This weekend was our second ever, and hopefully annual, conference. Because of our forthcoming book, Rebuilt, we organized the conference’s main and break out sessions, on the book’s chapters. The main morning session, which I gave, was all about articulating the basic problem when it comes to churchworld these days. What is going on, what’s […]
Category: What’s new at Nativity
From time to time, I like to give my faithful blog readers a little more information on what’s going on at our church behind the scenes and what is coming up. Here you go, in no particular order: New Series This weekend we begin a new series, “How to Be Rich.” It is a five-week […]
Every weekend around here is interesting, engaging and eventually exhausting (for me anyway). This past weekend was at another level. Besides everything we do every weekend, this past weekend we welcomed Archbishop William Lori, who made visiting Nativity one of his early priorities. As he told me, he hears so much about our parish (one […]
We are very excited about this weekend. We are welcoming Archbishop William Lori, who will be touring our campus on Sunday morning and then celebrating the 12n Mass. On the day of his installation he pulled me aside to tell me he wanted to visit Nativity as soon as his schedule permitted, and this weekend […]
We have an expression around here when we’re excited about something, when it’s fresh and new and exciting: we say it’s “off the hook.” Well this coming weekend is going to be nothing less than “off the hook.” This is “Kick-Off Weekend” when we kick off our fall programs. We have programs for kids and […]
Yesterday I came to the obvious and nevertheless astounding fact that fall is just around the corner. Our kick-off weekend is less than a month away (September 8 & 9). Here are a few things I want to get done in the remaining days of summer… 1) Fall Preparations The obvious work of summer for […]
Well, I’m back from vacation and attempting to become fully engaged (with moderate success). Here are some of the things I’m currently working on: 1) A new message series. Again this summer, as we have the past two summers, I am not speaking most weekends. That gives me a break and allows me to do […]
I am currently on vacation . Please enjoy a previous post. AVALON JOURNAL PART III: ENJOYING HAPPY HOUR VS BEING THE CHURCH CHRIST WANTS By nativitypastor : July 23, 2011 It’s hot in Avalon. Too hot for the beach, or for much of anything else. Fortunately, the heat provides even more incentive for me to […]
This week some of our staff got together to begin planning for a conference, which we will be hosting this fall. A “church” conference. Why a church conference? What is a church conference? Here’s the background. For a number of years we set aside a Saturday each fall for a retreat for our parish staff. […]
This is the final week before we deliver the book to the publisher on Friday. And I thought it would be fun to give you, my loyal blog readers out there, a chance to help us out. The working title of the book is “Make church Matter.” The lower case “c” is intentional as a […]
