June 19, 2009
If the Allied Churches of Alamance County doesn’t raise a substantial amount of money quickly, the organization will need to reduce services. The agency needed to raise $16,000 in revenue by June 24 or be forced to close its doors one day a week sta...
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Last summer, young people from across the community shared how they live out their faith in a weekly feature called Youth on a Mission. (Go here to find last summer's “Youth on a Mission” entries.)
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June 18, 2009
SATURDAY Youth choir yard sale and men’s fish fry, 8 a.m., Collins Grove Methodist Church, 5210 Collins Grove Baptist Church Road, Greensboro. 668-0529. Enneagram workshop, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 607 N. Greene St., Greensboro...
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June 15, 2009
HIGH POINT — Just about everything fits in a single suitcase, out of necessity. “We’ve got it down to a science,” says Karl Hengeveld, who travels overseas with recording equipment to dub voices for translations of a film depicting...
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June 14, 2009
The sand-colored stones imported from Israel for a wall at Temple Emanuel speak in deference to the congregation’s Jewish roots. When the Quakers built columns on their meeting house on Asheboro Street in 1910, the predecessor to First Friends was o...
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GREENSBORO — The secular troubles tearing at the heart of Shiloh Baptist Church are merely the latest upheaval at the historic church in the past 13 years. As far back as 1997, consultants brought in to study the church’s dynamics spoke of con...
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Thanks to the hard work and determination of Tim and Joey Upper, recent Caldwell Academy graduate Josue Mendez- Contreras is a step closer to fulfilling his dream. The Upper brothers started a fundraising campaign to help Mendez-Contreras, a native of Ho...
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June 13, 2009
Job loss and how to help are issues that have increasingly dominated the conversation in some faith communities. The state of the economy and its effect on those in the pews are overwhelming some faith congregations as large numbers of brethren out of wor...
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June 11, 2009
SATURDAY BBQ and no-ordinary yard sale, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., St. John’s Anglican Church, 9720 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro. 253-1825. Community shred day, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Starmount Presbyterian Church, 3501 West Market St., Greensboro. A document shredding...
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June 10, 2009
Mount Hope United Church of Christ has made donating to the hungry a little easier for people in the Whitsett area. The youth group and others renovated the church to create a food drop-off site for the Burlington-based Loaves and Fishes Christian Food Mi...
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June 6, 2009
The nickel taped to each of the bulletins handed out at College Park Baptist Church at the end of May represents potential schools, stock farms and wells for Third World countries. The congregation’s goal is to get at least 100 people to give three...
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June 5, 2009
When Superior Court Judge Catherine Eagles upheld the suspension of the pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church for 90 days, she followed a 2007 state Supreme Court ruling that’s become precedent case law for fighting in churches. Eagles cited Harris v. Ma...
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June 4, 2009
SATURDAY Blood drive, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Union Cross Baptist Church, 4350 High Point Road, Kernersville. To schedule an appointment, call Beverly at 769-9541 or 971-0966. www.unioncrossbaptist.org or 769-2862. Community yard sale, Glenwood Friends Meeting...
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June 2, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The pastor at Greensboro’s historic Shiloh Baptist cannot return to the church’s pulpit until at least August after a judge ruled Friday the church’s governing council had the right to suspend the Rev. F. Willis...
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May 31, 2009
David Longobardo, the pastor and chief executive of the Christ Covenant Church and its Day School, called principal Vicky Beale into his office and asked her personal opinion of Adrian Starks. Beale, also an elder at the church, was well aware of the pend...
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May 30, 2009
Shoes, too, can be left at the altar June 7. Actually, they would be appreciated. That’s how thousands of congregations across the country will celebrate the second annual “Barefoot Sunday” to collect shoes for the needy. Across the coun...
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May 29, 2009
Shoes, too, can be left at the altar June 7. Actually, they would be appreciated. That’s how thousands of congregations across the country will mark the second annual “Barefoot Sunday” to collect shoes for the needy. Across the country......
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SATURDAY Yard sale and fish fry, 7 a.m., Spray United Methodist Church, 803 Morgan Road, Eden. Sausage biscuits for breakfast. Fish and hot dogs too. 623-6122. Guitar and bass guitar lessons, 9 and 10 a.m., Crosswalk Cafe, Church of God of Prophecy, 13811...
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May 28, 2009
SATURDAY Yard sale, bake sale and bazaar, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., Mount Hermon Methodist Church, N.C. 704, Madison. Resource fair and workshop, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Genesis Baptist Church, 2812 E. Bessemer Ave., Greensboro. 547-0178. Blood drive, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., S...
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May 26, 2009
Ever since I was little, I’ve loved to draw. Patterns emerge, pictures develop with a few swipes of an ink pen or pencil in motion. I loved it when the teacher would pull out the paints, or better yet, when I got to pull them out at home. I had sket...
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May 24, 2009
Every time another college student came to the synagogue, Rabbi Eliezer “Eli” Havivi made sure Monica Stein got to know them — even stopping in the middle of services to direct her to sit beside the person. The Cincinnati native, attendi...
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Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in High Point will hold an International Festival for the community May 31 to honor the many church members who were born in or who have family ties with foreign countries. The festival, which is free and open to the public...
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May 23, 2009
Arriving at the hospital to pray with a family after the delivery of a new baby. New believers emerging from the baptismal water in his arms. These are among the Rev. David Horton’s favorite everyday things. But after Sunday, his life will take a ne...
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May 21, 2009
SATURDAY Yard sale, 7 a.m.-11 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1520 South Scales St., Reidsville. Free puppet show, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Fishers of Men for Jesus Donation Intake and Bargain Center, 2800 Groometown Road, Greensboro. Donations are welcome...
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