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Announcements

  • Lenten Livestream | Wednesdays through March 24, 7-7:30 pm 

  • Lenten Book Study | Sundays, Feb. 28-March 28, 7-8 pm, Register here
    Take a step forward in your life with Jesus by joining our Lenten study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Cost of Discipleship. Led by Chris Blumhofer and friends.

  • Lenten Prayer & Fasting with DMET | Saturdays, 9-10 am, Zoom Link on CCB
    During this season of Lent, you are invited to join us in fasting Friday lunch and spending that time in prayer for our city. Join us Saturdays over zoom to pray.

  • Congregational Meeting to Elect Officers | Sunday, March 21, 12 pm, Zoom
    We encourage you to prayerfully consider the Class of 2024 nominees and read their bios here. Officers are elected for three-year terms. Deacon nominees (6 candidates for 6 spots): Rhett Davis, Daniella Goldfarb, Heather Hodge, Kristy Roberts Ponce, Bill Shively, and Ryan Stults. Elder nominees (6 candidates for 5 spots): Lauren Holahan, Cullen Rodgers-Gates, Sherbie Skeen, Paul Tshihamba, and Michael Whisenhunt.

  • Update your photos, win a gift card!

    Until we can see each other in person and without masks, let's stay in touch the best we can by posting updated photos to our CCB profiles. View these tips before uploading your photos, then enter the drawing by March 10 to win your choice of a $20 gift card to The Regulator Bookshop, Joe VanGogh Coffee, or Pincho Loco Ice Cream. Sign up here to request a hard copy of the photo directory.

  • Blacknall Broadcasting Team | Sign up here
    Are you awesome? Yes you are! Are you interested in joining an awesome team? Of course you are! We're looking for individuals who are interested in helping with the tech and logistics of broadcasting.

  • Allan Poole's Retirement Celebration | Saturday & Sunday, June 5-6
    Mark your calendar and stay tuned for more details.

Love & Serve

Holy Week & Easter

  • Maundy Thursday Livestream Service
    Thursday, April 1, 7pm | Enter into Holy Week by worshiping virtually at the Maundy Thursday livestream service.

  • Good Friday Scriptural Way of the Cross
    Friday, April 2 | Experience the stations of the cross through imagery and prayer. Modified from past years, there will be no tactile engagement.

  • Holy Saturday Vigil
    Saturday, April 3, 6:30-7:30 pm | Together with Mt Level and the Mt. Level Community Partnership for Racial Justice, participate in an outdoor Easter vigil. The service will be held at Mt. Level.

  • Easter Outdoor Worship
    Sunday, April 4 at 9, 10, & 11 am | Celebrate the resurrection with the birds of the air in an outdoor worship service on Easter morning. Details coming soon. Worship from home liturgy also provided.

Prayer

Ministry Partners:

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  • Campus—We pray for Steve Edwards working with international students from South Asia at NC State University.  Pray for one student from India who took a copy of Corrie ten Boom’s book, The Hiding Place, intrigued by this idea of Christian forgiveness.  Pray for a couple Persian students who are keenly interested in hearing more about the gospel.  Pray for creative opportunities to love students and to open the Bible together in this season of COVID.  Pray for his writing project of a Bible study guide built around the last 24 hours of Jesus’ life, framed particularly for South Asian students.  

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  • International—Please pray for Blacknall missionaries Fraser and Liz Bennett. Fraser has started managing a new project. SIL LEAD is working as part of a team of agencies to teach thousands of children who have never been in school because of war and insecurity in their country. His team’s part is to make sure that the teaching happens in a dialect that the children can understand. Items for prayer: (1) a resolution of problems besetting Fraser’s literacy project in an unstable African country; (2) a proliferation of good books to promote literacy and Biblical knowledge among new literates; (3) strength and guidance in developing new literacy projects; (4) thanksgiving for the psycho-social and spiritual growth which their son, Isaac, experienced while living on a Christian ranch.

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  • Durham—We pray for our sister church, Iglesia Emanuel, and her pastor,  Julio Ramirez-Eve.  Pray for the Food Bank that feeds over 400 families each Wednesday.  Thank God for the volunteers from within Emanuel and from other churches including Blacknall who make this happen each week. 

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Thank God for an adequate supply of food that has been provided each week. Pray for the ongoing growth and discipleship of this young congregation and for Pastor Julio and Ellen Van Tongeren who provide teaching and preaching.  Pray for Guillermo who leads the active music ministry with people of all ages and who provides leadership for many of the volunteers.  Thank God that Guillermo and his wife have both recovered from COVID.  Pray for wisdom as they seek to resume their active ministry with children in the church and in the community.

Grief:

  • We pray for Doug and Cheryl Koenig and their family on the death of their daughter Deanna on March 1.

  • We pray for Bob and Cathy Leslie on the death of Bob’s Dad on March 2.

  • We pray for Diane and John Felton on the death of Diane’s Mom on Feb. 26.

  • We pray for Anne and Mark Paulson on the death of Anne’s Mom on Feb. 17.

  • We pray for Kay Ferguson on the death of her brother-in-law, Rausey on Feb. 15.

  • We pray for Mark and Helen Atkinson on the death of Mark’s Dad on Feb. 14.  Pray for Helen’s Dad, 93, who is battling COVID

  • We pray for Tana O’Keefe whose sister, Verna, died on Feb. 14.

  • We pray for those who have lost loved ones to the coronavirus.

Joys

  • We celebrate the birth of Catherine (Kitty) Myers to Mary Lynn and Jimmy Myers on March 1.

  • We celebrate the distribution of the COVID vaccine and the hope that we will be able to begin coming back together in worship soon.

Concerns

  • We pray for George and Faye McLamb.  George just came home from the hospital and is on hospice, Faye is recovering from a stroke.

  • We pray for Helen Atkinson’s Dad in the hospital with COVID.

  • We pray for Paul & Phyllis Immanuel who are struggling with persistent health problems.

  • We pray for Lori Riggs as she struggles with headaches, sinus problems, fatigue and ongoing symptoms from the coronavirus. 

  • World

  • We pray for a speedy and just distribution of the coronavirus vaccines locally and around the world.

  • We pray for Pope Francis as he visits Iraq.  We pray that he would communicate the love of Christ for all people and that any attempts of violence would be thwarted.

Life Together

  • We pray for the search committee for the Director of Congregational Care (chair, Melissa Hartemink).

  • We pray for small groups, book study groups, and all the groups that are meeting together for study, prayer, and fellowship.

  • We pray for Beth Solie and Leslie Petree and for wisdom, intelligence, imagination, and love as they seek to minister to our children and families. 

Community

Reality Lenten Prayer Guide | View Here

A guide for together-while-apart daily prayer.

THE CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLARSHIP IS HIRING!

  • Office and House Manager (OHM) to oversee the administrative and hospitality functions of CCS. The OHM maintains office systems, tracks finances, manages ministry partner databases, and oversees house staff, programs, use, and volunteers.

  • Director of Academic Programming (DAP). This position will be responsible for developing and executing the academic program of CCS, including working with the Executive Director to develop those programs that engage the most promising intersections of the Christian tradition with teaching and research opportunities through Duke University. This position will be of particular interest to recent PhDs, graduate students nearing degree completion, and other scholars interested in a career that deeply engages the academic life of the university.

For more information on either position, reach out to CCS Executive Director Edward Dixon.