HELP SUPPORT THE ANNUAL SCHOOL SUPPLIES PROJECT Sponsored by the Community Service Ministry You will be helping us to fill backpacks with new pens, pencils, paper, crayons, magic markers, highlighters... all the necessary tools needed to hit the ground running on the first day of school.  Your help will also diminish the burden on the fabulous teachers who often supplement supplies from their own piggy banks.  We will table July 23 & 30.  Thank you!

COMMUNITY CLICKERS will meet on Wednesday August 2 from 2-4 pm in the Administrative Lobby - note change!  Come join us!  We will design and begin sewing a Welcome Blanket if we can finish it by mid-August.  We generally spend some time working on a group project and then click and chat, but some attendees click and chat the entire time!  Can't knit or crochet?  Come learn!  Contact clickers@c3huu.org for more information.

OUTDOOR CONNECTIONS Saturday August 5: Kayaks and Canoes, Contemplation and Comestibles. Cheap rentals and easy, shaded paddling in our own backyard wilderness at University Lake. Meet at the lake at 9:00. Brunch-lunch (blunch?) at City Kitchen. RSVP: chandler-dorfman@mindspring.com

PARKING UPDATE If you use or plan to use the old graduate student parking on Hibbard above the church's parking lot, come by the ECO table August 6 for important information or contact eco@c3huu.org.

CHOIR AT DURHAM BULLS Please join us at the 6:35 p.m. Durham Bulls game on August 12, where the Community Church Choir will be making a repeat performance singing the National Anthem just before the game. A few seats with the choir are still available for $10 each, so contact Music Director Glenn Mehrbach at music@c3huu.org to reserve. Otherwise, please come and cheer us on! We'll be sitting in Section 209, on the third base side.

INTERESTED IN JOINING A COVENANT GROUP? If you're new to Community Church Covenant Groups but considering joining one of the year-long groups this fall , please attend one of these Try-it-Out opportunities: Sunday August 20 and Sunday September 10, 6:30 to 8:00 in the sanctuary. To sign-up contact Joanne Wood.

SHARE THE PLATE THANKS Thank you very much for your generous giving to the Patient and Family Resource Center at the UNC Lineberger Cancer Center.  The center will receive $1,230 to support cancer patients and their caregivers!!  Because of you, the center will be able to help families from supporting their basic needs, providing information about cancers, and offering options of head coverings to those in need.

DO YOU LOVE FLOWERS? Have you been looking for a way to be more involved in our church community? Consider joining the Flower Committee! Our Fifth Sunday volunteer has moved away, so we need someone to be responsible for providing the flowers for the service in months that there's a fifth Sunday. All you need to do is pick out something lovely and bring it to the church in time for Sunday services. Reimbursement available through the office. Email Susie Hafer for more information. 

TECHNICAL CREW NEEDED FOR OLIVER! As you may know, the church is producing the classic "Oliver!" in the church sanctuary this November 17-19 (save the dates!). The show's already been cast, but lots of help is needed with a variety of backstage tasks for the show, at all levels of commitment. Jobs include set builders and painters, costumers, make-up artists, light operators, sound designers, stage managers, concession salespeople and musicians. Interested? C ontact director Glenn Mehrbach.

WELLSPRING 1 PROGRAM Wellspring  invites participants to deepen their individual spiritual journeys through a commitment to a 10-month program centered on developing a daily spiritual practice and twice a month regular group meetings built around the principle of deep listening. For more information: see church website or interested participants are encouraged to contact the facilitators Marion Hirsch or Deborah Day . Applications for the program are due to Marion and Deborah via email by  August 27 .

2017 SERVICE AUCTION (November 11) We need donations, donations, donations!!  What's your plan, Stan??? Dinners (steak for 8, tofu for 4); lunches (the best Reuben you ever ate); brunches (green eggs & ham); food items (pies, cakes, pastries, soups, breads); special events (musical parties, mystery night, ladies' night out); services (music lessons, tax help, home repair); vacation rentals; tickets; wall art; and hand-made treasures.  Enter your donations at togetherauction.com/ccchuu.

MISSING ANYTHING? The office has some small miscellaneous lost-and-found items, including keys, a AAA card and several pairs of reading glasses. If any of these sound like they could be yours, feel free to stop by and claim during office hours (Monday-Friday 9-2).

FOOD FOR THE SUMMER provides meals to eligible children who rely on school lunches to continue receiving a weekday meal during summer vacation at walkable meal sites throughout our community. Click here to learn how you can help . Volunteers especially needed August 14-25, when school cafeteria staff go back to the regular school year system (e.g. help with packing lunches) Sign up for opportunities here.   (OKAY supports complementary activities) Submitted by Community Service Ministry

LECTIO (SACRED READING) GROUP meets at noon every Friday in the Commons. We use readings from poetry and the wisdom traditions of the world's religions. No need to sign up ahead of time. Please join us!