Glad Tidings

This is a challenging time for couples and their relationships.  We have been asked to “stay at home.” Unless we are part of the essential workforce, we may both be working from home, or one of us is working from home, or one or both of us have been furloughed or doesn’t have a job. […]

If your past few weeks have been anything like mine, daily life has changed dramatically! My typically busy schedule has transitioned to long, slow days of communicating online and over the phone, all while wondering what the future will bring for my family and the world. Rushed lunch packing and last-minute dinners have given way

Acts 20:35 tells us it is better to give than to receive. For about eight months now, when four young grandsons moved in with us last summer, Sharon and I have lived on the receiving side of that Scriptural equation. Realizing we were short on everything, we put out quiet calls for help.  We were

The 2019 annual meeting was held Sunday November 17, 2019 at 9:30 am. The 2019 annual report has been placed on our website and can be accessed from the bottom of the giving page (Church Life, Giving tabs). It is also available directly from this post by clicking the highlighted text above.

We want to hear which are your preferred communication methods to ensure we are effectively reaching parishioners. The Communications Team has developed a survey which is currently live. Select Read More and then follow the link to open the survey. We need as many respondents as possible to ensure all voices are heard. The survey

When the Book of Common Prayer was reissued in 1979, it offered contemporary English usage (“Rite II”) as an alternative to the Elizabethan English usage (“Rite I”) that BCPs had used since the first in 1549. At Nativity we have almost always used Rite II in our worship services. One interesting feature of Rite II,

Nativity Field Trip! Join Fellow Nativity Members for a walking tour in Durham, April 27, 10am-11:30am followed by an optional lunch.  The title of the tour is “Pauli’s Durham: History of Racial Segregation in the West End Neighborhood”, and will focus on the significance of Black Civil War soldiers, the Freedman Schools movement, unsung shero

“In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God our brothers and sisters and we commit their bodies to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” – BCP, Burial II, p. 502 As the congregation journeys through Lent toward