The Season After Pentecost
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Congratulations and Thanks
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Last Sunday’s Annual Parish Meeting gave us four new Vestry members: Vivian Dodds, Jim Harris, Tom Makepeace, and Wayne Smith. We are grateful to them for their willingness to serve and for the many talents they will bring to Grace’s governing body. We are also grateful to the four who are leaving the Vestry after a sort of super-term – in order to insure stability during our transition, they stayed on an extra year, serving four years instead of three: these stalwart souls are Edith Snider, Andy Lane, Jerry Evans, and Rebecca Williams.
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Sunday Book Review Class
Congratulations and Thanks
Rides Needed
Lessons and Carols/St. Nicholas Dinner
Angel Tree
Choir Chairs
Caroling with Southside Abbey
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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Congratulations (continued)
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Thanks to all who came to vote; to all who ran and were willing to serve; to those who labored in the kitchen-vineyards to give us all a delicious meal; to those who kept children and those who planned the meeting, gathered materials, and made presentations. All things worked together for good!
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Ann Swint is hoping that someone can give her a ride to church this coming Sunday, November 26. She lives at the Hickory Valley Retirement Complex at 6705 Ballard Drive. If you can assist her, you can reach her at
423 718 5249
. If her voice-mail is full, you can ask the front desk to have her call you. They can be reached at
423 304 0138
.
She also would like a ride to Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December 3 (the service begins at 5:00 p.m.); if you can help, please contact
Janetmccollough@gmail.com
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Lessons and Carols/ St. Nicholas Dinner
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Advent begins on Sunday, December 3… at which point you will probably already have reindeer hoof-prints on your back and Black Friday bruises on your knees. If you’d like a dose of beauty and serenity to offset the calamitous side of the season with the traditional service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December 3. Anthems by the choir and congregational singing, along with Advent scriptures, will prepare the ground for a rich and thoughtful season of awaiting the birth of Jesus. T
he service will be followed by the St. Nicholas Dinner,
which normally begins around 6:00 p.m. This is a wonderful occasion for children and families. Dinner is free, and St. Nicholas has been known to make an appearance to talk with the children about the season and its traditions.
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Two more weeks until the Angel Tree deadline! Take a few minutes to choose one or more Angels to shop for if you’d like to help some children who are in need in our community.
Some tags are single. Some are paper-clipped together; these represent children in the same family, and you may take all, one or any number in between. Sign the sheet and indicate which Angels you’ve claimed, grab a bag, and you’re ready to begin!
Do note that the pick-up date this year is Wednesday, December 6. The Salvation Army usually arrives at 9 a.m. or before to take our goodies, so please make sure to have your items in before that date.
Those who miss the deadline win a trip to the Salvation Army Offices on McCallie Avenue!
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Both the choir room and the choir area in the Nave are becoming settings for piteous games of "Musical Chairs," with sopranos, altos, tenors and basses scrambling for too few seats. If you'd like to contribute some of your holiday riches (haw!) towards additional seating, please put a check for any amount, large or small, into an almsbag on Sunday with “choir chairs” in the subject line.
For those curious about the cost of a whole chair, the rehearsal chairs, designed to aid singers in maintaining postures that foster good breathing, cost around $230 each, and closer to $250 with shipping. And while whole chairs are wonderful, the choir will be grateful to receive quarters, eighths, sixteenths and even thirty-seconds of chairs; who knows better that it takes notes of all lengths to make music, and what’s true of music must be true of chairs as well. However many beats you can contribute to this particular measure will be appreciated!
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Invitation to Carol with Southside Abbey (12-2)
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Southside Abbey would like to invite you to join us for Advent and Christmas caroling on
Saturday, December 2,
as part of Mainx24, an annual 24-hour festival celebrating Main St. and the Southside. We'll meet at
6:00 p.m. outside the Hart Gallery
,
110 E. Main St
. (where you are welcome to worship with us any Friday night!). We'll have song sheets and would love your help as we go a-caroling up and down Main St.
We will also have a prayer wall during Mainx24 where people will be invited to write their prayers on strips of cloth and tie them on the wall so that they blow in the wind, making a visual statement of how we are Living Local: Joining God on the Southside. If you attend, please come by to see us! We are hoping to leave it up until the end of the year, but don't yet have that confirmed. If you have any questions about either project, contact Amy Belk at
706-264-7899
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Outreach Meeting, Tuesday, November 28, 6:30 p.m.
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m.,
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At the 8:00 a.m. service:
Lectors, Michael Waterson, Jim Oakes; Intercessor, Andy Lane; Chalice, Jim Dorris; Acolytes, Cindy Davidson, Emily Evans, Thomas Evans; Ushers, the Revenigs; Greeter, Jim Oakes
At the 10:45 a.m. service:
Lectors, Laura Bertrand,
Gerry Jones; Intercessor, Andy Belcher; Chalice,
Terry Burnett, Rosy Milburn; Oblations, Jerry Evans,
Tom Carroll; Acolytes, Mary Cooper, Meredith Ogle,
Sean McEwen; Greeter, Anne Curtis; Webcast, (camera and sound), Bill Boren, Augie Sevart
Lectionary Readings
Ezekiel 32:11-16, 20-24; Psalm 95: 1-7a; Ephesians 1:15-23; Matthew 25:31-46
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