Your Week at St. Nick, 2 - 8 May 2010

Sunday, 2 May 2010 — Survivor’s Sunday

8:30am Holy Eucharist

9:30am Breakfast/Fellowship

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

11:00am Holy Eucharist

Usher/Greeter

8:30am Tom and Sharon Cheatham

11:00am Anne and Nick Simpson

Readers

8:30am Liz Dixon

11:00am Michelle Moody/Samantha Dixon

LEM

8:30am Katherine Johnson

11:00am Drucye Price

Altar Guild

Linda Sawyer

Bert Tomlin

Flower Guild

Nancy Callaway

Sunday School Teacher

Jeff Jackson

Lemonade

Gina Durham

Acolytes

Abby Brown

Cody Durham

Austin Hubbard

Tuesday, 3 May

6:30pm St. Nicholas Academy

Wednesday, 4 May

3:00pm St. Nicholas Quilters

6:30 -7:45pm Choir Rehearsal

Happy Birthday!

5/2       Charlie Morgan (son of Bobo & Barbara)

5/5       Valerie Hogg

5/5       Toby Butzon (son of Chris & Andy)

5/8       Judy Jenks

Happy Anniversary!

5/5       Graham & Marci Horne

5/8       Larry & Elaine Correnti

Vision Planning Day

St. Nicholas is a growing congregation, and as such, we are called to develop a vision for our future together. What kind of church do we want to become? What do we value as a congregation? What do we do really well? If our church were to vanish from the face of the earth, what kind of hole would we leave in the community? These are all common questions to ask as we make plans for the future.

During the last year, the Vestry has been working on developing this vision for St. Nicholas’ future.  Click here to see what we worked on. At our last Vestry Retreat, we were delighted to begin the process of developing a common vision with DaAnna Stringer. Da (pronounced “day”) is a corporate facilitator and listener who helps businesses and churches develop where they want to go in 10, 20, and 30 years.

We will gather on Saturday, May 15 from 9:00am to 3:00pm with Da at the church to develop this vision. The Vestry hopes to have as many people involved as possible. If you have high hopes for the development of our congregation, or if there’s something that you think needs to be in place with this vision, please come and let your voice be heard!

This is a congregational effort, so mark your calendar, as we gather on Saturday, May 15 for a day with Da!

The Fishing Priest

There’s a lot of stuff I like to do–read comic books, hike, draw, play guitar. But one of my occasional pastimes is fishing. I’m not quite sure how I started fishing. My parents never took us fishing when we were growing up. I guess my first experience with a rod and reel was at summer camp at Honey Creek in the Diocese of Georgia. The camp is on a tidewater creek off of the inter-coastal waterway. Honey Creek has a dock, so we used to spend a lot of time, especially when we were camp counselors, sitting on that dock and casting out into the deep water at high tide. So I cut my fishing teeth on catching mullet, catfish, toadfish, stingrays, and the occasional shark.

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Relay For Life This Friday!

Only a few more days until Relay For Life! There are still many ways you can help! You can show up on Friday night at the Harris County High School football field at 5:00pm to help set up. We’ll be there all evening, so feel free to show up when you can! It’s a great time for fellowship and for meeting people in our community. We’ll also be meeting our friends from Christian Valley Church, who we are hoping to partner with on future outreach programs. If you are a cancer survivor, or have lost someone to cancer, then you know how important it is that we raise as much as we can for Relay For Life.

Your Week at St. Nick 25 April - 1 May

Sunday, 25 April

8:30am Holy Eucharist

9:30 am Breakfast/Fellowship

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

11:00am Holy Eucharist

11:45am Ben and Virginia Brooks’ Anniversary Reception

Usher/Greeter

8:30am Tom and Sharon Cheatham

11:00am Graham Horne/Jan Pylant

Readers

8:30am L. Dixon

11:00am Horne/I. Martin

LEM

8:30am Blackmon

11:00am Hinnant

Altar Guild

Cheatham/Eidson

Flower Guild

Nancy Callaway

Sunday School Teacher

Andy Butzon

Lemonade/Cider

Marci Horne

Acolytes

Table

Abby B.

Crucifer

Abbey A.

Gospel

Abbey A.

Offertory

Dalton

Torch

Dalton/Abbey A.

Tuesday, 27 April

6:30pm St. Nicholas Academy:  Keeping the Sabbath

Wednesday, 28 April

3:00pm St. Nicholas Quilters

6:30-7:45pm Choir Rehearsal

Thursday, 29 April

6:30pm Strategic Planning Committee

Friday, 30 April

5:00pm Relay for Life, Harris County High School Football Stadium

Happy Birthday!

4/25 Kin Brown

4/26 Brittany Vargas

4/27 Barbara Morgan

4/27 Steve Turley

Snake Chasing

For those of you who think living in a small town is boring, I beg to differ.

Last week, I spent the morning working over at FOCUS. FOCUS is just up the street from our new house, and it was a lovely day, so I walked there and back. As I approached our house, I noticed something very odd on the front porch. At first glance, I figured it was some trash. With all the renovations we have done, our porch had collected a significant amount of trash. But we had done a great deal of work to clear it off, so I was surprised to see a black shape against the wall.

Once I got closer, I realized it wasn’t a piece of trash. Instead, there was a humongous snake trying to crawl up the wall of the front of our house near our kids’ room window! YIKES! Read more

Easter 2010

Palm Sunday at St. Nicholas

Your Week at St. Nick, 18- 24 April 2010

Sunday, 18 April 2010

8:30am Holy Eucharist

9:30am Breakfast/Fellowship

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

11:00am Holy Eucharist

St. Nicholas hosts St. Timothy’s (Winston-Salem, NC) Youth Group

Usher/Greeter

8:30am Bobo and Barbara Morgan

11:00am John and Charlotte Winsness

Readers

8:30am Brent

11:00am Hinnant/Brown

LEM

8:30am Halmrast

11:00am Moody

Altar Guild

Winsness/Cox

Flower Guild

Barbara Bradley

Sunday School Teacher

Graham Horne

Lemonade

Michelle

Acolytes

Table

Austin

Crucifer

Cody

Gospel

Cody

Offertory

Austin

Torch

Austin/Ivy

Tuesday, 20 April

6:30pm St. Nicholas Academy

Wednesday, 21 April

3:00pm St. Nicholas Quilters

6:30 -7:45pm Choir Rehearsal

Thursday, 22 April

6:30pm Vestry Meeting

Happy Birthday!

4/21     Kristy Hubbard

4/21     Joshua Razor

Sign Up For Relay For Life!

We could use your help on Friday night, April 30 as we raise money to eradicate cancer! Sign up for as many things as you can do including Set Up (erecting tents, tables, organizing supplies), BBQ Cooks (preparing & reheating food), Chefs (plate food & prepare hot dogs), Bake Sales (sell cakes & cookies), Bakers (prepare cakes & cookies for sale), Breakdown (dismantle site, cleanup, and return items to church).

To sign up, visit http://stnicholashamilton.org/signup/

If you have any questions, contact Graham Horne at graham.horne@gmail.com.

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