The Season After Pentecost
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Like the autumn leaves, events are falling fast and thick onto the Church’s calendar, and one particularly important one is the Annual Parish Meeting. Scheduled for Sunday, November 18, this yearly gathering offers the opportunity to see where we are as a congregation, learn about the financial challenges of the church, and elect four new Vestry members to help steer us through the next three years.
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Annual Parish Mtg./Schedule (11-18)
Help Needed for Parish Meeting Lunch
Grocery Gift Cards for MetMin
Thanksgiving Liturgy and Supper
Bizarre Bazaar Needs Volunteers!
Musical Invitations for Nov. 11
Food Pantry Needs
JC RoundTable Meets Kagura Dance
Diocesan Lay Positions Open
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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Annual Meeting (continued)
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In order to minimize the impact of the meeting on parishioners’ time and also to assure that child-care will be available, the schedule has been tweaked in the following manner:
·
a
SINGLE LITURGY
at
9:00 a.m.
·
Meeting
in the Undercroft after the conclusion of the service (
10:15? 10:30??
)
·
Lunch
for all in the Undercroft – free of charge! (after the meeting).
Childcare with activities will be available during the service and meeting; the kids are welcome to join you for lunch, where there will be some kid-friendly eats available. With luck, you should be on your way rejoicing shortly after noon, full of tasty food and satisfied that you have fulfilled the role of Virtuous Citizen of Grace Episcopal Church.
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Help Needed for Parish Meeting Lunch
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The annual meeting/lunch is scheduled for Nov. 18. Volunteers are needed:
Saturday, November 17 -- table set up and food prep;
Sunday, November 18 -- food prep and serving; and especially for clean up after the lunch on the 18
th
.
Thanks,
Coylee
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Thanksgiving Gift Cards for MetMin
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Next time you’re at the grocery, buy a gift card in any denomination to give to Metropolitan Ministries. They will distribute the cards to their clients to help fatten up the Thanksgiving spread a little. You may put the cards in the alms-bags any time before Thanksgiving or bring them to the office.
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Thanksgiving Liturgy and Supper
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...and speaking of Thanksgiving, Grace will celebrate with a liturgy on Tuesday, November 20, at 6:00 p.m. An easy-going supper of soup and bread follows the service in the Undercroft (more about volunteering to bring soup and bread next week!). Come enjoy a respite from worries about menus and travel and how you're going to dodge eating your adventurous cousin's parsnip-and-anchovy casserole.
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Bizarre Bazaar Calls for Volunteers! (Dec. 7 & 8)
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If you’ve got a strong back, good knees and a soft spot for the Brainerd Farmers’ Market’s year-end extravaganza, The Bizarre Bazaar, please consider volunteering to help set up chairs and tables in the Undercroft on the evening of Friday, December 8 (time TBA), or offering your services on Saturday morning to help the copious heaps of merchandise make their way from the parking lot to the Undercroft (you’d report for duty no earlier than 8:30 a.m. and no later than 9:00 a.m. to accommodate the 10:00 a.m. start time). If you’d like more information, contact Catherine Durham, Queen of the Market and Bazaar. You can let her know you’re leaping in to help or just show up during the appointed times. All aid will be greatly appreciated and will be duly registered with the Recording Angel in order that your crown will feature every jewel you have earned.
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Musical Invitations for Sunday, November 11
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Free Concert/Evensong at St. Martin’s --
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church on East Brainerd Road is offering a free concert on Sunday, November 11, at 5:00 p.m. The concert will feature the combined forces of Voci Virili (men’s voices) with St. Martin's Choir for a 5 pm Evensong on Sunday, November 11.
Together, both groups will provide musical leadership for the Evening Prayer service and sing a few anthems. Afterward, there will be dessert and refreshments, and Voci Virili, under the direction of their founder, Harv Wileman, will perform solo.
Free Veterans’ Day Concert –
To mark the 100
th
anniversary of the end of World War I and honor the sacrifices and courage of those who fought it, the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Chattanooga Music Club and Lee University Singers invite you to a concert on Sunday, November 11, at 4:00 p.m. at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium. A variety of patriotic pieces will pay tribute to those who have served their country.
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Thanks to all who have been so consistent and generous with donations to the pantry -- you are filling lots of stomachs that would otherwise go empty. Though supplies are fairly good at the moment overall, we do have a few items that are thinning out rapidly. Gaps on the shelves include:
* Beef Stew
* Chili
* Hearty soups
* Vienna sausages
Your help is always appreciated!
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Joseph Campbell RoundTable Meets Kagura Dance (11-12)
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In lieu of the video for Monday, Nov. 12th, we will take a field trip to the Bessie Smith Hall for this presentation. So, no video at Grace on this night.
This is hosted by the city government, and my understanding is that there is no charge to attend though they would appreciate reservations. If you plan to come through our RoundTable, please RSVP to me.
Sayonara,
Diana
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A delegation from Chattanooga’s ‘Sister City’ Tono, Japan, will visit the city and do a public performance of the traditional Kagura dance on
Monday, November 12, from 6-7 p.m.
The Kagura dance was originally born out of a shrine ritual nearly 500 years ago in a small village at the foot of the Hayachine Mountains, but today it is performed as an art. The performances express the world of “Kojiki” and “Nihon Shoki,” Japanese mythology and most characters represent deities in Japanese mythology.
The City of Chattanooga and Tono have had an ongoing relationship for nearly 30 years with student exchange programs at Chattanooga School for Liberal Arts and Chattanooga School of Arts and Sciences. The cities recently celebrated their one year anniversary as official Sister Cities on September 15.
While the Tono delegation is in Chattanooga they will do various performances of the Kagura at the Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga School for Liberal Arts, Chattanooga School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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Diocesan Lay Leadership Positions Open
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Are you called to serve?
The Diocesan Leadership Positions below are now open for election at our Feb. 8-9, 2019 Convention in Knoxville. We ask that you pray for the open leadership positions and consider if you are called to run, or join a committee, or nominate someone.
- Bishop & Council: 1 lay leader from the Middle East Area
- Bishop & Council: 1 lay leader from the South East Area
- Disciplinary Board: 1 lay leader
- Standing Committee: 1 lay leader
- Trustee, University of the South: 1 lay leader
Nominations are requested by Dec. 15, 2018
- All nominations will be accepted via an online form available here . The final deadline for the online form is Jan. 6, 2019. These nominations will be posted on the convention web page prior to the convention and will be included in the convention packet.
- After the Jan. 6 final deadline, you can be nominated from the floor of the convention. Nominees will bring 300 copies of their biography with photo to be handed out at the convention. These copies should be given to Canon Michelle Bolt before the start of business on Friday, Feb 8.
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Finance Committee (Merritt Room) -- Tuesday, November 13, 5:30 p.m.
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m.
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At the 8:00 a.m. service
: Lectors, Emily Evans, Thomas Evans; Intercessor, Andy Lane; Chalice, Diana McMurray; Acolyte, Cindy Davidson; Usher, Jim Dorris; Greeter, Vivian Dodds
At the 10:45 a.m. service
: Lectors, Savannah Jackson, Nora Kile; Intercessor, Jim Milburn; Chalice, Anne Curtis, Cathy Stone; Oblations, Jim and Laura May; Acolytes, Blair Callaway, Laura Bertrand, Jeff Bertrand; Lead Usher, Randy Durham; Greeters, Jim and Barbara Harris; Webcast (camera and sound), Richard Lanham, Jerry Evans
Lectionary Readings
1 Kings 17:8-16, Psalm 146, Hebrews 9:24-28, Mark 12:38-44
Hymns
God of grace and God of glory
(Hymnal 594);
Take my heart and let it be consecrated, Lord, for thee
(Hymnal 707);
Let us break bread together on our knees
(Hymnal 325);
O Food to pilgrims given
(Hymnal 309);
Jesus shall reign
(Hymnal 544)
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