THIS WEEK AT BINKLEY Sunday 3/22 9:00 am Old Time Gospel Band CR 9:30 am Church School 11:00 am Worship: Marcus McFaul Sanctuary 12:00 pm Dana Trent Deacon Family Lunch Sunroom 5:00 pm Youth Choir CR 6:00 pm Youth Group 6:00 pm Children s Team Meeting Library Monday 3/23 3:30 pm Lenten Silence Chapel 7:30 pm Binkley Preschool Board Meeting Sunroom Tuesday 3/24 10:00 am Staff Meeting Office 10:30 am Daytime Book Group Library 1:00 pm Sermon-Shaping Library 6:00 pm Discipleship Class PR Wednesday 3/25 Binkley serves lunch & dinner at IFC 9:00 am Morning Prayer Chapel 10:30 am Lent with Joan Chittister Chapel 5:30 pm Lenten Supper Series Lounge 6:00 pm Children s Choir Room 18 7:30 pm Chancel Choir CR Thursday 3/26 2:00 pm Carolina Meadows Worship 5:30 pm Handbells Sunday 3/29 9:30 am Church School 11:00 am Worship: Marcus McFaul Sanctuary 5:00 pm Youth Choir CR 6:00 pm Youth Group It s Not Just One Way Speakers: 3/22 David Price; 3/29 Allen Davidson Deacon elections are scheduled for April. The first step in this process is nomination of fourteen candidates from a slate of eligible and willing church members. From these fourteen, seven will be elected. Deacons are elected for a term of three years and then rotate off for a period of ineligibility equal to the length of time served. They assist church staff in providing pastoral care and support for church members, among other duties listed in the constitution. Requirements for election are as follows: Be a resident adult member (18 and above) for at least one year; Must not be a current member of the Church Council; Only one member of the diaconate from each family. For the next three Sundays (March 22, 29, and April 5) you will find in the Narthex a list of eligible members. If for some reason, after prayerful consideration, you determine that you are unable to serve in this role, now is the time to let us know. You may remove your name from the list by striking through your name and initialing the entry, or by contacting the church office. If you feel you have inadvertently been left off the list but your name should appear, please let the church office know that as well.
Women s Retreat: Join Binkley women, rekindle long relationships, and make new friends at Avila Retreat Center in Durham, April 10-12 (Friday evening through Sunday morning). The theme considers the gift of our physical being, remembering body stories, and acknowledging the body apart from cultural myths. Rebecca Rogers, a spiritual teacher of yoga who incorporates a Christian perspective, will guide our Saturday morning session. Come and be nourished, body and soul. Registration forms are available in the narthex. ~ Stephanie Ford Our Primetimers program for April is Adventures in Antarctica presented by Scott McMurry. Scott has an educational and employment background in the field of history, but his other interests are photography and traveling. We look forward to hearing about his fascinating journey south. We will meet at 12:30 pm on Wednesday, April 8, in the Lounge for lunch ($8) followed by the program. A sign-up sheet is located on Dale Osborne's door, or contact the office at office@binkleychurch.org. If you wish to come but don t want to eat, sign up anyway (no meal) so we can have a chair available for you. For more information, please contact Barbara Harris at barbharris99@gmail.com. Request for Proposals for Endowment Fund Grants: Have you or the committee whose meetings you are attending thought about some aspect of your work at Binkley you would like to see enhanced? If so, this may be the opportunity for which you have been waiting. The Binkley Endowment Fund produces income that is to be made available for three specific uses: 1. To provide support for special outreach ministries 2. To supplement support for special projects and programs, and 3. To provide for emergency needs of the physical plant. The Endowment Committee is seeking proposals for use of income generated for use in 2015. Requests can be made by any church board or committee or from individual church members. We encourage individuals making a request to contact the relevant Binkley committee to coordinate requests for any specific project. Approximately $7,600 is available for funding requests for this year. Proposals should include a statement of the purpose of the request (one or two paragraphs should be sufficient), explanation of how the request meets one or more of the three allowed uses listed above, and the amount of the request. Requests should be sent to the Endowment Committee through the church office (office@binkleychurch.org) by May 4. The committee will review the requests and will make formal recommendations for grants to the Church Council at the May Council meeting if at all possible. Ordinarily, funds must be spent or obligated prior to the end of the calendar year. LENTEN SUPPER SERIES: FAITHFUL STEWARDS OF JUSTICE, Wednesday, 5:30 7:00 pm - March 25. Join us for the last in our 5-week series of learning about Binkley s outreach connections to our local, state, and global communities. Join us for the soup supper, 5:30-6:00 pm, followed by a presentation by one of our outreach partners, 6:00-7:00 pm. This week, we have a doubleheader! We ll hear both from Josh s Hope, a local organization that encourages life skills and confidence in young people dealing with mental illness, and from Family Health Ministries, a local effort that supports a clinic in Haiti focused on maternal and child health. Supper will be soup, bread, and a simple dessert. $4.00 for adults; $2.00 for children 11 and under. Please call the church office by Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. to make a soup reservation. Take advantage of this opportunity for your child to explore Children s Choir, 6:00-7:00 pm (ages 4-5th grade).
Daytime Book Group: On March 24, our book will be Defending Jacob by William Landay. Beryl Holmes will be our discussion leader. Save these Dates for Summer: Vacation Bible School, June 22 26. Baptist Youth Camp, June 28- July 3. Church-Wide Retreat, August 7-9. Mental Health Workshop for Clergy, Individuals, & Professionals: On Friday, April 10, Faith Connections on Mental Illness Conference is holding its 5th annual conference to help faith communities engage, encourage, and serve persons who suffer from mental illness and those who care for them. Wake AHEC is offering optional CEUs. For details, costs, and registration, contact www.wakeahec.org, 919-967-5403. BPFNA 2015 Summer Conference Worship Leader Announced: This year s BPFNA Summer Conference Worship Leader will be Rev. April Baker. The conference is July 6-11 at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA. For more information or to register, bpfna.org/gather/summer-conference or 704-521-6051. 2015 Flower Calendar: There are many dates still available. Please sign up in the narthex! Directory Update: The directory has been updated to include changes and new members. It can be found on the website under Explore Binkley, Connect. Contact the office for the email and password. Those members with 2014 directories have directions on the inside of the back cover. OUR WIDER COMMUNITY The Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP annual Freedom Fund Banquet will be on April 10, beginning at 6:00 pm, at the Friday Center. The keynote speaker is Theodore M. Shaw, Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center of Civil Rights at UNC. Tickets for the event are $50. Contact Tom Fewel for tickets and information, tfewel@gmail.com Celebrate Haiti! Family Health Ministries Annual Gala & Silent Auction: Family Health Ministries (FHM) a Durham non-profit that has provided medical care and research in Haiti for over 20 years, will host their annual Gala & Silent Auction on Saturday, April 18, from 6:00 9:00 pm at the Levin Jewish Community Center in Durham, NC. The Annual Gala & Silent Auction is the opportunity to raise funds to build a surgical center that provides lifesaving services for women and children in Haiti. FHM has received a $50,000 challenge grant from Jean Marc DeMatteis for the event. Participants will enjoy an evening of music by E.G. Peters Band and a buffet dinner by Durham Catering. The electronic silent auction, with online remote bidding hosted BidPal, will allow supporters to bid both onsite and remotely with their smartphones, tablets and computers. Leon Dorleans, FHM partner and prominent Haitian community leader will be one of the guest speakers. Tickets are on sale at http://bidpal.net/celebratehaitifhm. For information regarding sponsorship, ticket sales, and auction item donation, contact Heather Robinson, info@familyhm.org or 919.382.5500.
BINKLEY PRAYER CONCERNS & JOYS CHURCH FAMILY Mike Berkut Rachel Avery Martha Henderson Bill Bodkin Allen Davidson Jo Flair Jayne Howard Swanson-Boyd family Claudia Cannady Norma Willhoit Kara Richards-Baker Judy Sordean Bob Phillips Edith Wiggins Ginny Lansing Don Hamm HEALTH CENTER RESIDENTS AND THOSE IN THE HOSPITAL Marj Boltz Joan Ewing Ernie Roberts Rusty Wagoner Ann Overton EXTENDED FAMILY Tan & Scott Coats (Thailand missionaries) Bill & Hilda Moffitt Andrew Henley (Carl Henley) Aaron Perkinson, USAF (Nape Baker) Steve & Lisa Emrich (friends of Nan Pardington) Jim & Mary Alice Kearley (Christine Jernigan) Jean & John Bankhead (Bankhead & Cantrell) Susan Surratt (Stewart Bankhead & Stuart Cantrell) The Mitchell Family (Aneisa Blair) Frances Bryce (Stewart Bankhead & Stuart Cantrell) Karin Lee (Howard & Lillian Lee) Sally Chapin (Jo Lea) John Ehrenreich (Sarah Buren) Family of Khansing Chamroy (Connie Gates) Rose West (Susan Read) Logan Joines, Army (Betty Raft) Joanna Anderson (Jody Hite) Arline & Jim Tinkham (Christine Andersen) Jennifer Honor David Houser (Lynn Houser) John MacLachlan Bill & Ellen Huffman (Anne Huffman) Shannon Tyman (Paul & Caroline Lindsay) Wanda Oakley Our condolences to Charla Baker, on the death of her mother, Pauline Baer, who died 3/15. Our condolences to Nancy & Neal Cheek, on the death of Nancy s father, Walter Frederick Williams, Sr., who died 3/16. Binkley Baptist Church 1712 Willow Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 919-942-4964; www.binkleychurch.org OUR STAFF Interim Minister Marcus McFaul marcus@binkleychurch.org Associate Minister Dale Osborne dale@binkleychurch.org Minister of Christian Formation Stephanie Ford stephanie@binkleychurch.org Minister of Music Daniel C. Cherrix daniel@binkleychurch.org Bookkeeper/Facility Liaison Duane Gilbert business@binkleychurch.org Office Manager Lori King office@binkleychurch.org Church Council, Moderator Marilyn Metcalf marilyn_metcalf@yahoo.com Diaconate Chair Claudia Templeton claudiatempleton4@gmail.com Nursery Caregivers Minister Emeritus Jeanie Gangloff, Sarah Grindstaff, Julie Nutter, Hser Ku Robert E. Seymour