Sunday announcements
March 9, 2008 - The Fifth Sunday in Lent March 9, 2008Note: 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
Wednesday, March 12
10:00 am Holy Eucharist 1928
Ms. Lee
Thursday, March 13
5:15 pm Holy Eucharist Rite II
Mr. Frazelle
Next Sunday, March 16
Palm Sunday
7:30 am Holy Eucharist Rite I
Ms. Lee
9:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I
Dr. Joyner
11:15 am Holy Eucharist Rite II
Dr. Joyner
5:15 pm Holy Eucharist Rite II
Ms. Jamieson-Drake
9:30 pm Sung Compline
Readings: Matthew 21:1-11; Philippians 2:5-11; Psalm 31:9-16; Matthew 27:11-54
Adult Education Today
The Baptismal Covenant - Ms. Jamieson-Drake (Chapel)
Adult Education Next Week
Introduction to the Labyrinth (Parlor)
Today
Girl Scout Sunday
Today we are observing Girl Scout Sunday as part of our annual celebration of the founding of Girl Scouts by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912. Chapel of the Cross has Girl Scouts who are vital members of our Junior Choir, youth lectors, acolytes, Lay Eucharistic Ministers, Youth Saints, Episcopal Youth Community, church school and Vacation Church School. Any Girl Scouts who are attending the 9:00 am service are encouraged to join us in the front pews. We invite everyone to join us for refreshments (cookies!) in the dining room following the 9:00 am service. Girl Scouting is a dynamic program that helps girls to cultivate values, social conscience, and self-esteem, while also teaching them critical life skills that will enable them to succeed as adults. Want to learn more? Contact Rose Wignall by email at rwignall@nc.rr.com (or call office for number).
Episcopal Youth Community
See you tonight! EYC meets most Sundays from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in the dining room. We invite and encourage all sixth through twelfth graders to participate. Please contact Caren Parker at cparker@thechapelofthecross.org with questions.
Young Adults Post-Compline Refreshments
Our Young Adults group heads out to Franklin Street for church-sponsored refreshments after the weekly 9:30 Sunday night Compline service. This week is no exception and all our graduate and professional students and other such folks, in school or otherwise, are welcome! Contact John Derrick, jd@unc.edu, for further information.
This Week
Episcopal Campus Ministry
ECM will not hold its weekly meeting this Tuesday. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, March 18 at 5:30 pm in the campus center.
Announcements
Children's Processionals
Palm Sunday and Easter offers children participation in the processionals in both the 9:00 service and Children's Chapel. Palms will be provided on Palm Sunday. Children are invited to bring flowers on Easter to help decorate the wire crosses. In the 9:00 service on both Sundays, children are to sit with their families. Just prior to the processional hymns, members of the Children and Family Ministry Committee will move down the center aisle inviting children to join them at the front for the blessing of the palms. On Easter, members will invite children to join them in the processional to the front to offer the flowers. If your children are preschoolers and you prefer to bring them into 9:00 worship, we ask that you accompany them in the procession and then take them to chapel and check in with Joy Gattis.
Lenten Offering of Money
The Lenten offering will be received on Easter Sunday. Boxes can be left in the marked basket at the front door, placed in the offering plate or left in the parish office. Checks may be made payable to Chapel of the Cross, earmarked "Lenten Offering." This offering will be equally divided between the Episcopal Relief and Development MDG Inspiration Fund and Agua Blanca in Honduras, a mission outreach program of our sister parish, San Patricio. It will be used to purchase vitamins for children.
Liturgical Manners During the Winter
In this cold and flu season, Mrs. Murphy says a "hands-free" passing of the peace is quite acceptable. Simply clasp one's hands together and greet your neighbor with a heartfelt "The peace of the Lord be with you." Also, when receiving the wine, dipping (the wafer) rather than sipping is considerate if you have the sniffles. Thank you very much.
Vestry Election Results
The vestry elections are complete. We thank all those who presented themselves for parish leadership. Congratulations to those elected: Ann Craver, Harriet Gaillard, Doug Kelly and Bill Stockard.
Web-Site Team Needs Extra Hands
The team of parishioners that has been updating the design of the parish web-site is nearing the completion of its task. We now need three or four more parishioners to join the team that keeps the web-site content up to date by posting Sunday Announcements, Cross Roads, vestry minutes, sermons, etc. Experience working with web sites is desirable, but anyone comfortable with computers would be able to do this work. Team members work in rotation and time requirements have flexibility. If you have interest in helping with this particular parish ministry, please contact Websexton Dwight Smith (DwightSmith@nc.rr.com) or Communications Coordinator Vivian Varner (vvarner@thechapelofthecross.org).
Protect God's Creation! "Fast from Carbon" for Lent
The Environmental Stewardship Committee invites you to "fast from carbon" during Lent and beyond. Carbon dioxide is the dominant "green house gas" that is contributing to the warming of our planet and the disruption of our climate. During the five Sundays of Lent, members of the committee will be stationed in the parish office between the 9:00 and 11:15 services, with computers and Internet access, ready to help you measure your "carbon footprint." By answering a few questions, you will learn the amount of carbon that you are putting into the air in the form of carbon dioxide. You will also receive information on how to reduce that footprint and measure your progress. If you have questions about this, please contact Linda Rimer at lbrimer@bellsouth.net or (call office for number) (after Feb. 18, 2008).
Compostable Cutlery
The Environmental Stewardship Committee will continue to offer compostable spoons and forks for sale in the dining room between morning services. The cutlery is made of potato starch and clay, is dishwasher-safe and biodegrades in a home compost pile.
Child Mortality Cross
Many parishioners have helped to build the Child Mortality Cross in the dining room over the last few weeks. More than half the popsicle sticks have been glued to the cross, with each stick representing a child under the age of five who will die from treatable, preventable causes related to poverty during one day of Lent. Please take a moment to add more sticks, or to simply look at this powerful project. A Lenten devotional which incorporates the Millennium Development Goals into daily prayer and reflection is available by the cross.
Can you pack "trash-free" lunch?
This Lent, we are encouraging children (and adults) to pack "trash-free" lunches. One thing to consider when packing (or unpacking) a lunchbox is that anything that goes to the landfill stays in the landfill. A banana peel, for instance, will compost easily (and add nitrogen to your compost pile) but if it is thrown in the garbage and sent to the landfill, it will be stuck in an anaerobic environment where it cannot biodegrade. If you have a home compost pile, use it!
Lenten Offerings
Prayer groups on Sunday morning during adult education in Room 1, Tuesdays from 12:30-1:30 in Room 6, Wednesdays from 9:00 - 10:00 am in Room 6 and Wednesday afternoons from 4:15 - 5:15 in Room 6, welcome additional participants. The final yoga session is tomorrow from 10:30 am -11:30 am in the dining room. Devotional resources and offering boxes are available in the dining room. The offering will be divided with half going to purchase vitamins for children in Honduras and the other half to the parish's Millennium Development Goals Inspiration Fund. Boxes are to be returned on Easter Sunday.
ABC Sale Funds Requests
The Social Ministry Committee is accepting requests for funds from the annual ABC Sale. The annual ABC Sale will be held on Saturday, April 12. Proceeds from the sale go to area nonprofit organizations that target children, education, mental and physical heath and homelessness/poverty. The 2007 sale profits provided over $26,000 to benefit 22 area organizations. The Social Ministry Committee is now accepting requests for grants from the sale proceeds. Anyone wishing to make such a request may obtain an application from the parish office or from the parish website. The guidelines for consideration of requests are also on the website. The deadline for receiving applications is March 31. If you are involved with an organization or know of one interested in submitting a request, please pass this information on to them. Applications can be mailed to the church, attention Social Ministry, ABC. For more information, contact Cynthia Crittenden at (call office for number) or crcrittenden@bellsouth.net.
ABC Sale Donations
In planning your donations for the ABC Sale, please note that we accept almost any type of merchandise, from furniture to clothing, household items to antiques, books to toys. Please however do not donate torn, dirty or broken items. Please be aware that some items do not sell well, such as encyclopedias, textbooks, computers, typewriters, large appliances, and exercise equipment. If you have any question about an item, please ask us first. Unfortunately we can not accept mattresses, futons, car seats, oversized furniture or artificial Christmas trees either. We do have a list of agencies that might take some of these items. Feel free to ask for names and numbers if you need them. Unsalable items are offered to agencies helping people in need, but we often have to pay for them to receive the goods. Co-chairs Heather Benjamin (call office for number or habenjam@bellsouth.net and Mindy Morton (call office for number or mortons04@nc.rr.com) hope you are able to join us for the ABC SALE on Saturday, April 12 and are able to donate some time and goods to the sale set up week April 7-11.
A Treasured Affair
Years ago, on a Sunday afternoon before the ABC Sale, the ECW held a tea to which treasures were brought and appraised by an expert. It was a lively event that afforded attendees a free appraisal of their donation to the Treasures Room along with a spot of tea and good conversation. Last year, in celebration of the 45th annual ABC Sale, this old tradition was resurrected with a slightly different twist. We would like to continue this renewed tradition. This year, we would again like to invite parishioners to A Treasured Affair, an early evening gathering to which you are asked to bring a treasure for donation to the ABC Sale. David Lindquist, owner of Whitehall Antiques at the Villa, will offer his expert appraisal of your special trinkets and treasures. Please join us on Wednesday, April 2, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at #1 The Glen (the Home of Martin and Jane Rody). Please RSVP by March 23 to Mindy Morton (call office for number or mortons04@nc.rr.com) or Heather Benjamin (call office for number or habenjam@bellsouth.net.
Mark Your Calendar
Spiritual Life Committee Special Event
Hold the Date and sign up in the church office for the April 5, 5:00 pm presentation by Dr. Van Quinn on Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem". Commissioned for the reconsecration of the Coventry Cathedral after WW II, the text is based on the traditional Latin liturgy and the poetry of Wilford Owen. The Durham Choral Society will perform this work on April 19 and 20. More information will be included in the April Cross Roads.
ECM Honduras Mission Night
Following the mission team's return from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, the Episcopal Campus Ministry welcomes one and all to attend the ECM Honduras Mission Night on Tuesday, March 25 from 5:30-7:00pm in the dining room. A presentation complete with pictures and personal experiences will begin at 5:30, with dinner following at 6:30. The night promises great food, great stories and great fellowship! If you have any questions, please contact Liz Gilliam at (call office for number or gilliame@email.unc.edu.
Stewardship Opportunities
Peace Center at Orange Alamance Prison
The Orange Alamance Prison Ministry is in the final weeks of a drive to raise money to build a modest chapel at the Hillsborough unit where members of our parish visit weekly. Any amount is appreciated. A $100 donation will purchase a memorial brick with a name, an inscription on it, to be placed in the Peace Garden. Checks can be made to the Chapel of the Cross with a note "for the Prison Chapel." If you have questions call Terry Johnston at (call office for number).
Community Notes
Walk the Labyrinth
An Ecumenical Holy Week Labyrinth opportunity sponsored by our parish and eight other congregations will open on Palm Sunday at 4:00 pm. This labyrinth is a 40' x 40' canvas replica of the 12th century Chartres Cathedral labyrinth in France. It is laid on the sanctuary floor at Olin T. Binkley Baptist Church at the corner of Hwy. 15-501 and Willow Drive. Please enter at the new front entrance on Willow. The hours vary each day of Holy Week: Sunday, 4:00 pm-8:30 pm; Monday, 6:30 am-8:30 pm; Tuesday, 6:30 am - 7:30 pm; Wednesday, 6:30 am - 6:30 pm; Good Friday, 6:30 am-2:00 pm with a service from noon - 1:00 pm. Bring socks for walking. A love offering will be received. Gretchen Jordan will lead an orientation on Sunday, March 16 in the Campus Center during adult education.
Holy Week Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice
You are invited to walk with, and/or support, the 21st annual Easter Pilgrimage to reflect on and dramatize Christ's teachings, especially as they relate to policies affecting the poor and powerless. A dozen core walkers begin the Pilgrimage in Asheville this year on Palm Sunday with local participation along the way. Events include walks, vigils, discussion programs, meals and overnight hospitality in Morganton/Hickory, Winston-Salem, Greensboro/Burlington, Durham and Raleigh. A central theme this year is examining policy-driven causes of immigration, and remedies that people of faith can provide.The culmination of the Pilgrimage occurs on Good Friday, March 21, from noon to 2:00 pm at the Old Capitol building in Raleigh. It is an Economic Justice Way of the Cross observance that our bishops have participated in from the beginning. Our Social Ministries Committee along with many other NC churches and civic groups has co-sponsored this event coordinated by the Carolina Interfaith Taskforce on Central America. Parishioners may contribute financial support and pick up schedule info at the Social Ministries table or bulletin board in the dining room. For carpooling or questions, call Jerry Markatos (call office for number).
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 :
Fast from carbon! Keep your tires adequately inflated. Check them monthly. Save 250 pounds of carbon dioxide/year.
Last updated: March 7, 2008
