Thursday, August 2, 2018
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Gathering Event
Sunday, August 12th
We invite you to join us between services, and hear about our trip, see photos, talk to our Youth about their experience in Houston, and be thanked for your support!
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We are delighted to introduce
our new Musician-in-Residence, Irem Ozay!
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Irem started piano lessons at the age of 8, at a community music school in Raleigh, when she first moved to the United States from Istanbul, Turkey. After a year of lessons, she was offered to study at Raleigh Conservatory of Music. At age 14, Irem began her first job, teaching piano at the community music school where she had begun piano. Since then, she has placed in numerous festivals and competitions statewide, including NCMTA and Young Artist. She continues to teach and absolutely loves seeing her students grow and become the musicians they can be!
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She graduated Magna Cum Laude from East Carolina University in a degree in Music Therapy and completed her internship at the VA Medical Center. As she found her passion for teaching, Irem was offered a full teaching assistantship at ECU, where she recently earned a double Masters in Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. She has also been individually selected by faculty to be inducted into the Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda. Irem has also been a sister of Sigma Alpha Iota, a professional music fraternity for women.
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Irem began her Music Ministry journey during her undergraduate years at ECU, when she joined a church family in Greenville, NC. Since then, she has seen grown to love sharing music more and more as she discovered how much music can bring a community together. While she loves performing, she strongly values and sees music as a ministry and has developed a deep passion for sharing that love with her new church family.
Irem's first Sunday at Nativity will be on August 26.
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Sunday, Aug 26th
8:00am-1:00pm
For appointments, click
here
or sign up at the Welcome Desk .
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For each donation,
Nativity
will receive a
$10 Faith at Work donation
and the
donor
will receive a
$10 Ingles gift card
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Dear Nativity Family -
Thank you for a wonderful send off last Sunday. I have read all the cards and appreciate your kind words, prayers and blessings. Special thanks to the many hands who provided lunch and the “toasters” (“roasters”?) for creating a time of fellowship for all of us.
But mostly, thank you for gathering together for one service. Our singing was powerful and our joy was overflowing as we shared the Word and broke bread together one last time. Thank you for an excellent farewell. You will continue to be in our hearts forever.
+ Pastor Mark
PS - New email address is: Mark.Fitzsimmons@lr.edu
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The Women of Nativity
will meet for Bible study, lunch, and fellowship on
Thursday, August 9, at 11:00AM
in the Fellowship Hall. This group is open to all women. The Bible study centers around famous and not so famous women of the Bible and how they relate to our lives today.
The Nativity Card Ministry
will meet on
Thursday, August 9 at 12:30PM
in the Fellowship Hall. This group is open to men and women who would like to make cards for Nativity members who are listed on the prayer list. It's fun and not hard to make these beautiful cards. Come and see!
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Calvary Food Pantry
welcomes you to participate in the mission to feed our neighbors with dignity and compassion.
CFP
is open every Saturday, 8:30-11, providing frozen meat, milk, eggs, canned goods, personal care items, and pet food.
CFP
strives to provide 1/2 of the weekly grocery needs for each family. On a typical Saturday, 100 -110 families representing 350+ individuals come to receive food.
Summer is a great time to serve God in new ways! It's also a time for year-round volunteers to travel or visit grandchildren, so
CFP
needs your help caring for our neighbors. Nativity's youth are very active and essential in this ministry, so ask for more information to involve your child.
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If you'd like to be part of this ministry, sign up at the Welcome Desk or click
here
. Questions? Contact
Heather Neal
(658-9309 or neal.heather@rocketmail.com),
Ann Harvey
or
Pr. Rachel
.
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International Women Leaders seminars unite women as modern reformers
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COVER STORY
For Such a time as this
Learning, speaking and doing
gender justice in the church
Click
here
for study guide.
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The next meeting of the Book Discussion Group is
Thursday, August 16 at 2pm.
The book selection is
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles. Click
here
for the August - January book list. All are welcome to join in the discussion. It's not necessary to come every month, just come as you are able.
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Scripture Readings beginning August 5
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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Lutheran Church of the Nativity
2425 Hendersonville Rd. | P. O. Box 208
Arden, North Carolina 28704
www. nativityarden.org | 828.684.0352
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