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Notes:
1. Welcome to the Class of 2013!
It has been a delight to welcome to the members of the class of 2013, as they arrived to beging a new chapter in their lives in August. Duke Lutherans always look forward to being here to greet and support new members of the Body of Christ at Duke. The coming months, and years, will give us many opportunities to laugh, groan and grow together.
2. Sunday Worship:
There has been a significant change in our worship location this year. We worship at Sundays at 5:00 pm, usually gathering in the Memorial Chapel on the main floor of Duke Chapel. We moved into this space for the wonderful reason that we had outgrown the Crypt immediately below Memorial Chapel. When events in the Duke Chapel make Memorial Chapel unavailable to us, we worship in the Centenary Room in the Divinity School. Worship is as always followed by dinner in the Chapel Kitchen at 6:00 pm. All are welcome, including any parents, siblings, alums or others that might be in the area.
3. Weekly Community Service:
Love of and service to our neighbors is a fundamental part of Lutheran living. As a way of acting that out at Duke, Duke Lutherans volunteer each week at three locations near campus. On Monday afternoons, a group of students goes to the Hillcrest Retirement Center on Swift Ave., to visit and chat with the residents there. On Tuesday afternoons, students volunteer at Reality Ministries, an after-school program for middle and high school students, located just across the street from the Durham School of the Arts. On Friday afternoons, another group goes to EK Powe Elementary School, only two blocks from East Campus, to participate in after-school activities there. In all cases, the Duke students soon find that these regular visits soon lead to meaningful relationships and to a better understanding of the call we all have to minister to those around us, finding Christ in people that once might have seemed like strangers.
5. Community Kitchen:
As a part of our community outreach, we travel to Durham Urban Ministries one Saturday each semester to help prepare and serve a lunch to over 150 homeless persons and residents of the center. Rides are provided. Contact Bill Dahl for details.
6. Spring Break Mission:
In 2008, a group of Duke Lutherans traveled to Washington D.C., to work in various urban ministry programs. Last spring, we traveled to Costa Rica, for a week of immersion in that country's culture. We were hosted and our itinerary planned by ILCO, the Lutheran Church in Costa Rica, with whom our own North Carolina synod has a sister church relationship.
We will again be traveling on Spring Break in 2010 to San Francisco, for another urban ministry experience.
