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+ youth
Young Youth & Youth Kick-off is this Sunday night!
- Young Youth goes first, meeting from 4:30 to 5:30.
- Next, everybody comes together for dinner from 5:30 to 6:15.
- Finally, Youth Group starts the new year together from 6:15 to 7:30.
Come in clothes and shoes that can get wet and meet at the picnic shelter. If you have any questions, just email Pastor Rachel here.
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+ learn
God's Work, Our Hands Intergenerational Faith Formation - August 21st
Join us in the fellowship hall between worship services to learn about this year's God's Work, Our Hands project and to share in our faith together!
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+ God's Work, Our Hands
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016
This year, our God's Work Our Hands project is School Kits.
Our goal is to assemble 125 school kits between services on Sept. 11th. Members are already hard at work sewing many of the backpacks.
August 21st - GWOH Prep Day
Please bring any donations to the church fellowship hall by Aug 21st. Then join us between services for an intergenerational faith formation and education event centered on the school kits!
We will also have a noisy offering on Aug 21st in order to purchase any remaining supplies so that we will be ready to pack kits on GWOH Sunday!
Supplies needed for each kit:
- FOUR 70-sheet notebooks of wide- or college-ruled paper, approximately 8" x 10 ½"; no loose leaf paper
- ONE 30-centimeter ruler, or a ruler with centimeters on one side and inches on the other
- ONE pencil sharpener
- ONE pair of blunt scissors (safety scissors with embedded steel blades work well)
- FIVE unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers
- FIVE black or blue ballpoint pens (no gel ink)
- ONE box of 16 or 24 crayons
- ONE 2 ½" eraser
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OFFERING
update
August 2016
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$28,026 received
$51,000 budgeted
Generosity is the way we show our gratitude for the gifts we have been given by God. Thank you for your commitment to Nativity, it has
a significant impact on the resources and opportunity
for
outreach from this congregation.
In August we will be lifting up our
"God's Work, Our Hands" Project and all ministries will be finalizing their Fall plans. Please pray fully consider your time, talent and treasure commitment to the mission of Nativity.
Any questions, please contact
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+ give
Calvary Food Pantry:
Does your garden runneth over? You can share your harvest by dropping it by Calvary Food Pantry on Friday mornings 9-10 or Saturday mornings at 8:00. Meanwhile, non-perishable food and hygiene products are still collected in
the grocery cart in Nativity's Fellowship Hall.
Calvary Food Pantry is seeking assistance with bread pick up on Friday mornings. Please contact Heather Neal for more information: 658-9309
You are invited to a concert featuring the Biltmore Brass Quintet at 3:00 on Sunday, September 18 at Calvary Episcopal Church. A free-will offering will benefit Calvary Food Pantry. Gifts of non-perishable foods are also appreciated.
There will be a JOB FAIR at Skyland United Methodist Church during Welcome Table on Saturday, August 26th. Biltmore Farms will be interviewing in the narthex from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. The church is kitty-corner from Dunkin Donuts on Hendersonville Road. Just drive up the hill and turn right into the parking lot. Follow the signs for "Free Breakfast".....down the steps and through the door on the left.
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Want to get
the word out?
Please submit your communications, articles, events,
by noon on Wednesday
for weekly
Nativity Notes
and
Son Times
.
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CHURCH OFFICE
HOURS
Mon-Thurs
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+ NPK
Nativity Preschool and Kindergarten is looking for donations of a new (or gently used) laptop
to use in our classrooms
for the 2016-17
school year.
Please email
or call the school office
at 687-8381.
Thank you for supporting our ministry together of "Making Christ Known"!
Update:
There are currently spots available for 2 and 3-year-olds in our half-day program.
If you or someone you know is interested,
please contact us and find out more!
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+ welca
Thank you to all who took draw-string backpack kits to sew. Please return them to the church by September 1 or before. If you have any questions about the construction,
call
Linda Blake, 684-8378.
Ladies Lunch Bunch will meet on Thursday, August 25, at 1 pm. We will gather at Rezaz Mediterranean Restaurant, 28 Hendersonville Rd. (in Biltmore Village), Asheville.
Peggy Oehm is our hostess,
828.964.2656. Please call her and let her know that you are planning to attend.
All women are welcome.
September dates:
Women's meeting - September 8, 11:00 am
in the church Fellowship Hall
Nativity Card Ministry - September 8, 12:30 pm
in the church Fellowship Hall
Ladies Lunch Bunch - September 22, 1:00 pm
(location to be determined)
October:
Smoky Mountain Conference Gathering -
Saturday, October 8, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
at Nativity
NC Women of the ELCA invite you to join us
for Lutheran World Relief Volunteer Day, which will be celebrated from November 10-13, 2016. Christian Tours has arranged a four day bus trip from Newton, NC to New Windsor, Maryland and to Lancaster, PA. You will have the opportunity to tour and to volunteer at the LWR warehouse and SERRV. More information can be found in the brochures on the Women's bulletin board.
"All Anew" is the theme of the Tenth Triennial Gathering of the Women of the ELCA.
This gathering will take place Thursday through Saturday, July 13-16, 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Registration opens September 6, 2016.
"The theme of our Tenth Triennial Gathering calls us to transformation, calls us to become All Anew. With our sisters, we will experience not only the power of the Holy Spirit,
but the power of women gathered."
For more information, please contact
Linda Blake, 684-8378, or go to
WWW.Welcatg.org.
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+ book discussion group
Here's the scoop on our new
book discussion group at Nativity!
The interest group met August 7 to set time, place, and guidelines for our discussions. Our mission statement is "to nurture Christian fellowship, growth and knowledge through reading."
All are welcome!
When/Where: Tues., Sept. 13 (1:30-3:00pm) or Thur., Sept. 15 (6:30-8:00pm) - Choose an afternoon or evening, depending on your schedule. We will be meeting monthly at Nativity in the north Fellowship Hall classroom. We will discuss the same book whether you come to the afternoon or evening session.
What: The first book chosen by the group is "A Skeleton in God's Closet" by Paul L. Maier. "Carefully researched and compellingly written, this fast-paced thriller take you from the dust of the archaeological dig to the labs of dedicated scientists to the halls of political and religious power, where world reaction is instant, fierce, and shattering..."
For Discussion Guidelines, click
here.
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+ Gulf Coast Outreach
The ELCA Disaster Response has been diligently working to provide relief for those who have been forced from their homes due to the flooding in the Gulf Coast region. To learn more about their efforts, and to discover ways you can help aid their work, click
here.
We remember and pray for those who have had their lives impacted by this dramatic flooding. Some of our own are from this area, including Melanie and Alfred Berlin. Contact the Berlin family here for more information about the flooding and to discuss how Nativity folks who want to help might proceed.
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+ council corner
Minutes from previous meetings can be found on the church's website here.
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+ check us out
on social media!
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