The Church of the Nativity

Our Annual Meeting is Sunday January 29th at 5:30.

We will begin with a Potluck dinner and then proceed to business.

For anyone who is wondering, Annual Meetings are a chance for the entire parish community to go over what we did in 2011 and look ahead to what we may do in 2012.  And eat good food.  Please mark your calendars and join us!

Or, to make this fit within Advent, Christmas is coming! Please come celebrate it’s arrival with us at:

5pm Church of the Nativity, Helena
8pm St John’s, Townsend

Diocesan Convention is this weekend!  Diocesan Convention is our chance to see our friends and colleagues, new and old, hear about what is going on around the Diocese, and conduct some business.

This year we are down in Big Sky, MT at Bucks T-4. For more information about our schedule, other documents, and information visit the Diocesan Convention page off our Diocesan webpage.

Holy Week kicks off on April 17th with Palm Sunday. For anyone who wants a preview of the coming week, I’ll be the guest speaker in the Methodist’s Lenten Class right after the service talking about the Book of Common Prayer and our Liturgy.
Maundy Thursday will be a 6pm dinner followed by the Maundy Liturgy (Footwashing and Eucharist). Come for part or all of the night.
Good Friday will be a noon service.
We will be celebrating the Easter Vigil at 8:30 on Saturday April 23.

At 27 books, the New Testament is about 40% of the Bible (a little less of you include the Apocrypha in the total book count). That 40% set the tone for the Christian Church and is not easy to understand. In 4 weeks, with some time in the middle for Easter, we’ll learn about who wrote these books, why they were written, what is in them, and why they are so complicated.

March 27th: Paul’s Letter’s
April 3rd: The Gospels
April 10th: Acts
April 17th: guest teaching with the Methodists
April 23rd: Easter Vigil at 8:30pm
April 24th: Easter Day/No Class
May 1st: Pseudo-Paulines and Catholic Epistles

Our fall education class will begin September 12 and continue until November 21.  We will meet in Classroom 3 at Covenant United Methodist Church from 9:45 until 10:30.

Big Words, Big Ideas, and Everyday Life is a chance to take a look at some of the big theological concepts and discover that we not only already know something about them but that they impact our everyday life.

Here’s a look at our schedule:
Sept 12 Theology vs theology
Sept 19 God (theology)
Sept 26 Diocesan Convention
Oct 3 Creation (?) and People (anthropology)
Oct 10 Jesus (christology)
Oct 17 Holy Spirit/Trinity (pneumatology)
Oct 24 Evil (theodicy)
Oct 31 The Church with Bishop Brookhart
Nov 7 Salvation/Grace/Sacraments (Soteriology)
Nov 14 And Next (Eschatology)
Nov 21 Catch up and Questions

Starting September 9th, Nativity will have a monthly potluck.  We will gather at CUMC (2230 Broadway) from 6-8pm on the second Thursdays of the month for dinner and a Compline service.

It is not necessary to cook something or RSVP in order to come.

For more information please contact Robyn at theologybird(at)gmail(dot)com.  (replace (at) and (dot) with @ and .)