Outreach

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

As spring emerges and days turn into weeks during this pandemic, the local news continues to report the growing needs in our community. Nativity’s Outreach Team has been planning and making decisions to alleviate some of those needs. Because of your generous donations, $2700 has been raised to date through our virtual food drive for

Our outreach opportunities with Leesville Elementary School Backpack Program and Windsor Spring Groceries for Senior have been suspended for the time being. Yet we have the desire to help others who are food insecure.  As schools have been closed and people have lost their jobs, the need grows daily.  After studying the websites of organizations

It is that time once again to start building a new affordable home for a deserving family in Wake County. The Wall building is set for Saturday February 29 at the Habitat facility located at 2615 Westinghouse Boulevard, Raleigh.  Last year we had a fantastic group from Nativity working with 6 other parishes to get the walls built

The total raised for the Ocracoke Hurricane Relief fund from the Silent Auction at Nativity in December is $4,310.00 – money that has been donated to the relief efforts at Ocracoke. Bill and Sharon Conley visited Ocracoke just after Christmas; here is Sharon’s description of what they saw: After Christmas, Bill and I and two

Nativity has learned of a need connected with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle (IFFS). Windsor Spring, an affordable housing complex in Northwest Raleigh, offers 39 apartments for qualifying low-income adults age 55 and over. These residents struggle with food scarcity and rely on IFFS for help. The Shuttle is able to deliver only 1 bag of food

Leesville Elementary School was the recipient this school year of a grant from the YMCA that provided after-school tutoring for a number of students who needed extra academic encouragement. These students have received special learning opportunities as well as an after-school snack and transportation home after the tutoring session is over. The goal has been

Each January our vestry works very hard to create a budget based largely on your pledges. The great majority of these expenses are fixed, for example – salaries, electric bills, diocesan assessment, and mortgage payments. Naturally, these are included first during the budgeting process. There are only a few significant expenses which are not fixed,