eNews for November 28, 2025 | | The weekly parish notices are published Friday mornings at 7:00 a.m. The submission deadline is Wednesdays at NOON. | |
- Advent Devotional Booklets Available
- Atlanta Braves Quilt Bag Raffle
- Appleton Ministries Offering - 11/30
- Advent Wreath Workshop - 11/30 by rsvp
- Walk in Love Shoe Drive - Shoes Due 12/7
- Advent | Christmas | Epiphany Schedule
- Nativities Display Setup - 12/2-4
- Cooking Baking - 12/6
- Advent Lessons & Carols - 12/7
- Feast of St. Nicholas - 12/7
- Christmas Flowers & Music Sign Up - 12/15 deadline
- Service of Light - 12/21
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Walk In Love Update
by Leona Wierwille, Youth Shoe Drive Coordinator
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The Church of the Common Ground is an Episcopal community run for unhoused people in Atlanta. My experience serving with the Church of the Common Ground has inspired me to do more for people in need.
The Walk In Love shoe drive supports the Church of the Common Group by providing needed materials. But these donations do more than meet a need. They also send a message of compassion and encouragement by demonstrating to worshippers at Church of the Common Ground that other people are thinking of them and willing to help them. This drive delivers a clear representation of our commitment to Jesus' teachings by showing compassion and empathy for others.
The name, “Walk in Love,” comes from Ephesians 5. “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” This phrase reminds me that being a Christian is not just about going to church. To be a Christian also means to "Walk in Love," to actively live and participate in what Jesus taught and what Scripture directs us to do, to give aid and spread love to the less fortunate.
In previous years, we’ve collected over 120 pairs of shoes. As of last Sunday, we have collected 20. My hope is not only to reach last year’s total but to pass it and hit 175 pairs for our siblings at Common Ground.
Thank you to everyone who has donated, and if you have not had a chance to bring shoes, you have two more weeks until we wrap up the drive on December 7.
Leona
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Advent Wreath Making Workshop
reservation required
| | | | 11/30—The Flower Guild will lead an Advent Wreath-Making Workshop after the service in the parish hall. The cost is $20 for materials which includes everything that is needed for making an advent wreath: (1) oasis wreath, (4) candles with holders, and greenery. | | |
Appleton Ministries Offering
11/30—The Thanksgiving Offering for Appleton Ministries is collected the Sunday following Thanksgiving and designated for Appleton Episcopal Ministries. This Diocesan ministry funds food pantries, community feeding programs, tutoring programs and community ministry programs throughout the Middle GA Convocation. All cash offerings will be designated to them that day. You can also give online at www.epiphany.org/ways-to-give or via check, marking “Appleton Ministries” in the memo field.
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Advent Devotional Booklet
free in the narthex, limited supply
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If you are looking for an Advent devotional to read as a spiritual practice during Advent, pick up one of the Living Compass booklets in the gallery: Living Well Through Advent 2025: Practicing Generosity With All Your Heart, Soul, Strength, and Mind.
Prefer a digital practice? A free PDF version is also available at livingcompass.org. You can also sign up to receive a daily email of each reflection for free.
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Art Ministry
now showing for November
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Epiphany’s Art Ministry welcomes quilters Beth Milis and Charlotte Nix. You are welcome to take items from the tables when you pay for them. S
Remember, 25% of all sales benefit Epiphany.
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Braves Quilted Bag
Part of the exhibit this month includes a raffle. The Art Ministry is raffling off an Atlanta Braves Quilted Bag, made by Beth Milis, for $2 an entry. See the display on the dresser under the mirror in the gallery.
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Altar Arrangements & Sanctuary Light Sign Up
- The Arrangements at the Altar and the Sanctuary Light are given to the Glory of God.
Altar Arrangements & the Sanctuary Light can be given in honor of an anniversary, birthday, or in memory of a loved one. Click the button link to reserve dates that have meaning for you.
Click here to choose a date >>
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The Nativities Display
Help set up our annual display
12/2-4—This year, in addition to the main exhibit in the narthex and gallery of the stories of Luke and Matthew, we will be setting up a smaller curated selection of the rest of our collection in the parish hall.
We are looking for volunteers to help set up the display the first week of December. Then we’ll need folks to help pack it all back up on January 7 and 8.
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Contemplative Book Group
Next five-week study starts Thursday, December 4 • Room 201
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12/4—Join us for discussion of Richard Rohr’s book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage as we learn to live compassionately in a time of violence and despair. Using the Hebrew prophets as models, Rohr sets out a wholehearted model of movement from rage to pathos and lamentation, and then to compassion for the world’s suffering. Using what he calls “sacred criticism,” Rohr shares a distinct approach to confronting evil and injustice that acknowledges the wholeness of history, our interconnectedness, and the reality of a divine and universal love.
Click here to sign up for this book series >>
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Cookie Baking
Saturday 12/6 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. • parish hall
12/6—Children and youth and their parents are invited to join us in Epiphany’s kitchen and parish hall to bake cookies and talk about Advent together! We will decorate the cookies the following evening after Lessons & Carols.
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The Community of Hope’s Circle of Care—Last Monday of the month
11/24—Members gather to pray, learn, and provide each other with mutual support as they reflect on their emotional and spiritual responses to pastoral encounters. If you or a loved one would like to receive a pastoral visit or home communion by one of the trained caregivers, please contact Ann Fowler.
Men’s Breakfast Group—Tuesdays following the 7:00 a.m. service
11/25—The Men’s Breakfast Group gathers for breakfast and discussion following the 7:00 a.m. Tuesday service and are typically on their way by 8:00 a.m. Contact John Yntema with any questions.
Trivia Group—Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. • Wild Heaven Avondale
11/25—All are invited to join the Epiphany Trivia Group. Trivia begins at 7:00 p.m. and ends by 9:00 p.m. Questions? Contact Edie Brush or Jacob Geiger.
Looking Ahead
12/4—Grief Pastoral Care Group—1st Thursdays at 12:00 p.m. • Zoom
12/4—Young Adults Small Group Meeting—Every other week • 7:00 p.m.
12/4—Fireside Sit & Sip—Once a month at 7:00 p.m. • Courtyard
12/8—Epiphany Book Group—2nd Mondays at 7:00 p.m. • varies
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12/8: Appetizers & Dessert at 5:30 p.m. at the home of Wallace & Jeff McGrath.
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1/12: A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anny Tyler (Zoom).
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2/9: A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman (Zoom).
12/9—ECW—2nd Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. • Kitchen and lunch out
12/10-12—Gateway Shelter Meal Ministry—2nd Fridays • Parish Hall/Kitchen
12/12—Caregiver Support Group—2nd Fridays at 11:45 p.m. • Zoom
12/16—Epiphany Earth & Soul—3rd Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. • Room 201
12/16—Community of Hope’s Circle of Care—Last Mondays of the month
12/17—The Munch Bunch—3rd Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. • Thinking Man Tavern
Click here for a description of these groups and programs >>
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Social Justice Action Group—Virtual Group
This social advocacy group promotes social and cultural change. The group identifies community events in which we can participate, and also provides a curated list of local community happenings via Realm Groups. If you’d like to be part of this virtual group, join via Realm to view current opportunities of social justice action in our area.
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Donate a Nativity Scene
now through December 14
| The Episcopal Church Women are asking for small gentle used nativity scenes that will be used as table decorations for the Emmaus House Christmas Luncheon that the ECW hosts each year for the Senior Program participants. The nativities will be raffled away to participants along with other items at the end of the event. There is a basket in the narthex for your donations. | | |
Toy Drive for Emmaus House
bring unwrapped gives by December 15
| This Christmas, we have the opportunity to share God’s love with the children and families of Peoplestown. Our donations of unwrapped gifts or gift cards for infants through teenagers can help bring joy to the over 500 children served by Emmaus House. Bring unwrapped gifts to Epiphany by December 15. | | | | | |
Christmas Flowers & Music
submit names by Monday, December 15
| If you would like to make an offering in thanksgiving or memory of someone for Christmas, please fill out the form at epiphany.org/Christmas-flowers-music. From there you can choose to make your donation via online giving, or if you can also mail a check payable to Church of the Epiphany noting Christmas Flowers and/or Christmas Music in the memo line. | | To be printed in the Christmas Eve bulletins, submissions must be received in the parish office by 9:00 a.m. on Monday, December 15. | | Upcoming Services & Events | | | | |
Feast of St. Nicholas
Sunday, 12/7 at 11:30 a.m. • Room 203
12/7—On Sunday, December 7, our children's formation classes will celebrate the feast of St Nicholas! Children ages 3 to 5th grade are welcome to join this event taking place in 203. Youth are invited to attend and to help stuff children's shoes with clementines and chocolate coins.
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Advent Lessons & Carols
5:00 p.m. with a reception following • cookie decorating will be happening!
12/7—The Epiphany Choir, Beginning Choristers, Junior Choir, and Epiphany Ringers will present Advent Lessons & Carols on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. in a liturgy much like Christmas Lessons & Carols made popular in the 20th century by Kings College, Cambridge. The promise of the coming Messiah is told in lessons from the Old and New Testaments interspersed with Advent carols, hymns, and choir anthems. The service takes place in the nave followed by a reception in the Parish Hall.
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Family Eucharist & Service Project
All activities take place in the parish hall
12/9—We look forward to seeing you for this family and kid focused celebration of the Eucharist. Please arrive at 5:00 p.m. for the service project, 6:00 p.m. for pizza (RSVP at epiphany.org/rsvp), and 6:15 p.m. for the start of the service.
Sign up for Pizza on 12/9 >>
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ECW Christmas Craft & Bake Sale
purchase homemade goodies & crafts
| | | | 12/14—The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) will hold their annual Christmas Craft & Bake Sale Sunday December 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Please stop by the parish hall before or after the 10:00 a.m. service. The proceeds from the bake/craft sale support our service projects during the year. Login to Realm to contact Kathleen Rinehart if you would like to contribute an item to this event. | | |
Advent Mini Quiet Day
Choir Loft from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
| | | | 12/14—Advent is a season of quiet wonders: questions, awe, despair, curiosity. Come. You are welcome: Sunday, December 14 from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. to join others in quiet and shared reflection and prayer. Let’s discover ‘how it’s working out’ – the season, you, family, decisions, life with God. Guided by the Rev. Dr. Bobbi Patterson. | | | | |
Emmaus House Seniors Luncheon
hosted by the Episcopal Church Women (ECW)
| 12/18—The ECW we will host a luncheon for the Emmaus House Seniors. This is an annual event and a lot of fun for the seniors and the ECW Members. Login to Realm to contact Kathleen Rinehart if you would like to help with this event. | | |
Service of Light
Sunday, December 21 at 6:00 p.m. • in-person & live-streamed
| | | | 12/21—The Christmas season is a time of joy and expectation but it can also deepen the pain and isolation experienced by those who are grieving. The Service of Light is a worship service with Holy Eucharist meant to speak to the needs of those experiencing grief and loss. It offers a time of prayer and meditation and a reminder that we are not alone. This service is hosted by the Grief Group, the Pastoral Care Committee and Community of Hope, all of whom provide care to Epiphany parishioners who would like pastoral support. The service will also be live-streamed. | |
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Education for Ministry
Courses starting in January
| Esther Harbert is looking for a co-mentor for an EFM group that would start in January 2026 and end in December 2026. We will only meet for 36 out of 52 weeks in 2026. If interested, please contact Esther. | |
Liturgical & Event Calendar Through Epiphany | | | |
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For members who are bidding our prayers: Carol Fuller • Chris Braden • Larry Wilcox • Brandon Laird • Joy Boyden • Jewel Allen • Mike Curry • Wes, Kelly & Lillian Wright • Laraine Fraijo-Paul • Evelyn Stewart • Chris Miller • Ellen Mintzmyer • Philip Anderson • Bruce & Ann Fort • Louise Bedrossian (wife of Bob Thompson) • Barbara Belcore • Esther Harbert • Veta Smith (mother of Cecilia Democko) • Sally Brockington
For friends and family: Joseph Johns Jr., nephew of Kathleen Rinehart • Hugh Smith, father of Lynda Smith • Greta Corcoran, mother of John Corcoran • Sally Williams, daughter of Susan & Loren Williams • Isabel Mintzmyer, great niece of Ellen Mintzmyer • Alan & Lucy Hinman, parents of Johanna Hinman • Tom & Jennie Smith, family of Pam Tipton• Mark McCord, cousin of Pam Tipton • Kay Harris, mother of Rebecca Webb • Ray Piper, husband of Charlotte Piper • Danny Nodine, brother of Larry Nodine • Mark Thornhill, uncle of Kurt Erskine • Louise Peters, grandmother of Tristen Webb • Sherri Sharpe, cousin of Terri Lawrence & Julie Ryder • Dave Tipton, brother of Pam Tipton • Isabel, granddaughter of Mike & Beth Towers
For members who desire our continuing prayers: Jewel Allen • Mary McCall Cash • Wende Crowe • Pat & Bill Graves • Esther Harbert • Robin Hairston • Rod MacLeod • Sally McClintock • Chris Miller & Ron Hutcheson • Tom Mundy • Ann Rowles • Pat Spivey • Beth Towers • Michael Towers, Jr. • Wayne & Judy Urban • Anne Warner • Larry Wilcox • Colleen
For those who have died: Maggie Blake Deck, great grandniece of Doug Runnion • Betty Gardner-Tuzzalino, aunt of Loren Williams • Joel Burrow, father of Sharon Burrow
For those celebrating birthdays the week of 11/30-12/6: Beverly Burks • Susie Boyko • Avi Ackerly • Kyle D’Mello • Emme Neel • Jenny Fidler • Cate Matthews • Duane Burns • Lisa Gray
For our Haitian siblings and the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti.
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