Scene the NATIVITY Holy Nativity Episcopal Church • Panama City, Florida January/February 2015 Volume 19, Issue 1 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Cajun Fest! Feb. 17th 5:30 pm This is always a fun time where we eat pancakes, sausages, and apple sauce before the beginning of Lent! This year we will also serve….Cajun food! Find the “Coin” in the King’s Cake and you win reserved seating and parking on Easter Sunday! Adults/Youth: $5 Children: $3 Family: $15
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Holy Nativity Episcopal Church • Panama City, Florida January/February 2015 Volume 19, Issue 1
Shrove Tuesday Pancake
Supper and Cajun Fest!
Feb. 17th 5:30 pm
This is always a fun time where we eat pancakes, sausages, and
apple sauce before the beginning of Lent! This year we
will also serve….Cajun food!
Find the “Coin” in the King’s Cake and you win reserved seating
and parking on Easter Sunday!
Adults/Youth: $5 Children: $3
Family: $15
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I am proud of you! Thank-you to all who; donated, packed and wrapped some of the Christmas spirit for those who really need that in their lives.
As a group we provide 30 backpack with essentials for homeless youth in our community and brightened one family’s Christmas.
Moving into the New Year we have the events listed for your planning. There are a couple of events of note happening through the Holy Nativity
Episcopal School worthy for a visit. If you are interested in volunteering or attending the overnight events please contact me for further details.
Always great to see the regulars and the new faces from time to time. Remember that we always meet at 5:30 pm on Wednesdays for the church service, supper, and youth group to 7:30 pm. Jan
14th Trivia Night with host Dallas “The Master” Morgan. 28th Australia Day Fun Feb
7th The 13th annual Holy Nativity Episcopal School Fun Run
11th Food Fun – Create, learn and eat. 25th Mini Olympics Mar
14th Overnight Camp-out- Destination and details to be confirmed. Adult volunteers required 25th No Youth Group – Spring Break Apr
18th Overnight Lock-in at Holy Nativity Church- Destination and details to be confirmed. Adult volunteers required May
6th Real World Dinner- Whole family welcome
27th End of Season Dinner A.J. Jeffery Youth Director 319-1953 [email protected]
Annual Meeting January 25, 2015
9:15 am in Battin Hall
Everyone is invited to attend. We will review 2014 and pick new vestry members.
The staff will provide breakfast!
Souper Bowl
Sunday
February 1, 2015
Wear your favorite
team shirt and
bring cans of Soup
for donation!
January/February 2015 Page 2
Backpacks and New Year's
Resolutions
It's the second week of 2015, and you've probably already
fallen off the New Year's resolution wagon--perhaps it's
been a few days since you've made it to the gym (it's too
cold to drive there in shorts, right?), maybe that vow not
to let your mental health be dictated by a group of athletic
young men in helmets and shoulder pads fell away by the
end of New Year's night, which in turn led to breaking
that resolution about only having two beers on any one
night. Well, here's a resolution you can keep, and improve
others' lives in the process. Each week, pick up enough
items to fill a child's backpack for the Backpack Buddies
program. A couple cans of ravioli or Spaghetti Os, a cou-
ple cans of juice or Vienna sausage, some instant oatmeal
pouches, a box of granola bars or fruit cups, and a few Ca-
pri Suns will tide over an entire family during the week-
ends when their kids are not taking their meals at school.
Holy Nativity feeds 104 kids this way, every week, and
your resolution to join in the effort is the key to making
sure we meet this commitment as a congregation.
Lenten Soup Supper and Programs
Beginning February 25th The Liturgies and Traditions of the Season
Join us as we examine the liturgies and traditions of Lent and Holy Week. We’ll examine the history, meaning
and customs of a variety of traditions and services that reflect our understanding of this season of penitence
and preparation.
5:30 five-thirty service
6:00 Soup Supper
6:45 Program
Sign up sheets for soups and breads can be found in Battin Hall.
Holy Nativity Episcopal School 13th Annual 5K Run, Walk,
& 1-mile Fun Run Saturday, February 7, 2015
Entry Forms are in the church
office and on the welcome table…..
or you can download a copy from the church’s website,
www.holy-nativity.org.
Do you have any winter coats
or gloves or scarves that you
would like to give away?
The people that come to
dinner at “Supper at Grace”
can use anything that you may
have. Please drop off your
items in Battin Hall!
LAUNDRY LOVE NEEDS YOU!
The story of Laundry Love began when T-Bone (Eric), a homeless gentleman living in Ventura, Cali-fornia was asked a question: “How can we come alongside your life in a way that would matter?” Eric’s response was honest and practical. “If I had clean clothes, I think people would treat me like a human being.” Every single Laundry Love effort, or Laundry Love spin off and/or partnership around the U.S. is attached to this man. Laundry Love believes that through the neutral space of a laundromat, every guest and stranger can become a friend. The Laundry Love initiative con-sists of regular opportunities to help people who are struggling financially by assisting them with doing their laundry. Our first local Laundry Love effort is scheduled for Thursday, January 29
th from 9am-3pm at Wash
Depot on 11th Street next door to the Bay County Li-
brary. Volunteers are needed to coordinate breakfast and lunch, and simply engage in friendly conversa-tion. We also need cash donations. Those interested in finding out more about how they can contribute to make this and future Laundry Love efforts a success can contact David Smith at (850) 774-6475 or [email protected]. You can also explore the national Laundry Love website at www.laundrylove.org.
Adult Christian Education: Father Tom Adult Sunday School meets faithfully every Sunday morning through the double doors at the end of the brick road, Mary Stuart Poole Library. Between services: 9:15 to 10:15. Bring your coffee and cookie. We read and discuss any number of things: the Church Season, the Lectionary Readings for the Sunday, a particular Bible book, story or theme. Members of the group always have a say in what we tackle. The class is led by Mike Dickey and Tom Weller, and always is fun. No registration, all materials provided, come one come all. Tuesday Morning Bible Seminar will resume on February 3rd after our holiday season break. This will be our new startup for Spring 2015 and everyone is invited and welcome, Christian or not, church member or not, parishioner or not, come and bring a friend. Starting anew, this new season we’ll be meeting in the Mary Stu-art Poole Library instead of Fr. Tom’s office conference room Through the Garage. I do appreciate an email ([email protected]) or a phone call to Madge (747-4000) from interested folks, so that we know about how many to count on. We gather between about 9:30 for visiting and coffee, tea, little snack, sit down at 10:00, and begin promptly at 10:05 with opening prayer to gather the Holy Spirit in the midst of us. Class adjourns promptly at 11:15. We’ll have at least a session or two on Mark’s gospel to get started, then the group will help decide our course of reading, study and discussion. This is a seminar session with Fr. Tom as mentor not teacher, and is always tremendous fun. No Bible knowledge required, only interest and enthusiasm. There are always large-print handouts, and plenty of Bibles are available, so don’t let the fact that you don’t own a Study Bible keep you from coming.
We also will be discussing Lent itself a bit in both classes, Sunday School and Bible Seminar, and taking no-tice of liturgical and other changes during the season and Sunday worship that make Lent different and spe-cial. Don't miss it!! Tom+
WINE WOMEN AND BACKPACKS IS MOVING UP IN THE WORLD! That's right we are moving up one week in your monthly calendar and we are not
whining about the change.
The Ladies Back Packing Team requested the last week of the month so they
can also serve at Supper at Grace.
How could we say, "No?!"
WW&B now will Pack Backpacks for our Buddies on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 5:30pm.
Please mark your calendars with the following schedule:
22 Jan: WW&B
19 Feb: WW&B
9 Mar: WW&B *** Traditionally on the last backpack before school holiday HNEC has packed extra food. This year due to increased number of buddies our budget is constrained. 23 Mar: SPRING BREAK *** We are praying an individual or group at HNEC will sponsor a little some thing extra for our 104 Buddies for the school break. Suggestions include 104 Nutty Buddy Bars, 104 oranges or apples, 104 cans of Spaghetti O's, or 104 Jello Pudding cups. Prayers are also appreciated! 23 Apr: WW&B
21 May: WW&B
(Last day of school is 5 June).
The Convention of The Episco-
pal
Diocese of the Central Coast
February 19-21, 2015
Host: Trinity Episcopal Church in
Mobile, AL
Our delegates are Lori Bates,
Mike Harding, Brian Leebrick,
and Mary Ellen Pettis
Our new bishop will be elected at this convention!
Walkabouts-Calling our 4th Bishop
To get walkabout information and to register to at-
tend , please go to webpage: bishop-
search.diocgc.com or call the church office at 747-
dered, tables set, floors swept and areas cleaned. This is a
team effort and event and thanks go to all who assisted in
any and all ways. Our efforts were well received - it was
glorious! The biggest challenge was the flu and virus bugs
which kept several members from not being able to sing
with us that night, not to mention those who were sick and
had to miss rehearsals along the way. Again this year for
Lessons and Carols, both of our adult choirs, The Rite One
and Chancel Choirs, joined in song, making for a large
and full choir with 20 voices. We worked on this music for
months and it showed. There were comments about it be-
ing the ‘best one ever’ so we were all very pleased and
gratified.
Christmas Eve was also an evening with beautiful mu-
sic by our Chancel Choir and many musicians. The night
was filled with the glory of Christ’s birth in all of our musical
offerings. Last of all, my thanks turn to God for giving us
His Son, whose birth inspired such beautiful music and
scripture and for our gift of music for sharing that blessed
story.
Ash Wednesday is February 18th – so Lent begins
rather early this year. That means we must start working on
Lenten music right away. As in past years, the Chancel
Choir will be singing for the evening Ash Wednesday ser-
vice. This is always a very meaningful service for all who
participate and attend.
*****
We continue to invite you to join us. YOUR voice is wel-
come to join one of our fine choirs! We have much music to
sing and Sundays come every seven days! We look for-
ward to seeing you at one of these rehearsals:
The Chancel Choir
Thursday evenings in the church from 6:30 – 8:30 PM and
Sunday mornings from 9:30 – 10:15 AM
The Rite One Choir Thursday evenings in the church from 5:30 – 6:30 PM
The Children’s Choir
Wednesday afternoons in the Choir Office from 4:00 – 5:10 PM
May each of you have a blessed New Year and keep a song in your heart!
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Jan. Sun. School 9:15
In Kids, Kingdom
Children’s Church 10:30
In Kids’ Kingdom after the children’s ser-
mon at the beginning of the worship ser-
vice. They return to “big church” for com-
munion.
Nursery 8:00-11:30
Younger children enjoy being
in the nursery with Abby
Dingus and our faithful
nursery Volunteers.
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Beverly McDaniel
265-8033
“The Nativity Story”
Judy Bennett 215-1579
Beverly McDaniel 265-8033
Teresa Durgan
913-3471
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Epiphany: The Wise Men Seek
Jesus and Bring Gifts”
Trey Hutt 814-7934
Charlie Commander 819-5850
Kaew Sumpton
624-1290
18 ,, “Watch Your Mouth”
Sharon Carroll 784-6961
Tiffany Ennis 319-4268
Kathy Brust
814-8014
25
No program. Annual
Parish Meeting and
Breakfast
“Keeping the Peace”
Casey Cole 319-4376
Holly Melzer 896-0428
Sandy Ciccarelli
265-9276
Feb. Sunday School 9:15 Children’s Church 10:30 Nursery 8:00-11:30
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Souper Bowl
Sunday
Wear your favorite
team’s shirt or colors
and bring soup for the
Backpacks
“Jesus is Tempted”
Trey Hutt 814-7934
Charlie Commander 819-5850
Sandy Ciccarelli
265-9276
8 Beverly McDaniel
265-8033
“Bear One Another’s Burdens”
Karen Shores 867-1084
Candace Leebrick 522-9240
Kaew Sumpton
624-1290
15 ,,
“Healing the Official’s Son”
Kathy Brust 814-8014
Florencia Pereira 319-4870
Pat Spangler
215-5247
22 ,, “Healing the Man Born Blind”
Casey Cole 319-4376
Sharon Carroll 784-6961
Teresa Durgan
913-3471
Children’s Ministry January/February 2015 by Beverly McDaniel
Being with children during the Christmas season is wonderful. Seeing them enjoy “A Morning with St. Nicholas”, wearing and sharing pajamas in church, and participating in the Christmas Pageant was made even better by the belief that they are building a foun-dation of memories and knowledge of the meaning and traditions of Christmas in church. Abundant thanks go to our parents and volun-teers for their attitudes of cooperation and contributions of time, talents, and treasure. In addition, many thanks are offered to all who let our performers and readers know how very special, valued, and loved they are here at Holy Nativity. Mark your calendars for more upcoming events that appeal to children. Although the young children may not be as interested in the business of the Annual Parish Meeting on January 25, they do love the breakfast, and the nursery will be open for them. On Souper Bowl Sunday we get to dress to support our favorite teams and bring soup to support two of our Outreach Ministries, Backpacks and the Food Bank. Remember too that the Wednesday Evening programs are fun for the children. At five-thirty, come join us. Beverly McDaniel
The Nativity Scene is the newsletter of Holy Nativity Episcopal Church. The deadline for announcements and articles is the 15th each month prior to publication .