For those who missed our Hymn Festival or would like
to listen again or share with your friends and
family, we recorded the service. Use the links
below:
As our 50th Anniversary approaches, please check
back here for frequent updates!!
We will be meeting on Wednesday, June 2nd at 7:00PM
to continue planning for the 50th Anniversary
Celebration. This meeting will be about the
celebration planned for at the Elks Club. We can
use many hands to help so please try to make it to
the meeting! Any questions please contact either
Regina Brinkman or Lois Ryan - (Goodies will be
served!)
The date for our celebration
will be Sunday September 26th, 2010
Bishop
Riley will be in attendance on that day to lead us
in worship.We will have one service that day at 11:00
and have Sunday School at the regular time of 9:45
After worship we will have a
coffee hour
At approximately 2:00PM we will
have a luncheon at the Elks. More details to follow
for this event.
"God's Love Without Measure, Fifty Faithful Years
We Treasure"....has been chosen as Nativity's
50th Anniversary Theme. Thank you all for
participating in the vote!!! This theme received the
most votes (19 out of 69). The 50th Anniversary Team
would like to thank all the congregational members
who offered such spirit-filled and creative
suggestions!! All the themes were very inspiring and
indicative of the loving and faithful church family
here at Nativity!!
The 2009 Churchwide Assembly concluded on August 23, 2009.
The ELCA has published the resolutions and other important
information regarding the assembly on their
website, along with
Bishop Hanson's Pastoral remarks. Voting results on
resolutions can be found
here.
Nativity News
Nativity News is published monthly and contains information
about events, committees, and other important information
about the goings-on at the church! Click on the stained
glass picture to read the Nativity News newsletter online.
Rev. Jill
Ellen Collict, Pastor
Pastor Jill
Ellen Collict is a native of New Jersey, where she
was born and raised in Rockaway Township. She
attended Gettysburg College where she earned a
Bachelors degree in English Literature. After
college, Pastor Jill returned to New Jersey and
worked a number of years in the medical publishing
industry in various editorial positions. She
was Managing Editor of two medical journals at the
time she followed a call to seminary study.
Pastor Collict
came to Nativity in 2000 after graduating with a
Master of Divinity degree from the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
Sue Gerrard,
AiM, Director of Music Ministry
Sue is a native Nebraskan who lived
in Chicago and New Orleans before her civil service
career brought her to the Philadelphia area in 1987.
As retirement time drew nearer, Sue felt God's call
to go back to school to prepare for a second career
in church music ministry. She graduated from
the Lutheran Theological School at Gettysburg in
2001 and is an associate in ministry for the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Sue served churches in South Jersey
and Philadelphia before coming to Nativity in 2008.
Noah's Ark Christian Preschool
Noah's Ark is currently
taking registrations for the school year September 2009-June
2010. We offer 1/2 day programs for 3 and 4 year olds.
For more information please call the school at 732-390-0848.
Noah's Ark provides an educational program
for 3 and 4 year old children that integrate Christian life
into all subject areas. Our program promotes spiritual,
physical, intellectual activities as well as social and
emotional growth. We provide learning activities and
experiences that are developmentally and age appropriate.
The 4 year old children attend a Pre K program. Our school
is certified by the state of New Jersey. Our head teacher is
certified in both preschool and elementary education.
Email
Notification Sign-up
Email notifications allow us to
send broadcast email to you periodically. You
can always unsubscribe from email notification lists
later if you no longer wish to receive them.
Please see our privacy
policy
for more information.
If the links don't work
for you, send an email to "iMailSRV@nativity-lutheran.com"
with the words "subscribe congregation" in the
email body (not the subject line) for
Congregational Broadcast Messages, or "subscribe
prayerchain" for the prayer chain, or "subscribe
noahsark" for Noah's Ark Alerts--also in the
email body not the subject line.
Remove the quotes. You'll receive an email
confirmation if you successfully subscribed.
If you're still having problems, email our
websteward@nativity-lutheran.com.