The infamous W Group is back this week with breakfast after the 8:00 a.m. service! You are invited to come at 9:00 a.m., eat, and head to class at 9:30 a.m. with tummies full and brains working. Cost is $4 per person.
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Breakfast This Sunday!
Art Therapy Supplies
Children's Ministry
Bridge Refugee Meeting on Sunday
Missing Tablecloths
Gardens and Grounds
Shirlee Sullivan Celebration of Life
Lilies for Easter
Easter Egg Hunt
Holy Week Services
February Food Vouchers
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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If you’d like to help provide materials for Bridge Refugee Service’s art therapy session at Grace (beginning Friday, March 23), take a look at their Amazon Wish List link (
http://a.co/dn29QcQ
)
and see what you’d like to contribute. Gifts may be placed in the alms-baskets on Sunday or left in the church office during the week. The sessions begin NEXT FRIDAY, so make haste if you plan to help!
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Children's Choir Rehearsal (March 18):
This Sunday March 18 the elementary school-age children's choir will once again meet for snacks after the 10:45 service. After a quick bite, we will go into the Nave for rehearsal. Please check with Maria (
mhurt@saygrace.net
) if you have questions.
On Sunday, March 25,
the choir will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the Nave. We will rehearse and stay together until time to sing in the 10:45 service. They will walk down the aisle together, sing early in the service and then return to sit with parents/grandparents.
Godly Play:
The Godly Play schedule this Sunday is 9:30 a.m. elementary and 10:45 a.m. preschool-3
rd
grade. Please join us!
Arts Camp: Put it on Your Calendars!:
The 2018 Grace Episcopal Interfaith Arts Camp will be held June 25-29. Hours are 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (half day). We encourage you to spread the word. A registration form will be available on the website. Stay tuned for more information!
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Bridge Refugee Meeting -- Information, Volunteering
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In the past, Grace had a lively hands-on involvement with Bridge Refugee Services and is working towards renewing that involvement. If you'd like to take part or are interested in learning more, please plan to attend and information/planning meeting
this Sunday (March 18)
in the Merritt Room after the 10:45 a.m. liturgy (around 12:15 or so).
Some possible services we might provide include:
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Transportation assistance/organization
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Apartment setup
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Community guide
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Interpretation and translation
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Friendship and companionship
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Professional services
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Did anyone borrow the round yellow table cloths from the reception room?? If so, please return them as soon as possible. We need them for the reception after the Easter Vigil.
Thanks,
Coylee
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General Grounds Work Day will be
NEXT Saturday, 24 March, commencing at 10:00 am
and petering out some time after lunch when we get done. Or, tired. If you can only donate an hour, we'll be glad to share that, too. In general we expect to clear all the garden areas, possibly do some pruning, cut up the dead wood behind the Pavilion, and laugh a lot.
Jim and Barbara Harris
have volunteered to fix lunch. [NOTE: this year, having learned more about native bee habitat,
we'll be leaving about 15 inches of dried winter stalks standing.
The new growth will soon rise and cover these old stalks. We will cut off the dead tops, but leave that remnant so our native insects can reproduce, have babies, and continue to live here in the middle of town. We will also leave our fabulous lantanas in their current state of dramatic disarray, until we see new growth. Just pretend they're sculpture. Because they are.
We have just installed our first two test benches out by the Belvoir Ave traffic cut in (by Asher Powers' Landscaping). What do you think? Text, email, call, or just plain old talk to Kristina (
423.322-4476
) and Lisa:
(423.243-3530
).
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Shirlee Sullivan Celebration of Life
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Many of us knew Shirlee during the years she attended Grace; she moved to Nebraska last fall to be closer to family as she dealt with her illness. A memorial service and celebration of her life will be held on April 6, 7:00 p.m. at St. Martha’s Episcopal Church, 780 Pinnacle Dr., Papillon, Nebraska 68046.
"We hope you can make it and look forward to seeing you there. Much love, Jeff, Joan, Mark and families. Please, in lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to: Welcome Home of Chattanooga, P.O. Box 4247, Chattanooga, TN 37405."
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Easter is inching closer – Lent 5 comes in two days, then Palm Sunday, and wham! it’s Easter morning and woe, alas! you are horrified to discover that you forgot to memorialize Uncle Algernon and/or honor the nephew who will soon graduate from Harvard’s esteemed school of crawdad-farming. Heaven forfend! To avoid such a heinous trauma, please act NOW to claim one or more Easter lilies! Cost is $15 per plant, and you can make arrangements by e-mailing or calling the office (
dcarden@saygrace.net
, 243-3257) – or by filling out the form below or one that awaits you in the Narthex. Please make sure to have your orders and dedications in to the office
no later than Monday, March 26
, for inclusion in the Easter bulletins.
Your name:____________________________________________
Phone Number:_________________________________________
Honor Memory Thanksgiving Name to list
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If those strange short people who live in your house enjoy running about in search of candy-filled eggs on the Easter eve, Grace invites you to pack these beings into your car and bring them to Grace on Saturday, March 31 at 1:00 p.m. to participate in the annual egg-hunt . The lawn (or the Undercroft, depending on the weather) will be laden with eggs, and there will be much frolic and laughter. All they need is an Easter basket!
If you'd like to contribute candy, you are welcome to bring small, wrapped candies with
NO NUTS
(some of the kids have allergies). Please bring these to the church no later than Thursday, March 29 so that the Easter Bunny and whatever helpers she can muster will have time to do the stuffing!
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Palm Sunday (Sunday, March 25) – 8:00 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
Dramatic reading of the Passion Gospel and Holy Eucharist
Maundy Thursday (Thursday, March 29) – 7:00 p.m.
“Commandment Thursday” commemorates the Last Supper,
when Jesus washed the disciples’ feet and bade them love
one another. Parishioners will have the chance to wash feet
and have their feet washed as well. Holy Eucharist will be
celebrated, and the Altar Guild will strip the altar and drape
it in black at the end of the service.
Stations of the Cross (Friday, March 30) – 11:15 a.m.
An outdoor service (weather permitting) that takes
participants over the grounds, stopping to commemorate
the stages of Christ’s path to the cross. In case of rain, the
service will move into the Nave.
Good Friday Service (Friday, March 30) – 12:00 p.m.
This service remembers the crucifixion via the Passion
Gospel and solemn prayers. This year’s service will have
a choir and music.
Easter Vigil (Saturday, March 31) – 8:00 p.m.
The first part of the Vigil recounts the salvation history of
Christians via readings, Psalms, hymns and anthems; the
second part, “the first service of Easter,” is a joyful
liturgy of Word, music and Holy Eucharist. This service
will be followed by a champagne reception in the
Undercroft – also joyful! You are invited to bring a
favorite goodie to share.
Easter Opportunities and Services (Sunday, April 1) –
Flowering of the Cross (all children and parents invited!)
10:00 a.m. in the courtyard (weather permitting).
Services -- 8:00 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
Holy Eucharist! Music! Resurrection!!
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Last summer, thanks to Jerry Evans and the Outreach Committee, Grace began to offer vouchers to the Chattanooga Food Bank as a supplement to its own food pantry. If you're curious about how this ministry is developing, here are the figures for February 2018:
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17 vouchers given to…
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…12 households, helping…
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…44 people (26 adults and 18 children)…
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…for a cost of $170.00
Grace can give a maximum of 20 vouchers each month, and those receiving them can get them only every 60 days. Some of these folks run low on food between times and come back for help from the food pantry. Vouchers are a good option because the Food Bank offers perishable foods that the church cannot; however, Grace’s non-perishables have frequently provided much-needed emergency help or aid to those who have no way to get to the Food Bank.
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Joseph Campbell RoundTable (Merritt Room) -- Monday, March 19, 7 p.m.
Lenten Book Study (Merritt Room) -- Wednesday, March 20, 12 p.m.
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1 p.m.
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At the 8:00 a.m. service
: Lectors, Diana McMurray, Alan McMurray; Intercessor, Michael Waterson; Chalice, Lisa Revenig; Acolyte, Kathryn Lazenby; Ushers, the Revenigs; Greeter, Vivian Dodds
At the 10:45 a.m. service
: Lectors, Will Benson,
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; Intercessor, Ann Watkins; Chalice, Becki Jordan, Cathy Stone; Acolytes, Stephen Jones, Michael Waterson, Jeff Bertrand; Lead Usher, Tom Lifsey; Greeters, Catherine Durham, Erica Kelley; Web Broadcast (camera, sound), Bill Boren, Augie Sevart
Lectionary Readings
Jeremiah 31:31-34, Psalm 51:1-13, Hebrews 5:5-10, John 12:20-33
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