mitchell, who writes, "We are always either going to something, someplace, somewhere, or leaving it all behind. To go forward means to leave something, someone behind....to go deeper means to get under the surface of the thin, brittle veneer of life in order to see the immense and yet beautiful streams of life's complexities." Brochures and registration forms are available in the dining room in the tract racks.

IFC Needs

The Inter-Faith Council Food Pantry continues to need jelly, cream style corn, oat meal, pork and beans, apple sauce, turnip greens, spinach, collards, stewed tomatoes, salad dressing, macaroni and cheese, vegetable soup dry black and pinto beans, and paper bags with handles (save your grocery store bags and bring them to donate). Our contributions make a difference. When we deliver items from the church to the Food Pantry in Carrboro, these items are used almost immediately to help support walk-in requests. If every person, or every family, coming to a worship service at the Chapel of the Cross each week brought just one item for the Food Pantry, it would make an enormous difference for good in our community. Make it a habit if you can.
Baskets for our donations are located in the parish office and at the tower entrance to the church.

Our Growing Burmese Population

Our two original families who came to us last fall have now split up into two apartments in order to accommodate newly arrived extended family members. They are in need of additional supplies. The list includes large pots with lids, paring knives, large soup bowls and soup spoons, and a sofa, or sofa bed. They also would like to have a computer as one of the young men is working on his GED. Please bring any of these items (except the sofa) to the office. If you have a sofa, please contact Barbara Tremblay at btrem@verizon.net or (call for number) so we can arrange delivery.

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 (call office for number).

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.

Meals on Wheels

If you or another parishioner could benefit from a hot noonday meal delivered to your home Monday through Friday because of illness or other infirmity, you are urged to contact the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels Program. Contact Jeanie Arnel at (call office for number), Monday through Friday, from 10 am to 1:30 pm.

Sunday Announcements

The deadline for announcements is 10:00 am on Wednesday. Announcements should be brief. Parish-related submissions are given priority. Include daytime phone and email address for contact. All submissions are subject to editing; publication of the submission is not guaranteed. Email information to submissions@thechapelofthecross.org or leave paper copies in thePublications Assistant's mailbox in the parish office. Email is preferred.

The Environmental Stewardship Committee Green Tip :

Reduce your vacation footprint: walk and bike more; drive less.

Last updated: July 28, 2007