Remember some weeks ago when I asked for your forbearance as we tried to figure out how to do church online? I’m going to need to ask again, and I’m going to ask you to prepare your hearts. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of all my sermons and blog posts being […]
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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
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Nativity’s Outreach Team continues to meet and look for ways to help those in need in our community. Our most recent efforts have been donations to the Episcopal Farm Workers Ministry Covid-19 Emergency Fund and Leesville Public Schools Covid-19 Emergency Fund. The Episcopal Farm Workers Ministry serves migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the fields, on the
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Outreach
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,
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“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
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Jesus said, “I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.” John 14:14 Really, Jesus? Good, because I have a list. Ah, if only it was that easy, right? And yet, it
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
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In the midst of all the unsettling circumstances that disrupt our lives today, we desperately need reassurance. The lessons for this coming Sunday, traditionally known as “Good Shepherd Sunday,” offer tremendous comfort. If we heard nothing else, Psalm 23 would do it. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” I believe nearly all
With all in-person services, meetings, and activities canceled until at least mid-May, you would think there wasn’t much the Communications Ministry Team can do. I beg to differ. Here are some of our activities this month: Live Streaming We are continuing to live-stream services via our Facebook page. So far, the Sunday services are going
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