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The Titusian News Digest of St. Titus’ Episcopal Church — April, 2019

April 14 Palm Sunday 8:00 am and 10:am Holy Eucharist

April 17 Wednesday 12-Noon Eucharist and healing service followed by lunch and discussion 6:00 pm Evening Prayer

April 18 Maundy Thursday 6:00 pm Agape meal and Holy Eucharist 6:30 pm foot washing

April 19 Good Friday 12-Noon Good Friday liturgy followed by Stations of the Cross

April 21 Easter Day 8:00 am and 10:am

Holy Eucharist

1. Life is scary The economy, terrorism, crazy weather—there is a lot to be afraid of in our world. But those who have met the One who calms storms, know that though the journey might be challenging, we are ultimately promised a safe harbor. In-vite your friends to meet Jesus, the only reliable guide through scary times.

3. Everyone needs a purpose As a former Watergate conspirator said, many folks live their lives climbing the ladder of success only to realize it was leaning against the wrong wall. Jesus’ resurrection provides us with the power to live lives of significant purpose and to discern between true and false success. Invite your friends to discover Jesus, the only compass to guide you to a life of genuine, meaningful pur-pose

2. People are lonely Lies, abandonment, abuse, disappointment—no matter how wonderful the person or relationship, there are times when the best of human companionship will disappoint. That’s because, as St. Augustine said, we all have a God-shaped place inside that only Jesus can fill. Invite your friends to meet Jesus, the only person whose love will never fail through all of life, through death, and into eternity.

4. We’re all going to live forever

Most folks today believe that and the Bible agrees. The question is, if you are going to live forever, what neighbor-hood will you live in? Jesus promises that for those who believe in Him they will live in an eternal neighborhood of light, joy, purpose, and companionship with loved ones. But Jesus won’t force anyone to live in His neighborhood. Problem is, any place outside His source of light, joy, pur-pose, and companionship is an eternal place of darkness, pain, regret, and isolation—not a neighborhood we want anyone to live in. Invite your friends to meet Jesus, so they can live forever in the neighborhood of joy.

Easter Day April 21, 2019

4 Reasons to Invite Friends and Others to Easter Services

Holy Week Schedule

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5 Durham Crop Walk -Walk and/or Donate 7 Food Sorting at El Buen Pastor 8:30 am-

14 Worship with students and help provide hearty meal. Contact Willette Crews to help

17 Robyn Furges’ Butterfly Beau-ties Lunch Group– Spaulding

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Painting, pressure washing, and grounds

Ongoing Outreach Opportunities C. C. Spaulding Elementary School Community Partners Meeting First Monday each month at (4:30 pm) After School Enrichment Tutorial Program Monday-Thursdays from 4:15-5:30 pm. Become a member of the SIP Planning Meetings First Thursday at 7:45 am Attend Parent Council Meetings Attend Parent/Community workshops and engagement events Join All Pro-Dads

NCCU Campus Minis try Transformation Tuesdays Participate with NCCU students and the Office of Spiritual Life on Tuesdays at 8 pm throughout the academic year at the Alfonso Elder Student Union. Thursday night session Join Deacon Sarah at the informal gathering at the Alfonso Elder Student Union. Contact Deacon Sarah 919-599-5227 [email protected]


Mrs. Mozella McLaughlin


Larry Stroud in Please Note

The Diocese of North Carolina has added a new staff member dedicat-ed to supporting our historically black congregations and developing ministries with people across the Diocese. In support of our diocesan priority of racial reconciliation, Larry Stroud is serving as consult-ing missioner for black ministries, a newly created part-time position that identifies, recommends and tests ways to assist black congrega-tions to revitalize the Church as they discern their varied calls for future ministry.

The consulting missioner for black ministries will reach out to the con-gregations and their communities in order to listen to their stories of faith to honor their history and dis-cern where the Spirit is leading them into the future; foster greater relationships with other parishes and missions through partnerships that reach across ethnic and racial boundaries; connect congregations, in partnership with the regional canons, to a variety of resources; and find new and creative ways to use our buildings for the glory of God by cultivating new ministries for the Jesus Movement. This position is part of the New Vi-sions Initiative of The Episcopal Church. New Visions is “an ongo-ing congregational renewal pro-gram designed specifically for con-gregations of African descent.

Built upon a foundation of lifelong Christian formation, the initiative’s purpose is to spark new visions of mission-centered communities and find fresh ways for congregations to strengthen their ministries.” “We are excited to have Larry join our staff team,” the Rt. Rev. Sam Rodman said. “He has been doing similar work for the past three years as a volunteer, where he helped in-troduce Invite Welcome Connect to our historically black congrega-tions. He brings strong networking skills, deep experience in church leadership, and organizational de-velopment. Larry also currently serves as head verger of our Dio-cese."

The celebration of Bishop Henry Beard Delany will begin Wednesday, April 10 at 11:30 am. with pray-ers at his gravesite at Mount Hope Cemetery (120 Prospect Ave, Raleigh, NC 27603).

This will be followed by a 12:15pm. service at St. Ambrose.

Attendees are invited to meet at St. Ambrose at 11:15 am. to travel to the gravesite together, or they can go directly to the cemetery and then continue to the church. A reception and exhibit will follow the service.

ABOUT HENRY BEARD DELANY

February 5, 1858 – April 14, 1928 Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina, 1918–1928

A native of Georgia with roots in his family’s farm in Fernandina, Florida, the Rt. Rev. Henry Delany came to Raleigh to attend St. Augustine’s Normal School (now St. Augustine's University), graduated in 1885 and served on the faculty until 1908. Ordained both deacon (1889) and priest (1892) at St. Am-brose, Raleigh, he assisted there while teaching religion, music and education.

He also served as college chaplain, vice-principal and supervisor of building projects at the school. He and his students helped construct the college chapel, the library and St. Agnes Hospital, among other buildings. First as a member of the Commission for Work Among Colored People, then as Archdeacon for Work Among Col-ored People, Delany visited congregations and helped organize schools in the Diocese. After his unanimous election as Bishop Suffragan in May 1918, he was consecrated in St. Augustine’s Chapel in November. As the second black bishop suffragan after Edward T. Demby of Arkansas, Bishop Delany supervised the work for ten years in North Carolina, East Carolina, South Carolina and occasionally Western North Carolina. He is remembered for his humility, gentleness, dignity and dedication to the improvement of life for African-Americans across the South.

Diocesan Celebration of Bishop Henry Beard Delany


St. Titus’ Men on the Move at NCCU Campus Ministry The Men's Group of St. Titus’ sponsored a pizza party on Transformation Tuesday at NCCU on March 26, in the Student Union. They served as role models for creating a meaningful community of men in Christ evidence of St. Titus' support.


I was truly blessed this past week when I attended the Lenten Day of Reflection, a joint venture be-tween Chapel of the Cross, and St. Titus’. I knew

the day would be a nurturing one as soon as I stepped into our gathering space and heard the beloved, and soothing strains of Taize chants being played. That music set the stage for a fulfilling day of contempla-tion, reflection, and sharing. After all had gathered, we started the day with prayer, and the making of a covenant with one another. In our covenant we prom-ised to be supportive of each other, to listen to, and respect one another, and to keep all things confiden-tial, so that we might create a safe and sacred space.

As an introduction, we learned about the Episco-pal Church’s movement called “The Way of Love: Practices for Jesus-Centered Life”. Our first session focused on the spiritual practice of prayer. We noted the seven types of prayer described in the Catechism and the important role of prayer in Christian life. We didn’t just talk about prayer, however, we actually spent much of that first session praying. Some of our prayers were scriptural ones (e.g. Ephesians 3:17-19), while others were musical prayers in the form of Taize chants and Negro Spirituals.

Our second session focused on scriptural and spir-itual journey reflections. We listened to a Reading from Exodus (Exodus 14:10-15:1) that tells the story of the Israelites leaving Egypt, crossing the Red Sea, and escaping the Egyptians. We used this story as a prompt to start us reflecting on our own spiritual jour-neys. We then had almost 90 minutes to spend in self-reflection. I started the time of reflection by going for a walk to clear my head, and to center myself on God’s creation. It was too cold to sit outside to write, so I headed back indoors, and found myself a quiet spot to sit, reflect, pray, and write. I was surprised at how easily the story of my spiritual journey flowed out of my pen and onto the page. It was clear that the sacred place and time that had been created made this possible.

We had a delicious lunch provided for us, but it was what happened after lunch that for me was the highlight of the whole day. We gathered together in small groups, to share the stories of our spiritual jour-neys. There were five of us in our group, and we each took our turn to share our story. It was amazing listen-ing to each, and everyone, share. The stories were told honestly, and lovingly, and they were each received with respect, and with love. It really struck me that we had such different spiritual journeys; we started out in vastly different places and times, and the valleys and mountaintops of each journey were different, and yet we had all come together in these holy moments of sharing, in this holy space. Five very different women gathered together, and yet, you could feel the love and respect flow. We had taken very different paths on our journeys, and yet we all had the same end in sight: to find God, and to know God in Christ Jesus. In these moments of sharing, I saw the embodiment of the “Way of Love”.

We ended the day with a special Eucharist, where in addition to the oblations of Bread and Wine, we offered up our journals with our spiritual journeys written in them. The Eucharist was especially mean-ingful because, after hearing our very diverse stories of our spiritual journeys, it reminded me that we are One Body in our One Lord.

I thank the Rev. Joyce Cunningham for leading us in prayer, reflection, and worship; the Rev. Stephanie Yancy for co-celebrating the Eucharist; and the hard-working committee that planned, and facilitated, the

events of the day. Most of all I thank the Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for being present with us in our Lenten Day of Reflection.

Quiet Day, A Joint Event with Chapel of the Cross and St. Titus’

Althea Gibson

Rev. Cunningham Rev. Yancy


Catechism of the Good Shepherd Reporting

On March 3, we celebrated Mardi Gras to enjoy fun, food, and games before Ash Wednesday began on the 5th. The Atrium festively was decorated and food aplenty and King cakes provided by Paula Drew-Estes and Tyler Lester.

A Mardi Gras coffee hour followed the 10:00 am service. A good time was had by all!!

Our Lenten Journey began by hiding "Alleluias" and with presen-tations of Psalm 23 and The Kingdom of God Parable of the Grain. In this parable a man planted wheat seeds and while he slept and while awake, they were transformed into wheat for har-vest. A reflection time followed with discussion: "How did this happen?" What made the seeds become a lant?" "Who might the man be? What could the seeds represent? The next Sunday, the Mystery of Life and Death theme was pre-sented in another story about the Grain of Wheat. The children planted seeds, observed a second pot of growing wheat grass with the seed dying, and the third pot of wheat grass where the plant is fully grown and the seeds have died. Reflection time considered how the dying of the seed is necessary in order for new life to occur. This created the basis for hearing about Jesus' death and resurrection. Building the ancient City of Jerusalem, walking with Jesus through the city during Holy Week, and choosing where would we want to be with Jesus on this walk continues our Lenten Jour-ney. The children are making their own City of Jerusalem book-lets by writing about the various places within the City. Present-

ing the Last Supper in the Cenacle with Jesus and actually re-enacting this meal will highlight our journey. As Lent is drawing to a close and Easter approaches, we will celebrate Palm Sunday and prepare for the Liturgy of the Light celebration to be held on May 5 at the 10:00 am worship ser-vice. On Easter Sunday, we will visit the Empty Tomb and revive our "Alleluias". Please put May 5 , 10:00 am on your calendars for The Litur-gy of the Light celebration. The children will lead this liturgy in songs, scripture readings, prayers, and an invitation to all to "receive the light of Christ." Everyone will be invited to light a candle as an integral part of this celebration. We pray that all of you are having a blessed and holy Lent. Donna Smith, Catechist Assistants: Gloria Drew, Alice Grant, Danita Parker, and Tyler Lester


The Rev. Stephanie Yancy, Vicar The Rev. Sarah Woodard, Deacon Mary Hawkins, Newsletter Editor St. Titus’ Episcopal Church 400 Moline Street Durham NC 27707 st.titusepiscopal @gmail.com sttitusdurham.dionc.org 919-682-5504

St Titus’ Sunday Worship Schedule

8:00 am Holy Eucharist

9:00 am Christian Formation

10-am Holy Eucharist

10-am Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Iglesia El Buen Pastor

1852 Liberty St Help sort food April – 6

Music Notes Thank you for submitting your “Favorite hymns” to us over the past weeks. What a wonderful and varied list of favorites we have re-ceived, demonstrating how important music has been to you in your faith journey. We will continue to use as many of your favorites as is practical in Sunday morning worship, not only as congregational hymns, but also as musical offerings during the Prelude, Offertory,

and Postlude. We are also planning a “hymn sing” during the Easter season to give you an opportunity to sing some of your favorites, so stay tuned! Susan

Raleigh, NC, March 12, 2019 https://www.st-aug.edu/news/ (edited)

The Board of Trustees of Saint Augustine’s University an-nounced today the appointment of Dr. Gaddis Faulcon as the interim president for the University.

This appointment is effective immediately. This deci-sion coincides with the beginning of former President Everett Ward’s retirement.

“At this time of significant positive momentum sur-rounding the next phase of the University’s evolu-tion, the Board of Trustees has determined there is a need to launch the formal transition and search process for the new President,” said Board of Trustees Chairman Hilton Smith. “We are pleased that Dr. Gaddis Faulcon, our 1974 alumnus, has agreed to lead our transition team. He brings the pas-sion and previous experience serving in this pivotal role.”

Faulcon recently served as Vice President of Enroll-ment Management at Saint Augustine’s University. He also led Shaw University as its interim president from 2014 to 2015. Faulcon, who joined the faculty at Shaw in 1998, has 30 years of experience in higher education and has previously served in several admin-istrative roles.

In addition to his roles at Saint Augustine’s and Shaw University, he served as acting executive director for Northeastern North Carolina Tomorrow, Inc. at Eliza-beth City State University.

Faulcon earned a B.S. degree in health and physical education from Saint Augustine’s; an M.R.R/M.P.A. in recreation resources management and pub-lic administration; and an Ed.D. in higher education and public administration both from North Caroli-na State University.

“I am truly honored to be asked to lead my alma ma-ter at this crucial time in our 152-year history and look forward to working with all those who are com-mitted to writing our next great chapter together,” Faulcon said.

St. Titus’ Episcopal Church Women will sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt in Delany Park on Easter Day, immediately following the 10-am Service.

https://www.st-aug.edu/news/

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