FBC Raleigh News • May 18, 2021
BIOS & RESUMES OF CANDIDATES

We hope that you are making plans to be present for our welcome weekend as we introduce our candidates for the Minister of Music and the Organist/Music Assistant. Both of the candidates bios and resumes can be found on the members-only section of our website. The same information is available in the church office and can be mailed upon request. There will be times for those involved in the music program as well as the congregation to interact with the candidates. Handbell ringers, adult choir members, and lay leaders in the music program are invited to attend small group events specifically designed for them. An email invitation with additional details for these gatherings will be sent to those groups soon. Our candidates will also be involved in leading the worship service this Sunday, May 23.

All FBC members and their families are invited to meet the candidates in person during a receiving line-style event this Saturday from 2-5pm at the church. After parking, please enter the garth area from Edenton Street to speak with the candidates. Afterward, we ask you to exit the courtyard and return to your car. In order to minimize crowding and wait times, please register at this link for a 45-minute visitation window.

Saturday, May 22, 2021
10am • Handbell ringers and music lay leaders – Room 301/302/Zoom if needed
1pm • Adult choir – Room 301/302/Zoom if needed
2:00-2:45pm • Church-wide meet-and-greet, FBC garth
3:00-3:45pm • Church-wide meet-and-greet, FBC garth
4:00-4:45pm • Church-wide meet-and-greet, FBC garth

We hope you will be able to join us on Saturday, May 22, and participate in worship on Sunday, May 23, either in person or via YouTube. Please register at the link above to attend one of the sessions. The search committees are very excited for you to meet these outstanding candidates! They will be presented for a formal vote at special conference on Sunday, May 23, at 5:30pm via Zoom. For questions or further information email J.D. Rhodes or Rhonda Lowe.
BIBLE VERSES FOR DAILY USE
  • Tuesday, May 18: Psalm 115; Numbers 8:5-22; Titus 1:1-9
  • Wednesday, May 19: Psalm 115; Ezra 9:5-15; John 16:16-24
  • Thursday, May 20: Psalm 33:12-22; Genesis 2:4b-7; 1 Corinthians 15:42b-49
  • Friday, May 21: Psalm 33:12-22; Job 37:1-13; 1 Corinthians 15:50-57
  • Saturday, May 22: Psalm 33:12-22; Exodus 15:6-11; John 7:37-39
  • Sunday, May 23: Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
  • Monday, May 24: Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Joel 2:18-29; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
DEACON ON CALL
May 16-22 • Leah Filomena (919-714-2948)
WEEK AT A GLANCE • May 18-23
Tuesday, May 18
6pm Theology on Tap (Zoom/In-person tbd)
6pm HS Bible Study (Helms Home)
6pm ITC Board Meeting (Zoom)
7:30pm Pathfinders Sunday School (Zoom)

Wednesday, May 19
11am Clothing Ministry Donations Collection (FH/Clothing Ministry/Sm. Rooms)
5:30pm Evening Bells Rehearsal (S)
7pm Youth Netflix Movie Night (Teleparty)

Thursday, May 20
7am Band of Brothers (Zoom)
7:30pm College Group (Zoom)
Friday, May 21
HS Retreat at Christmount Retreat Center, Black Mountain, NC
(Return May 23)

Saturday, May 22
10am Meet the Candidates - Bell Ringers & Music Lay Leaders (Rms. 301/302/Zoom)
11am RA Car Race (Church PL)
1pm Meet the Candidates - Adult Choir (Rms. 301/30/Zoom)
2pm Meet the Candidates - Churchwide Meet-and-Greet (Garth)
3pm Meet the Candidates - Churchwide Meet-and-Greet (Garth)
4pm Meet the Candidates - Churchwide Meet-and-Greet (Garth)
Sunday, May 23
Pentecost
9am EMF SS Class (Zoom)
10am 6th Grade SS (Gotomeeting.com)
10am 7th & 8th Grade SS (Zoom)
10am High School SS (Zoom/In Person tbd)
11am Worship (S/YouTube)
2pm 1st & 2nd Grade SS (Zoom)
2pm 3rd – 5th Grade SS (Lingafelt Yard)
4pm 3s thru Kindergarten SS (Zoom)
5:30pm Youth Group (Church PL)
5:30pm Special Church Conference; Vote for Candidates (Zoom)

Monday, May 24
5:30pm Deacons Meeting (Zoom)
8pm Nominating Committee Mtg. (Zoom)
ITC TEACHER ASSISTANTS

The Infant Toddler Center is currently accepting applications for Teacher Assistants in their program. They are seeking applicants who can create a classroom environment that supports all aspects of development of the children in their care. Applicants should have 1-2 years of verifiable child care experience. If this describes you, they welcome you to apply by submitting your resume to fbcitc@gmail.com.
EMS MEALS

On Tuesday, May 25, we will be providing lunch for the entire Wake County EMS staff. Since it is National EMS Appreciation Week, we thought this would be a good way for us to show our appreciation to these local frontline workers! Next week, we'll be providing 136 And Also With 'Cue lunches, consisting of a bbq sandwich, potato chips, and a moon pie! Thanks to David With for the delicious bbq, Anne Cooke and Nancy Phillips for organizing, and Lynn Lingafelt for coordinating our children who wrote the sweetest thank you notes that we taped to the top of each take-out box. We appreciate your generous donations that have made this third lunch possible!
TWO CHURCH CONFERENCES

Please mark your calendars for this Sunday, May 23, at 5:30pm. This is a called Church Conference and we will be voting on our candidates for the Minister of Music and Organist/Music Assistant positions. We'll still have our regularly scheduled Church Conference on Wednesday, May 26, at 5:30pm. The Zoom invite for both meetings is the same and is listed below, as well as a call-in number for those who would rather join via phone. We will send out the needed attachments that normally would be on the tables via email before the meeting. We look forward to seeing as many of your faces as possible on May 23 & 26!

Meeting ID: 850 6201 7518
Passcode: wDefe3

Phone number: (301) 715-8592
Meeting ID: 850 6201 7518
Passcode: 490422
RA CAR RACE

During their last several outdoor sessions, our RAs have spent some of their time honing their car-making skills -- their end products resulting in smoothly sanded and carefully painted derby cars which will hit the track at our outdoor RA Car Race on Saturday, May 22!  In preparation for that race, we need your help in determining the bragging rights for “Best Paint Job”! 
 
Below are eight fine-looking, carefully crafted cars. Please take a look at them and vote for the number that represents the “Best Paint Job." Email Lynn Lingafelt with the number you choose between now and next Wednesday, May 19!  The winner will be announced at our RA Car Race on Saturday, May 22, and will be promptly announced in our next Rose Window Weekly as well!
NEW HELEN WRIGHT CENTER SERVING DATES

For the past year through our partnership with And Also With 'Cue, we have been providing dinner to the women living at the Helen Wright Center. The Helen Wright Center offers emergency shelter to single women without children who are experiencing homelessness. Ever since the pandemic began, this has been a contactless experience that involves picking up the food from our church kitchen and delivering it to the Helen Wright Center where it is served by their employees. We have already committed to several dates in 2021, and would love your help in making these deliveries. If you are able to help deliver for one or more of these dates, please email Leah.

• June 1
• July 1
• August 5
• September 2
• October 4
NO SIGN-UP NEEDED FOR WORSHIP

Beginning this Sunday, no sign-up is needed for worship. You will still need to enter the church either through the main front doors on the Capitol Square or through the back parking lot door with the covered ramp off the McDowell lot. From there, you sign in with sanitized pens so we can do our due diligence if contract tracing is needed. The doors will open at 10:30am and we will lock the back door at 11am, so please arrive in time to go through a check-in station monitored by deacons and get settled in the sanctuary before worship begins. We ask that those who are able consider parking in the government lot or deck or on the street so that those who are less mobile can have easy access to the McDowell lot entrance.

We will not require temperature checks at the doors, since hospitals are no longer requiring them, but please answer all the questions on the form and revisit them on the day of worship. We will require everyone to remain masked throughout the service and remain safely distanced (we will have pews marked appropriately). Please pick up an order of worship off the table either in the narthex or in the gathering room. There will also be offering baskets on those tables, since we will not be passing the plates during worship, and receptacles for trash and recycling when you depart. We will continue streaming the service on YouTube, for all who may want to continue worshiping virtually. We appreciate your patience as we adjust to a new rhythm on Sunday mornings.
CLOTHING MINISTRY REOPENING!
DONATIONS NEEDED

After a longer-than-expected COVID-19 closure, we are making preparations for a Clothing Ministry grand reopening! As you all may know, we have been doing some major renovations in our space, including new flooring and paint. We are deeply grateful for the many laborers we have had over the past few weeks that have helped paint, as we transform this space into something new and fresh. We can't wait for you to see it! Mark your calendar for our tentative reopening date - Monday, August 2, from 10am - 12pm!

Part of our reopening plan includes restocking our donations so we can safely open to the public. We will be accepting donations of new and gently used clothing (any season!) and shoes during drive-thru donation drop-offs in the back parking lot on the following dates:

Wednesday, May 19th, 11am – 1pm
Wednesday, June 9th, 11am – 1pm
Saturday, June 12th, 11am – 1pm

We ask that you bag all donations by categories – men’s, women’s, and children’s.
We are unable to clean or repair donated clothing, so please ensure that your clothing donations do not have stains, rips, or broken zippers and buttons. WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING DONATIONS OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS other than suitcases, backpacks, and blankets.

If you are a regular volunteer of the Clothing Ministry, be on the lookout for an email soon about ways that you can help over the coming weeks! If you are not a regular volunteer but would like more information, please email Sabrina Tyndall. Thanks for your continued support of this ministry!
INFORMATION NEEDED FROM COLLEGE GRADS

Class of 2021, congratulations! We want to recognize your accomplishments, and celebrate these milestones alongside each of you. If you are graduating from college, we would like to have the following information for our church's publications.

Please email Deborah the following information:
• Graduate's name
• College
• Degree
• Your relationship to the graduate

All responses are needed by Friday, May 28.
HIGH SCHOOL
SUNDAY SCHOOL SCHEDULE

We will host high school Sunday School in-person (weather permitting) in Tonya and Lin Carter’s backyard through Sunday, May 30. The address is 4914 Carteret Drive, Raleigh, 27612. Please bring your own camp chair! Our new time is 9:30-10:30am. We will continue to offer a virtual option; email Mary Nash Rusher for the Zoom info. We will NOT have Sunday School on the high school retreat weekend (May 23) or Senior Sunday (June 6). We are hoping to be back in the Blue Room on June 13 at 10am, but that is subject to Risk Assessment/staff decisions.
AAWC'S WEEKLY SCHEDULE

Each week, we post And Also With 'Cue's weekly schedule here in Rose Window Weekly as well as on our Facebook page to let you know our lunch schedule and if there will be outside events on the weekend for you to attend.

Come eat with us this week:

May 18 • Private Lunch Event for Davidson Construction
May 19 • 11-1:30pm, church parking lot
May 20 • 11-2pm, Private Lunch Event at Duke Med Cary
May 20 • 5-7:30pm, Oak Park Neighborhood Garner
May 21 • 11-1:30pm, church parking lot
May 21 • TMBC church movie night, Garner

Do you have an idea about how to giveaway food in our community? Email Leah!
WAYS TO GIVE

There are several different ways in which you can continue to support the church financially during this time of social distancing. We know many people are facing their own financial challenges right now and have been very generous already, but a number of people have asked how they could support the church while we are unable to gather together physically. Wayne Hager has provided the following answers to this question.

• We continue to receive mail daily. Any gifts mailed to the church will be processed and deposited as soon as possible.
• We will continue to debit bank accounts through auto drafts as we have been instructed by donors.
• If you have set up a recurring donation through one of our electronic options, those donations will continue without interruption unless YOU make a change.
• If you wish to begin electronic giving, please go to this link where each of our options is explained.
• If you are considering a stock gift, please visit this link for instructions. 

If you have any financial or giving-option questions, please email Wayne Hager.
CURRENT OFFICE PROCEDURES
DURING THE PANDEMIC

While the church office will remain closed to the public for the immediate future, we have someone in the office Monday through Friday, 8:30am-5pm to answer the phone and let people in for pre-approved activities. The staff and Church Council continue to monitor all realities related to COVID-19. In addition, we have formed a Risk Management Team (RMT) made up of John Baldwin, Sam Ewell, Ron Maness (chair), Alice Marshbanks, and Hollis Yelverton to help us make decisions. The RMT has developed a list of guidelines which can be found here. Any group wishing to schedule an in-person meeting or activity should contact Wayne Hager. We still encourage you to contact any of the ministers if you have a pressing need, using the following email links: Chris Chapman, Lynn Lingafelt, Leah Reed, and Michael Hood.
AMONG OUR FAMILY

A link to the entire prayer list may be found below.
Please use your church directory for mailing addresses.

THE RECORD WE WROTE
Week as of May 13, 2021
Current Week Revenue: $33,086.00
Month-to-Date Revenue: $53,805.56
Year-to-Date Revenue: $558,572.10
Month-to-Date Expenses: $8,753.44
Year-to-Date Expenses: $419,243.98
CBF Global Missions: $17,845.00
SUBMIT A ROSE WINDOW WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENT

Do you have an announcement that you would like to include in the Rose Window Weekly? All information must be submitted by Thursday at noon, to be included in the following Tuesday's edition. Just fill out the Google form in the link below, and we'll make sure to include it in next week's publication.



For any questions concerning the Rose Window Weekly,
contact Leah Reed. Email Leah here.