Festival of Lessons and Carols!

You are cordially invited to our Festival of Lessons and Carols, December 19, 2010 at 6:00pm!

The choir of St. Nicholas has been working very hard under the tutelage of music director Sam Roney to provide a spiritually enriching and beautiful sound to bring you into the Christmas season. We will hear 9 Lessons from Scripture and many favorite carols, choir anthems, and instrumental music. There will be music for organ, trumpet, and flute.

This is St. Nicholas’ gift to the community, so please invite friends, neighbors, and family to the event.

Check Us Out!

St. Nicholas made the cover story on the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta’s weekly e-newsletter Connecting, in regards to our new organ donation from St. Benedict’s, Symrna.

If you’d like to subscribe to Connecting, click here and get all your latest diocesan news! Our diocese does a fantastic job with communications, this weekly newsletter being one great example. Nan Ross is the Director of Communication and does a splendid job of getting news out and using up-to-date media to do so. Read more

Music Notes from Sam

Advent/ Christmas 2009

Happen to miss Christmas Eve and/or Lessons & Carols at St. Nicholas Church? Well, you missed a treat! The music by our new choir, guest singers & special soloists certainly uplifted our High Holy Days worship experiences!  Joyful music of the season soared through our beautifully decorated church.

Thanks to each you who participated in our special services during Advent and Christmas. Your congregational singing brought our music up to an even higher level of celebration! I hope our Allen Organ (“the organ transplant”), will continue to inspire you to sing joyfully in weekly worship!

Please extend a word of thanks to our St. Nicholas Choir members.  Their faithful commitment went above and beyond “the call of duty” during December. Several extra rehearsals were needed to prepare our seasonal music. The choir enthusiastically shared their time and talents in preparation for Christmas 2009. Read more

Organ Transplant

No, not that kind of organ transplant! Although I’ve been resisting the urge to use the term “organ donor” numerous times.

For those who have not heard, God provided for us once again through the generosity of St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church in Smyrna. In November, I was at Diocesan Council when an announcement was made that an organ was on auction. The Vestry and I had been wondering what we might do to procure a new organ, so I approached the front table at Council and asked about the organ for auction. Bishop Alexander happened to be standing there, and warned me that that organ was not worth looking in to, but St. Benedict’s, a new congregation that had just bought a new organ for their new building, might have one available. Read more

A Very Merry St. Nicholas Day!

Forget Christmas! The busiest couple of days of the year at St. Nicholas are the days around St. Nicholas Day (December 6). St. Nicholas Day, of course, is our patronal feast day, and this year we celebrated in style! Read more