Thursday, August 23, 2018
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This Sunday
we welcome 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 hours:
Monday 9:00am - 1:30pm
Tuesday 9:00am - 1:30pm
Wednesday 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Thursday 9:00am - 12:00pm
Sunday 8:30am, 11:00am, afternoon
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BLOOD DRIVE
THIS SUNDAY
Aug 26th
8:00am-1:00pm
For appointments, click
here.
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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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Thank you for your generosity!
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Last week's Noisy Offering collected
$854.59
for the
Veterans' Restoration Quarters Meals
! This money will be used to purchase supplies for our Meal Team to make dinner for the residents of the Quarters, which we do on the last Sunday of each month. It costs about $350 a month to provide this meal. The cost of this ministry was once covered by Thrivent donations, but those donations have dwindled over the years - however, the need for this ministry has not! We are committed to supporting these veterans in their journey to restoration, and we know the great value of this important ministry.
Thank you for your support!
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Dear Nativity:
I began my first full day of retirement by sitting down and reading all the beautiful cards and notes of thanks given by you at Sunday's reception. I can't thank you enough for all the kind words and tokens of your love that I received, and I couldn't imagine a more fitting way to end 46 years of music ministry, or a better place for that to have happened.
When I arrived almost two years ago I found a beautiful group of people going through a very painful time. I myself was in my own pain, having just left a very unhealthy congregation I had served for over ten years. In the midst of our pain we came together and ministered to each other in big and small ways, bringing us both to a place of healing. This is when the church is at her best. Because the church is a human institution there will always be more joys and hurts ahead. When that time comes, hold onto the memory of how we got it RIGHT this time, and believe like a teenager that nothing is impossible as you walk forward into the future.
Peace and Love
Gary Mitchell
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WOMEN OF NATIVITY
All women are invited and welcome to come and learn more about Mary of Bethany and putting our faith into action in September's Bible Study. Come to the Fellowship Hall on
Thursday, September 13, at 11:00AM.
Bring a bag lunch and enjoy Bible study and fellowship with your sisters in faith.
The Nativity Card Ministry
invites women and men who would like to make cards for our members on the prayer list to come to the Fellowship Hall on
Thursday, September 13 at 12:30PM
(immediately following the Women's Bible Study). If you can cut, paste, and fold then you can make these beautiful cards. A different card is made each month.
Personal Care Kits Update
Received to date: 64 towels,103 bars of soap, 110 toothbrushes, 29 combs, and 47 nail clippers. The goal is to make 100 kits to send to Lutheran World Relief for people who have lost everything from a natural disaster or life-threatening violence. Click
here
to see the sizes and types of towels and pictures of combs and other objects included in each kit. We will assemble as many kits as we have supplies and ship them with the quilts in November. There are enough toothbrushes, but more towels, soap (two per kit), combs, and nail clippers are needed. If you would like to make a monetary donation, please put it in a pew envelope marked LWR kits and place it in the offering plate. Thank you for your generosity so that we can help our brothers and sisters in need. Give hope with a bar of soap!
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The next meeting of the Nativity Book Group will be on Thursday, September 20 at 2:00PM in the Fellowship Hall. September's bok is
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult. All are welcome. For a complete list of book selections click
here
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COVER STORY
Stronger Together
ELCA congregations find vitality
through full communion partnerships
Click
here for study guide.
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G I V I N G
Update
Your faithful giving contributes
to our mission of
Making Christ Known
.
For the month of July
Budgeted to receive: $52,052
Actual received:
$
50,074
Budgeted to spend: $48,315
Actual spent: $50,186
For the Treasurer's July report, click
here
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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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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.
If you'd like to be part of this ministry, sign up at the Welcome Desk or click
here
.
Questions? Contact
Ann Harvey
at
or
Pr. Rachel
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Nativity Preschool & Kindergarten has openings for
2's, 3's & 4's!
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If you have a child you would like to attend a Christ-centered learning program (or know someone who is interested), please call Director,
Mike Natarella
at 687-8381.
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Scripture Readings beginning August 26
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 led 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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