Join us for the 2021 NC Synod Assembly, June 3-5. For the first time ever, Assembly will be held online using the Zoom platform. Each voting member will need their own device—preferably a computer—in order to participate fully in this assembly. Some things will be the same: we will worship together, do the business of […]
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“When I was a child, I had the cutest yellow dress made out of a flour sack,” Barbara Smith shared with her pastor, Vern Kinard, “and although we had many sack clothes growing up…we never had to worry about food because we lived in this community. That’s how it should be and that’s how we
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This summer’s Bible Reading Plan, brought to you by the synod’s Engage the Bible Task Group, is: “Moments with Matthew.” Beginning Sunday, July 5, we will read the Gospel of Matthew together as a synod—from Manteo to Murphy, or more specifically for our synod’s congregations, from Andrews to Atlantic Beach! Won’t you join us? This
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Jamie recalls a very bleak day when all she had to feed her children was ramen noodles. Like many low-income parents in Rowan County, she was having trouble making ends meet on job and child support income of just over $1,000 a month. When she learned about the Food for Thought program at her daughter’s
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Take a deep breath “I can’t breathe.” So it was for lumps of clay at creation that God called human beings. So God breathed breath into them, animating them, empowering them—in short, giving them life. But not only life like all of the other plants and creatures. No, these creatures were special, made in the
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From daily bread to abundant thanks “People are often overwhelmed with thanks, tears in their eyes, and joy in their hearts as we bring an abundance of food to them.” The Rev. Chantal McKinney, pastor of Christ’s Beloved Community (CBC), Winston-Salem, shares reactions from neighborhood folks who received food from the CBC food pantry. Amid the
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Some preliminary thoughts on re-gathering as congregations Bless your hearts, and mine, too! A friend of mine insists that southern cliché is more mannerly code for “You’re pitiful!” Jeff Foxworthy used this example: “I do believe that is the ugliest baby I have ever seen…bless his heart.” In all seriousness, we might not be pitiful,
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The church is the people! Lent 2020 began with people gathering for the imposition of ashes, but after just a few weeks of worship following soup and sandwich suppers, the coronavirus interrupted everything.
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Synod Launches Relief Fund The NC Synod Council has reallocated funds for the purpose of sharing with our congregations, rostered ministers, and agencies and institutions during this time of financial strain with priority given to keeping the rostered minister employed at the congregation at their full salary and benefits. The goal of these funds
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“The Flowers” The rain to the wind said, “You push and I’ll pelt.” They so smote the garden that the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged, though not dead. I know how the flowers felt. –Robert Frost We’ve all experienced those overwhelming spring thundershowers during which we quickly dash inside, only to return to lament