Updates – Page 4 – Yates Baptist Church

At Home Worship – July 19

July 19, 2020 by ChriIngr 0

Guide for Worship July 20, 2020 Morning Worship July 19, 2020 from Yates Baptist Church on Vimeo. We encourage you to give your offerings online through Pushpay here, through the Yates app, or by mail (2819 Chapel Hill Road, Durham...

Pastoral Note July 14

July 14, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

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...

Conversation Continues: church wide discussion on race and inequality

July 13, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

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...

At Home Worship – July 12

July 12, 2020 by ChriIngr 0

Guide for Worship July 12th, 2020 Welcome “[Christians] need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” – C.S. Lewis Prelude Hallelujah – Jethro Libutan Romans 8:1-11 Youth Girl’s Small Group Song of...

At Home Worship – July 5

July 5, 2020 by ChriIngr 0

Guide for Worship July 5, 2020 Welcome Christ calls us to worship today to rest from the things that are troubling us. Christ calls us to worship today to learn what he can teach of life. Christ calls us to worship today to realize what we can...

Pastoral Note June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

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...

At Home Worship – June 28

June 28, 2020 by ChriIngr 0

Guide for Worship June 28, 2020 Welcome to worship! We will focus our worship on two scriptures this week, Psalm 13 and Romans 6:11-23. This week’s worship theme highlights our choices and challenges our attention. The passages we will focus on...

Resumption Roundtable Q&A

June 24, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

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...

An Invitation to Dialogue

June 22, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

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...

At Home Worship – June 21

June 21, 2020 by ChriIngr 0

Guide for Worship June 21, 2020 Call to Worship: “More than ever we feel like wandering strangers in a fast-changing world. But we do not want to escape this world. Instead, we want to be fully part of it without drowning in its stormy waters. We...

At Home Worship – June 14

June 14, 2020 by ChriIngr 0

Guide for Worship June 14, 2020 Welcome to worship! Today we are reminded of the gift that is God’s grace to us through Jesus Christ. God chooses to meet us where we are—imperfections and all—with love. Let grace become the place where we...

Interim ‘reopening’ report: June 8

June 8, 2020 by J Muckenfuss 0

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...