United Church of Chapel Hill Calendar of Events: May Worship & Events A Congregation of the United Church of Christ April 17 -23 Sunday, April 17 Highlights 8:45 & 11 am Worship - Sanctuary 9 am Children’s Musical Rehearsal - Music Room This Week - April 17, 2016 GOD IS STILL SPEAKING, 9 am Fellowship Board - Room 235 May 1: Confirmation Sunday. Confirmation 10 am Sunday School Classes for all ages Class 2016 will lead worship both services. Mu- - For Children sic: 8:45 Chancel Choir; Piano trio with Tim - - Pre K Room 104 Rinehart, double bass. 11:00 Youth Choir and Today at United Church Kindergarten - Room 124 soloists. Taize Worship Service (7 pm, Sanctuary) Taizé is a style of Christian First Grade - Room 123 Sunday School classes at 10 am. worship that originated in Second Grade - Room 119 May 8: Worship will include the Children’s See calendar on back page for more information. Taizé France some 75 years Third Grade - Room 122 Musical “The Tale of Three Trees,” by Allen Pote ago. It is woven with Chris- Fourth/Fifth Grades - Room 111 and Tom Lon tian song and chants, inter- For Adults Adult Forum sponsored by the Faith and - spersed with prayerful si- Spiritual Growth Conference Room May 15: Pentecost Sunday, Susan Steinberg Family Class (10 am, Family Parlor) - preaching at both 8:45 and 11 am services. Mu- lence, scripture reading, Young Adults Room 229 Today’s class will have a special guest, Sandy - sic: 8:45 - United Voices of Praise; Bronze Voic- more song, more prayer, and SCOR Room 235 Bisdee, whose love of children and of nature led – es Handbells. 11:00 - Chamber Singers, Bronze more silence. The effect is Faith &Family Adult Forum Fellowship Hall her to a career that focuses on cultivating children's Voices Handbells. profound and takes one For Youth love of the natural world. She is the long -time Di- Confirmation Class - Room 161 • deeper, beyond intellect, into the very heart of wor- Bread for the World Offering of Letters. rector of Children's Programs at the Center for Edu- ship. Be prepared to walk away from the experi- Middle School - Youth Lounge • - End of Year Youth Ministries Cookout, 5 7 cation, Imagination and the Natural World, and will ence refreshed, renewed, and at peace. You will Sr. High - Room 163 pm share her vast and compelling insights with the find that Taizé worship will satisfy the longing of 10 am Mystery Pals Reveal Party - Assembly Hall - group. your heart to be filled with God’s presence. 11 am Teacher Appreciation Brunch Fellowship Hall May 22: Trinity Sunday, Jill Edens preaching - 11:15 am La Mesa y Café Assembly Hall at both services. Music: 8:45 - Chancel Choir; Mystery Pals Reveal Party (10 am, Assembly 2 pm Ambassadors Rehearsal - Assembly Hall - * * * * * Brass. 11:00 Youth Choir Homecoming Next Sunday at United Church: Reverend John 2 pm Leap of Faith Rehearsal - Sanctuary Hall) (Current members and Youth Choir alums); Dorhauer, UCC General Minister & President, 4:14 pm LOF Orchestra - Assembly Hall The 4th/5th graders and their Mystery Pals will Brass. preaching at both services. 7 pm Taize Worship - Sanctuary finally meet! Master of Ceremonies Ron Johnson • End -of -Year Sunday School Service & Social will reveal everyone's true identities, then the pals Monday, April 18 - Hour can visit in person. Reverend Dorhauer will also speak at 10 am in the 12 pm Noon Book Group Library Assembly Hall. 5:45 pm Body Prayer - Family Parlor May 29: Jenny Shultz preaching at both ser- Teacher Appreciation Brunch (11 am, 6 pm Bronze Voices - Music Room - - vices. Music: 8:45 Soloist; Strings Ensemble. Fellowship Hall) Scott Sampson (10 am, Fellowship Hall) 7 pm BJOS Meeting Room 229 11:00 - Chancel Choir. “Loving Nature as Faith Practice.” Children, 7:15 pm Chancel Bells - Music Room Children's and Youth Sunday School leaders and - their loved ones are invited to enjoy a delicious youth, parents and guardians, grandparents and 7:15 pm Women’s Group Library educators are welcome to us for this intergenera- Tuesday, April 19 meal offered in their honor. - tional presentation by the host of Dinosaur Train , 6:30 pm Leap of Faith Rehearsal Sanctuary curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Sci- 7 pm Board of Trustees - Room 235 - La Mesa (11:15 am, Assembly Hall) ence and author of How to Raise a Wild Child: The 7 pm Earth Ministries Room 229 “WeWe believe in God’s continuing Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature. Wednesday, April 20 La Mesa y Café is an initiative of United Church to - testament in the world enhance the diversity, spirituality and faith of peo- Following the presentation, Mr. Sampson will join 7 am Bible Study Library us for a walk along the trail behind the church. This 3 pm Spanish Class - Conference Room ple in a radically, welcoming and inclusive space - …extravagant …extravagant welcome. welcome. where the table of the Lord becomes the sacred event is made possible by Susan Steinberg's sabbat- 6:30 pm Leap of Faith Rehearsal Sanctuary ical grant program, “Be Still and Behold.” 7:30 pm Chancel Choir - Music Room ..and ..and changing changing lives.” lives.” meeting space. La Mesa is a bi -lingual worship Friday, April 22 experience. Please join us. 9:15 am Yoga - Assembly Hall 11:30 am Meditation/Prayer Group - Library Saturday, April 23

9 am Racial Justice Workshop - Sanctuary/Fellowship GOD IS STILL SPEAKING, Hall

LAST DAY TO JOIN US, FOR OUR SPRING WEDNESDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY SERIES SERMON SHAPING REGISTER “GETTING TO KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT” BIBLE STUDY We need

Please join us! casseroles!

WORKSHOP on RACIAL JUSTICE Please help us restock the freezer with cas- seroles to serve at the IFC Community Kitch- with REV. DR. JOHN DORHAUER, en. We love when our freezer is full to the GENERAL MINISTER AND PRESIDENT brim. OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST To support this ministry, we need 30 -35 cas- Saturday Morning, April 23, beginning seroles a month. Disposable casserole pans On Wednesday mornings at 7 am in the church at 9am are available in the church Narthex. You can library, join one of your pastors and fellow also buy ready made casseroles, lasagna, church persons in looking ahead at the lessons United Church of Chapel Hill is hosting a Satur- mac -n-cheese, etc… Thank you! for the coming Sunday. It’s early, but the cof- day morning retreat with Rev. Dr. John Dorhauer, fee is on and the study is rewarding. General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, serving as a teacher of the church. Wednesdays, April 20, 27, May 4 & 11 UCCH ARTISTS' EXHIBIT IN FELLOWSHIP To be discussed on Wednesday, April 20 5:45 pm, Church Library April 24 5th Sunday of Easter DR. KENNETH JANKEN TO SPEAK ON HALL Acts 11:1 -18 Psalm 148 Revelation 21:1 -6 John 13:31 -35 THE WILMINGTON TEN Just as we offered a special Lenten Wednesday night Bible study series leading into Easter, begin- Participating artists are: At the Last Supper, Jesus commands his disci-

ning April 20, United Church is offering a series ples to love one another. Saturday, April 23 Wednesday nights at 5:45 PM leading into Pente- • Natalie Boorman Dr. Kenneth Janken, UNC professor and author of cost. • Jackie Bruce To be discussed on Wednesday, April 27 a new book on the Wilmington 10 -- The Wilming- • Artie Dixon May 1 6th Sunday of Easter ton Ten: Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black - Pentecost celebrates the gift of the Holy Spirit to • Acts 16:9 15 Psalm 67 Politics in the 1970s -- will speak about the United Dail Dixon – - the church, but for so many of us the Holy Spirit is • Revelation 21:10, 22 22:5 John 14:23 29 Church of Christ and the Wilmington 10 and be Lew Graham Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit will remind a mysterious figure, the one member of the Trinity • available for questions. The Rev. Ben Chavis was we don’t know a lot about. We invite you to Rinnie Orr us of Jesus’ teachings and peace. an organizer for the UCC’s Commission on Racial bring your dinner join us in the library these eve- • David Otto Justice at the time he was imprisoned as a part of nings for a time of fellowship and learning. • Louise Pagano To be discussed on Wednesday, April 27 the Wilmington 10 thus the witness of the Wil- • Robin Sheedy May 8 7th Sunday of Easter mington 10 is a part of the heritage of the United - For those who want to read ahead, the texts we • David Taylor Acts 16:16 34 Psalm 97 Church of Christ as well as the State of North Car- plan to study are Acts 2 (on April 20), Psalm 104 Revelation 22:12 -14, 16 -17, 20 -21 olina. - (on April 27), Romans 8 (on May 4), and John 14 Information about the artists and their work is in a John 17:20 26 (on May 11). Feel free to email: binder located in the Fellowship Hall. Some of their Jesus prays that we will be one with each other • in God’s love. Let us know today if you are Micah Royal at [email protected] work is for sale and some will give a percentage of • Suzanne Lamport at their sales to charity. The show will be up through coming to the workshop and [email protected]. mid -May. luncheon. Thank you!!! This is our first show in the Fellowship Hall, and we are very excited about it! Please come take a look!

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The year 1685 proved to be an auspicious one for music, with the birth of 3 greats: Handel, United Church Players Bach, and Domenico Scarlatti. Each lived a relatively long life for their time, with Handel presents: outliving the other two by 9 and 2 years re- spectively. At the age of 23, after having worked and studied in Germany and Italy, Handel left Germany for England without se- curing the permission of his employer, the Leap of Faith Elector of Hanover, Prince Georg Ludwig. Undoubtedly to Handel’s surprise, and no doubt chagrin, two years later, upon the death April 28, 29,and 30 of Queen Anne, the Elector, as he was the Queen’s closest living Protestant relative, as- 7:30 pm cended the English throne. Fortunately for Handel, King George I appreciated good mu- sic and forgave his former court composer. Based on the motion picture “Leap of Faith”

Finding the English less than enthusiastic over his Italian operas, Handel secured employment with written by Janus Cercone the fabulously wealthy James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon, Duke of Chandos, who lived in an equal- ly fabulous Palladian mansion, “Cannons,” near Edgware, northwest of London. The Duke lavished himself with an orchestra, celebrated musicians, and composers. During his two years working for the Duke Handel wrote, among other pieces, a set of eleven anthems which became known as the Music by Alan Menken Chandos Anthems. The eleven works were modestly scored for vocal soloists, choir, oboe, strings Lyrics by Glenn Slater and continuo. They were likely first performed in the Duke’s private chapel, St. Lawrence church, on Book by Jancue Cercone and Glenn Slater the Cannons estate.

“O Praise the Lord with one consent,” the ninth of the Chandos anthems, is a stunning example of * * * * * Baroque composition. The opening sinfonia and the opening phrases of the choir parts would have No General Admission: been immediately recognizable to the congregation as the then relatively new hymn tune penned by Good Will Offering - William Croft in 1708, the St. Anne. This hymn tune flanks the music today, as we will close with a suggested $10 adults/$7 children congregational singing of Croft’s hymn, best known to us as “O God, Our Help in Ages Past.”

Handel was a master of word -painting, the technique of depicting a word's meaning through music; Open Seating. Doors open at 7:00 pm. examples of this compositional technique about in today’s anthem. In the opening choral phrase alone sing “O Praise the Lord;” the whole choir then joins, in perfect agreement, for the * * * * * text “with one consent.” This is followed by the words “and magnify his name;” whereas the first 9 Proceeds to benefit BE LOUD! Sophie Foundation supporting adolescent/young words of this psalm are treated with one note per syllable, the last syllable of “magnify” is suitably adult cancer patients and their families and Movember supporting magnified to a sequence of 15 and later 21 notes! The bass aria thrills with a sense of God’s great- Men's Health including research for prostate cancer. ness in the magnificent rising phrases that cover an octave and a half. This is followed by the tender soprano aria, which depicts God’s mercy in its gently lyrical phrases. It’s hard to imagine a more cheerful motif for the text that begins the final chorus (the middle chorus when the work is per- * * * * * formed in full), “With cheerful notes, let all the earth....” When the choir arrives at the text “to heav- Produced though special arrangement with en their voices raise,” they sustain the word “raise,” as if breathless with exhaustion, while the Music Theater International strings continue to waft the message heavenward. Careful attention to the masterful setting of these 421 West 54th St, New York, NY 10019 metrical psalm texts will reveal many more messages hidden in Handel’s notes! www.mtishows.com

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MONDAY NIGHT WOMEN'S GROUP Mondays at 7:15 pm (Library) IFC COMMUNITY THE ONA COMMITTEE IS BA-ACK! From the UCCH Library The women’s group will read chapters 10 -11 KITCHEN VOLUNTEERS OUT! RALEIGH (p. 189 -232) from Marcus Borg’s book, “Convictions: How I Learned What Matters NEEDED For additional perspec- The United Church of Chapel Hill has been Open Most.” Please join us. and Affirming (ONA), since June 6, 1993,after tives on the themes of We need volunteers to serve this month at IFC two years of prayerful dialogue and the adoption today’s readings, check BOOK DRIVE for HAITI of a statement affirming all people as one in the out the following in the Community Kitchen and Homestart: Anja Sheppard is traveling to Haiti this summer! Body of Christ. Since February 2016, a new ONA UCCH Library:

She will be completing her Girl Scout Gold Committee has formed, in order to further that • Thursday, April 21: Need four women to prep Award, the highest award a girl scout can earn, 1993 resolution. Now in light of the recent legis- & serve dinner at Homestart (5:30 to 7 pm). lation in North Carolina, HB2, we are even more by building a library for the Yahvre Jire orphan- • Thursday, April 28: Need six volunteers to eager to offer a safe and welcoming place for • age. How can you help? By donating used Pope Francis. Shepherds with the “odor prep & serve dinner (10 am to 12 pm). those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, books! Anja needs children/teens books in both of the sheep”. In “The Church of Mer- English and French. Please be on the lookout for transgender or queer. cy: A Vision for the Church,” p83 -95. How to volunteer: a book collection station near the narthex starting 282 Fra C - today. Feel free to contact Anya at amstru- We are pleased to say that UC CH’s ONA Com- • Metzger, B.M. John’s vision of God [email protected] with any questions! To be on our meal serving team mittee is gearing up for its first LGBTQ activity and the lamb. In Breaking the Code: for IFC Community Kitchen and for 2016. On Saturday, May 7, join us for an af- Understanding the book of Revelation, Homestart, leave us your email address ternoon of fun with old and new friends alike at p47 -54. 228.6 Met B

and let us know you want to receive our Out! Raleigh. (http://www.outraleigh.org/) • Kittredge, C.B. Multiple modes of 2016 CHAPEL HILL/CARRBORO PEACE- Running from 11 am to 6 pm, the event offers live MAKING SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED monthly email about volunteering. knowing: Easter in John. In entertainment, local vendors and artists, and great “Conversations with Scripture: The Chapel Hill/Carrboro Peacemaking Scholarships food! There is no admission fee, and yet the Out! - in the amount of $1,000 each have been awarded Gospel of John,” p79 92. 226.6 Kit C Raleigh festival is an important way to raise funds • to Jocelyn Buckley and Kate Wood, seniors at UCCH SOLAR SYSTEM UPDATE in support of the LGBT Center of Raleigh. Crossan, J.D. The great apocalypse of Carrboro High School. These scholarships are Amazing performance in March: John. In “God & Empire: Jesus against awarded annually to graduating seniors who live Rome, Then and Now,” p217 -231. We produced 11663 kWh (= 376 kWh/day), For the sake of parking in downtown Raleigh and or go to school in Chapel Hill or Carrboro, who but used only a net amount of 1760 kWh from for general fun and fellowship, we are renting a 15 261.7 Cro G • are intending to pursue a college education, and Duke Energy. This is much more than the -passenger van so that we can ride together. If Anderson, J.C. Reading Tabitha: A who meet certain criteria. The criteria are activ- projection of 9926 for March (= 320 kWh/ you would like to join us on that day, we will meet feminist reception history. In “A Femi- ism, academic study, and career goals that relate day). Thus we generated 87% of our March at the church parking lot at 10:00 and be back by nist Companion to the Acts of the - to non -violent conflict resolution, global commu- electricity need from the sun, compared to the 6:00 that evening. Those who want to ride in the Apostles,” p22 48. 226.6 Lev A nity, social justice, ecology, and/or population. projection of 73%! van will pay from $12.00 (15 people) to $15.00 • Walton, J.M. What about Dorcas? Jocelyn and Kate received scholarships because Fun fact: for (12 people) for travel and gas. We plan to eat Christian Century, 124 (8), p16, Apr 17, of their excellent qualifications, record of study For the week of April 3 -9, we produced out together, before coming back to the church. If 2007. 261 Chr C and achievement, strong letters of recommenda- 3.658 Megawatt -hours, or an average of 522 you would like to ride in the van, please call Nan- • Keller, P. A Shepherd Looks at Psalm tion, and their desire to pursue careers as peace- kWh/day, significantly more than our average cy J Jones at 919.542.1856 to reserve a seat, by 23. 223.6 Kel S makers. Over the past eight years, 17 peacemak- daily usage for April, with a peak of 597 kWh Sunday, May 1. • Lundbom, J.R. Psalm 23: Song of pas- ing scholarships have been awarded. Individuals on April 3rd. sage. Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and organizations who wish to support future and Theology, 40 (1), p5 -16, Jan 1986. peacemaking scholarships can make a financial 220 Int contribution by sending a check payable to CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW Peacemaking Scholarship Fund to United Church The library will not be staffed today, but of Chapel Hill, 1321 Martin Luther King, Jr. CITIZEN, PAW PLEH Paw Pleh, wife of Htoo Baw and mother of Chrit please serve yourself. Instructions for using Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514. You can view the catalog are near the computer; instruc- bios and photos of Jocelyn and Kate at http:// Hae, Paw Nay Than, Hser Hti Hser Day Der, and - Paw Der Lwel passed her citizenship test last tions for borrowing an item are near the unitedchurch.org/wp content/ door. uploads/2014/03/2016 -news -release -v4 -2.pdf . Monday. Her oath ceremony will be April 22. Congratulations!

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