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April 27 Edition of Weekly News Index to all editions of Weekly News The online calendar is always available and is always up-to-date. Deadlines to submit articles to the church office (office.cucc@gmail.com): Weekly Newsletter email - TUESDAY by NOON. Sunday bulletin - TUESDAY by NOON.

Polly Gamble passed away on April 15. Polly was active in not only Community UCC but also its predecessor the United Church of Raleigh. Here is an excerpt from Polly's obituary ... In 1959, Erling, Polly, and their daughters moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where Polly made a dear friend in Lizzie W. Jobe (Mrs. Levi H. Jobe). To this day, Mrs. Jobe's granddaughter, Melissa Michos, is considered to be one of "the Gamble girls." Polly soon became active in the United Church of Christ (now Community United Church of Christ), the NCSU Graduate Student Wives organization which sponsored English classes for newly arrived wives of foreign graduate students, and the Girl Scouts. In the 1960's Polly was one of a group of ladies from the United Church who collaborated with ladies from other churches to help integrate Umstead/Reedy Creek Park by co-sponsoring a multi-racial Vacation Bible School in the park. Lizzie Jobe and the events described in this excerpt play prominen...

Adrienne Little shares these messages from Congregations for Social Justice.  She represents CUCC's Social Justice Ministry at their meetings. 1 -  Supplies Needed for Habitat Wake Build-a-Thon  from Margaret Albert   < margaret.albert@habitatwake.org > Habitat Wake is hosting nearly 150 AmeriCorps volunteers the week of May 23-27 to build 4 homes in Wake County. We are asking area organizations if they can participate by providing needed supplies. Would your faith group be willing to have a drive to collect any of the following donations? Supply List and where to deliver 2 - CSJ JustBeer from Al Reberg         Thursday, April 28 - 5:00 PM              My Way Tavern              522  St. Mary's St.              mywaytavern.com My Way Tavern is one block south of Peace St, south from Broughton High School.  The staff is very welc...

The adjacent post mentions supplies needed for the Habitat for Humanity Build-a-thon.  Here is the list of items needed. Dear CSJ members, Habitat Wake is hosting nearly 150 AmeriCorps volunteers the week of May 23-­27 to build 4 homes in Wake County. We are asking area organizations if they can participate by providing needed supplies. Would your faith group be willing to have a drive to collect any of the following donations? SNACKS Bottled water, Gatorade (small bottles or dry mix packets) Granola bars Apples Raisins Mini bags of cookies and chips Small sized trail mix Small packages of cheese crackers and peanut butter crackers Fruit gushers No perishable snacks (other than apples & dried fruit) SUPPLIES Cool packs Bandanas Cheap sunglasses & sweat bands Sunscreen Rain ponchos ** Please drop off donations to the Fellowship Hall of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 2723 Clark Avenue, Raleigh between 9 am -­ noon on May 23 -­ 25. Thank you so much for considering these requ...

April 20 Edition of Weekly News Index to all editions of Weekly News The online calendar is always available and is always up-to-date. Deadlines to submit articles to the church office (office.cucc@gmail.com): Weekly Newsletter email - TUESDAY by NOON. Sunday bulletin - TUESDAY by NOON.

At least since the 1920s there have been references to CUCC (or its predecessor the United Church of Raleigh) as a "liberal" church. While that has no doubt been an accurate characterization from a descriptive standpoint, is it a useful characterization from a strategic standpoint in the present era? David Brooks on April 12 offered a NY Times op-ed piece that tackles head-on the brokenness and general belligerence that characterizes the current political environment in which nobody appears to be very happy. Americans have become worse at public deliberation ... They report being optimistic or pessimistic depending on whether their team is in power ... We’re good at bonding with people like ourselves but worse at bridging with people unlike ourselves ...  With fewer sources of ethnic and local identity, people ask politics to fill the void. Being a Democrat or a Republican becomes their ethnicity. People put politics at the center of their psychological, emotional and even sp...

There was no Weekly News published April 6 and 13.

Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 3PM - Sunday, May 1 at 11:30AM Umstead Park Come one, come all for some or all of our time. If you don't want to camp, come for the evening! Or bring a side dish and come for activities and dinner! SIGN-UP THIS WEEK on the board in the narthex, or by emailing Santi at education.cucc@gmail.com WHEN: Saturday April 30 at 3PM — Sunday May 1 at 11:30AM WHERE: Camp CRABTREE in Umstead Park WHAT: experiential prayer stations creative expression games cookout campfire camping in cabins morning prayers in the park Questions? Contact Santi Matthews (919) 961-8814 or education.cucc@gmail.com Directions: Camp Crabtree at William B. Umstead State Park is located 10 miles northwest of Raleigh off US 70. Take US 70 to the Umstead Park entrance. You will follow paved roads for 1 mile and then a dirt road for 2 miles (it feels longer than that). Take Umstead Parkway past the Visitor’s Center. Take a Left onto Maintenance Road and a Right onto Group Camp Road, follow Gr...

Many thanks to the 15 volunteers who were at The Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC on Saturday. Together with other walk-in volunteers, we bagged 7,500 pounds of sweet potatoes.  With an average meal weighing 1.19 pounds, we bagged enough food for 6,316 meals!  The potatoes will be delivered to families within two business days, so hungry families will benefit from our work this week. The Food Bank has Kids' Days every second and forth Saturday from 2:00-4:00 and kids as young as five are welcome to volunteer with an adult.  For more information, check out their website at www.foodbankcenc.org. -- submitted by Gray Woodard

For months you've been reading Adrienne Little's posts from the Congregations for Social Justice listserv highlighting ways the faith community is coming together to work for justice.  Here's your chance to join Adrienne at the next CSJ meeting. Congregations for Social Justice meeting announcement...          Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 8:30 AM        St Mark’s Episcopal        1725 N New Hope Rd        Raleigh 27604 …Next to the Credit Union on the corner of New Hope Road and Corporation Parkway. Click HERE for directions to St. Mark's. Enter off New Hope Road between the Church and the Credit Union. Enter off New Hope Road – drive past the Sanctuary and turn right. We’ll meet in the Community Life Center.  Look for CSJ signs. Our Speaker will be Shana Overdorf, the Executive Director at Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness. CSJ Mission Statement “Congregations for Social Justice is ...

Adrienne Little represents CUCC's Social Justice Ministry at Congregations for Social Justice.  These two community events could use your support. 1 -  Police Accountability Community Taskforce from Barbara Smalley-McMahan         Tuesday, April 5th at 6:00 pm          Raleigh City Hall          222 W Hargett St. The Police Accountability Community Taskforce will hold a public rally & press conference to ask Raleigh City Council members to hold public hearings on straightforward recommendations for an accountable, transparent & equitable Raleigh Police Department.  At 7 pm PACT will speak before the City Council during the time made available for comments from Raleigh residents.  Please click HERE and use the link to sign the petition asking for accountability, transparency and equality in Raleigh policing. Then turnout with friends & members of your congregation on Tuesday night for th...