Church helps with back-to-school event
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church members prepared 350 bag lunches to serve at The Gate’s Back to School Bash recently.
Food was prepared and packaged at St. Mary’s, then transported to The Gate. Church members gave out lunches to excited students and their parents after they enjoyed a special program and received new school supplies.
This is an annual outreach mission for St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Rountree Avenue in Kinston.
Church plans special day
St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church will celebrate its annual St. Augustine’s Day at 3 p.m. Sunday at the church, 707 E. Lenoir Ave. The festive service will be followed by a reception, and the public is cordially invited to both.
The speaker will be the Rev. Teddra Hussey-Smith, who grew up as an active member of the church. The 1973 Kinston High School graduate earned a Bachelor of Science in human ecology from Hampton University, a Master of Divinity from Duke and post graduate certification in Anglican studies from Virginia Theological Seminary. She is supply priest in the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, a member of NAACP, and a volunteer chaplain at Lenoir Memorial Hospital.
For more information, contact Nehemiah E. Parker at 252-527-1397.
Speaker shares pastoral challenges
The Rev. Philip Wood delivered a spiritual message in song and words at the Aug. 5 meeting of the Maury Ruritan Club.
In sharing some of the challenges he faces as chaplain, he included directing 15 different spiritual beliefs, and organizing and getting permission for inmates to visit when there is a deceased family member.
Wood is chaplain at Maury Prison and delivers the morning message every Sunday at Little Creek Original Free Will Baptist Church in Scuffleton.
Committee unveils reunion activities
The Woodington High School Alumni & Friends Association’s mission is to revive the spirit and historical impact of WHS on present and future generations through reunions, scholarships and community services.
The 2013 reunion will be Friday-Sept. 1 with the theme “One Moment in Time.” Along with the regular Friday through Sunday festivities, “blast from the past” activities will include Don Cornelius and the Soul Train Line and Soul Train Scrabble Board, the Family Feud game, Mario the Mime, the Souls of Joy gospel singers, and more.
The alumni dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Aug. 31 at Select Food is open to the public at a cost of $15 per person. The alumni church service will be at 11a.m. Sept. 1 at the United American FWB Tabernacle. Tickets are required to enter all functions except the dance and church service.
For more information, contact Ida Whitfield Gooding, 252-566-3410 or igooding@suddenlink.net, or any other Executive Committee member.