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Third Sunday After Pentecost
9:15 am Family Service with Eucharist
11:00 am
Holy Eucharist
with Hymns
Coffee hours are held in the Choir Room after 8 am, 9:15 am and 11 am services.
For detailed information about the parish calendar, ministries, and outreach please click the link below.
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Pictured above are just some of the members of our Wise Aging Group at Grace. We just completed a 6-week series of fascinating conversations and readings around various aspects of aging wisely, well, and realistically. This group will begin weekly meetings again in the fall, and everyone is welcome to join.
For more information, contact
Anne+.
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Help us create a garden that welcomes members of our Grace community and beckons in the passerby. A guild of volunteers is being formed to bring creativity and energy to these long-neglected areas. Members of the Guild will help cultivate, plant and maintain the beds and planters around the courtyard and at the corner of Hicks and Grace Court. Our work reclaiming the gardens continues. Join us on Wednesday, June 28, from 5 - 8 pm as we weed, prune, and plant. Together we’ll create a courtyard entrance that welcomes all.
For further information contact Anne+ or call Kate Rock at 347-564-6000.
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News from Godly Play - Parents, please read!
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Godly Play is our Sunday School curriculum for children in their pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade years. It’s magical! Although it may seem far off, we are already planning for the Godly Play 2017-2018 year. We have a great group of dedicated volunteer teachers who teach every Sunday from September through mid-June. This year, we are asking that every parent of a child in Godly Play also participate by being a volunteer assistant in the class from 10 to 10:55 am at least 3 times during the year.
We have more and more kids coming, and we need everyone’s participation and help. Assisting means helping keep the kids focused on the lesson, helping with snack and craft time, or directing kids to bathroom breaks. This is a great way to be involved in your child’s Christian education and to support our dedicated teachers.
To sign up to help, contact Jen Murdoch. We will be in touch with all Godly Play families in the fall to follow up on this.
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Summer Book Group in July
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“Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr
“There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. The first task is to build a strong ‘container’ or identity; the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. The first task we take for granted as the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well. The second task, I am told, is more encountered than sought…” (p.xiii)
On four Mondays in July, we will gather to informally discuss this book about the Christian spiritual life by acclaimed writer Richard Rohr of the Center for Action & Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of Rohr’s guiding paradigms is that of “falling." Ongoing spiritual growth is most often experienced when we are open to our life’s challenges, rough edges, lack of control, mistakes, and suffering. Always, Rohr’s emphasis is on spiritual depth and joy.
The group will be co-led by longtime parishioner, teacher, and fellow traveller Jane Parkerton, and Interim Rector Anne Richards.
Mondays, July 10, 17, 24, and 31, from 1 to 2:30pm in the North Room
Please read the book’s introduction for our first meeting. If you can't do the reading, come
anyway.
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Rector Search — All Applications Are In!
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June 15 was the deadline for the “Receiving Names” portion of the search for the 15th Rector of Grace Church Brooklyn Heights. The Search Committee is pleased to report that there has been an extremely robust response to the position postings.
The Committee has been reviewing all applications as they’re received, and will soon wrap up its deliberations on which applicants are suited to move forward in the Search process. The immediate goal is to identify 12 names for submission to Bishop Provenzano. Upon the Bishop’s approval, the Committee will contact each of these 12 applicants to initiate the first phase of the interviewing process.
The Committee is grateful for the prayers and support of the clergy, the Wardens, the Vestry and the entire parish throughout this important process of transition.
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Grace name tags available to all worshippers
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If you are new to Grace, welcome! Attractive magnetic name tags are available for you to wear when you are at church. These are a huge help in helping us learn each other’s names and in building community.
If you don’t yet have a name tag, fill out a Grace Contact Form (near the name tag board at the back of the church), and on the Welcome Table, also at the back of the church. Name tags are not only for newcomers…we all wear them, including kids! If you have a pacemaker, you should not wear a magnetic tag; we have an alternative tag for you. Questions? Contact our Parish Administrator, Christian DeRuiter, in the Parish Office at 718.624.1850.
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Pastoral News and Prayer Concerns
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Parish Prayer Concerns: Ann Gaffney; Wendy Hooker; Sally Forbes; Sybil Payne; Patrick Owen Burns, Sr.; Bill Newbury; Jacob Connor; Diego Garrido and Joseph Hoplamazian.
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Grace Church | 254 Hicks Street | Brooklyn NY 11201
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