The Season After Pentecost
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The Chattanooga area is beginning to get a stream of evacuees from the Carolinas as Florence closes in on the coast. The United Way in Chattanooga, known locally as 211, has asked that Grace be prepared for increased food pantry use next week; their experience tells them that some of the folks who flee the coast will have put all their resources into travel and need food-aid when they get here.
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Food Pantry Braces for Evacuees
Youth, Parents and Pizza!
Weeks Forum
Outreach Meeting
Card Ministry Begins
Joseph Campbell Videos and Equinox
Art Show and Reception
Grace Bookstore Amazon Link
Episcopal Relief and Development
Dates to Note
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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If you can help – and we know we have asked so often for your help that you may be suffering from grocery-aversion syndrome and come down with chills and cramping when you even see a 12-pack of ravioli or try to reach for spaghetti sauce at Walmart – but if you can push through these debilities and ride to the rescue once again, these are the items that will be of most help should we be inundated by a Florence-initiated human flood:
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Saltine crackers
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Chef Boyardee Ravioli (pop top cans)
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Soup (
NO “cream of” or broth, please!
)
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Chili
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Beef stew
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Vegetables with pop-top cans (but no garbanzo beans – we’ve got too many!)
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Vienna sausages
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Tuna
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Pop tarts
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Fruit cups and/or pudding cups
Thank you, Grace. You’re really living into your name.
For information about donating to Episcopal Relief and Development for hurricane recovery, see the article further down in this newsletter.
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Youth, Parents, and Pizza!
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Youth and their parents are invited to join Rev. April for pizza in the Undercroft after the 10:45 a.m. service this Sunday (September 16) for a conversation about hopes for high school and middle school youth at Grace in the months ahead. What activities would you like to do? What are the best times of the week for youth group meetings? what opportunities to engage with other youth from the diocese are you interested in? Your input is important!
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Join us this Sunday for the Week's Adult Forum for your chance to reflect on the scripture readings. We meet in the Barth Room at 9:30. Hope you will join us for what is always a lively discussion.
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The Outreach Committee will meet Thursday September 20 at 5:30 in the Merritt Room. We will be discussing plans for the coming year. Come bring your ideas and hopes and dreams! All are welcome – reaching out involves everyone’s arms.
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Grace has a new Card Ministry! We are asking for any unused cards that you may have lying around your house. Blank Cards. Holiday cards. Birthday cards. Get Well cards. Sympathy cards. Any card that is clean, usable, and not written in. We also need pens, markers, gel pens, heavy paper and envelopes, stencils, paste, basically anything you don’t use that might be perfect for making cards. And of course we would welcome stamps and new cards.
Please gather up your donations, being sure that cards are paired with their envelopes, and place them in the container in the narthex. We will begin collections on Sunday, 9/23. We appreciate anything you can donate to help us further this ministry.
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Joseph Campbell Video Series (and Equinox Celebration)
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Next week, Sept. 17, we will listen to a CD about the women of the Grail.
Afterwards, please join us in the Pavilion for our third annual Equinox celebration. Like the knights who reported to the King before wintering in their castles, we report on something we have done in the past year. It's a chance to celebrate each other. Drinks will be provided. Snacks are welcome and appreciated.
The final video in this series will be Sept. 24th
: In Search of the Holy Grail: The Parzival Legend.
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Throughout September and October, Grace hosts
Heart Inspirations,
an art show featuring original paintings by Jean Coker and Lynne Mayer members of Civic Arts League.
Paintings in oil, watercolor, acrylic, and encaustics will be on sale in the Bobbie Crow Memorial Gallery on the third floor of Grace Episcopal Church.
A reception has been scheduled for Friday, September 21, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the gallery. Come meet the artists and enjoy hors d’oeuvres and beautiful paintings!
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Grace Bookstore Amazon Link
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For those of you new to Grace and wanting to participate in book studies or just read on your own without paying independent bookstore prices, you can avail yourselves of Amazon’s convenience and prices and still support the church’s store. To access the link the Grace’s wee island in the great Amazon sea, go to
www.saygrace.net
, locate the ABOUT menu (first in a line that sprawls from left to right across the top of the site), select Bookstore and click on the Amazon link.
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Episcopal Relief and Development
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A year after Harvey, Maria and Irma and on the cusp of Florence (and with Isaac and Helene dancing around to the south and east), we need little reminder that there are only a few things that can cause as much mayhem and misery as a hurricane (due respects to war, earthquakes and tornadoes). As the season becomes more intense, please consider making a donation to Episcopal Relief and Development. This organization responds to storms in the U.S. through partnerships with Episcopal dioceses, providing training and resources for emergency support through congregations that are already integrated into a community and which will be there long after the news cameras have moved on. You can send a check (payable to Episcopal Relief and Development) to P.O. Box 7058, Merrifield, VA 22116-7058. You may also donate online at
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September 30 -- St. Francis Service & Blessing of the Animals
at the 10:45am liturgy. Weather permitting, this service will be held in the courtyard, and we will blessing our beloved cats and dogs and bunnies and iguanas, celebrate Holy Eucharist and revel in the many forms of God’s creativity. (The 8am service on September 30
th
will proceed indoors as usual). Look for more information in future issues.
October 7 (Sunday) -- Pride Parade & Booth --
A
contingent from Grace will be marching in the Pride Parade on Sunday morning, October 7
th
(it's a Sunday, but you can still make the 8am service!). Line-up for the parade begins at 10am at Ross' Landing. Grace will also have a booth at the Pride Festival from 1-7pm on the 7
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, and we're looking for volunteers to help staff it (allies welcome!). Contact Jerry Draper (
jmd0712@yahoo.com
) for the parade meeting spot or to sign up for a shift at the booth.
Saturday, October 13
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-- Pride Mass at 5:30pm
at
Grace Episcopal Church
-- Grace will host a Pride Mass on Saturday, October 13th at 5:30pm. We invite any and all LGBTQ+ folks and allies to join us for a service of healing and celebration, and we would love to have you bring your friends and neighbors, as well. We invite you to participate as ushers, acolytes, readers or singers (we want a big parade for the procession!). Because this service falls outside the realm of our regular Sunday Rota, Sean McEwen will be helping to coordinate acolytes, readers and ushers. Singers should contact Jerry Draper at
jmd0712@yahoo.com
. We'd like to have a reception for our guests that evening; please contact Rev. April (
aberends@saygrace.net
), if you're willing to help with that act of hospitality.
Join us as we extend God's love and welcome to our LGBTQ+ neighbors!
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Youth and Parents Pizza Party -- Sunday, September 16, 12:15 p.m.
Outreach Committee -- Thursday, September 20, 5:30 p.m., Barth Room
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m.
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At the 8:00 a.m. service:
Lectors, Alan McMurray,
Diana McMurray; Intercessor, Katie Walters; Chalice,
Diana McMurray; Acolyte, Andy Lane
At the 10:45 a.m. service:
Lectors, Jim Milburn, Wayne Smith; Intercessor, Bill Pickering; Chalice, Breezie Finley, Dick McGee; Oblations, Coylee Bryan, Adam Bryan; Acolytes, Blair Callaway, Laura Bertrand, Andy Belcher; Lead Usher, Frank Watkins; Greeter, Jeff Workman; Webcast (camera and sound), Bill Boren, Jerry Evans
Lectionary Readings
Isaiah 50:4-91, Psalm 116: 1-8, James 3:1-12, Mark 8:27-38
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