It’s time to mark your calendars for the 2023 Men’s Fall Retreat on October 27-29! The weekend runs Friday evening through Sunday morning at the Montreat Conference Center near Asheville.
Stream Team - Volunteers Needed!
Every Sunday we livestream our worship service so that our homebound members or folks who are traveling can participate in our worship even when they’re unable to be with us in person. Our livestream is run by a team of Blacknall volunteers, and we need new members! It’s an important opportunity to contribute to our worship life together. No experience needed! We provide training and the rotation is once every 4-6 weeks for the first service only (8:30 am). Visit our Volunteer Hub to sign up! Contact Wen Reagan or Leslie Eibest with questions.
StepUp Durham Volunteer Needs - Summer 2023
StepUp Durham partners with adults seeking to transform their lives through employment and life skills training. Blacknall has an opportunity support StepUp’s upcoming training for their “Step2” cohort. Step2 is for adults working at least 25 hours per week who would like to increase their network, community connections, career possibilities, and financial capacity. There are two ways to serve: Become a “Co-Partner” and/or provide meals for the meeting. Each Tuesday, they meet at ReCity (112 Broadway Street) in Durham from 6-8 p.m. The session runs July 25 - September 12.
Update From the PNC (7.19.2023)
The Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) is continuing the work of in-depth conversation and discernment within the interview phase, as we seek to discern who God is calling to be our next Senior Pastor.
The prayers of you, the congregation, have been encouraging and sustaining us throughout this process. Please continue praying! Please pray that God will guide us clearly through his Holy Spirit and that we will clearly hear His Voice.
Food Distribution Volunteers Needed
Update From the PNC (6.18.2023)
Watch the update that Alexa Gerend, member of the Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC), provided to the congregation during the June 18 worship service.
Homestay Needed!
The Center for Christianity and Scholarship (CCS) at Duke, a Blacknall campus ministry partner, is seeking homestays for a male and a female intern beginning this August or September through May 31, 2024.
Refugee Apartment Setup This Sunday
Blacknall’s Good Neighbor Team will set up an apartment for a Congolese (DRC) family of six this Sunday, July 16. The team will arrive at the apartment around 12:30 p.m., after the 11 a.m. service. If you would like to volunteer at the apartment, please text Andrea Tshihamba at (952) 334-9411. Also, watch for the grocery cards on the table in the Lower Atrium this Sunday.
Worship, Work, & Rest: High School Camp Reflections
By Kat Burgett
During the last week of June, 21 high schoolers and six adults went away to High School Camp — though not very far away, because this year we stayed in and around Durham! Two questions guided our time together: What kind of life is God inviting us into? What is God calling us to be and to do? So we structured our time at camp around three things to which God calls all Christians: worship, work, and rest.
“We Are God’s Masterpiece”: Art Camp Reflections
BY LIZ SHIVELY
“We are God’s masterpiece. He created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” (Ephesians 2:10, NLT)
I was in Lowe’s one day when I saw it: a front door, ready for delivery. Nope, I didn’t need the door — but the box! Oh, what we could do with that box! I had to tell Beth Solie about it.
Beth and I began planning for Art Camp in January. This year’s camp would take its inspiration from the giant artworks of Frank Stella. He doesn’t work alone, and neither would our campers. When we work together, we can make bigger (and better) art. But Stella and his team paint and sculpt with wood, metal, and fiberglass. We needed something lightweight, affordable, and plentiful.