Duke Chapel’s Final Worship Service Before Restoration Is May 3
Following the service, a reception on the lawn will include boxed lunches and jazz music
Duke Chapel’s Sunday morning worship service at 11 a.m. May 3 will be the last one in the building for about a year, due to the upcoming project to restore the chapel’s ceiling and roof.The service will include music led by the Chapel Choir, a sermon from Chapel Dean Luke Powery on “The Great Loving Church,” and a responsive reading drawn from the chapel’s original dedication ceremony in 1935.Following the service, a reception on the lawn will include boxed lunches and jazz from Duke music professor John Brown and his band. Attendees can have their photo taken with a whiteboard expressing their thoughts on what it means to be a “chapel without walls.”As in years past, there will not be a Duke Chapel worship service the Sunday of commencement, May 10. However, there will be a gathering at 6 p.m. that day in the Memorial Chapel, located next to the chapel’s main sanctuary (the nave), to offer prayers for all affected by the restoration project. Services will resume at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 17, in Baldwin Auditorium and continue there through the summer. Free parking will be available in the parking lots on East Campus. Handicap parking is available in the Brown and Bishop lots off Buchanan Boulevard. Golf carts will be available to transport people to and from these lots. Drop-off and pick-up is available behind the auditorium at the Baldwin Loop off Markham Avenue. For details, see this map: https://tickets.duke.edu/ArticleMedia/Files/Baldwin_accessible.pdf.Childcare will be available each Sunday beginning at 10:45 a.m. in the Green Room in the bottom level of Baldwin Auditorium. The Congregation at Duke Chapel will hold its fellowship and educational programs beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Biddle Music Building, near the auditorium.People unable to attend services in person can watch and/or listen weekly to services the following ways: • WDNC Radio AM 620 (live)• WPTF Radio AM 680 (the following Saturday at 10 a.m.)• Chapel YouTube channel (live and recorded)• DukeStream video player on the chapel website (live)• iTunesU (sermon recordings)• Duke Hospital channel 12 (live and recorded)• Campus cable channel 1-3 (live and recorded)• Durham Community Media cable channel (7:30 p.m. on Wednesday)• Peoples Channel cable channel (11 a.m. on Wednesday)A complete list of services and events is available on the chapel website: http://chapel.duke.edu/events. For updates on the chapel restoration project, visit http://chapel.duke.edu/contact/restoration.