Habitat for Humanity's Hand-Me-Up Store will hold a warehouse sale on July 26 at its storage facility, 1400 E. Geer St.

Items for sale include building materials such as laminate and hardwood flooring, doors, sinks, commodes, cabinets, light fixtures and nails. Also on sale will be new and used furniture and rugs.

This is the second warehouse sale this year. One held in May netted $8,500, said Peggy Sanford, manager of the store at Shannon Plaza.

Additional warehouse sales are planned in September, October and November.

Sale hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Cash, Visa or MasterCard will be accepted and all items purchased must be taken at the time of purchase or picked up before 10:30 a.m. All items are purchased "as is."

The store, located next to the U.S. Post Office at Shannon Plaza, sells used furniture, appliances and household goods as well as building and construction materials. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Profits are distributed to Habitat of Orange and Durham counties.

Reconciliation puts on concert for all cultures

Reconciliation United Methodist Church will present its 10th annual Multicultural Gospel Concert at 5 p.m. on July 19 at Healthy Start Academy, 807 W. Chapel Hill St.

The concert is free and open to the public. Among the performers will be the Gospel Jubilators of Durham, an group that sings spirituals and gospel songs; choirs from two Hillsborough churches, Jones Grove and Community Baptist; and the Winds of the South Hispanic Band from Durham.

Two soloists also are on the concert program, Danielle Reid, a member of Reconciliation UMC who sings contemporary gospel, and the Rev. Teresa Cook, an assistant pastor of a United Methodist Church in Wilmington.

Pastor Kevin Baker of Reconciliation will play two numbers on the saxophone. Baker sometimes plays during worship services at the church.

An offering will be taken to benefit the church's building fund. The church is now working on development plans for a 10.5-acre site on the northeast corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Fayetteville Road.

Former pageant hostess at women's meeting

The Durham Christian Women's Connection will hold its monthly program and luncheon on July 19 at 10 a.m. in the dining room at Croasdaile Village Commons, 2600 Croasdaile Farm Parkway.

There will be a presentation by Tricia Higdon, a Durham consultant for Tastefully Simple Gourmet Foods. The speaker will be Carol Adams, a former Miss America pageant hostess, who will share some of her life stories.

A $10 buffet lunch will follow the program.

The deadline for reservations is Wednesday. Call 489-6924 or e-mail debpwc@yahoo.com.

Church creates new footprint in cyberspace

Trinity United Methodist, a historic downtown church, has launched a new Web site designed by CrossComm Inc., a technology company that moved into a building near the church last year. The church's Web address is www.trinitydurham.org.

Trinity also has welcomed a new part-time associate pastor, the Rev. Olive Joyner. She is a graduate of Duke Divinity School and for the past 30 months has been executive director of Durham's Interfaith Hospitality Network.

DCIA celebrates second YO: Durham class

Durham Congregations in Action will not meet in July but will resume regular monthly meetings in August.

The next meeting will be Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. at St. Philip's Episcopal Church, 403 E. Main St. The program will be the graduation celebration for the second class of 25 teens who are now participating in YO: Durham's summer academy. In the fall, these graduates will go into internships provided by Durham business and professional groups.

Prayer group makes spiritual appeal for city

Bulls Eye Prayer is on tap today from 5 to 5:45 p.m. at the corner of Dowd and Gurley streets. These events of public prayer, held every two weeks and sponsored by the Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham, are set in neighborhoods identified as prone to acts of violence, injuries and deaths.

The events are set "to affirm God's presence and purpose of peace in Durham."