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March 8th 2013

 


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Greetings!,

Don't forget to put your clocks ahead one hour this weekend!  You don't want to be late for church! 

And,  please note the following activities at Nativity later this month celebrating Holy Week:

Mon 3/25 - Stations of the Cross - 7 pm

Tue. 3/26 - Stations of the Cross - 7 pm

Wed 3/27 - Evening Prayer - 6:45 pm

Thu 3/28 - Maundy Thursday Services - 7 pm

Fri 3/29 - Good Friday Service - 12 noon

Sat 3/30 - Holy Saturday Service - 10 am

Sat 3/30 - Great Vigil - 8 pm

Contact Us:

 

Episcopal Church
of the NativIty 

 

333 Ellen Drive

San Rafael, 94903

[email protected] 

www.NativityOnTheHill.org  

415.479.7023

News and Events                                                                        Nativity Calendar

 

Parish Announcements

 

 

Youth Group:  The Marin Episcopal Youth Group meets on Sundays from 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm except for Movie Night (usually the last Sunday of the month) when we meet from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.   Anyone in grades 6 - 12 are invited to attend. 

 

Sock Project:  During Lent, donations of new socks will be coordinated by Hannah Wellesley-Winter.  They will be given to the School for Deacons who will distribute them to local shelters in our diocese.  The campaign runs from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday.  Please join this effort to share Christ's love.

 

Stations of the CrossDuring Lent on Wednesday evenings we will be walking the Stations of the Cross.  Share this walk with other parishioners at 7:00pm.

 

Bible ChallengeStacey will host any questions regarding the Bible Challenge at 9:15 am on Sundays in the Owl Room.  If you have not started this challenge and would like to participate, the readings are on the back table.  Also, send an email to Stacey so she can include you in the weekly email.

 

Easter Egg HuntOur Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held following the 10 am Easter Service.  Eggs are available in the basket in the rear of the church.  Please put coins, as well as candy, in them.  The funds will be sent to the Bay View Mission for the purchase of fresh eggs for their food pantry.

 

Tending the FireThe group will meet on Wednesday, March 13 at 7 pm in Rev. Stacey's office.

 

Coming Events:

Mar10:  Bible Challenge recap - 9:15 am

Mar 10:  Marin Episcopal Youth Group - 5 pm

Mar 13:  Stations of the Cross - 7 pm

Mar 13:  Tending the Fire - 7 pm
 

 

Volunteering and Outreach

Church Office

We are currently without a regular Friday volunteer.

We have several people who will go in on certain days.

If you can help, either as a regular or an occasional, please let me know.

Margaret Jackson [email protected] 479-0227

 

Marin Food Bank

We took another 64 pounds of food in today.

That is 168 pounds this year.

Please continue to give.


Coffee Hour at 10:00 AM Sundays

 

   

The sign-up sheet is now on the table in the church.

 

Please look for future dates when you may be able to help.     

 

Mar. 10: Susan Pick

Mar. 17: Marianne Keenan 

Mar. 24:?

Mar. 31: Easter Day - Ruth Baney

April 7: ? 

 

 

Our neighbor Carlos is providing the coffee at the moment so all that you need are goodies and half & half, and occasionally juice. (We often have that in the fridge.)


Please note:
The coffee pots need to be emptied and rinsed out so that they can be taken back to Carlos.
 
Margaret      
[email protected]
In Our Prayers

 

Remember in Prayer

 

                             

Our church: Pray for Katharine, our Presiding Bishop; Marc, our Bishop: the clergy, staff, and members of this parish.

 

The Ministries of our Parishioners:  Kairos Inside Prison Ministry, Kairos Outside Prison Ministry, Cursillo, Sojourn - the Multifaith Chaplaincy at San Francisco General Hospital, San Quentin Prison, the Marin Interfaith Street Chaplaincy, Ohlhoff Recovery Board: the Elders Ministry of Grace Cathedral, Hospice by the Bay, West Coast Post Trauma Retreat, Alano Club and Buckelew Services.

 

In our Nativity Parish cycle of prayer, pray for John and Gretchen Busterud; Robert and Mary Butler; Richard and Nancy Chapman; Dennis and Marguerite Cole.

 

Our world: pray for our country, for our President Barack and Governor Jerry.  Pray peace into being especially in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Darfur, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Haiti, Pakistan, Chile, Palestine, the Middle East, Japan and Honduras.

 

Our parish members for special grace and healing: 

Carissa Betts, Bob Brandt, Alice Goss, David Wade, Virginia Gerhart,  Marion Slusser, Bill Schlegel, and Juliette Anthony.

 

 

Prayers are asked for the following family and friends:

Polly Essinger, friend of Marian Marsh

Rod Robinson, brother of Ruth Baney

 

Mike Antill, friend of the Wades

Gerry Studier, friend of Gail Sanfilippo and Fusae Miller

 

Brooks Parker, friend of David Wade

Steve Graham, father of Samantha Ehlen

 

Colton James, great grandson of Marge Cole

Winnie Coleman, friend of Gail & Jean

 

Jim Bell, son of Fleet and Nancy Bell

 

 

David Love, husband of Mary Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pray for the soul of Marilyn MacDonald, aunt of Dee Dee Nelson, and comfort for her family.


 

 

 


World News This Week in Prayer

 

Loving and Holy God, we live in a world of hurt AND a world of delight. We face each day with joy and yet confronted by such challenges.

 

We spin the globe and our finger lands on the Congo, ravaged year after year by devastating divisions; on the Middle East, whose tortured past has begotten a tortured present; on Haiti, ever rebuilding; on Tibet, ever yearning; on Newtown and Aurora in the U.S.A. still mourning; on Yemen where over 200 children sentenced to death are still fearing. We pray for the intervention by Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK to help resolve this atrocity.

 

Patient God, how often we boast that we are your hands, we are your feet. Yet too often our hands are idle, we drag our feet. You taught us that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep quiet. Too often we mistake one time for the other.

 

Urge us forward with voice and vote, with commitment and cooperation, and even with Jesus' formula of prayer and fasting. Turn our hearts away from despair or violence or apathy. Grant to us the paralytic's charge, to "rise up and walk".

 

Thank you for entrusting this world to us. We humbly accept the responsibility, and fully embrace the opportunity. We dare to believe that your kingdom can come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God, bless us every one.


 

Amen

 

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Lodi, California, USA, and is written by a team of writers representing different denominations throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.

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TTO Publishing Team
Episcopal Church of the Nativity
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Dee Dee Nelson, Circulation Manager       Jean Walker, Reporter     Trish Shurtz, Editor
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