Child / Baby Dedication / May 13

Children and babies may be dedicated during worship on any Sunday of the year, but many families choose to dedicate children on the days observed as Mother’s Day (May 13) or Father’s Day (June 17).  Baby/Child dedications are an opportunity for all of us to welcome a child into our community and promise to love and support the entire family in child-rearing.

Anna Sykes solo with Orchestra / May 13

NGFM’s very own, Anna Sykes, will be soloing with the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra on Sunday, May 13 at 4 p.m. in Dana Auditorium on the Guilford College campus. Anna will be playing the first movement of the Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64. Anna is receiving this opportunity as this year’s winner of the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra concerto competition and the resulting Sam Wilson Scholarship award. The concert is free! Let’s…

“Backpack Full of Cash” Free Public Screening / May 17

6 p.m. in the Huggins Performance Center of the Odell Building, UNCG College campus. You and your friends are invited to a free screening and discussion of “Backpack Full of Cash,” a feature length documentary that explores the growing privatization of public schools and the resulting negative impact on America’s most vulnerable children. Understanding the importance of the issue, the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad Education Roundtable has arranged for the showing of…