Launch of Community Food Hub located at Parkwood UMC
With seed money from RTI International’s Community Partnerships Program, the Parkwood Elementary School Food Pantry is expanding with a community food hub located right here at Parkwood UMC. Longtime RTI employee Lisa Greene presented the check to Reverend Anita Noble Taylor and Aja Purnell-Mitchell, PTA Co-VP and food pantry coordinator, at Parkwood’s Spring Carnival on April 27.
RTI was RTP’s very first tenant and Parkwood was RTP’s very first neighborhood. One way RTI lives its mission to improve the human condition is by giving back to the communities where we live and work. How fitting that RTP’s first tenant is giving back to RTP’s first neighborhood!
Christened the Parktown Food Hub at a kickoff on May 4, the community food pantry’s mission is simple: to feed as many people as possible with zero waste. It will be open to the community, a distribution location even when the school is closed and a source of volunteers to staff the school food pantry. Let’s work together to end hunger in Durham! Watch this space for more information about volunteer opportunities to support food security in South Durham.
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Creative Arts Camp 2019
Parkwood United Methodist Church invites children, ages 3 years through rising 5th grade to join us for fun and art, as we learn through biblical water stories that just as God provided life-giving water then, God continues to be the source of life and sustenance for us today.
Creative Arts Camp 2019 will be July 7 – 10, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Register for Creative Arts Camp 2019
Use our Online Registration Form to register today!
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Community Fellowship Opportunities with South Durham Connections
South Durham Connections (SoDuCo) is sharing four fun events! Come find a place to connect with others and belong to a community of your neighbors:
International Movie Night
Come watch a specially-curated international film and stay afterwards to talk with the others who are present about how that film resonates with the world today. Free snacks! Thank you to Peace Covenant Church of the Brethren for offering their space (and movie, and awesome membership) to the South Durham Community! The building is located at Peace Covenant Church of the Brethren 601 E NC Highway 54, Durham (just East of the I-40 overpass on Highway 54 – look for the YOU ARE WELCOME signs). Film starts at 7 pm on Friday, May 17.
Neighborhood Block Party
Food trucks! Neighbors! Discussion! Games! Bring a canned good to share with hungry people in Durham. The party is on the property of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1200 West Cornwallis Road, Durham (at the corner of Pickett and Cornwallis). The fun happens from 11 am to 2 pm on Saturday, May 18.
Spring Carnival
Music! Games! Food! Fun! Neighbors! Church of the Abiding Savior at 1625 South Alston Avenue, Durham (across Hwy 55 from NC Central Law School and across Alston from the Burger King). A little further south, and another chance to hang out with people who are happy to be there. The carnival is from 1:30-5:20 pm on Sunday, May 19.
And if you can’t make the carnival (or even if you can!), come join us for
Art and Spirit
Refresh yourself before heading back to the work week. Bring your own arts and crafts (drawing, coloring, knitting, crochet, whittling, whatever you like!) or do the weaving project that we will have available. Creativity is relaxing, and creating alongside others can be invigorating fun. Art and Spirit will be held at Parkwood UMC, 5123 Revere Road, Durham in Room 4. There will be signs and friendly people to help you find your way. Sunday, May 19, starting at 6:30 pm. There will be food!
All events are free!
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