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March 29th 2013

 


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Greetings!,
 

Many thanks to the following families for their donation of Easter flowers:

 

Fusae Miller                                      

Katie Mullowney                             

Gail Sanfilippo

Duane Johnson                                

Muriel & Murray Hammond       

Pick Family

Ruth Baney                                          

Inge & Keith Wilde                          

Hanken Family

Bulkley-Armas Family                    

Marion deHeer                                

Myrna Snyder

Sybil Skinner                                     

Nina Woods                                      

Joseph Lane

DeeDee Nelson                                               

Rebecca Morehouse                     

Dick & Jean Heine

Kim Bromley                                     

Tom & Susan Monahan                

Ann Hearon


Dick & Nancy Chapman, in memory of Dick's mother, Ruth

Jeanette Hill, in memory of her husband, Allen

 

 

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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. 

 

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.  All children are invited to attend.

 

Vestry MeetingThere will be a Vestry Meeting on Tuesday, April 2nd, at 7:30 pm.

 

Coming Events:

Mar 31:  Marin Episcopal Youth Group - check with Rev. Stacey

Apr 2:  Vestry Meeting - 7:30 pm


 

 

Volunteering and Outreach

Good Friday Offering for the Church in Jerusalem

 

The Presiding Bishop requests that we hold a collection on Good Friday in support of the Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

If you wish to contribute, envelopes are available.

Checks should be made to Church of the Nativity and put in the collection plate or left in the office.


 

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. 31: Easter Day - Ruth Baney

April 7: April & Graham Blake

April 14: ?

April 21: ?

April 28: ?

 

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.

The new dishwasher is working. Please set it going before you leave.

 
Margaret      
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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 the Ehlen family - Peter, Samantha, and Kat; Jane Le Ellis.

 

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,  Juliette Anthony, Muriel Hammond, Sam Wester, Daniel London, and Inge Wilde.

 

 

Prayers are asked for the following family and friends:

Polly Essinger, friend of Marian Marsh

Jill Lerner, friend of Honor Bulkley

 

Mike Antill, friend of the Wades

Margaret Whitfield, sister of Marianne Keenan

 

Brooks Parker, friend of David Wade

Esther Yuen, friend of Marianne Keenan

 

Colton James, great grandson of Marge Cole

Kirk Snyder, son of Myrna Snyder

 

Winnie Coleman, friend of Gail & Jean

Tim Case, friend of the Singer family

 

Hal, friend of Nina Woods

Tristan Humble, friend of Susan Monahan

 

Marsha Calegari, friend of Honor Bulkley

Becca Stevenson, friend of Susan Monahan

 

 

Pray for the soul of Steve Graham, father of Samantha Ehlen, and comfort for his family.

Pray for the soul of Ted, uncle of Steve Rule, and comfort for his family.

    

 


World News This Week in Prayer

 

 

Resurrected Christ, we praise you for this Resurrection Madness.

Your surprises take our breaths away and give our hearts wings.

We praise you

for this joy--too great for words, but not for tears and songs and sharings:

for this mercy that blots out our betrayals and bids us begin again,

to mend what is broken in and around us and to forgive the breakers.

 

We praise you

for this YES to life and laughter, to love and lovers and to our unfolding selves;

for this kingdom unleashed in us.

 

We ask you to help your people find a touch of your kingdom in their lives:

for your children throughout the world and in particular this week for:

--your children in Myanmar attacked by Muslims;

--members of the US Supreme Court seeking constitutional truth in sensitive issues affecting all Americans;

--South Koreans as they struggle with their fellow Koreans in the north;

--in Cyprus as fearful and frustrated people protest and riot because of the economic turmoil racking their country;

--in Afghanistan as women struggle to maintain the strides in leadership as the government changes leadership;

--in Guantanamo where desperate low level prisoners and others held with no official charge are engaged in a hunger strike.

 

We celebrate the life of Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a Jewish Chaplain in WWII who died this week. He had entered Buchenwald with the Allied forces, attended survivors and cried out "You are free!" His ministry throughout his life was defined by his chaplain experience at Buchenwald.

 

Gracious God, bless us with an awareness of the beauty in choices, in chances, in calls to be just; that there is no dead end to living, to making peace, to dreaming dreams and to being glad of heart.

 

For this resurrection madness which is wiser that we are and in which we see how great you are and how full of grace: Alleluia!


 

(Parts of this are adapted from a prayer by Ted Loder in his book Guerrillas of Grace)

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World in Prayer is a ministry of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist

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
(415) 479-7023
Dee Dee Nelson, Circulation Manager       Jean Walker, Reporter     Trish Shurtz, Editor
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