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+ Confirmation Sunday
This Sunday morning four youth will affirm their baptisms and be confirmed as adult members of the church.
They are:
Kylie Landolfi (8:30am) and
Perry Berlin, Alexa Feid and
Karsten Gillis (10:30am).
A reception for our confirmands will be held between services, 9:40-10:20, in the Fellowship Hall.
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NEW SUNDAY
SCHEDULE
beginning Sunday, September 10
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8:30am Worship
9:40am Faith Formation
11:00am Worship
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This fall, we're going to a more traditional Faith Formation model. Moving our second service to 11 AM allows us to have a full hour of Faith Formation, and we have some great plans in place! Here are our classes:
+ Adult Forum
with Pastor Mark
+ Confirmed Youth with Pastor Gregg
+ 7th & 8th Graders
with Wes McCall
+ 5th & 6th Graders teacher coming soon!\
+ 3rd & 4th Graders with Kirsten Cooper and Stacey Zabel
+ K-2nd Graders with Colleen Dieterly and Laura Baylor
+ 3 and 4 Year Olds with Laura McCall and Liz Teall-Fleming
+ Nursery will be available for children under 3.
Thanks to our teachers for their commitment to Faith Formation.
Faith Formation kicks off on
September 17th - Stay tuned for more info!
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WONDERING
WOMEN
will begin meeting for the fall on Monday, Sept. 11th at 6:30PM. in the north Fellowship Hall classroom.
We will continue with the study
"Answering the Call", a booklet in The Life and Ministry of Jesus Christ series by Navpress. If you're interested in joining us, please contact Nancy Seekamp at 687-8265 or email [email protected] by Friday, Sept. 1 so more books can be ordered.
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+ learn
Daily scripture readings
beginning August 27
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Sunday
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Matthew 16:13-20
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Monday
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John 1:43-51
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Tuesday
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John 11:17-27
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Wednesday
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Matthew 27:50-54
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Thursday
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Acts 9:20-31
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Friday
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Romans 12:1-8
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Saturday
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Psalm 138
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Sunday
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Matthew 16:21-28
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TAKING FAITH HOME
This weekly devotional handout is available on the Welcome Desk.
"Taking Faith Home" is a production of Milestones Ministry, LLC, and is created by a team lead by an ELCA Pastor.
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+ Money Minute
Minute, and read how our financial
contributions
support the summer ministry of Nativity.
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G I V I N G
Update
Your faithful giving contributes
to our mission of
Making Christ Known.
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To read the most recent
Thank you for your support
of the ministry we share!
If you have any questions, please contact our
Financial Secretary,
Carrie Dahlberg,
by clicking
here
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+ check us out
on social media!
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CHURCH OFFICE
HOURS
Mon-Thurs
9am-2pm |
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FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!
Last Sunday's Noisy Offering totaled $385.60 for Lutheran Services Carolinas. LSC provides North and South Carolinians with services that give abundant life. Their programs include refugee and immigrant services; adoption services and foster care; mental health care, supported living, and veterans services; senior care, senior living facilities, and caregiver support; and disaster response. All of these programs are ways to Make Christ Known to our neighbors across the Carolinas.
Thank you for being part of this minist
ry!
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Mark your calendars!
"God's Work. Our Hands."
is Sunday, September 10th.
(Our work at Calvary Food Pantry will be held on Saturday, September 9). More information about our additional projects will be coming soon!
Do you have a "God's Work. Our Hands." tshirt?
If not, click
here to sign up for one! Nativity provides these shirts at no cost to you. We wear these bright yellow shirts when we do service projects, to remind us and others that we're doing God's Work!
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+
Called by God and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Jesse Michael Canniff-Kuhn
will be ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament on Monday,
September 4, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
at the Lakeside Cross at Lutheridge.
The address is 2511 Hendersonville Road in Arden, NC 28704. If the weather is uncooperative we will relocate to the Lutheridge Chapel. Once inside the gate, proceed up the hill and there will be a sign with arrows indicating where to go.
Your prayers and presence are requested. A light reception will follow the service at Lakeside Lodge. Because we will be outside and it will likely be hot, all rostered ministers are invited to sit where they please and simply bring a stole to put on for the Laying on of Hands. Red is the color of the day.
Jesse has accepted a call to serve as Pastor at Lutheran Church of Our Father in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Why
do we do
that?
Have you ever had a question about something we do in church, but weren't sure whom or how to ask?
This feature is for you!
The goal of this portion of the
e-news is to provide a safe space for questions to be answered and provide more information for everyone's benefit.
This week's question asks about our prayer list.
Click here to learn more.
If you have a question you would like to have answered,
p
lease submit your question
by
clicking here
.
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+ give
Our Welcome Table Ministry is looking for helpers. We serve breakfast at Skyland United Methodist Church on the 3rd Saturday of each month and need 12 to 14 volunteers each time. You can greet guests, tally numbers, serve the meal, bus tables, run the dishwasher (a lot like Nativity's), or help in the kitchen. There is always a monthly sign-up sheet under the WELCOME sign in Fellowship Hall. Please call Nancy Seekamp at 687-8265 or email [email protected].
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Volunteers are needed at Calvary Food Pantry. Join the Nativity crew on the first and second Saturday mornings of the month. If you have experience shopping with a grocery list or pushing a grocery cart, you are qualified! Volunteers with computer data entry skills are also needed. Sign up online here or at the Welcome Desk. Contact Heather Neal (658-9309 or email) or Pastor Rachel to learn more.
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Three special travel opportunities for members and friends of Nativity:
- Saturday, Dec. 16 - White Christmas
- February 2018 - Cuba!
- April 2018 - Danube River Cruise
Click here for more info!
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Did you know that Nativity has an electronic giving option?
We contract with Vanco, an e-giving company endorsed by the ELCA, to provide an easy option for your offering.
Vanco allows you to set up auto-payments, so you never have to worry about sending in your offering when you're on vacation or forgetting your checkbook.
Auto-payments also help us keep our ministries running steadily here at Nativity.
Like putting something in the offering plate? Good news! Soon, we'll have e-giving cards in the pew racks, so that you can indicate your offering physically during worship.
To sign up for e-giving, click
here.
If you'd like to learn more about e-giving, please email our Financial Secretary,
Carrie Dahlberg,
here.
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+ council corner
Minutes from past Council
meetings
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Want to get
the word out?
Please submit your communications,
by noon on Wednesday
for weekly
Nativity Notes.
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