Backpack and Animal Blessing Saturday 03OCT & Sunday 04OCT

Backpack and Pet Blessing

Bring your backpack and your pets to share in the blessings and joy!

Now that school is back in full force, why not make sure we send our little scholars out with something extra special? On Saturday, October 3rd and again on Sunday, October 4th, we will bless all backpacks and any other such carrying cases.

Far be it from us to forget our beloved pets. To honor and celebrate the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, who found such joy in God’s creatures, we, too, will celebrate our pets with a special blessing.

Parents: make sure your kids bring their backpacks and pets. Kids: remind your folks so they don’t forget to remind you!

Any time we can share in a blessing, well my friends, this is truly a good, right and holy thing.

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September Shout-Outs

Thank You150To ALL who baked, cooked, served dinner and helped clean up at the St. Nicholas’ Sponsored Dinner hosted at Christus Victor last Friday night. Hats off to Val and Steve Gruenwald and Val’s Mom Dorothy, Mindy Golden, Barb and John Bosslet, Penny and Hank Mandziara, Sandra Glos, Katie Black, Deacon Tom Smith and Jean FitzPatrick, Connie Nicholson, Laura Lampe, Neal Setchell who served the dinner guests with such respect, kindness and love. You did our community proud. God bless, one and all.

To Jennifer Brundige who shared her reflection last week in our first installment of “I am St. Nick.” Direct from your generous heart and into ours.

To the Order of St. Luke for sharing their Healing Ministry with us…your blessings are our blessings.

I Am St Nick: A Call To Share Your Story

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We all understand and appreciate the gift of sharing. At St. Nicholas we do a tremendous job of offering time, talent and treasure to this community of faith and to the greater Church. We are blessed and in turn, we share our blessings.

We are inviting anyone and everyone to share a story…YOUR story. We are united but we are also very diverse and individually unique. Think for a moment of just how and why you came to St. Nicholas Church. Who or what moved you to become part of this community, a member of the Episcopal Communion. How about a story of church, an occasion that moved and perhaps changed you or some special “church person” who helped guide and develop your faith. So many of us come from other faith traditions and other churches, Episcopal or otherwise. We wish to know our sisters and brothers better. The sky is the limit as to what kind of stories are out there. The depth of our wishing to share and read these recollections is even greater!

We all love a story and there are no better stories than the ones we share with each other about ourselves, our faith, our journeys, spiritual or otherwise.

All are welcome to participate. No one is too young or too old. No such thing as a “generation gap” when it comes to stories celebrated and shared. In fact, I suspect we all have quite a few stories we could submit. This is YOUR time to do just that…SHARE. The more we have, the greater and richer our field.

Think…Pray…Write. When you have some thing to share, please submit your story (simply reply to any issue of News From Nick) and it will be posted in an upcoming edition of News From Nick.

Thank you for your consideration and willingness to share…we are all the more blessed.