Tuesday, April 7 John 19: 26-27 “Woman, behold your son.” “What would it be like if I told you I saw three of them?” Those are the words I remember the doctor speaking to us the day we found out we were having triplets. Everything changed in...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Monday
Monday, April 6 Luke 23:32-43 “Today you will be with me in paradise.” The story of the two criminals crucified with Christ may be one that is familiar but it is full of details. The two criminals were being crucified alongside Christ, which...
Read moreHoly Week Devotion – Palm Sunday
Luke 23:32-34 “Father, Forgive Them” The first sentence from the cross is a prayer, and it is at the cross that Jesus teaches us to pray. He doesn’t begin his words from the cross addressing the disciples, the religious leaders, the soldiers, the...
Read morePastoral Note – March 31
Dear Yates Family, I am praying for you every day. As I pray for you this week, I do it recognizing that our time as a scattered church and disparate community will last longer than we first imagined. My prayer this week is for that often...
Read morePastoral Note – March 24
Dear Yates Family, I hope this letter finds each of you safe and at home as we walk together and support one another through all the pandemic precautions of our time. I’m praying for you and our church, that we would truly be that “growing...
Read moreCoronavirus: A Pastoral Letter from Christopher Ingram
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...
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