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Holy Nativity Episcopal Church • Panama City, Florida August 2019 Volume 23, Issue 6

RALLY DAY &

BLESSING OF THE BACKPACKS

August 18, 2019

8:00 am: Holy Eucharist Rite One

9:15 am: Lay Ministry Fair

10:30 am: Holy Eucharist Rite Two with Backpack

Blessing

11:45: Lay Ministry Fair and Parish Luncheon

Please bring a side-dish to share!

Live Entertainment by

Stephanie Pettis

and her band, Rio!

Kids, don’t forget to bring

your backpacks and your

swimsuit for the waterslide!

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Wonderful Wednesdays! Will begin September 4th!

5:30 pm – Casual Holy Eucharist

Followed by supper and programs! Youth Group and Children’s

Programs!

Wednesday September 4th!! Youth Ministry is back! What do you want? As our church and community rebuild we will be ex-ploring what and how our youth can make an im-pact locally, regionally and nationally Wednesday nights are for your 6th graders up to make an impact and experience Holy Nativity and the wider Episcopal church. Calendared events will be advertised along with our regular events on Wednesdays and Sundays. Our regulars events include supporting the Back-pack Buddies program, Love Thy Neighbor program supplying “survival” packs to homeless youth at Christmas and cooking for the Wednesday night meal. Youth seeking community service project hour are always encouraged. Please contact Andrew AJ Jeffery on 850 3191953 or Aussie_aj@holy-Nativity.org for more information.

Adult

Sunday school Join Fr. Tom every Sunday

morning at 9:15 am!

Currently meeting in Battin

Hall but soon to move back

into the Mary Stuart Poole

Library!

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Breakfast Wedding Shower for Alex Phillips August 4th at 9 am. Food and drink will be provided by the Celebration Committee. All are invited to help them celebrate. The wedding couple has requested Amazon and Visa gift cards.

French Cooking Class

Tuesday, Aug. 12h at 5:30 pm! Our own Jennifer Ethridge is a French trained chef and will teach us her favorite French dishes. Cost is $35 and a bottle of French wine to share. Email Nina Godwin for a seat at nwgod-win@gmail.com. Seats will go fast!

Children’s Ministry August 2019 By Beverly McDaniel

It’s getting closer…the return to our new and improved Kids’ Kingdom is imminent. This “renovation” has offered an opportunity to evaluate optimum use of space considering our mission and purposes. Certainly we want the best possible facilities for our children.

Some of our spaces have been reworked according to obvious needs and also in response to the recommendations of the children. A wall has been removed between two rooms to

create a new room for Children’s Church, Godly Play, and other programs. The nursery with its little cribs and bathroom will remain in its place. Club 45 (fourth and fifth grad-ers) will have their own room upstairs in the two-story building. Their former room will be-

come a workroom to enable planning, scheduling, lesson prep, etc. and with a copy ma-chine at the church. With Rally Day and the Blessing of the Backpacks coming on August 18th, we want to

have everything for Children’s Ministry moved out of Battin Hall back into Kid’s Kingdom and looking nice for our guests – and for us. This will be a big, but happy, undertaking.

Knowing that many of you will volunteer to help, and knowing too that you will make it fun, we will get the word to you when the rooms are ready for us. Speaking of volunteers, we will need more teachers and helpers for Children’s Church

on Sundays and for Wonderful Wednesdays when we resume our fall programs. Please let me know what your interests are. At one of our recent meetings, we discussed how blessed we are with great moms, and also with really great dads. What wonderful exam-

ples for our children to have their families loving and serving God in our church! Thanks Be to God.

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Aug. 1 Kathy Brust Aug. 3 Sunny Barton, Ian Crelling, Mary Ellen Pettis Aug. 4 Gregory Faison, Johnny Moore Aug. 5 Joyce Dannecker, Holly Melzer, Joan Morrow Aug. 6 Penny Hutt Aug. 7 Steve Bates Aug. 8 Ivan Pereira, Nancy Reeder Aug. 9 Lily Bradford, Judy Hughes, Laura McClain Aug. 10 Rita Boston Aug. 11 Max Dannecker Aug. 12 Emily Eberhard, Earnest Jordan, Elizabeth Moore Aug. 13 Mary Sittman Aug. 15 Grace Cole, Bruce McLawhorn, Cecile Scoon, Andrew Wattenbarger Aug.16 Gordon Akst, Lori Bates Aug. 20 Seth Patterson, Caroline Smith Aug. 21 Michael Gailfoil, Philip Stewart, George Walrond Aug. 22 Maggie Smith Aug. 23 Chandler Barton, Brian McClain Aug. 24 Kathy Dick Aug. 27 Tony Collier, John Hutt, Aaron Shores Aug. 29 Phyllis McLawhorn, James Oenbrink, Jonah Reeder Aug. 30 Georgia Dake Aug. 31 Gregory Miller

Aug. 1 Richard and Jo Bruhn Aug. 3 Brian and Candace Leebrick Aug. 4 Wayne and Gail Lindsey Aug. 7 Allen and Pat Nease Aug. 10 Gregory and Marie Presser Aug. 12 David and Suzanne Grossman Aug. 21 Ted and Anda Gagnet Chris and Elizabeth Stamps Aug. 22 Jim and Ursula Hixson Aug. 23 Bill and Carolyn Cramer Aug. 24 Tim and Nancy Pride

The Jeffery Family at Episcopal Night at the Ballpark to watch the Pensacola Blue Wahoos!

August 12, 2019

First day back to school

for Public Schools

August 21, 2019

First day back to school

for Holy Nativity

Episcopal School

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Aug 4: 8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite One 9:15 am: Phillips Breakfast Shower 10:30 am: Holy Eucharist Rite Two Aug. 5: 10:00 am - Staff Meeting Aug. 8: 2:00 pm Supper at Grace volunteer time Aug. 11: 8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite One 9:15 am: Adult Sunday School 10:30 am: Holy Eucharist Rite Two Aug. 12: 5:30 pm - French Cooking Class Aug. 18: Rally Day and Blessing of the Backpacks 8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite One 9:15 am: Lay Ministry Fair 10:30 am: Holy Eucharist Rite Two with Blessing of the Backpacks 11:30 am: Parish Luncheon Aug. 20: 2:00 pm - Book Club Aug. 25: 8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite One 9:15 am: Adult Sunday School 10:30 am: Holy Eucharist Rite Two

Cookie Decorating Class Scheduled!

September 3, 2019 5:30 pm

Jamie, the head pastry chef at Buster C’s Cookies will be teaching us how to back and decorate those beautiful butter cookies (regular and gluten-free options) just in time for tailgating and the holidays.

Pilipino Cooking Class!

Thank you Cris-

ta (owner of Oriental Market

on Harrison Ave.) for showing us how to cook

wonderful food!

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Mark Your Calendars for October Events!

October 2: St. Francis of Assisi Blessing of the Pets 5:30 pm - followed by supper

October 10: Service of Healing and Thanksgiving

6:00 pm Followed by a parish wide celebration marking

the 1st anniversary of the hurricane.

October 20: Pig Roast For Beckwith! Sunday at 5:00 pm

Come and enjoy a wonderful meal and all in

support of our Diocesan Camp, Beckwith Camp and Retreat Center in Fairhope, AL!

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Worship Lay Ministry Schedule for August 2019

August 4 August 11 August 18 Rally Day

August 25

Altar Guild: Nancy Hebert and Inge Church-ill

Altar Guild: Monica Phil-lips, Mary Mittiga, David Burris

Altar Guild: Kaew Sumpton, Nancy Dingus, Joanne MacPhee

Altar Guild: Nancy Breland, Victoria Wil-liams, Rhonda Miller

Ushers 8:00 am: Jim Hixson and Parker McClellan 10:30 am: Max and Joyce Dannecker

Ushers 8:00 am: Bert Churchill and Jerry Darnell 10:30 am: John Thomp-son and Chris Mills

Ushers 8:00 am: Dan and Laura Johnson 10:30 am: Linda Weller and Lori Bates

Ushers 8:00 am: Terry Jangula and Tim Pride 10:30 am: Russell and Beth Brock

Greeters 8:00 am: Ursula Hixson 10:30 am: D.W. and Jani Smith

Greeters 8:00 am: Marla Churchill 10:30 am: Charles and Mary Bonham

Greeters 8:00 am: Phyllis Walker 10:30 am: Jenny Collier

Greeters 8:00 am: Donna Jangula 10:30 am: Mary Ellen Pettis

Chalice Bearers 8:00 am: Inge Church-ill and Brian Leebrick 10:30 am: Joyce Dannecker and Joe Cic-carelli

Chalice Bearers 8:00 am: Karen Tucker and Byron Matthews 10:30 am: Brian Leebrick and Nancy Breland

Chalice Bearers 8:00 am: Theresa Town-send and Joanne MacPhee 10:30 am: Edyth Brown and George McInnis

Chalice Bearers 8:00 am: Gayle Ahrens and Gene Wicker 10:30 am: Lisa McLen-don and Kelly Roberson

Acolytes 10:30 am: Andrew Col-lier, John Moore, Alex Moore, Tom Moore

Acolytes 10:30 am: Grace Ennis, Grady Oenbrink, Emma Crelling, Finn Oenbrik

Acolytes 10:30 am: Tyler Shores, Nicolas Pereira

Acolytes 10:30 am: James Thomp-son, Lauren Berry, Carson Berry, Isaac Ward

Lector at 10:30 am Daniel Melzer

Lector at 10:30 am Ivan Pereira

Lector at 10:30 am Tom Ledman

Lector at 10:30 am Michael Lovchuk

Tablecloth Ministry: Shani Lee

Tablecloth Ministry: Barbara Knowles

Tablecloth Ministry: Ian Crelling

Tablecloth Ministry: Chris Stamps

THE VESTRY

Fr. Steve Bates - Rector

Tricia Berry - 18-21

Beth Brock– 16-19

Ian Crelling 16-19

Tiffany Ennis 16-19

Mark Godwin - Treasurer

Mike Harding 17-20

Tom Ledman 17-20 Jr. Warden

Brian Leebrick 18-21

George McInnis 17-20 Sr. Warden

Ivan Pereira 18-21

Mary Ellen Pettis-18-21

Kelly Roberson 17-20

Madge Smith - Clerk

Joy Thompson 16-19

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 .

DIOCESE OF THE CENTRAL GULF

COAST

The Rt. Rev. Russell Kendrick - Bishop The Rev. Steven B. Bates - Rector The Rev. Tom Weller, Associate

CHURCH STAFF

Youth Director - Andrew Jeffery Director of Music - John Durgan Administrative Assistant - Madge Smith Children’s CE Director - Beverly McDaniel Church Bookkeeper – Kathy Mills Nursery Attendants - Kimberly Gailfoil, Catherine Churchill, and Kaew Sumpton

SCHEDULE OF WORSHIP SERVICES

Sunday 8:00 a.m. - Holy Eucharist - Rite I * 9:15 a.m. - Adult and Youth CE, Children’s Sunday School (Sept. - May) 10:30 a.m. - Holy Eucharist - Rite II** Wednesday 5:30 pm - five-thirty Eucharist * and programs *Nursery Provided **Children’s Church and Nursery Provided

222 North Bonita Avenue Panama City, FL 32401

(850) 747-4000 E-mail: info@holy-nativity.org Website: www.holy-nativity.org