March 13, 2020 Dear Yates Family, Who among us on Monday thought that by Friday we would be confronted with so many decisions, precautions and protocols to reduce the transmission of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus? Yet, because of the facts before...
Read moreYates Visioning Update – Week of March 12
Yates Visioning Process update By September 2019, after several months of listening and discernment, the Visioning Leadership Team felt led by the Holy Spirit to focus on three areas in the visioning process: discipleship, community, and...
Read moreCoronavirus, The Yates Baptist Church Community, and YOU
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause a great deal of concern across the world, and with diagnosed cases in the Triangle area, we want to address some specifics about our response as a church community. We do this not to create a sense of...
Read moreSupporting Our Neighbors at McDougald Terrace
We received this note from Marty and the Yates Baptist Association. Please read and prayerfully consider how to help: Good Afternoon, Over the weekend hundreds of our Durham neighbors living at McDougald Terrace were displaced due to...
Read moreThe Marriage You’ve Always Wanted Conference
THE MARRIAGE YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED CONFERENCE Saturday, October 5, 2019 Trinity Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina • Get Directions Family Foundations Ministry of Baptists on Mission is sponsoring “The Marriage You’ve Always Wanted...
Read moreAn Update from the Visioning Leadership Team
I had a former leader at work who liked to joke that our way of doing things was, “Ready, Set, Set.” In other words, we were more comfortable planning and talking than doing. Churches can be this way sometimes, too. Our tradition-steeped ways...
Read moreAugust Quarterly Business Meeting Agenda
Quarterly Business Meeting Wednesday, August 28 6:15 pm • Room 307 Agenda I. Call to Order II. Clerk’s Report A. Approval of Minutes from April 24 meeting B. Letters to be Granted III. Treasurer’s Report – Chris LeGrand...
Read moreDeacon Nominating Committee 2019
2019 Deacon Nominating Committee Election Sunday, September 8 Ballots will be available in Sunday school classes and at Sanctuary Entrances. Absentee ballots will be available in the church office September 3-6. The Deacon Nominating...
Read moreTransformation Stories: Kendall Hancock Baptism Testimony
[Kendall was baptized on Sunday, June 9. This is the testimony she gave about her choice to follow Jesus.] I have been thinking about baptism for a long time but I didn’t quite know what it meant. I now know it is about becoming part of the...
Read more“Follow my voice…”
Today’s post comes from Linda Mercer, and it serves as an encouragement to consider joining us for our summer book study of “The Me I Want to Be” by John Ortberg. Through small group conversation and personal reading and...
Read moreTransformation Stories: Puerto Rico
During this season we are thinking about missions and mission giving closer to home. Watch this story about Jorge Santiago and his work in Comeria and how God changed him and the people following the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Consider...
Read moreEaster worship information
Easter Sunday Schedule: 6:30 am – Sunrise service, Maplewood Cemetery. See notes below for directions/location. 7:30 am – Light refreshments following the sunrise service in the Fellowship Hall. 8:30 am – Worship in the Sanctuary. 9:45 am –...
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