DURHAM — Mt. Sylvan United Methodist Church, 5731 N. Roxboro Road, will host a comedy performance by Dorothy Clark as a fundraiser to benefit earthquake victims in Haiti.
Members of Mt. Sylvan have taken several mission trips to Port-au-Prince in the past, and last year donated several wedding dresses to a church pastor there. Mt. Sylvan was planning another mission trip to Port-au-Prince in July to provide a Vacation Bible School at the school in Cite Soleil and a work team to replace roofs in the surrounding community, but may not go, depending on changing needs there.
The church will still raise money for Haiti. Comedian Clark will present “Seven Stages of Womanhood” at 7 p.m. Friday. She is also part of the group considering a summer trip to Haiti. All money received from ticket sales will go directly to Haiti mission needs. Tickets are available at Mt. Sylvan for a minimum donation of $25 per person or $40 per couple.
Call 477-7389 or visit www.mtsylvantest.com.
Human rights event at St. John’s Baptist
DURHAM — Church Women United will hold a human rights celebration at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. John’s Baptist Church, 917 Onslow St.
Pastor is the Rev. Robert Daniels. Rev. Gussie D. Thompson is the president of CWU.
‘Faithful Eating’ talk at Duke Divinity
DURHAM — Norman Wirzba will host a conversation, “Faithful Eating,” on how Christians can witness to the grace and hospitality of God in the food choices we make, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Sunday in 0016 Westbrook building at Duke Divinity School.
Wirzba is a research professor of theology, ecology and rural life at Duke Divinity.
He will talk about today’s industrial food system and what a more Godly food economy can look like.
The event is sponsored by the Congregation at Duke Chapel. An eco-friendly lunch will be provided for the first 60 people attending. All are invited.
Tuskegee choir to perform at Duke
DURHAM — Tuskegee University Golden Voices Choir will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at Duke Chapel.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for seniors and students. Visit www.tickets.duke.edu or call 684-4444.
The concert is sponsored by the Raleigh-Durham Tuskegee Alumni Club. Proceeds will benefit student scholarships.
Lenten series at
Advent Lutheran
CHAPEL HILL — Advent Lutheran Church, 230 Erwin Road, will hold a Lenten series on the “Words of Life from the Cross,” Wednesdays through March 24.
The theme is taken from a daily devotional book by Mark W. Love and focuses on Jesus’ words from the cross and how they apply to our lives. A light supper is served at 6 p.m. followed by a worship service at 7 p.m. Pastor is John Benham.
For information, call 968-7690 or visit www.AdventLutheranCH.org.
Kosher Ko-oP back for 2010 Passover
CHAPEL HILL — The Chapel Hill Kehillah Synagogue will hold its second annual Passover Ko-oP to bring reasonably priced Passover items to the Triangle. It is also a fundraiser to help families in need and the Kehillah religious school.
For a Ko-oP joining fee that is 18 percent of the order, up to $36, community members can select kosher Passover items from a catalog featuring a variety of candies, desserts, matzahs, teas, cake mixes, jams, gefilte fish and wine.
Included on the order form is an option to donate a basket of Passover food or a monetary amount to a needy Jewish family.
Passover celebrates the biblical Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt.
To join the Ko-oP and place an order, visit www.chkehillah.org or contact Stephanie Stuchiner, admin@chkehillah.org or 919-942-8914.
Bilingual World Day of Prayer
CHAPEL HILL — Women across the globe will unite for a World Day of Prayer March 5.
Adhering to the order of worship written by the Cameroon World Day of Prayer Committee and endorsed by the International WDP Committee, Chapel Hill-Carrboro’s multi-cultural, bilingual service will be held at 7 p.m. March 5 at Amity United Methodist Church, 825 N. Estes Dr., Chapel Hill.
The bulletin will be printed in English and Spanish. Some readings and song verses will be offered in additional languages, including French.
Attendees are encouraged to wear native clothing of their homeland or a country to which they feel a kinship. Children are invited. To learn more or offer foreign language, musical or other skill to organizing the celebration, contact Cathy Markatos at 642-2139 or markatos@mindspring.com, or Kim Batson at 265-9820 or kmccbat@aol.com.
Amity United Methodist Church at 825 North Estes Drive, at the corner of Estes Drive and Martin Luther King Boulevard. Tuck Taylor is pastor. Visit amityumc.org or call 919-967-7546 for information.
Businesswomen event March 6
DURHAM — White Rock Baptist Church, 3400 Fayetteville St., will celebrate Female Entrepreneur Day on March 6.
All women are invited to attend the event, which begins at 9 a.m. A light breakfast will be served.
Durham women will showcase their businesses or services, including quilts, hair design, fancy cakes, jewelry, vitamins, real estate, financial services, photography, marketing/event planners, formal and wedding gowns for full-figured women and more.
For information, call 604-0905.
Churches join
to collect food
CHAPEL HILL — During Lent, local churches will join together to provide food for the hungry through Project 5000.
The project, established at University United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill in 2002, includes University UMC, Christ UMC, Episcopal Church of the Advocate and Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. Ten other churches will join the cause at other times during the year.
Project 5000 is designed for individuals or families to contribute small amounts of food and see it multiplied into greater usefulness, like Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish.
Participating churches will provide boxes for participants to fill with items from a specified list of foods. The churches will distribute the food through Inter-Faith Council of Social Service, Robeson County Church and Community Center and Chatham County OutReach Alliance. The boxes of food provide emergency food for a family of four to eat for two days.
UUMC will collect boxes through March 21. For information, visit www.chapelhilluumc.org or call the church office at 929-7191.
Lenten events at Binkley Baptist
CHAPEL HILL — Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Drive, will host several Lent events.
An art exhibit featuring depictions of the Last Supper is on display. A community labyrinth will be available from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 6:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday followed by a Labyrinth retreat for 25 people who register, then again to the public from noon to 4 p.m. and for children from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.; 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 4; and 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 5.
Binkley Baptist will host Holy Week services that include a Maundy Thursday meal and service beginning at 6 p.m. April 1; music meditation at 11 a.m. followed by a noon Good Friday service on April 2; and sunrise service at 6:30 a.m., breakfast at 9:30 a.m. and worship with communion at 11 a.m. on April 4, Easter. Peter Carman will preach “Come to the Table: A Resurrection Banquet: Luke 24:1-12; Isaiah 65:17-25” at the 11 a.m. service. For information, visit www.binkleychurch.org.
April 11 Holocaust memorial event
DURHAM — The annual Durham-Chapel Hill Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Memorial Commemoration service will be held at 6:30 p.m. April 11 at Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Road. The program, “Starting Over and Over: A Dislocated Childhood,” is sponsored by the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation. It is open to the public.
The program this year will feature the personal story of James Muller. Muller’s son, Eric, lives in Chapel Hill. James Muller was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he recalls being harassed in the streets by children in the Hitler Youth. The rise of Nazism began a series of dislocations in the boy’s life, taking him through three languages and countless schools. After his family moved to Frankfurt in 1938, his father was arrested in the middle of the night and taken to Buchenwald. When his father was released about a month later, the family escaped to Switzerland where they spent more than two years trying to find a country to take them.
The family eventually got a visa for the U.S. in 1941. Muller’s father, who had been a professor of languages in Germany, became a poultry farmer in southern New Jersey. But he was not able to help James’ Uncle Leopold, who could not get out of Germany. In April 1942, Leopold was deported by the Nazis to the Lublin district and was murdered.
Music will be provided by the Triangle Jewish Chorale. Local high school students, winners of the federation-sponsored Holocaust essay contest, will be recognized at the event.
Antioch Baptist seniors celebrate
DURHAM — The Senior Saints Ministry of Antioch Baptist Church celebrated its third annual Red and White Luncheon recently at the Ivy Community Center in Durham.
Coordinator Veatrice White and health educator Louise Gooche focused on concerns of senior citizens. Speakers included the Rev. Henry Edmonds, coordinator of African-American community outreach at the Bryan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center of Duke University, and Jennifer Bynum, clinical researcher at N.C. A&T State University. They discussed Alzheimer’s and the need for more participants in research and other clinical studies.
Entertainment was provided by the Retired and Inspired Community Chorale and humorist Sylvia Richardson as Ms. Daisy Mae.
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