Church Periodical Club:
National Books Fund and Miles of Pennies Fund

The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.  
John 12:35

At some time in our past, we at Nativity became aware of Jesus lighting up our lives and the world. We are blessed with a plethora of materials to expand our knowledge and understanding of that glorious light: Bibles, prayer books, hymnals, books magazines, commentaries, study guides, tapes and videos; places where materials are available: churches, Christian book stores and libraries; and people: fellow Christians, mentors, preachers and study groups. However, throughout the United States and the world, many people without the light of Christ have no idea where they are going. Others perceive the light, yet hunger for more precise direction for living in and reflecting that light. CPC fills the void in such lives by awarding grants to institutions and individuals who have limited financial resources. Some grants are used to help the illiterate learn to read and in time to peruse Christian publications. Others are given to literate students for aids to their growth and understanding of the Christian walk. NBF grants are for people nineteen years of age and up. MOP funds are for children between the ages of five and eighteen. Please continue to drop your pennies in the red basket in the narthex marked MOP. Those pennies will be transformed by CPC to brighten the path of many who now walk in the dark.

BOOK SALE! BOOK SALE! BOOK SALE! BOOK SALE! BOOK SALE!

Have you accumulated books from your spring and summer reading? Are you planning to set them aside for our BRING A BOOK - BUY A BOOK SALE'? Will you acquire more worthwhile literature for your reading pleasure this fall? Get ready to pack up books and bring them to church early in January. The sale will run from January 21^st through February 4^th. Let's make this year's sale bigger and better than ever.

June Hadley