Around the church and around the community, everyone is getting ready. The air is filled with the buzz of busyness. Kids are preparing to go back to school after what I hear to be one of the most beautiful summers we have had. Parents are hurrying to gather school supplies. College students are embarking on […]
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my story: key free clinic
One primary care physician for 18,000 people? Fact or fiction? […]
What a Night!
I don’t remember whose idea it was. Someone in one of our leadership groups said, “What if we had a baptismal service in the harbor?” Then came all the reasons it might not work. We have never tried it before. It will be cold. Where can we hold it? Will anyone come? How will we […]
A Church Worth Visiting on Vacation
If you’ve been around CHPC for a while, you know that the Toones take vacation mid-summer. We did and it was a wonderful, restful time. Thank you for that gift. But, you might ask, why did we see you guys sneaking around here on Sunday morning and Monday nights in July and August? Because, we […]
Discovering Cherries & Prison Ministry
You know what’s the best thing about settling into a new home? Finding all the undiscovered treasures the owner left behind. Guess what we have found? Rainier cherry trees–2 of them! An apple tree, a pear tree (which I initially thought was a “suck-uh! tree.” I’m glad I didn’t chop it down), and huckleberry bushes. […]
Summer Reading
Frog and Amy Orr-Ewing, friends from Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, have been encouraging conversation about the adventurous life of the Christian and the questions of those seeking God. I know many of you have picked up the books they have written about these same things as you dig deeper to make God known yourself! We […]
God’s Jubilee
Jubilee! We’ve used the word a lot and attached it to 50 years, but what was Jubilee about other than a marker of time? We’re not celebrating Jubilee only because Chapel Hill began as a church 50 years ago. We are celebrating Jubilee because we want to proclaim something unique about who we are as […]