This week at Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, the first of hundreds of cookies were being prepared in anticipation of the church’s annual Greek Festival. It will be held this year on June 1 and 2, the first time at the church since the Byzantine-style church was constructed on Highway 751 in 2009.
Memorial service at Lowe’s Grove Baptist on Sunday
Memorial service at Sanctuary UMC on Sunday
Women’s Day at Community Baptist
Islamic Center recognizes Joe Harvard for interfaith efforts
Summer camp at Mt. Vernon Baptist
Revival, Women’s Day at Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist
Women’s Day at Fisher Memorial UHC
VBS, revival at North East Baptist in June
Yard sale in Walltown Saturday
Doer of the Word cookout Saturday at Solite Park
The Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple, named earlier this year as the new bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, will be consecrated June 15 in a service at Duke Chapel that will include the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, and the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, bishop diocesan of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.
Health Awareness Festival Saturday at Ebenezer Missionary Baptist
‘Elvis’ to sing gospel at Angier Avenue Baptist
Spotlight on breast cancer at Russell Memorial C.M.E. conference
Missionary society anniversary at O’Bryant Chapel AME Zion
Prayer gathering for imprisoned Bahai’s in Iran
Entertainment on the Lawn at Russell Rosenwald School
Anti-death penalty play at ERUUF
Ministers’ wives and widows to be honored at Legacy Luncheon
St. Paul AME hosts bowling tourney
Teen camp at New Covenant UHC
VBS at Glendale Heights UMC
Buddhist meditation workshop on compassion
VBS at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Prayer breakfast, Women’s Day at Greater Orange Grove Baptist
Apostolic and prophetic gathering Friday
Heart of Carolina chorus to perform free concert May 22
Women’s Day/Mother’s Day at Mt. Zoar Missionary Baptist
Sensational Nightingales to sing at revival at Markham Chapel MBC
Apostolic and prophetic gathering May 17
Women’s Day at West Durham Baptist
Holland Chapel A.M.E. Zion celebrates homecoming
Women’s Day at Mt. Vernon Baptist on May 19
Heart of Carolina chorus to perform free concert May 22
Anniversary at True Way Holy Church
Women’s Day at Emmanuel AME
New members, baptisms at New Bethel Missionary Baptist
Mother’s/Women’s Day at St. John’s
Summer camps, VBS at Aldersgate UMC
In 2009, Justin Brodie Clark was about to graduate from high school in Durham and was bound for Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary that fall. But first, he was going on his third mission trip to Romania. He told The Herald-Sun in June 2009 that he was humbled by the Roma children, who lived in poverty but were willing to give what they had.
The Durham Friends Meeting will host a workshop Saturday for those interested in becoming involved in Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham activities.
Back when West Chapel Hill Street was in West Durham, not downtown, long before the Durham Freeway came through, and when tobacco barons were the most recognizable local names, a church was built. In 1888, on the corner of West Chapel Hill Street and a street now cut off by the freeway, Blackwell Baptist Church was built with bricks donated by the church namesake. Later the name was changed to Second Baptist and then Temple Baptist Church, which it remains. The church building however, as century-old congregations have done before, was added on to, and razed, and rebuilt, and then sold.
The Triangle Jewish Chorale will debut a cantata by a Greensboro composer on Sunday at Goodson Chapel at Duke Divinity School. “Down Home: The Cantata” is the latest way of presenting North Carolina’s Jewish history following the “Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina” book, DVD and exhibit at the N.C. Museum of History a few years ago. The cantata will feature recordings from oral history interviews.
The Rev. Dub Karriker’s journey to the pulpit included Jesus music, singing on a cruise ship and landing in his wife’s hometown. Pastor of Christian Assembly Church since 2002, Karriker shared his story of answering the call to ministry and the 30 years it took to get there.
This Sunday morning, April 14, at St. Joseph African Methodist Episcopal Church, you’ll recognize the Minnie S. Pearson Women’s Missionary Society because they’ll all be dressed in white. They’ll sit together and take communion together as they do first Sundays of the month. This Sunday is special because it is the annual Missionary Day. About 120 women at St. Joseph are in the missionary society, and their service goes beyond the church doors.
