St Columba's: The Parish Post

The 2 ^nd Week of Advent

14 December 2017

This Sunday, 17 December: Rose Sunday Bake Sale & Cookie Exchange

Rose Sunday Cookie Exchange

December 17 | 12:45-1:45 pm

Come for an hour of fellowship, fun, and light refreshment. Leave with an assortment of delicious Christmas cookies.

Simplify your holiday baking by joining our first annual Cookie Exchange. Bring one kind of your favorite holiday cookie to share. At our gathering, everyone trades and ends up with a whole assortment of different, delicious holiday cookies … along with new recipes and new friends! Bake 3 dozen cookies of your favorite recipe. Share your recipe (or ingredient list) with us. Bring your cookies on a tray or in a tin and get ready to share. Come for an hour of fellowship, fun, and light refreshment. Leave with an assortment of your fellow parishioners favorite, homemade Christmas cookies. Check our display in the narthex to RSVP or email scecstewardship@gmail.com .

Rose Sunday Bake Sale

December 17 | 8:30 - 12:30

On Sunday, December 17th from 8:30 am-12:30 pm, we will have our 1st annual Rose Sunday Bake Sale. Let the talented bakers of St. Columba’s take care of all your holiday baking needs. We will have cakes, pies, breads, etc.

If you would like to help provide baked goods or help at the tables, please contact Laura Dillon at ldillon0881@yahoo.com or call 770-880-2603. All proceeds will go to support St. Columba’s Episcopal Church.

Children's Christmas Pageant

December 17 - Speaking Part Try-Outs During Sunday School (10:10-11:00 am)

December 23 - Rehearsal (for those with speaking parts) 3:00-5:00 pm

We will be once again celebrating our Children's Christmas Pageant at the 5pm Mass on Christmas Eve. All children are invited to participate (even children who may be visiting from out of town).

You can wear your own angel, shepherd, or animal costume; OR, arrive by 4:15 pm on Christmas Eve to get outfitted in one of the parish pageant costumes.

For those who are interested in speaking parts, we will hold try-outs Sunday, December 17 at 10:10 am.

If you have questions or cannot be here on the 17 ^th , contact Christine Burrell , christine.burrell@hdsupply.com or Lonna Stachelczyk , l.stakz@gmail.com

Rehearsal

Saturday, 12/23, 3:00-5:00 pm in the Narthex

** For those with speaking roles only**

Christmas Eve

All participants should arrive between 4:15-4:30 and proceed to the atrium (first cottage) to get into costume

Greening of the Church

Friday, December 22

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

All are invited to join us to decorate the church for Christmas! We'll hang the garland and wreaths, arrange the poinsettias, and get the church ready to celebrate the Natvity of Our Lord. There will be loads of fun and fellowship and everyone is welcome for the entire morning, or for just a portion of it ... whatever fits with your schedule.

Christmas Mass Schedule

Join us as we gather in the splendor of the Bethlehem miracle, that holy night when God made his home among us. During this holy season, let us gather as a parish family and celebrate the miracle of the birth of our Saviour: O Come, Let Us Adore Him!

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Our Christmas Schedule

Annual

Parish Meeting

Sunday, January 14

Coming up soon after Christmas is our annual parish meeting. We'll gather for dinner at 5pm on Sunday January 15. The Knights of Columba will be giving us a foretaste of their famous smoked Boston pork roast - so the dinner is provided for us! During the annual meeting we'll elect four new members to the vestry, hear some of the amazing stories of Good News flowing from our ministries, and celebrate the blessings of God in our parish family. Mark your calendars now and plan to attend!

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or to nominate someone for vestry

Father Tripp Norris, Rector

Daniel Hahn, Dir of Liturgy & Music

Durham Harris, Dir of Youth & Family Ministry

Kristen Weems, Dir of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

Scott Doyle & Brian Werth, Parish Wardens

Jeannie Lamp, Parish Treasurer

Parish Telephone: 770 888 4464