The Episcopal Church of the Nativity 22405 North Miller Road, Scottsdale, Arizona 85054 480.307.9216

!THE NATIVITY SCENE

!April 2015

Holy Week at Nativity !!Maundy Thursday, April 2 7:00 p.m. Maundy Thursday Service commemorates Jesus last night with his disciples, with optional foot-washing and stripping of the altar for Good Friday. !!!All-Night Prayer Vigil, Maundy Thursday 8 p.m. through Good Friday at noon. Stay awake with [Jesus] for one hour as he asked the disciples to do in the Garden of Gethsemane.Sign up for a time slot during our all-night Vigil. !!!Good Friday, April 3 Noon: Good Friday Service (Spoken) 5:00 p.m.: Stations of the Cross, Provided by the Youth 7:00 p.m.: Good Friday Service (with Music) !!!!

Easter at Nativity, Sunday April 5! !!7:30 a.m. Sunrise Family Service:

Begin outside with the first fire of Easter and the stories of salvation history, process inside through the Red Sea, and experience the moment when Easter comes to Nativity! Service includes music of our adult and childrens choirs. !9:00 a.m. Easter Breakfast and Easter Egg Hunt !10:00 a.m. Easter Festival Eucharist:

Enjoy our festival service, including music of our adult choir and guest musicians, and a postlude sing-along of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handels Messiah!

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Holy Week and Easter at Nativity Please join us at Nativity for a beautiful Holy Week and Easter

as we celebratethe Lords Resurrection! Our many services are listed below.

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!Sunday Schedule

9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Festive Eucharist Rite II with Childrens Chapel 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Hospitality 10:15 - 11:00 a.m. Sunday School for All Ages 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Festive Eucharist Rite II 11:40 - 12:15 p.m. Adult Christian Formation 11:40 - 1:30 p.m. Youth Group

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Take a moment to wish a Happy Birthday To:

!Nativity Staff !

The Rev. Susan B. Snook Rector

SusanSnook@TheNativity.net !The Rev. Dr.Wayne V. Whitney

Associate Rector WayneWhitney@TheNativity.net !

Dr. Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler Director of Music Ministry

IlonaKubiaczyk-Adler @TheNativity.net !Shelley Byrnes

Director of Christian Formation ShelleyByrnes@TheNativity.net !

Mina Rafferty Parish Administrator

MinaRafferty@TheNativity.net !Tim Kosky

Sexton

!Nativitys Vestry !

Senior Warden: David Bolger

480-945-3810 David@DJBolger.com

Junior Warden: Mark Miller

480-368-5530 msmiller@value.net

Treasurer Kara Erickson

480 518- 2683 theazericksons@hotmail.com

Tricia Beaird 480-699-7893 pbeaird@cox.net

Suzanne Cohen 480-586-6625 Secohenjd@yahoo.com

Jennie Dobbins 602-770-0513 jenniedobbins@gmail.com

Kris Haugen 480-515-4803 kris.haugen@cox.net

Cotty Peabody 480-588-8328 Epeabody@earthlink.net

Lani Sambach 602-793-2808 wasjrra@cox.net

Steve Smith 480-285-7679 claire.steve@gmail.com

Darrell Spencer 702-540-5050 darrellwspencer@yahoo.com

Colleen Whichello 301-520-2689 cwhichello@yahoo.com

!Patti Worthington 4/1 Elizabeth Barrett 4/2 Elizabeth Stuckey 4/3 Bill Deihl 4/9 Ryan Bright 4/11 Patricia Beaird 4/13 Colleen Whichello 4/15 !!!!

!Jim Blum 4/22 Kali Higgins 4/22 Susan Snook 4/24 Barbara Woodall 4/26 Jim Davis 4/28 Art Graf 4/28 Barbara Worthington 4/30 !Every month we list those whose birthdays are being celebrated. If you would like your name added to the list, please contact Mina Rafferty at minarafferty@thenativity.net.

22405 N. Miller Road Scottsdale, Arizona 85255

Telephone: 480-307-9216

www.NativityScottsdale.org!Wednesday Schedule

6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer Rite II featuring Healing Prayers 6:30 p.m. Transforming Questions Class Easter Sunday Schedule 7:30 a.m. Sunrise Family Service 10:00 a.m. Festival Eucharist

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The greatest celebration of the Christian year is almost here: the day of the Lords resurrection, when he overcame death and the grave, as God raised him to new, resurrection life. On this day, the

women, followed by others, discovered the tomb empty. Slowly, as the day dawned and a new week began, people began to have strange sightings a man who had died, walking and talking, appearing behind locked doors, so real that people could see him, touch him, feel his scars. !With Jesus resurrection, a new creation began a creation in which death no longer triumphs over us, a creation in which all are promised new life in Jesus. In Jesus, God crossed the chasm between finiteness and infinity, and opened the way for us to join God for all eternity. !The resurrected body of Jesus tells us something about our own resurrection hope. Paul calls Jesus the first fruits of the resurrection that God promises to all of us. He describes our hope in 1 Corinthians: !So it is with the resurrection of the body. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on

immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? (1 Cor. 15:42-44, 51-55) !Easter is the greatest triumph of human history, not because a very sad story had a happy ending after all, but because God took action to relieve us of the burden of death. Because of Gods great love, we can be confident that God will always hold and treasure us, in this life and beyond. !But what does Easter, the beginning of a new life, mean for our daily lives? Why should it make a difference to us here and now? The answer is this: Easter means that Gods kingdom on earth has already begun. God has taken decisive action to inaugurate a new era in human history. !Now it is our task to live into that gift, to act as citizens of Gods kingdom now and always. Now is the time for us to recognize that as the Body of Christ, we are called to do the same things our Lord did: feed the hungry, heal the sick, preach good news to the poor and to all who hunger and thirst for God. In our daily lives, we are to live with love and compassion; in our families, we are to put our loved ones ahead of ourselves. Easter changes everything. Let us live in recognition of the great gift of life we have been given in Christ Jesus our Lord. !Susan

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Waynes World Of course were all familiar with the 40 days of Lent that come before Easter, but did you know there is a 50-day period AFTER Easter called, appropriately, The

Great 50 Days of Easter? Yes, its true! Easter Sunday is day 1 and

Pentecost which comes 7 weeks hence is Day 50. The theme of this season, also called Eastertide, is baptism, specifically our baptism. It is a time of pondering anew what it means for me (and, of course, you) to be a member of Christs body, the church. In the lectionary cycle we look at accounts of the resurrection and post-resurrection appearances of Christ to find their meaning for us. It is a time of asking ourselves questions like how do we as a community live the life of the Risen Lord" This could be a real no-brainer if you consider that we can, like the Emmaus road travelers, know Christ in the sharing of the Word and in the breaking of bread. Oh, and let the Alleluias fly! The joy we express during The Great 50 Days of Easter should match, if not exceed, the level of intensity of the 40-day Lenten time of self-denial or self-discipline. Take what youve learned over the Lenten time and let that continue to grow. So celebrate as members of the resurrected body of our Lord with your community of faith AS WELL AS your life wherever you are. !

This year we will start April with Holy Week services. Each service will bring special offerings from the Choir. On Maundy Thursday April 2nd at 7 p.m. we will perform a beautiful rendition of "Ubi Caritas" by Mark Burrows, hymns from our hymnal, as well as poignant Taize music which will transfer you to the mood of Good Friday. On Good Friday April 3rd at 7 p.m. you

will hear John Stainer's "Jesu, Lord Jesu", and an extremely powerful African-American Spiritual "Calvary", where both our leading singers, Suzanne Rovani and Michael Frongillo, will perform solos that will not leave a dry eye in the house. Finally on Easter morning, April 5th, you will have a chance to hear our Sunday School Children Choir singing a joyful "This is the day that the Lord have made" with solos sung by Destiny and Jeremy Spencer-Treinen. Our annual favorite Handel's Messiah "Halleluiah" sing-along will also take place at the end of the 10 a.m. service. The Choir is preparing festive musical offerings - among others Mozart's "Alleluia", an excerpt from Handel's Coronation Anthem no 2, and Tchaikovsky's "Glory be to theee, thou all in all". Accompanied by a woodwind duet, this Easter should be unforgettable! Don't miss a splendid offering by ASU brass quintet on April 12th, Sunday, at 4 p.m. Desert Sun Brass Quintet will bring joyful, majestic and entertaining selection to celebrate the Easter time at Nativity. Admission free. Don't forget to bring all your music loving friends! And I will leave you with the beautiful words of "Ubi caritas": !Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Exsultemus, et in ipso jucundemur. Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero. !Where charity and love are, God is there. Christ's love has gathered us into one. Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him. Let us fear, and let us love the living God. And may we love each other with a sincere heart. !Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler, DMA

A note from our Music Director

Big Fun Bible Movie Night Presents! !Friday, April 10: The Apostle, is the story of a Texas revival preacher whose life takes so many bad turns that he changes his name, moves to Louisiana and tries a do-over at life and his ministry. Academy Award-winner Robert Duval plays Sonny, and Farah Fawcett plays his ex-wife. Will Sonny ever reach a place of alls well without his past ever catching up to him? Will the love that he finds in ministering be the salve that soothes the savage beast? Join David Bolger and Dr. Wayne on Friday, April 10 at 6:30 in the Sunday School Room. Bring your own libation and your favorite munchies and well provide the popcorn. !Doors open at 6:15 PM; showtime at 6:30. Color commentary and theological musings from Dr. Wayne. Popcorn and miscellaneous munchies provided by Mary Lynn and David Bolger and the Friends of BFBMN. Bring the beverage of your choice.

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Serve Others, Give of Yourself !The Church of the Nativity Outreach Committee has defined its mission: "To inspire and equip every member of Nativity to participate in ministries that touch those in need. To be successful we need you to join us. We need people with communication and marketing skills to get the word out about the ministries we are involved in. We need people with ideas for forums that would be valuable to our community and to help organize them. We would like to revitalize parish health ministry at Nativity and leverage this ministry into the community, so we need health professionals. And we also would encourage any parishioner interested in outreach to join us. The committees next meeting is on Tuesday April 7, at 6pm in the parish hall. If you are interested, give Paul Rank a call (513 300 3729) or just show up.

Ones and Twos !Ones and Twos is a social group of adults at Church of the Nativity that meets about once a month. It is open to all members, visitors, and guests. It is a time of getting to know each other in the old-fashioned sense, a time for coming together for delicious food and drink, as well as enjoying the warmth and joy of being with our Church family. It is a welcoming time for all and a perfect opportunity to bring guests! !This month the group will be gathering on April 17th at the home of Maxine and Win Billingsly. Their address is 10585 E Crescent Moon Drive in a small community called Privada which is adjacent to the Four Seasons Scottsdale. Please RSVP to cwin.billx@cox.net if you would like to attend. !Save the dates for the 1's and 2's on May 15th. These events are a great way to get to know people better and meet new people. If you would like to host one of the gatherings please contact Susan Burnham, susan4420@gmail.com. Look for more details on the Mays gathering in next months newsletter. !

Attention Ladies! !Our First Annual Purse Project Collection is set to begin April 6th. We will be collecting gently used purses and jewelry, scarves and small toiletries and cosmetic items to "stuff" the purses. Hotel shampoos, etc are great. The purses will be taken to Save the Family's abused women shelter and their transitional housing center. They will hold a kids-only party where the children from each family will choose a purse to give to their mom for Mother's Day. We also hope to supply gift wrap/bags to help the kids keep the gift a secret from their mom until the big day. Feel free to enclose a note with the history of the purse or inspirational words for the mom. Tell your friends and start collecting, the box will be in Christopher Hall on April 6th thru April 30th. For more information on Save the Family be sure to check out April's newsletter or contact below. Contact: Barbara Worthington 480-575-7830 bandb718@msn.com Sandy Spencer 702-540-5055 sandymspencer@yahoo.com

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During Lent we have been collecting easily used and new books to be donated to UMOMs Read-to-Me program. This is a great opportunity for children to help other children! These books will be blessed on the Sunday following Easter and then given to homeless children! Start cleaning now!

!Camp is for the younger kids too! Im on the committee writing curriculum for the Kids Camp this year and its going to be a blast! !If you have never considered taking your children to Chapel Rock, please consider doing it this year! Camp at Chapel Rock creates lifelong friendships, amazing memories and builds connection with Christ. It is never too early for camp! We have camps for kids finishing Kindergarten through 2nd grade that are only three days and two nights and even a camp where a parent can come too! Camp for grades 3 - 6 run June 21 - 27 or June 28 - July 3 !Please go to Chapelrock.net then click on "Summer Camps" to get descriptions of camps available for ages K-6th grade and watch a short video of Kid's Camp last year! You register on - line as well with a discount of $20 if you register before March 31! !I plan to be at Kid's Camp Jun 21 - 27so your children will have a familiar face to welcome them!

Easter Sunday: Children will be presenting the first lesson at the 7:30 Family Service on Easter Sunday! This is a fun service with full family participation! !Children will gather with me outside to do our lesson and then will stay with me through the procession back into the Sanctuary. The children will sing, and then after the first "A-word" of the season, the children will come with me to put flowers in the cross while the choir sings in celebration. Then the children will go sit with their families for the rest of the service. !After the 7:30 service, the youth group will offer an Easter Egg Hunt for the younger children. Toddlers through Kindergarten will have their hunt inside the Sunday School

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Classrooms. Children 1st - 5th grade will have their hunt in the wash/desert area just east of the parking lot. There will be a lovely family brunch offered between the two services as well. !Especially on such a busy Sunday it is important for the safety of all the children that parents supervise their children when they are not doing church planned activities. With all the extra people on site it could be dangerous to have children running around in the parking area. Please keep an eye out.

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Remember we are trying to all go to Chapel Rock together this year! Go to Chapelrock.net and register for session 1 Junior or Senior high school and request Nativity Youth Group as your cabin mates! If you need financial assistance: !

Chapel Rock Scholarship Guidelines Ask Shelley for an application. She can has some in the office or can email one to you. !Turn it in to Shelley by April 10. !Pastor Susan will be in touch with Chapel Rock to work out the arrangements for those scholarships that are approved, so she will notify the family if we can give them a scholarship..

PALM SUNDAY THANK YOU! Thank you to all the youth group families for the for the delicious soup you made for our Soup Sunday on Palm Sunday! It was all very yummy! And, we raised $241 which will be doubled by our Mission Trip fundraising Angel! !MAUNDY THURSDAY: ALTAR OF REPOSE: Please sign up to "stay awake just one hour" between Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, (April 2 - 3), with Jesus as the disciples tried to do at the Garden of Gethsemane. It can be a transformative experience to be silent in the dark church with only your prayers and God for company! Talk about it with your parents and keep the rule of three. But join us! !GOOD FRIDAY: Remember that we will be meeting at the church at 3:30 on THIS FRIDAY APRIL 3rd (Good Friday) to rehearse for our Stations of the Cross presentation for the rest of the church! Darrell Spencer will be your contact on Good Friday because I will need to be in charge of the activities for the younger children back in the Sunday School area! !Have a Blessed Holy Week! !Peace and Joy, Shelley !

COMING SOON: !The Inspiration GalleryIis a group of artists who offer classes, art parties and inspiration through their own art. Soon you will see some of their work displayed in the Childrens Gathering Area. !If you are interested in trying your hand at various kinds of art, having an art party or even summer camp please email Debra Lee Murrow at colormedebralee@gmail.com !A portion of the proceeds from art sales and teaching go back to Church of the Nativity to help strengthen the community and fund various on going projects. !OUR MISSION See Art - Do Art - Buy Art By giving a portion back to a non-profit we support our community. When you buy local, you also help support local artists and encourage the arts to stay alive and to thrive!F

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The Episcopal Church of the Nativity Mailing Address: 22405 North Miller Road Scottsdale, Arizona 85255

www.NativityScottsdale.org Worship Sundays 9:00 & 10:30 a.m. !

Easter Sunday 7:30 & 10:00 a.m. !

U p c o m i n g E v e n t s :

!HOLY WEEK !!!Maundy Thursday, April 2 7:00 p.m. Maundy Thursday Eucharist All night prayer vigil !Good Friday, April 3 Noon Spoken Service 5:00 p.m. Stationary Stations of the Cross provided for the congregation by the Youth of Nativity 7:00 p.m. Choral Service !EASTER SUNDAY !Easter April 5 7:30 a.m. Easter Sunrise Vigil Service 9:00 a.m. Easter Breakfast and Childrens Egg Hunt 10:00 a.m. Easter Festival Eucharist

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