2021: A Year in Review

NC Council of Churches

Strength in Unity, Peace through Justice

More than 300 NC Clergy Sign-On to Speak Love

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A full-page ad in Sunday’s Raleigh News & Observer will include the signatures of more than 300 clergy who have added their name to a statement speaking to our shared faithful call to love and care for one another. They represent a variety of faith traditions, denominations, and locations from across the state.

The ad reads:

All of our holy texts call us to love one another, to care for each other, and to work for justice. Now more than ever, we pledge to lead by example and work together for the beloved community God invites us to share.

The ad deadline was early this week, and signatures have continued to come in that, unfortunately, will not appear on Sunday. They include:

The Rev. Mindy Douglas, First Presbyterian Church, Durham

The Rev. Deacon Carol Eaton, St. Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church, Pine Knolls

The Rev. Deacon Greg Erickson, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Boone

The Rev. Ben Johnston-Krase, Farm Church, Durham

The Rev. Elizabeth Lilly, Episcopal Church of St. Peter by the Lake, Denver

The Rev. Amanda Davee Lomax, Hospital Chaplain and Presbyterian Campus Minister, Greensboro/Winston-Salem

The Rev. Ian White Maher, Unitarian Universalists, Transylvania County

The Rev. Elizabeth Marie Melchionna, Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill

The Rev. David Montgomery, Mount Bethel-Mitchell Chapel AME, Lenoir

Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, UMC, North Carolina Conference

We will continue to collect clergy signatures through December 30 and will post a final list of signers on January 1, so please feel free to add you name.

We are tremendously grateful to all of you for your shared message of love, hope, and compassion.

 

 

About Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Aleta Payne first joined the Council staff in the spring of 2001 as the Communications Associate. She continues to oversee that work along with development, represents the Council in several partnership efforts, and serves in other administrative roles, as well. Aleta is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in government and foreign affairs and spent much of her early career as a journalist. She has three young adult sons who continue to come home to Cary for dinner, or at least groceries, and two young adult terrier-mix dogs who keep the nest from feeling too empty.

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Comments

  1. Dr. Beverly Wallace says

    Shaw University Divinity School held a special chapel service yesterday with the NC Council of Churches theme of Love One Another. We celebrate the work of preparing leaders to engage in the ministry of love and justice.

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  2. Rev Kiersten Leigh (Re) says

    Working with families, community organizations, churches, allied health professionals and city laders to eradicate homelessness and suicide in trans youth and bring about reconciliation and full communion to all God’s people in our communities.
    Rev. Kiersten Leigh United Methodist Church (Ret)

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