Author name: Church of the Nativity

The team is busy working on numerous building and campus improvements while the traffic on campus is low. Members are inspecting water heaters and bathrooms, organizing storage closets, and completing small plumbing, brick, and drywall repairs in the church buildings. The campus grounds are also getting attention with new planting projects on the south bank

Communication in a relationship begins with the desire to be known more completely by your partner. We want to learn how to communicate more effectively and lovingly. We have explored listening as a part of our communication in the last blog. Now let us look at speaking or talking skills. Speaking involves self-awareness. To communicate,

“Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love.” So begins the fifth and most well-known of poems in a “little book” by Gaius Valerius Catullus, a 1st century BCE Roman poet. The poet goes on to urge his pseudonymous beloved to throw caution to the wind because “when the short light sets once and

   Church changes over time. Without getting into Process Theology, we know from experience in The Episcopal Church that our liturgies change (e.g. the 1979 Book of Common Prayer vis-à-vis the 1928). Besides the use of modern instead of Elizabethan English, the Holy Eucharist largely replaced Morning Prayer as the standard form of worship on

Your Finance Team’s responsibility is to develop the yearly budget for Nativity, and then to monitor the church’s monthly income and expenses to track how they meet projected and budgeted levels. During the current challenging time, we have been particularly vigilant to understand the results and trends. Financial results through March had tracked to the