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12/3—All children, youth, and families are invited to join us on TOMORROW (Saturday, December 3) from 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. to drink hot cocoa, fellowship, and make cookies for children to decorate at Lessons & Carols reception on Sunday.

Contact: Emily Elder, Director of Children & Youth Ministries

12/4—The Epiphany Flower Guild will lead an Advent Wreath-Making Workshop after the service on December 4 in the parish hall. This is the second Sunday in Advent since the first Sunday will be Thanksgiving weekend. A short reflection about the history of the advent wreath and the themes of advent will take place prior to the event.

The workshop will cost $20 for materials which include everything that is needed for making an advent wreath: (1) oasis wreath, (4) candles with holders, and greenery. We will accept reservations until all 20 spots are full. Click the RSVP button below.

Contact: Polly Nodine, Flower Guild Chair

12/4—The Epiphany Choir, Beginning Choristers, Junior Choir, Hildegard Ensemble and Epiphany Ringers will present Advent Lessons & Carols on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. The liturgy is similar to Christmas Lessons & Carols made popular in the 20th century by Kings College, Cambridge. The promise of the coming Messiah is told in lessons from the Old and New Testaments interspersed with Advent carols, hymns, and choir anthems. The service takes place in the nave followed by a reception in the parish hall.

12/16—Submit Reimbursements: If you have expenses that should be reimbursed in this fiscal year, they must be submitted and approved by Friday, December 16. Any expenses submitted after the December 15 will be applied to the 2023 budget.

12/31—Make Year End Gifts & Pledges Payments for this year (2022): Pledges and contributions need to be received at the church or postmarked by December 31 and stock contributions must be delivered to the church brokerage account by December 31 to be recorded for 2022.

Parishioners are invited to express their gratitude to clergy and staff for their work this year by making an offering online or by check. To give online click the button and select the Staff Christmas option from the pull-down menu. To give by check, please list “Staff Christmas” in the memo line.

Our online ministry platform called Realm, isn’t just a church directory or a way to register online for events. Members can also manage their giving and check pledge status at any time through the website or the smart phone app. If you’ve not created a login for Realm yet, Contact the parish office.

Contact: Shea McNutt, Parish Administrator

If you shop on Amazon, consider accessing Amazon through http://smile.amazon.com and designating Church of the Epiphany Atlanta as your charitable beneficiary.

70 Amazon customers have made Church of the Epiphany Atlanta as their beneficiary. Our 3rd quarter donation was $58.63. Cumulative to date total is $1,083.19, so it does add up!

We are listed as Church of the Epiphany Atlanta on the beneficiary list, or use the link to shop through our amazon smile account.

• Masks are recommended, but not required.
• The Healing Station is open in the side chapel.
  
• Childcare for newborns and children ages 3 and under is available in the nursery. Our vaccinated childcare workers wear KN95 masks.
  

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This year, only the creches that tell the stories of Luke and Matthew have been put on display, accompanied by the scriptures and hymn texts. You can view them in the narthex and gallery through January 8. If you’d like to help with taking them down on Monday, January 9, click the button below.

Epiphany’s Art Ministry welcomes back artists from the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter. All proceeds from this exhibit go to the Senior Art Ministry at this parish. Please make checks out to Holy Comforter.

A little background about Holy Comforter

Holy Comforter has been in Southeast Atlanta for over 100 years. In nearly every decade of that history, urban growth has changed the face of the neighborhoods around Holy Comforter, leading them to ask again and again, “Who is my neighbor whom God is calling on me to love?”

It is critical to understand that Holy Comforter does not run a program to help persons with mental illness; rather these people are the church gathered at Holy Comforter. These are the members of the Body of Christ who pray daily, who are fed by the Eucharist, who acolyte and serve, sing, run the altar guild, make pastoral care visits on Sunday, who bring their gifts for the service of everyone. These people, who are often alienated in society, are knit together by the love of Jesus Christ at Holy Comforter.

Epiphany continues its tradition of collecting shoes for our friends at the Church of the Common Ground. Donations of new men's and women's shoes of any size will be accepted, especially men’s sizes 14-17 and women’s sizes 4-6 and 11-14. They are particularly in need of men’s shoes.

We will be collecting shoes through December 11.

On December 11, the youth will organize the shoes and prepare them to be taken to Common Ground’s office.

Please take shoes out of their boxes and tie their shoelaces together. You can drop shoes off at the church on Sundays between 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and during weekday office hours.

For decades, parishes, friends and organizations have helped Santa by donating gifts to be delivered to more than 500 children in Peoplestown on Christmas Eve each year. Once again, Emmaus House is asking us to collect unwrapped gifts using their gift guide for suggestions.

Epiphany will be collecting items through Sunday, December 18.

The in-person Children's Christmas Festival at Emmaus House will be on Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Contact: Emily Badgett if you would like to help transport the gifts to Emmaus on Sunday, 12/18, or afterward on 12/19 or 12/20.

12/5—In December we will meet, not to discuss a book, but to share treats and have some fellowship during the holidays. Contact: Linda Ryder-Wolf / linda.wolf.1962@gmail.com.

Here are our book selections for the first quarter of 2023:



• January: The Nightwatchman by Louise Erdrich
• February: Our Unfinished March by Eric Holder
• For March: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

All are welcome to join us.

Contact: Linda Ryder-Wolf, Leader

11/29—Each Tuesday morning, we begin at 7:00 a.m. in the chapel with Morning Prayer (Holy Eucharist 1st Tuesdays), and end our time together with a simple breakfast and fellowship. If you would like to learn more, or have any interest in helping provide food for Men's Breakfast, please email John Yntema.

Epiphany’s Children’s and Youth Choirs will provide special music on Christmas Eve at our 3:30 p.m. liturgy. If your child is not presently in choir but would like to participate on Christmas Eve, rehearsals begin this Tuesday, December 6. Children ages 4 (pre-K) through 2nd grade practice from 5:00 - 5:30 p.m.; singers in 3rd grade-unchanged voices (typically 7th - 8th grade) rehearse from 5:30 - 6:15 p.m. Practice will be held December 6, 13, and 20.

Contact: Julie Ryder, Organist & Choirmaster

12/6—In coordination with Epiphany’s Children and Youth Ministries and Community Engagement, a service project for children, youth, and/or families takes place on Tuesday evenings while Children's Choirs meet. 

Contact: Julie Ryder, Organist & Choirmaster

12/7-9—Volunteers cook at Epiphany and then serves the meal at Gateway Shelter on 2nd Fridays. Please RSVP to help prepare, cook or serve the meal. Sign up by the Monday Prior to the cook.

Contact: Anne Kerner, Ministry Co-Chair

Epiphany Ringers: Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. in the Choir Loft

11/30—This ensemble rings during worship services approximately once every 6 weeks. All the positions are filled at this time, but you can always let Julie know of your interest.

Epiphany Choir: Wednesdays, 6:45 p.m. in the Music Suite

11/30—Our all-volunteer choir provides musical leadership for the 10:00 a.m. liturgy and feast days. Membership is open to fully vaccinated adults and youth.

Contact: Julie Ryder, Organist & Choirmaster

12/8—This time we are reading and discussing The Gift of Years by Joan Chittister. Contact: The Rev. Amy Dills-Moore.

Contact: The Rev. Amy Dills-Moore

We are looking for a few adult parishioners to serve as nursery volunteers once or twice a semester. We have several wonderful regular childcare workers that watch our youngest members during the service, but they occasionally need a weekend off. Please contact Emily if you are interested in helping serve in this way.

Contact: Emily Elder, Director of Children & Youth Ministries

12/11—The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) will hold their annual Christmas Craft & Bake Sale Sunday December 11 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. They will have homemade goodies and a few craft items for sale. Please stop by the parish hall before or after the 10:00 a.m. service.

The proceeds from our bake/craft sale support our service projects during the year.

12/11—Our Second Sunday Contemplative Practice group will host an Advent Contemplative Eucharist on December 11 at 4:00 p.m. in the nave.

Contact: The Rev. Amy Dills-Moore

12/13—The ECW we will host a luncheon for the Emmaus House Seniors. This is an annual event and a lot of fun for the seniors and the ECW Members.Contact: Robin Hairston, President

If you would like to make an offering in thanksgiving or memory of someone for Christmas, please click the blue button to complete the Submission Form. From there you can choose to make your donation via online giving, or if you can also mail a check payable to Church of the Epiphany noting Christmas Flowers and/or Christmas Music in the memo line.

To be printed in the Christmas Eve bulletins, submissions must be received in the parish office by 9:00 a.m. on Monday, December 19.

The DOK will not meet in December. The Epiphany chapter of the DOK lay order meet monthly for prayer, service and evangelism. To learn more about the order, visit doknational.org.

Contact: Judy Jarady, President

1/5—The group meets each month for a healing and faith-based conversation around grief and loss, led by parishioners Megan Fraijo-Paul and Nancy Thompson, both trained psychotherapists. Please contact Megan / or Nancy before attending for the first time.

1/11—The next Episcopal Racial Justice Book Group discussion will be held on Wednesday, January 11 from 6:30-8 p.m. in Room 201. We will discuss Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism - and How to Do It by Celeste Headlee. 

Here’s is an excerpt from a description of the book found on Amazon. “In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support. This is the book for people who have tried to debate and educate and argue and got nowhere; it is the book for those who have stopped talking to a neighbor or dread Thanksgiving dinner. It is an essential and timely book for all of us”

In March, the ERJ Book Group will discuss The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Date to be determined.

Contact: Kay Lee, President

1/10—The ECW Day Group meets on 2nd Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m. in the parish hall followed by lunch out. Contact: Robin Hairston

1/12—The NEW ECW Evening Group’s first meeting will take place on Thursday, January 12 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the parish hall. Come to meet current ECW members and learn about the amazing things we do. Contact: Alison Taylor

1/30—COH will not meet in December. If you or a loved one would like to receive a pastoral visit or home communion by one of the trained caregivers, please contact Ann.

Contact: Ann Fowler, Leader

2/19—Epiphany’s Community of Hope presents As the Days Lengthen: Contemplative Prayer—and the Joyful Season of Lent. Join us on February 19 from 4:00-5:30 p.m. for an afternoon of Reflection and Soul-Nurture with Carl McColman.



Contact: Ann Fowler, Leader

The weekly parish notices are published Friday mornings at 7 a.m.

The submission deadline is Wednesdays at NOON.