What does God require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. —Micah 6:8

Pullen Update June 25, 2017

Did You Miss Pledge Sunday on June 4? It’s not too late. It is not too late to submit your Pledge card (the pink card in the pew racks) or to make a contribution to help us fund the Pullen Urgent Repairs. Make your pledge or contri-bution online at pullen.org, then click Pullen Urgent Repairs and find the donate button. Make your pledge or contribution today. Help us keep Pullen strong!

Many thanks to those who have al-ready made their pledge and to those who have already contributed to the Pullen Ur-gent Repairs Campaign! Fulfilling your pledge as early as possible will assure that the church will not have to borrow money to make needed repairs. We are grateful for your response to our fundraising efforts and we look forward to working with you to meet our goal.

Nancy Jones, PUR Committee

Summer Music for 2 Great Causes

Featuring world-renowned French flut-ist, Nicolas Duchamp, his son/cellist Leonard Du-champ, soprano Helen Wong and pianist James Esterline.

Come beat the summer heat and enjoy works by Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Purcell, Massenet, Bizet and others. Your free will donations will benefit two great causes:

1. To save the Pullen Memorial Church building as a part of the Urgent Repairs Campaign (pullen.org)

2. To raise money toward the $13,300 Duke Hospital medical bill from Leon-ard Duchamp’s appendicitis removal. This illness occurred in April while he was visiting his father from his home in Belgium. (gofundme.com/leonard-emergency-apendicitis) I envision having two donation boxes.

One for Pullen and the other for Leonard.

Helen Wong

Parent Survey Available

The Children’s Minister Search Committee has developed a short survey for parents to solicit input regarding our children’s minis-try. All parents and any others Pullenites who want to offer suggestions are encour-aged to go to www.pullen.org/survey to find the link to the survey. Thanks for your feed-back.

Vanessa Jeter, Chair

No Sunday Groups on July 2

As is the Pullen custom, our Summer Sunday Groups will not meet next Sunday, July 2, which is the July 4th weekend. We hope you will join us again for our Sunday Groups for children, youth and adults the following Sunday, July 9, where we will continue our time of study, reflection and fellowship together.

Education Council

Committing to the Care of Creation We the Care of Creation Sunday Group of Pul-len Memorial Baptist Church stand in solidarity with all 195 nations that signed the Paris Cli-mate Accord. Our faith traditions teach that care for Creation is our moral duty, and the stakes for our planet — and ourselves — have never been higher. By embracing restorative and re-generative actions, we can continue mitigating the impacts of climate disruption while also creating a more equitable and just world. We are compelled to call out President Trump for

his lack of leadership in making his decision to leave the Paris Climate Agreement. This immoral, short-sighted decision endangers all citizens on Earth and future generations. That said, we must all continue to find and implement solutions to address climate change by our actions in our com-munities, homes and institutions.

Care of Creation Sunday Group

Music Ministry Notes

Exciting news from Chris O'Hara, our English composer friend who com-posed the hymn “Commonwealth of Love”: Pullen-Dedicated Anthem to be performed Live on BBC Radio.

Chris shared with Larry that he was excited to let us know that "Love Leadeth Me" was sung live on the BBC Radio 4 "Daily Service" this past Monday. This is the Psalm 23 anthem Chris composed and dedi-cated to Pullen. This program has a worldwide listening audience of 600,000! We're proud of Chris and excited with him!

Here's the link in case you are able to hear "our" piece over the inter-net: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vzk2c

As the hymn says: "Let the Song Go 'Round the Earth!"

Larry Schultz

Round Table Food Pick-Up Volunteers Needed Round Table Fellowship is lucky to receive donations from several food sources in Raleigh. This allows Pullen to serve over 700 people with food and housing insecurity each month. To ensure this work, we need a few volunteers to pick up food from local vendors and deliver the food to Pul-len. If you are interested, then please contact Brian at bcrisp@pullen.org.

Brian Crisp

Save the Date for Rise Against Hunger—July 12 On Wednesday evening, July 12, Pullen children, youth and adults will help pack 10,000 meals in Finlator Hall for Rise Against Hunger (formerly Stop Hunger Now). Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief organization located in Raleigh that coordinates the distribu-tion of food and other life-saving aid around the world. Please join us for dinner followed by this fun, meaningful and intergenerational activity.

Wednesday Night Committee

Interfaith Meditation Group Next Sunday

July 2 & 16

August 6 & 20

September 3 & 17 Our interfaith meditation group meets on first and third Sundays at 2 PM in Poteat Chapel. We open the time by centering with a poem, prayer or song, followed by a silent seated meditation,. Then we have a short period of structured sacred listening to one another followed by a closing circle. The entire time will be one hour. We hope that you will consider joining the group for this time dedicated to a contemplative practice.

Ann Eller & Karla Oakley

Pullen Urgent Repairs (PUR) Campaign

Goal: $500,000

Raised to Date: (Non-Pledged Giving + Pledges)

$342,426 (68%)

Needed to Reach Goal: $157,574

Sunday, June 25 In Our Own Backyard 9:30 AM Summer Sunday Group, Finlator Hall 10:30 AM Coffee Fellowship, Finlator Hall 10:30 AM Summer Worship Choir, Room 128-B 11:00 AM Worship, Sanctuary 12:15 PM Personnel Committee, Room 203 5:00 PM Durham Bulls Game—sponsored by LGBTQ Group Monday, June 26 In Our Own Backyard 6:30 PM Education Council, Youth Room Tuesday, June 27 In Our Own Backyard 2:00 PM Round Table Fellowship, Finlator Hall Wednesday, June 28

12:00PM Lectionary Lunch, Library Thursday, June 29 2:00 PM Round Table Fellowship Sunday, July 2 Baptist Youth Camp (BYC) 10:30 AM Summer Worship Choir, Room 128-B 11:00 AM Worship, Sanctuary 12:15 PM Peace & Jusctice Mission Group, Room 310 2:00 PM Interfaith Meditation Group, Poteat Chapel 3:00 PM Coordinating Council, Finlator Hall

June 25—July 2

Pullen Scholarship

The Pullen Memorial Baptist Church Scholarship(s) will be offered again this year. This Scholarship is need-based, and it is for seniors in high school who have been accepted to a college and current college or gradu-ate students. The amount of each scholarship will be up to $750. Applica-tions, which are due by July 9, are at pullen.org/scholarship.

Emily Cato, Chair of GEMS Committee

News from the Hope Center

We can’t say thank you enough to all those who sponsored, volunteered, bid on items, and came to this year’s Raising Hope Brunch and Silent Auction. Your hard work and con-tributions made the sold-out event a memorable afternoon for all. Thank you again!

Bath Supplies: Some of our young people are in need of wash-cloths, loofahs, scrubs, and body wash for men or women. If you are able to donate supplies, please bring them to The Hope Center office or, if you prefer, contact info@hopecenteratpullen.org to arrange a time.

Summer Intern Program: Over the course of the summer , be-

tween 20 and 24 young people will be participating in paid 10-week in-ternships with local area non-profits and businesses. Last year, fully 100% of participants felt better prepared for the workforce after participating in the program. We still have a need for transportation volunteers to drive young people to and from the worksites:

1) A young lady is working at Catholic Parish Outreach. She’ll be working Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays from 9:30am—1:30pm. She needs someone to drive her there and back.

Home: Carriage Light Court, Raleigh Internship: Catholic Parish Outreach, 2013 Raleigh Blvd., Raleigh 2) A young man is working at the radio station 92.1. He needs to

get there on Mondays by 1pm and on Thursdays by 10am. Home: Riverbirch Drive, Knightdale Internship: Radio 92.1, 3630 Capital Blvd., Raleigh 3) A young man is working at the LGBT Center. He needs a ride

there by 11:45am on: Thursday, July 13 from home; Thursday, July 27 from school; and Thursday, August 3 from school.

Home: Riverbirch Drive, Knightdale

LGBT Center: 324 S Harrington St., Raleigh 4) A young lady who is working at The Tammy Lynn Center for

Developmental Disabilities. She needs to get there by noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Home: Marshlane Way, Raleigh Tammy Lynn Center: 739 Chappell Dr., Raleigh

Erin Witcher, The Hope Center

Dates for Sunday Coffee Fellowship

Our 30-minute coffee time between Sunday groups and worship will meet only on the Sundays when we also meet for our Sunday Groups. This means we will not offer this activity on July 2 and August 20.

Pullen Staff

Raleigh to Host Comprehensive Plan Public Meetings

The City of Raleigh is updating the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, the key policy docu-ment that shapes the physical development of the city. Residents are invited to attend one or all public meet-

ings to learn about how the Comprehensive Plan addresses five areas: resiliency, housing, development transitions, transportation and sustainability.

The following is the schedule for the two re-maining public meetings, with the theme for each meeting:

Transportation—Tuesday, June, 27, 7-8:30 PM at Pioneers Building in Method Road Community Park, 514 Method Road. The theme will be transportation. Provided will be a vision for future de-velopment of the city's connectivity net-work for all modes of transportation, pub-lic transit systems, greenways, and bicycle and pedestrian networks; and,

Sustainability—Tuesday, July 11, 7-8:30 PM at Durant Nature Preserve, 8305 Camp Durant Road. The meeting's theme will be sustainability or focusing on the interdependent relationships of environ-mental stewardship, economic strength and social integrity. These three elements define the vision for sustainability.

City of Raleigh staff will be in attendance to discuss these key themes and provide guidance as to how citizens can comment and provide feedback. The Comprehensive Plan Update is being released in installments during May and June. Visit the City's website at raleighnc.gov/business/content/PlanDev/Articles/LongRange/ComprehensivePlanUpdate.html.

Les Seitz

Meals on Wheels Needs Volunteers

Meals on Wheels of Wake County has an urgent need for additional volunteers to deliver meals to our home-bound senior neighbors in the Raleigh area. They spe-cifically need volunteers to pick up meals from their

Blair Drive office behind the Farmers’ Market on these days: 2nd, 3rd and 4th Mondays; 1st, 3rd and 4th Wednesdays; and 1st, 3rd and 4th Fridays. Delivery time is between 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM.

For more information or to volunteer, call 919-833-1749 or go to: wakemow.org/volunteer-application.

Missions and Outreach Council

Summer Worship Choir Pullen's Summer Worship Choir invites all adults and youth to offer music for worship in the months of June and August. Join us by meeting in the Rehearsal Hall (Room 128-B) on Sunday mornings at 10:30 AM beginning June 11. This is a great opportunity to experi-ence the joy of music-making for worship with other Pullenites!

Larry E. Schultz

July 2 Lectionary

Genesis 22:1-14 Psalm 13 Jeremiah 28:5-9 Psalm 89:1-4, 15-18 Romans 6:12-23 Matthew 10:40-42