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Easter Greetings from the Council

by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

If we can mourn, if we are vulnerable, if we can contemplate and forgive and act, we can be community and be comforted. Individuals can get on with their lives, somewhat healed, somewhat more able to heal others. Organizations and nations can get beyond the fixations that bind them to the same old wheel of error. If we can mourn, death and diminishment become more graced and graceful; and we gather new life together, life more profound for having embraced the unavoidable pain.
Our comfort then is resurrection. Today.

~Sister Evelyn Mattern, “Blessed are You”

Blessings of this Easter Season from the NC Council of Churches
Jennie, Liz, Chris, Susannah, Joy, Shannon, Rose, Ashley, Aleta, Jennifer, Steve, Sandy, Nicole, Austin, Brian, Hana, and Sandrine

 

About Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Aleta Payne first joined the Council staff in the spring of 2001 as the Communications Associate. She continues to oversee that work along with development, represents the Council in several partnership efforts, and serves in other administrative roles, as well. Aleta is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in government and foreign affairs and spent much of her early career as a journalist. She has three young adult sons who continue to come home to Cary for dinner, or at least groceries, and two young adult terrier-mix dogs who keep the nest from feeling too empty.