Dear Yates Church Family, I’m writing to you about an important project called Accelerating Digital Equity, led by the Durham Public Schools Foundation. This is an urgent community-wide campaign to ensure every single Durham Public School student...
Read morePastoral Note – September 1
Good afternoon, Yates Family, I miss you! Over the next few weeks, we are taking the next steps for the church for more live engagement and to be physically closer to one another. In September, we will build on what that congregation has said is...
Read moreA 30-day Call to Prayer for our Schools
It has never been more important to support our students, teachers, administrators, and schools at every level than it is right now: each faces unique challenges as they enter the fall of 2020, and we are asking you to accept the responsibility...
Read morePastoral Note – Worship Info
Dear Yates Family – I miss you! These past few weeks, I have been praying intently for our church and for the many in our community who are engaging the new challenges of college, classroom and virtual schooling. I pray for teachers...
Read moreResumption Roundtable July Report
July 30, 2020 Dear Yates Baptist Church Family: As we move toward summer’s end, the workgroup focused upon the status of coronavirus disease in our community and the proper and safe reopening of church facilities and grounds continues to...
Read morePastoral Note July 14
Dear Yates Family – My prayers for you precede my letter this week. Y’all are on my heart and mind just about all the time! As I’ve told you before, one of the great difficulties of this experience for me is coping with my longing to gather with...
Read moreConversation Continues: church wide discussion on race and inequality
Join us on Sunday, July 19 from 4:00–5:30 pm via Zoom as Yates Baptist Church continues its discussion on race and inequality. Yates Discusses Race from Yates Baptist Church on Vimeo. This meeting will be the first in a three-part...
Read morePastoral Note June 30, 2020
Dear Yates Family, I write to you today, on the last day of June 2020, and marvel that we are halfway through this very strange year together. I continue to pray for you, and hope that you are finding ways to grow and flourish in spite of...
Read moreResumption Roundtable Q&A
The following are representative questions from the congregation and the reflections of the members of the Resumption Roundtable workgroup as the group has discussed COVID-19 and the ongoing response of Yates Baptist Church. Why are we being so...
Read moreAn Invitation to Dialogue
And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8) Recent events surrounding the tragic murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor have once again caused our...
Read moreInterim ‘reopening’ report: June 8
Dear Yates Baptist Church: Several weeks ago, the Yates Deacons approved an advisory group, called the “Resumption Roundtable,” to consider how Yates might return to more in-person church activities and identify the criteria that will help us...
Read morePastoral Note – May 26
Dear Yates Family, I hope that you were doing well this week, and are being refreshed by the rain and sunshine that has come to us here of late. I also hope that your Memorial Day weekend was a time of connection with those that matter and...
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