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Yard Sale! At the Homestead Site, May 18

By Lisa | Published: May 13, 2013

The Church of the Advocate Yard Sale is May 18th! 10 AM – 5 PM (AS THE STORMS GATHER, WE MAY END EARLIER) Homestead at Merin Road, north Chapel Hill Come to the site of our new church at Homestead and Merin Road to shop our yard sale and buy our delicious baked treats!  See the [...]

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Raising the Steeple, May 1, 2013 and on….

By Lisa | Published: May 11, 2013
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Sharing Our Journeys in Eastertide

By Lisa | Published: May 3, 2013

Sharing our Journeys You are invited to share your story. You have one–we all do–and we at the Advocate cherish who you’ve become on your path so far.Sharing our Journeys is special opportunity for people of the Advocate, new and here-for-a-long-time, to get to know other Advocate folks through compassionate, attentive listening, and story-sharing. We [...]

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Beating the Bounds

By Lisa | Published: April 28, 2013

On Saturday, April 27, we gathered on the Advocate land to Beat the Bounds. To learn more about this custom, read our earlier post. Here is our liturgy (prayers written by our Priest Associate, The Rev. Dr. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams).: The people gather at the pond. Priest lights the thurible and blesses a bucket [...]

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Beat the Bounds, Saturday, April 27 at 3 PM

By Lisa | Published: April 19, 2013

beat the bounds Definitions (British) (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods   Come and join the people of the Advocate on Saturday, April 27 at 3 PM as we carry on the old British tradition for Ascension Day/Rogation Day walk the boundaries [...]

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Advocate Vestry Launches “No Stone Unturned” Campaign

By Lisa | Published: March 27, 2013

The Advocate is a small church with a big heart and a bold vision. And we have undertaken a big project – to move and adapt and historic 19th century church for use on an undeveloped site in north Chapel Hill. The Advocate is not an affluent church, and the people of the Advocate have [...]

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News and Notes: March 2013

By Lisa | Published: March 17, 2013

March 2013 News and Notes   Lent Continues, Holy Week Ahead  Signs and Wonders: Our “Coming Soon” sign is up. Construction on the roof an bell tower may start next week.”     Sundays   (March 3, 10 and 17) at the Unity Center of Peace, 8800 Seawell School Rd. 8:45 AM Holy Eucharist followed by tailgate [...]

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Lent at the Advocate

By Lisa | Published: February 26, 2013

Lent at the Advocate February 13 – March 23 Lent at the Advocate I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word.… from the Book of Common Prayer Ash Wednesday liturgy. [...]

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Vicar’s Annual Report: Reflection and Hope

By Lisa | Published: February 18, 2013

Year C – Last Epiphany The Annual Meeting 2013 The Advocate@Unity The Rev. Lisa G. Fischbeck February 10, 2013     Always, Always on the last Sunday in the Season after the Epiphany, we are given the story of Moses. Not the story of Moses as a baby in the basket, not the story of [...]

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Commissions in the Season of Epiphany

By Lisa | Published: January 19, 2013

Each Sunday in the Season of Epiphany, The Church of the Advocate commissions different people to their life, work and vocation in the world. Posted here are the commissions for the first three Sunday of Epiphany, January 6, January 13 and January 20   Commission for Epiphany Sunday For all those who care for the [...]

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