May 15, 2009
While swapping stories over coffee recently with a couple of Westminster Presbyterian buddies, it occurred to Vincent Sims yet again that there are alternatives to bars and brews. “It was a lot of heads-up,” said Sims, 48, who not long ago was...
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SATURDAY Project Linus of Rockingham County, 9 a.m.-noon, First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 1520 S. Scales St., Reidsville. Learn blanket-making skills, share ideas and make blankets for children in crisis. Volunteers needed. Supplies on hand...
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May 14, 2009
SATURDAY Fish fry, hot dog sale and old-fashion flea market, flea market 7 a.m.-1 p.m., fish fry and hot dog sale 11 a.m., Raleigh’s Crossroads United Methodist Church, 714 Guilford College Road, Greensboro. 294-4325. Spring yard and bake sale, 7 a.
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May 10, 2009
You’d like to think we live in a tolerant city. But then you talk to Yusra Alaqrah. She’s 53, a mother of four, a grandmother of three. She works three jobs, owns her own home, grows fava beans in her back yard and lives in Adams Farm......
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May 9, 2009
Just last year Frank Dew was among a group of people who asked the local General Assembly of Presbyterians to pass a resolution condemning the use of torture against suspected terrorists. It included the lines, “Whereas John Yoo, acting as a deputy...
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May 8, 2009
Raise your hand if you or someone you know has been laid off, let go, downsized, terminated or fired. Now raise your hand if you have found yourself not knowing what to say, what to do and you feel guilty.
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SATURDAY Guitar and bass guitar lessons, 9 and 10 a.m. Saturdays, Crosswalk Cafe, Church of God of Prophecy, 13811 N.C. 87, Eden. For beginners and intermediates. You must have own guitar. Free. 623-4042.
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May 7, 2009
SATURDAY Spring Fest Tag Sale, 7 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Sedgefield Presbyterian Church, 4216 Wayne Road, Greensboro. www.sedgepres.org or 299-4061. “Rock the Lot,” 1 p.m., free outdoor concert, Oakview United Methodist Church, 321 Oakview Road, High...
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May 6, 2009
My prayer would be this: That all people of the world would find understanding and compassion in each other; that the blessings of life would be abundant for all; and that all may live with the peace that passes all understanding.— Elizabeth McKinne...
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May 5, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The United Methodist Church has launched a $20 million advertising campaign aimed at attracting younger members to the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination. The new ads will appear over the next four years on telev...
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The annual National Day of Prayer observance is Thursday. What would your prayer be? If you’re willing to share your thoughts, email eddie.wooten@news-record.com by 2 p.m. Wednesday, and we’ll include a selection of responses in Thursday&rsquo...
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May 3, 2009
Swine flu has changed the face of worship at Our Lady of Grace — even before a single confirmed case in the state. In church, that means no shared wine in the communion cup, no wafer on the tongue, no kiss of peace, no holding hands during the Lord......
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May 1, 2009
American and British soldiers are believed buried in unmarked graves at Speedwell Presbyterian Church in Rockingham County — according to oral history that’s passed from generation to generation. “There is a tradition that that’s t...
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SATURDAY Yard sale and spaghetti lunch, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1308 Coach Road, Reidsville. Crafts, baked goods, plants and yard sale items. $4 lunch, eat in or take out. Thrivent-sponsored activity. 349-6278.
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When Nathan Roe Dorner is baptized Sunday , he will not be the only one to experience rebirth and new life in Christ. Standing with him at the threshold of renewal will be four generations of Dorners, together with the whole of the Starmount Presbyterian...
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April 30, 2009
SATURDAY Country breakfast, 7-10 a.m., Centre Friends Meeting, 325 N.C. 62 East, Greensboro. Information: 674-5081. Get Revived youth rally, 4-6 p.m., Camp Walter Johnson, 918 Walter Johnson Road, Denton. Information: www.get-revived.com, 247-0017 or e-ma...
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April 26, 2009
REIDSVILLE — On one side of the busy downtown street, hell-and-brimstone preachers raise their voices and their Bibles, trying to save souls on the sidewalk. On the other side of the street, a group of downtown Reidsville merchants is passing around...
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WINSTON-SALEM — During a light moment after historic negotiations three decades ago, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping asked then-President Jimmy Carter what else he could do for him. Diplomatic relations had just been restored between the two countries...
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April 24, 2009
The First Romanian Church of the Triad is having an open house at 4 p.m. April 26 at Magnolia Street Baptist Church, 1230 Magnolia St., Greensboro. When Anca and Christian Muntean moved to the Triad in 2007, they immediately sought out fellow Romanian co...
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Two children are forced into sex slavery every minute, resulting in more than 27 million adult and child sex and labor slaves today.
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SATURDAY Rummage sale, 7 a.m.-noon, Mayodan Moravian Church, 104 S. 3rd Ave., Mayodan. Items include exercise equipment, prom dresses, sewing notions, framed prints and more. Sausage biscuits and coffee available. Rain or shine. Proceeds benefit local mis...
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SATURDAY Area day of service, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will provide a service to the community, doing four projects around neighborhood parks in conjunction with Greensboro Parks and Recreation and Greensboro Beautiful. Information......
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By TOM KASTNER Special to the News & Record Before his ministry, the only documented events in the life of Jesus, according to the Gospels, are his birth and his appearance in the Temple during Passover when he was 12 years old. Herod died i...
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WINSTON-SALEM — Former President Jimmy Carter will give the keynote speech Saturday at a conference focused on harnessing the strength of Christians in service to those considered “the least of them.” Carter was one of the founding organ...
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April 23, 2009
Presbyterians in central North Carolina voted this week in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment that could allow gays to serve as ministers and elders. Just a few votes at a quarterly gathering of the Salem Presbytery, which has 150 congregations...
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