December 24th and 25th

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Christmas Eve on the ATT
Saturday, December 24th, 2:30pm. Gather on foot or bike at the center of the cross (MLK and Fayetteville). If driving, I recommend parking at United Drive. Be ready to spread all of God’s Incarnate Cheer up and down the American Tobacco Trail. We will prepare gift packages and read the Christmas story as we are commissioned as shepherds (Luke 2:20) before heading out on the trail. Cyclists will go to the furthest points North and South and runners will go a little further out and walkers will canvass the more central locations. This is a great event to invite a new friend because we are doing something mobile. I hope you can all be there if you are in town. Include friends now, especially those who might be separated from family at Christmas.
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Christmas Day Worship
Sunday, December 25th, 6:00pm. Join at the Linney’s home for a casual worship and dinner. We will share in the story from John’s first chapter of the incarnate Word. Share your own stories of how you experienced incarnation in the form of material gift giving. God came to us as material and we can celebrate God not only in spiritual things, but in physical things–presents, each other, bread, wine and so on.
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Reading When Receiving New Members

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They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

This could be read for you.

B3 Boys Biscuits Bibles

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We are currently meeting on Monday’s at 7:00am at the Biscuitville on Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd 27707.  We are reading through Romans and on December 5 we will be in Chapter 12.  Will you join us?  We hope to encounter the kind of pensive Paul that Rembrandt depicts when the saint was in prison.  Check out Van Gogh’s Open Bible and consider letting the text of Paul’s letter to the Romans read you.

 

 

 

Women’s Bible Study

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This week, Monday, October 23, the Women’s Bible Study/Prayer Group will meet at UNC Hospital to walk their new prayer labyrinth.  We will meet at the labyrinth at 6:30pm.  If you want to avoid parking hassles, meet at University Mall (outside Dillards, at the end) at 6pm to carpool.  After we are finished walking the labyrinth we will go inside the hospital to Starbucks for refreshment and to share our experience.  Don’t be overwhelmed if you’ve never walked a prayer labyrinth before.  It is quite simple AND powerful.  Come and bring a friend (or two).  Shoot back an e-mail if you’re planning to meet at the mall so we will know to wait for you.


Supporting a local mission to Haiti

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Some of us are thinking and praying about a mission trip in the future.  While we are waiting, we have an opportunity to “go on a mission trip” to Haiti by collecting supplies to send with a church group from Chapel Hill going at the end of October.  

If you would like to be a part of this mission, please bring any of the supplies listed below to worship or bible study by October 24th:

  • Pencils
  • Erasers (pencil top or block)
  • Plastic pencil sharpeners
  • White socks for girls and women
  • Dark socks for boys and men
  • Toothbrushes (child and adult)
  • Tums (antacid)
  • Tylenol (acetaminophen)
  • Anti-fungal cream (clotrimazole)
  • Antibiotic ointment
  • Hydrocortisone cream (1%)

If you need to make other arrangements for a pick up or drop off you can call George at 919.414.6565.


Blessings,

Tobacco Trail Church

 

TTC at Fullsteam this past Sunday

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When I arrived at Fullsteam on Sunday afternoon after a long day of travel from Ireland this picture is among the sort of images I saw.  It’s our church out doing their thing in the world–running 5K’s in support of the interests of the American Tobacco Trail.  Kristen Smith was over from Chapel Hill when it is virtually impossible to drag her away from our Southern neighbor :)   David and Helen ran the 5K together.  Ralph picked up George IV from his grandmother’s house (since his parents were en route from Dublin), and they had a great boys’ afternoon and evening together.

Not pictured, there was Megan and Paul, the Page’s, Sarah, numerous Godiva friends, Sean and the Fullsteam gang.  I even heard Jenny was there who I missed, but last time I saw her was a month ago when I officiated her wedding to Chris.

It was a landscape of friends who love the trail.  Not all of them are regular “participants” in the life of the Tobacco Trail Church, but my account is that they were on this afternoon.  We were there and so were they and I’m certain God was there.  God be praised.

We “do” church in some pretty unique ways at TTC and in some pretty traditional ways.  We still read Scripture, pray (hopefully as Christ prays).  We feed the poor.  Get fed (went to Nana Taco after this scene).

But we also call “church” a gathering like this one around a 5K to raise money for NC Rail Trails.  We are that running church you’ve heard about.  We are that biking church that has been bandied about, even joked about and made fun of.  We are okay with that, because we are being obedient to God.  It might not be how all fellowships look, but God hasn’t called us all to the exact same image of one another.  He has called us to be the image of God’s own self.  And the creator God is more than just one manifestation.  We cannot contain this trinitarian identity as compactly as we so often try.  Now is a time for faithful innovation.  Be patient, obedient, humble, and also willing to fall on your face and make a fool of yourself and maybe your whole church so that God can be glorified.

John’s Testimony

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God impressed upon me that the ATT could be a point of inception or detonator for Durham’s city transformation via prayer evangelism (PrayDurham). The TTC is strategically meeting on the symbolic body of Christ… It must/will be a prophetic force of the detonation.