Albemarle Tradewinds July 2018 Web Final

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY: STOP ADDICTION NOW FESTIVAL
Have you or someone you care about been affected by addiction?
Are you concerned about the epidemic that is taking so many
lives in our area? If so, please come join us and be a part of the
change! We will bring the region together to learn more about Substance
Use Disorder, what resources are available for treatment, how
to live a full and sober life, and what we can all do to prevent further
addiction. We hope to draw in people from surrounding counties to
enjoy some fabulous music and food while exploring the many booths
we will have and listening to short talks on the subject from those
committed to stopping this epidemic.
This festival will happen on the lawn of the Museum of the Albemarle
on September 15, 2018. There will be a 5K at 9am, and from 10am
to 2 pm, we will have speakers, music, food, and interactive/informational
booths.
Bobby Plough will MC the event and will perform with his band,
Bobby Plough and the Lost Gringos. We are fortunate to also have
Little Dickie and the Misfi ts and Drunken Confessions who both have
performed at every festival we have had so far!
The event will include booths with resources for individuals and families
needing treatment, tools and ideas for living a full life in sobriety
for those in recovery who are rebuilding their lives, and education and
resources to help prevent addiction.
“We create with you in mind"
Tina Clancy’s
Art and Antique
Connection
Over 100 Artists on Display
“Elizabeth City’s finest custom built furniture"
252-339-3868
Wed. -Sat. 10-5
116 N. Poindexter St.
Elizabeth City
Artwork Albemarle Tradewinds
For more information on this event or to volunteer, call Lisa Creef at
(252)489-6872. Tax deductable donations can be made to Riverside
United Methodist Church with Mayday in the memo. All proceeds will
be used to fund the festival, help those in need with recovery, and
bring education and prevention to the region.
Did you know the
Albemarle Tradewinds
is located in more than
250 locations in NENC
and Chesapeake?
Orthodox Christianity
by Fr Jonathan Tobias, MDiv, MSEd
An Ocean of Love
Nothing is more out of place on a pristine beach than
an empty plastic bottle, carelessly left behind after
the canopy has been stowed, the Tommy Bahama chairs
have been folded up, the cooler’s been hoisted on the
shoulder and the kids have been perched in the wagon.
The water bottle will stay there until high tide, and will
join the 8.8 metric tons of plastic waste dumped in the
ocean every year. And that bottle will last a hundred
years. But it’s not high tide yet, so until then the bottle
will smudge the beige and copper sand. Ghost crabs will
wander by and question why this unnatural thing has
ruined the view. This single pollution of a single discarded
plastic bottle is a symbol. Think of the beach as your
heart. Think of that piece of plastic as sin.
One doesn’t have to be religious to worry about sin,
which is a good worry. Sin is an action, whether actually
lived out or just thought about. It is an action against
love and beauty, against peace, against the wholeness
of Creation and against the grace of the Creator.
Everyone thinks about sin and is troubled about it. One
might not use the word “sin,” but one can help but get
bothered by it. One can think wrongly about sin. One
can think that since everyone does it, then it shouldn’t
be worried about. That’s like saying that since other
beaches are polluted, then one may as well give up and
trash this one.
Or, one can despair and say that because the problem
is so big that there is no hope, that God will never
forgive, that Judgement Day will only be about wrath
and condemnation. In other words, pollution will only get
worst and there is no hope.
But God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten
Son, Someone Famous once said. St Isaac
the Syrian (seventh century) said this about the sin of
humanity compared with the ocean of God’s love:
“Like a handful of sand thrown into a great sea is the sin
of all fl esh in comparison with Providence and the mercy
of God. And as a spring abundant in water is not blocked
by a fi stful of dust, so is the mercy of the Creator no
conquered by the vices of the world” (Oration 45).
God’s love is bigger than that discarded plastic bottle.
But pick it up, anyway.
https://stgeorgeedenton.org
inquiries c/o St. George’s Church, P.O. Box 38,
Edenton, NC. (252) 482-2006.
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