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April 5th 2013

 


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Greetings!,
 

Alleluia!  What an amazing Holy Week and Easter we celebrated together. 
Thank you for all the hospitality you showed visitors and guests, thank you for the joyful noise you made singing and making music, thank you for the beautiful flowers and the clean-up of the hilltop, thank you for telling friends and family and thank you, thank you for worshipping with such heart in the name of our savior Jesus Christ. It is times like these holy days when we know without a question that the church, for all its idiosyncrasies, serves a very deep need both for those of us who are regular worshippers and for those who are first time or "just coming back" church goers.

 

We baptized Brian, Madison, McKenzie and Emma in between the First Fire and the double rainbow and the peach pink storm cloud sunset, and God said "this is really good!"   Calvin Crosby will be baptized at the 8 o'clock service on April 21, and our next regularly scheduled date for baptisms will be Pentecost, the last day of the Easter Season, which is May 19th, at The Ten. Please be in touch ASAP if you would like to be included in the sacrament of Baptism on that day.

 

I wonder if you notice what I notice around the ol' hilltop. The Bible Challenge, our several bible studies and classes, all of these formation activities are sparking wonderfully deep and meaningful conversations about reality of God as we know God in all sorts of ways.  We are beginning, I think, to understand the enormity of the change that the church as a movement (meaning the Big Church, meaning Christianity) is undergoing. Soon I will share with you some of the learnings that the vestry brought away from our recent retreat at St. Dorothy's Rest.

 

I will be in San Diego this weekend for my Easter break, racing at the San Diego Crew Classic.  Murray will preside at both services, and you will be delighted with the Rev. Kathy Crary, preaching, and with Cheryl Ziedrich, who will be filling in while Marian takes HER Easter break in the desert.

 

Love to you all, and may you find the risen Christ in the most unexpected places and the most unexpected ways,

 

With love and prayers,  

Stacey

 

Contact Us:

 

Episcopal Church
of the NativIty 

 

333 Ellen Drive

San Rafael, 94903

nativitychurch@att.net 

www.NativityOnTheHill.org  

415.479.7023

News and Events                                                                        Nativity Calendar

 

Parish Announcements

 

Rev. StaceyRev. Stacey is away this weekend in San Diego at a rowing event.  She will return on Monday.

 

Welcome:

Sunday we welcome The Rev. Murray Hammond as Celebrant, The Rev. Kathy Crary as Preacher and Cheryl Ziedrich as Organist.

 

 

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 HuntMany thanks to all for filling the Easter Eggs with candy and coin.  We had a great turnout for the hunt and collected $94.25 in cash for the Bayview Mission in Hunter's Point.  They will use the funds to purchase fresh eggs for the Monday Food Giveaway.

 

Easter FlowersMany thanks to the following families for their donation of 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

 

Coming Events:

Apr 7:  Marin Episcopal Youth Group - 5 pm

Apr 9:  Book Club and Knitters - 7 pm

Volunteering and Outreach

Good Friday Offering for the Church in Jerusalem

 

We were able to send $170 to help the work of the Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

Thank you to all who helped.


 

Coffee Hour at 10:00 AM Sundays

 

   

We have many spaces to fill. Please see if you can help. The sign-up sheet is now on the table in the church.  Please look for future dates when you may be able to help.     

 

April 7: April & Graham Blake

April 14: ?

April 21: ?

April 28: ?

May 5: ?

May 12: Diana Singer

May 19: ?

 

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      
maggiej613@gmail.com
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 Gibbs family - Leland, Diane, Haley and Sydney; Virginia Gerhart.

 

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, 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

 

 

Bob Farwell, friend of the Betts family

 

 

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

Pray for the soul of Steve Turpie and comfort for his family.

Pray for the soul of Bob Brandt, longtime parishioner of Nativity and father of parishioner, Segrid Gladstone, and comfort for his family.

 

 

 

    

 


World News This Week in Prayer

 

 

"Go stand in the temple and tell the people the whole message about this life." - Acts 5: 20

 

In these early days after the resurrection, we wonder what it all means. We can relate to the women who fled the tomb with terror and amazement. We understand Thomas and his need for proof that would come only by touching the wounds and seeing the nail marks. We understand the fear and confusion that kept the disciples in the shadow cast by closed doors.

 

We also keep company with the travelers on the Emmaus road who felt the strange burning of the truth and hope and love weaving into the sadness that consumed them on their walk. We find ourselves in the eternal movement between fear and faith, doubt and conviction, wonder and worry, and we trust that you are present with us, O God.

 

We trust that like the disciples we will be able to stand and tell the whole message about this life that:

 

            Love is stronger than hate

            Life has the final word over death

Beyond what we can see with our eyes, there is a bond of humanness that draws and keeps us together.

 

We watch with anxiety as the Korean peninsula reverberates with new tensions and the fragile lines between

North and South Korea

and the world wide community is strained once again. In the midst there are also voices of reason and peace; perhaps they speak in whispers... but they speak nonetheless. May those whispers rise to shouts that proclaim the way forward with words and not weapons.

 

 

As the machines of greed and war trample the world and its peoples, we remember that there are seeds of justice and love and goodness and grace that are planted and watered every moment of every day. We give thanks for those who:

- rise early in the morning to prepare food at countless soup kitchens around the world;

- search the night streets for lost children and shepherd them to places of safety;

- keep watch amidst the sick and dying in countless hospitals and in countless places;

- speak words of compassion in the face of hate.

           

It is a complicated and frightening world.

 

Strengthen us as we stand and bear witness to this whole life...the life of the

Risen One, even Jesus Christ Our Lord.

 

AMEN. 

 

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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.

Write to us atworldinprayer@aol.com  

 

 

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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