April 22, 2009
Grammy award nominee and Modern Rock Album of the Year Dove Award winner Sanctus Real will perform at FaithWalk’s second annual Fusion event Saturday at 485 Brightwood Church Road, Gibsonville. Fusion, presented by Cox Toyota/Scion of Burlington, wi...
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April 18, 2009
It’s a kind of hurt, a need, that’s overwhelming some faith congregations: the large numbers of people in the pews who are out of work or lost their benefits or need to lean on someone else for the first time in their lives.
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April 17, 2009
It’s a kind of hurt, a need, that’s overwhelming some faith congregations: the large numbers of people in the pews who are out of work or lost their benefits or need to lean on someone else for the first time in their lives.
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Saturday World Changers of Rockingham County Breakfast, 8:30 a.m., Camp Dan Valley, 145 Camp Road, Wentworth. billduke@triad.rr.com Sunday Encounter Ministry, 8:30 a.m. Sundays, Mayodan United Methodist Church, 501 W. Main St., Mayodan. Contemporary music...
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SATURDAY Appreciation service for Pastor Marva J. and Deacon Robert E. Edwards II, 4 p.m., House of Refuge Deliverance Ministries, 3008 E. Bessemer Ave., Greensboro. Information: 708-6737. Fish fry, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Fairfield United Methodist Church, 1505...
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I’m over 40 now and have to do unpleasant things like eat less food, drink more water and get more exercise. So every other morning, every other week or so, I feel the need to get out and go for a walk along our rural road. A few days ago when I got...
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April 15, 2009
HIGH POINT – Children and parents react with a lot of “wow” in the new children’s facilities at Green Street Baptist Church, Phillips Avenue at Rotary Drive, High Point. Kid World and UpStreet are the themed areas for babies throu...
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April 12, 2009
The pink-and-blue-themed double wedding of twins Ruth Thomas and Janice Holder filled the pews at Florida Street Baptist Church. “It was July 13, 1957, the hottest day of the summer — and my relatives reminded us of that for a long time,&rdquo...
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April 11, 2009
Among Paul Nixon’s favorites is the cross sculpture with an outstretched Jesus figure that’s only a tiny fraction of the full design. Carved above one side of the figure’s head is the rooster that crowed three times after the Apostle Pe...
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April 9, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter will speak later this month at a Baptist gathering at Wake Forest University. Carter and poet Maya Angelou will speak at the Southeast regional meeting of the New Baptist Covenant, which will be hel...
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SATURDAY Easter carnival and egg hunt, noon-3 p.m., Peace United Church of Christ, 2714 W. Market St., Greensboro. Sunrise service on Sunday and an Easter service beginning at 10:45 a.m. Information: www.peaceucc.com or 299-8663. Community Easter egg hunt...
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April 8, 2009
Thursday Maundy Thursday service, 6 p.m. fellowship and covered dish meal followed by foot washing and Holy Communion at 7 p.m., Monticello United Church of Christ, 5001 East N.C. 150, Browns Summit. Information: home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-MonticelloUCC or...
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April 7, 2009
MADISON — Up U.S. 220, where 11 crosses take root within a two-mile stretch, there’s a tiny country church where Jesus speaks. Kinda. It’s really three huge paintings behind the pulpit and a 26-minute presentation in which the baritone v...
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April 3, 2009
The Rev. Larry Pope understands that some people have a phobia whenever they’re invited to a building with a steeple on top because of past perceptions of religion. “In our congregation, we see ourselves as a hospital, where everyone who arriv...
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Saturday Easter egg hunt, 10 a.m., Mayodan United Methodist Church, 501 W. Main St., Mayodan. For ages 2 years through fifth grade. 548-9508. Easter egg hunt, 10:30 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 1520 S. Scales St., Reidsville. For toddlers through...
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April 2, 2009
SATURDAY The Making of Champions youth conference, basketball tournament today, youth conference activities will be April 13-17, Cedar Grove Tabernacle of Praise, 612 Norwalk St., Greensboro. Information: www.cedargrovetop.org or 294-2628. SUNDAY Holy Wee...
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STONEVILLE — The burglars who broke into Stoneville Pentecostal Holiness Church ignored two laptop computers and walked past all the sound equipment, Pastor James Paul Ward Jr. said. “They could have gotten away with quite a bit of stuff,&rdqu...
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April 1, 2009
More than three months ago, a few women came to Grace Community Church with no jobs, no home and, some said, no hope. On Tuesday, they spent their last night at the church’s emergency shelter, one of several community sites set up to house the homel...
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March 29, 2009
He wasn’t there to pray, but to prey. And, by the time the delivery driver pulled into the church parking lot that Wednesday morning, the con was already under way at Raleigh’s Crossroads United Methodist Church in Greensboro, which was almost...
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March 28, 2009
Remember the nursery rhyme done with hand signs: Here’s the church (Interlink fingers of hands, have your thumbs straight and facing you) ... and here’s the steeple. (Straighten both of your pointing fingers) Open the door, (Spread your palms...
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Today* Free clothing market, 9 a.m.-noon, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1308 Coach Road, Reidsville. Donations of spring and summer clothing can be dropped off at the church. 349-6278.* Community meal, noon, Mayodan United Methodist Church, 501 W. Main St...
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March 26, 2009
SATURDAY Yard and bake sale, 7 a.m., First Christian Church, 1900 W. Market St., Greensboro. Information: www.fccgreensboro.org Saints Gathering service, 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.; also 9:45 and 11 a.m. Sunday, Sanctuary Deliverance Church, 3631 Summit Ave......
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March 25, 2009
BURLINGTON (MCT) — St. Luke's United Methodist Church recently decided to sponsor a gospel sing to raise money for two Alamance County ministries.Church members planned to sell tickets to the Alamance County Gospel Sing for Missions as well as adver...
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March 23, 2009
James Oxendine couldn’t afford — and hadn’t taken — his prescribed blood pressure medicine in years by the time Rhonda Caviness set up her office between the sanctuary and the fellowship hall at the Triad Native American United Met...
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March 22, 2009
Sometimes one of the hardest things to do is to move from hurt to hope, but Joyce Fultz has done that and set an example for others who wonder if they’ll ever manage to have a successful life. Fultz had a tough childhood. From age 4 until she was 19...
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