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The Season After Pentecost
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One of your fellow parishioners has graciously invited us to a breakfast banquet this Sunday morning at 9:30 in the Undercroft. This is his gift of generosity.
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Sunday Book Review Class
Cone to the (Breakfast) Banquet!
EYC Meets Sunday Evening
Weeks' Adult Forum Begins 10-1
Book Study Begins This Week (9-21)
Clergy Discretionary/Founders' Funds
Supper Clubs -- Still Time to Join
Garden and Grounds
Rally Day Thanks
Invitation for TONIGHT (Sts. Peter
& Paul)
Beer and Hymns Invitation (9-18)
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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Come to the Banquet! (continued)
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There will be festive food, fun singing, and teaching about stewardship by Fr. John Talbird. This will be a fun time. No arms will be twisted. No pressure brought to bear. This is an invitation to come and be a part of God’s Gracious Banquet. We want you.
On a side-note, if you didn’t get to peruse the ministry displays and sign up for one or more on Rally Day, you have another chance during these Parish Forums. The displays will be up in the Undercroft; take a minute to look around and see if any of the many opportunities appeal to you. Many hands, light work – but there’s lots and lots of work out there, so hands are always needed!
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EYC Meets on Sunday Evening
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Grace's EYC group will meeting on Sunday evening (September 15) at 5:00 p.m. on the 4th floor. Young folks 6th grade through 12th welcome! The meeting will conclude at 7 p.m.
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Adult Education will Weeks Adult Forum provides an opportunity on Sunday morning to share your spiritual journey with others also trying to understand how God operates in our lives and where God is trying to lead us. The Forum will resume on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. once the Parish Forums are over – mark your calendars for October 1!. Barth Room. All are welcome to join us. We will spend part of the first meeting on the scripture passages for that Sunday and part of the time talking about the format we would like to use for the meetings this year.
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Book Study to Begin September 21
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It is time to resume our book studies and we will begin this year with a small book (only 111 pages) by Alan Roxburgh
titled Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World: The New Shape of the Church in Our Time
. Alan says of this book: “In these pages I hope to describe what we mean by “joining God in the neighborhood” and why it is so important. The Spirit is busy re-founding the church for our time, and every one of us is being invited to participate and discover what God is up to ahead of us. This begins with a commitment to place and discerning the presence of God in the everyday contexts where we work and live. These are the holy grounds where God is at work remaking our society and reweaving the fabric of our communities. Our role as followers of Jesus is joining the work God is already doing in the world.” This is a call to be a priestly people and I hope you will be able to join us on
Thursday evenings September 21, 28, and October 5.
I (Dave Stanislawski) will facilitate the discussion and we will begin on September 14 with Part 1 of the book. The evening begins at 6:00 with a pot luck supper followed by our discussion at 6:45. We will try to end around 8:00.
[The bookstore has a couple of copies of the book and can get more if needed!]
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Clergy Discretionary Funds and Founders’ Fund
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Recent experiences with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have given dramatic examples of the need for outreach on a national scale, but few at Grace may be aware of how many issues Grace addresses each week at its own front door. With almost daily requests for help with rent, water bills, electric bills, prescription costs, temporary lodging and transportation, the clergy pour out their discretionary money with alarming speed. Though Grace parishioners have always been generous with their “loose offering” donations on the first Sundays of the month (which are almost always earmarked for the discretionary funds), please be aware that these dollars are providing immediate aid for Chattanooga’s vulnerable citizens every week. Please keep up your remarkable generosity – and if you don’t normally contribute paper money on Sundays, please consider putting a little bit in on the first Sunday of each month.
And while local need presents itself at our doors, Grace also likes to contribute to the needs of those whose afflictions are further away (think Harvey and Irma and other such national and international disasters). Several years ago, Grace established the Founders’ Fund in honor of Alice Mitchell and the generation that established and preserved Grace Church with the purpose of having funds on hand for such emergency situations. When you find yourself looking for ways to acknowledge life-events such as births, deaths, weddings, anniversaries, and other important milestones, consider a gift to the Founders’ Fund. Your gift will not only honor a person or event but make that person or event a means to a greater good.
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If you did not have the chance Rally Day to sign up for the
Grace Supper Club
, and you are interested in participating, please do so by
the cut-off date
Sunday Sept 24. The super clubs meet monthly in one another’s homes for dinner and fellowship. You do not need a spouse or partner to join; all you need is a willing spirit to become better acquainted with other parishioners and to take your turn in hosting (once) your group in your home for dinner (or arrange for the group to meet at an area restaurant). Contact Coylee Bryan at
coylee@epbfi.com
or
423-697-0002
by September 24 to get your name in the hat before the groups are formed.
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1.
The annual--
and mandatory
-- Fall Community Garden meeting is
THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON at 4:00 pm
in the Pavilion
. All bed renters must attend. Please bring a snack and drink to share, per usual. Be prepared to share summer triumphs and catastrophes, and discuss fall vegetable techniques and fall gardening plans.
2.
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
!
Grounds Work Day will be Saturday, 21 October, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
. Lunch provided. We usually hang out in the Pavilion afterwards, aglow with honest sweat and adult beverages. We will remove dead shrubs and nasty, ineffective weed cloths from the shrub border between the cloister and narthex (this is very hard work), dig up the SW corner of the courtyard, and clean up the front (parking lot side) of the Memorial Garden. As usual, in addition to grounds workers we'll need a volunteer(s) to lay out a simply sandwich bar in the Undercroft. Please contact Kristina Shaneyfelt at
jkshaneyfelt@epbfi.com
or Lisa Lemza at
lemzala@aol.com
if you will help with lunch.
3.
Shaggy lawns at Grace
. After many years of service,
Tom Carroll
has relinquished his grounds maintenance contract with our church. He has offered us superb and responsive service for many years at significantly reduced cost, as a gift to his church.
We honor him for his mighty gift
, and wish him well in future endeavors. Thank you so very much, Tom.
4.
Contract maintenance
. Grounds co-chairs Kristina Shaneyfelt and Lisa Lemza are researching candidates for the above contract, and hope to have a recommendation shortly. One thing we know at this point: contract costs will rise. Yes.
5.
NOTE from Lisa
: Several weeks ago, I had a run- in with my craziest, cannonball dog and fractured a tibia. Although I can't drive or do much other than sit around wallowing in self-pity, in truth all is well. I am very, very grateful and surprised by the tender care, emails, phone calls, visits, and meals received from all y'all. You define community. I am proud to know you.
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Thanks to all the gentlemen who voluntarily moved all the tables and chairs up to the front lawn and down again to the Undercroft for Rally Day. This is a huge task that would have been impossible without their help.
And hats off as well to all who organized, cooked, prepared displays, taught, preached, sang and labored in the many other vineyards that brought the day together – all the work came together and made for a glorious beginning to a new year!
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You're Invited to Sts. Peter and Paul!
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If you're need a way to see summer out on a celebratory note, please note this wonderful opportunity
TONIGHT at Sts. Peter and Paul Basilica on E. 8th Street!
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Raise Your Voice and Bend Your Elbow!
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The Holy Writ encourages us to sing to the Lord and to be filled with the Spirit; Grace has been invited to do both with our friends from Northminster Presbyterian Church and First Christian Church at "Beer and Hymns on
Monday, September 18, at 6pm at the Oddstory Brewery on MLK
. Come enjoy a relaxed and informal time of song and community, and feel free to grab a beverage while you're there!
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Parish Forum, Sunday, 9:30 a.m., in the Undercroft -- with free breakfast!
EYC, Sunday September 17, 5:00 p.m.
Joseph Campbell RoundTable, Monday 7 p.m., Merritt Room
Search Committee, Tuesday September 19, 6:00 p.m., Merritt Room
Book Study and Potluck, Thursday, September 21, Merritt Room
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m., Merritt Room
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At the 8:00 a.m. service:
Lectors, George Reed III, Susan Brown; Intercessor, Andy Lane; Chalice, Amie Brien-Slack; Acolyte, Andy Lane; Ushers, Mike Revenig; Greeters, Jane and Peter Duvoisin
At the 10:45 a.m. service:
Lectors, Diana Peterson, Skeeter Makepeace; Intercessor, Edith Snider; Chalice, Andy Belcher, Paul Thomas; Oblations, Jim and Barbara Harris; Acolytes, Jim May, Jeff Bertrand, Laura Bertrand; Lead Usher, Tom Lifsey; Greeter, Meredith Ogle; Webcast (camera and sound),
Richard Lanham, Augie Sevart
Lectionary Readings
Isaiah 45:21-25, Psalm 103:1-13, Philippians 2:5-11, John 12:31-36a
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