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Glad Tidings Social Justice

Nativity Peace Library

The Social Justice Committee is building a library, Nativity’s Peace Library, containing books that share Nativity’s core values of welcome and inclusion and to celebrate diversity among God’s people. We invite you to help lay the foundation of this ever-so-needed library through contributions of these books. Please review this wish list, pick a book(s) and follow the directions listed.

As this library grows, monthly reviews of the books with suggested activities for families will be shared in Glad Tidings.

Special story times outside under the large oak tree will be provided. Families can check our books for at home reading.

More details on these efforts to come! If you have any questions, please reach out to Beth Crow.

Below is the list of the 120 books currently selected for our Peace Library. Once you have selected the book(s) you wish to purchase for the library, you can go to the two merchants listed below and purchase directly through these sites.

Between these two sites all the books listed below can be found.

Don’t forget to login to SmileAmazon when ordering from Amazon to help raise additional funds for the church. Quail Ridge will offer a 15% discount when you use the code NATIVITY22.

Link: Nativity’s Peace Library

This will take you to the top of the Social Justice page. Click on Church of the Nativity’s Peace Library, which will take you down the page to the list of books available.

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Church of the Nativity’s “Week” of Giving

Don’t let Amazon be your only online shopping site!  Look out for great gift giving during our virtual Week of Giving for 2020, Nov. 26-Dec. 6. In the past eight to ten years we have dedicated the first Sunday of Advent as our Day of Giving, a time when many of the various outreach ministries supported by Church of the Nativity shared information about their engaging and generous programs. It also has given parishioners a great opportunity to support these programs.

This year’s Covid crisis has forced us to be more creative with the work of the church, and so our one-day in person DAY of Giving will now be a WEEK of online sharing and giving.  There are 14 worthy organizations to choose from this year for donations, perhaps in honor of family or friends.  We can even provide a beautiful card, to be sent through email to you, to announce your gift.

Mark your calendars and be prepared to visit Church of the Nativity’s website throughout the week of Nov. 26-Dec. 6. There will be descriptions of each program as well as brief informative videos. Nativity parishioners have leadership roles in most of these organizations.  If you have any questions, please Email Beth Crow.

The organizations that will be represented are: Abukloi, Church of the Nativity Youth Ministry, Episcopal Farmworkers Ministry, Episcopal Relief and Development, Equal Justice Initiative, Habitat Build,  Haiti Reforestation Partnership, Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Leesville Pride Packs, NC Interfaith Power and Light, Peggy’s Angel Tree, Raleigh Episcopal Campus Ministry, SAFEchild and US-Uganda Orphans Education Fund.