As we approach the holiday season, we have an opportunity to share our voices for our Christmas Choir. Jeff Eskew, our interim organist and choir director, will be leading rehearsals leading up to our Christmas Eve services at 5:00pm and 11:00pm.  The scheduled dates for rehearsals are Wednesday evenings November 4, 11, 25, December 2, and 16 from 7:00 to 8:15pm.

As we begin to build momentum for our regular choir, this is a great time to get in on the ground level. All skill levels are welcome to sing in the choir as well as youth and adult singers. Choir is a great way to connect with people as well as offer your voice in praise to the Lord. Please e-mail Jeff Eskew at jeffeskew@yahoo.com or call him at 706-575-9611 ASAP if you plan on attending, so he can prepare and make appropriate plans.

Big Poplar Loop Part 2-Sawtooth Trail
5.4 miles, 2 hours 15 minutes

This is the sixth in a series of posts about my weekly hikes on the Pine Mountain Trail.

Back on the trail again after another brief hiatus. Last week I had a meeting that I couldn’t miss, and planned to hike in the afternoon, but was just feeling lousy, so I took the week off. I’ve been fighting off some mysterious malady the last few weeks, but decided not hiking would only make me feel worse, so I went out on a perfect day, temperature-wise, in the mid-60s. I decided to go back and finish that piece of trail on the Big Poplar Loop that I missed, which is technically called the Sawtooth Trail. It’s only 2.7 miles from Fox Den to Mollyhugger Hill, so it’s not a bad hike on which to backtrack so you can avoid having to call in a pickup. Read more

Your Week at St. Nick, 25 – 31 October 2009

Sunday, 25 October 2009 – FOCUS Sunday

8:30am Morning Prayer

9:30am Breakfast/Fellowship

9:45am Adult/Youth/Children’s Education

11:00am Holy Eucharist

5:00pm Youth Group–games and dinner

Please RSVP for Youth group to Fr. Jeff by Friday, October 23 by e-mailing him at fatherjeff@stnicholashamilton.org.

Usher / Greeter

8:30 Tom and Sharon Cheatham

11:00 Nick and Anne Simpson

Reader

8:30 (MP) Halmrast

11:00 Horne/I. Martin

LEM

11:00 Hinnant

Altar Guild

Sawyer/Tomlin

Flower Guild

Gina Durham

Lemonade/Cider

Michelle

Acolytes

Table: Ivy

Crucifer: Cody

Gospel: Cody

Offertory: Sam

Torch: Austin

Sunday School Teacher

Peggy Martin

Tuesday, 27 October

6:30pm Vestry Meeting

Wednesday, 28 October

9:30am

Pre-EfM Class Session 3-Reading & Discussing the Text

6:30pm

Holy Eucharist

Saturday, 31 October

6:00 – 8:00pm

TRUNK OR TREAT!

St. Nicholas Parking Lot

Your Week at St. Nick 18 - 24 October 2009

Sunday, 18 October 2009

8:30am Holy Eucharist/Morning Prayer

9:30am  Breakfast/Fellowship

9:45am Adult/Youth/Children’s Education

11:00am Holy Eucharist–Blessing of Stewardship Pledges

Usher / Greeter at 8:30 Service

Bobo & Barbara Morgan

Usher / Greeter at 11:00 Service

Dave & Sue Halmrast

Reader

8:30 (HE) Dixon

11:00 Hinnant/S. Dixon

LEM 8:30

(HE) Halmrast

11:00 Horne

Altar Guild

Liz Dixon

Flower Guild

Bert Tomlin

Lemonade/Cider

Gina Durham

Acolytes

Table:  Robin

Crucifer:  Abbey A.

Gospel:  Robin

Offertory:  Dalton

Torch:  Abbey A./Dalton

Sunday School Teacher

Bert Tomlin

Wednesday, 21 October

6:30pm

Holy Eucharist

7:15pm

Episcopal 101  Spirituality:  Created for Prayer

Praying for ALL Saints

All Saints Day is quickly approaching on Sunday, November 1 and we will once again be gathering in the Memory Garden at the beginning of both services (weather permitting) to remember the many saints of our lives that have gone on into glory.

Please help us by e-mailing the full names of anyone you would particularly like to remember on that day to Fr. Jeff at fatherjeff@stnicholashamilton.org or by adding their name to the list in the Narthex.

Our Awesome Youth: Abby Brown

You all know that we have fantastic young people at St. Nicholas. All of them are talented with great personalities and genuine hearts. Most of the youth at St. Nicholas are involved in something: acolyting, reading, youth group, the Teen Class. It’s one of our goals that St. Nicholas is a place where they are honored, nurtured, educated in faith, and loved.

But not only are our young people doing great things here within our walls, but they are accomplishing many wonderful things out in the world, making God, their families, and their church very proud.

For example, Abby Brown, Read more

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