Late Easter/Pre-Pentecost
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The W Group, that daring band of talented Episcopalians from the 8 a.m. service, will be cooking breakfast this Sunday! They’ll begin serving at 9:00 a.m., and cost is $4.00 per person. All invited and welcome!
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Sunday Breakfast
Pentecost, Ice Cream, Cake, and RED!
Youth and Graduates Sunday
Arts Camp -- Registration, Scholarships
Joseph Campbell RoundTable
Gardens and Grounds
Knoxville Gay Men's Chorus (6-1)
Food Outreach -- Numbers and Needs
Thanks from Outreach
Thanks to Jerry Draper and Bells
News from the Diocese
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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Happy Birthday to the Church!
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The Day of Pentecost – this Sunday, May 20 – commemorates the inrushing of the Holy Spirit to the peoples of the earth after Christ’s ascension and is often considered to be the birthday of the Church. This estimable occasion will be celebrated at both services on Sunday, and at the 10:45 a.m. service with music, brass, and handbells. The celebration will continue after the late service with cake and ice cream, because really, what’s a birthday without them? Festivities will be on the lawn if it’s sunny and in the Undercroft if it’s not.
The color associated with Pentecost is red, so don your brightest in honor of the Holy Spirit, the life-blood of creation and arguably the friskiest of God’s faces. Praise the Lord in vermilllions, cerises, and scarlets!
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Youth and Graduates Sunday
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A huge thanks to our youth and adults who made for such a joyful celebration this past Sunday. Our very own Lee Thompson -- graduating senior from Center for Creative Arts- - preached a rich and nuanced sermon on Judas. In addition, several of our youth, including Naomi Mauss and Riley Hendrix, sang during communion, accompanied by Sharla Benedict Region and Rev. Drew Bunting. We are so proud of all our youth and graduates and wish them every blessing for the road ahead. In case you missed it,
you can still watch Lee's sermon
online
here
.
Also just want to make sure there is a note that this Sunday will be Breakfast, Children's Sermon and Baptisms at 10:45, and Pentecost Party on the lawn afterwards. AND wear red!!!
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Arts Camp -- Registration and Scholarship Donations
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Help the little ones in your life take wing through this year’s Interfaith Arts Camp, which will be be centered around the theme “For the Birds.” Camp runs from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. from June 25 through 29; classes emphasizing nature and the arts will be taught by highly qualified instructors in music, art, dance and drama. Within the church, we invite ages PreK4 through graduating 5th; outside of the church, we limit the enrollment to rising K through rising 5th. We hope you will invite the children in your life to come. Please don't wait to register your child -- the camp fills up quickly! Cost is only $30 per child, and scholarships are available. Please contact Maria hurt for more information.
You may register your kids at this URL:
With Arts Camp comes the need for help, of course!
We are calling on teen and adult volunteers to help out
. Please talk to Maria to see if you'll be a good fit.
We are also looking for donations
to help defray the costs.
You can donate the full cost of $30 if you’d like, but please know that smaller donations are welcome – they all add up!
If you have books or ideas related to the theme, please share them with Maria. For more information, please contact Maria at
mhurt@saygrace.net
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Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTable (MRT)
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May 21, 2018
with presenter Andy Foskey
on
The Handmaid's Journey:
Viewing Margaret Atwood's
The Handmaid's Tale
through the lens of Joseph Campbell
During this session, we will look at the events that take place in the novel "The Handmaid's Tale" and how they fit, or do not fit, the model of the Hero's Journey. We will look at Maureen Murdock's theory of the Heroine's Journey as perhaps a more fitting archetype with which to explore Atwood's novel. We will also examine the roles of women in the novel and consider what the messages of
The Handmaid's Tale
mean in today's divisive political climate.
Andy Foskey is a librarian at Chattanooga State Community College. In his free time, he volunteers at Welcome Home of Chattanooga, goes hiking around the tri-state area, and takes care of his beautiful feline companion Maisy. He has been coming to the Joseph Campbell Roundtable off-and-on for about 3 years.
Looking ahead:
On
May 28, we will begin
Transformations of Myth Through Time
video series.
RoundTables are free and open to the public. There is no charge to attend, though small donations are appreciated with support the RoundTable program with the Campbell Foundation, and our local host, Grace Church.
The RoundTables meet in the Merritt Room. For easy access, park in the upper parking area and walk up the sidewalk toward the front. At the breezeway, turn right and enter the office building. The Merritt Room is down the hall on the right. There is handicapped access and an elevator. Please contact the convener in advance to have this door opened.
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-- Garden Scramble this Wednesday. We will have a mini- workday or garden scramble NEXT WEEK,
Wednesday evening, 23 May, at 7 pm to clear the Free Garden
. This is our free, U-PICK vegetable garden on the east side of the church which we plant and offer as a gift to the church and community. Please come and pitch in for a bit if you're able -- we'll work an hour and then socialize in the Pavilion afterwards.
-- Benches, benches. After revising our requirements and consulting with Grace Gardeners, last week Kristina Shaneyfelt ordered 3 each 6 foot long stone benches for placement along the main sidewalk into the narthex. We paid more for custom height, to raise the benches to a more comfortable and accessible sitting level. Grace Gardeners donated almost but not quite all the funds needed to buy these benches -- further donations to the Gardens "Special" Fund are welcome, as always!
-- Memorial Benches. Meanwhile, we are looking to recommend replacements for the current benches in the Memorial Garden, which are failing. Some Memorial Garden money is available. We want these benches to have backs and arms. Kristina investigated a custom design, but we have eliminated that as simply too costly. We are looking at sturdy, long lasting, and simple municipal-park- type designs. Funds will likely come from the Memorial Garden reserve; the Vestry will approve the design and funding. If you have ideas or questions, contact Lisa Lemza or Kristina at 423.243-3530 or
lemzala@aol.com
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-- St Francis Fountain. This fountain is rapidly deteriorating, after long service. Adam Bryan is investigating repair of our current design.
-- Many thanks to recent hard work of
Mary Bacon Williams
in the Courtyard, and
Phaen Stone and Richard Hyatt
in our first Butterfly Garden ("Butterfly One") along Sunbeam Avenue. The horrible Bermuda grass -- which ye have with you always -- just about took over that garden. We have all been there. Phaen and Richard redesigned the garden and donated the new plant material -- thanks so much! Many thanks to all the gardeners who routinely donate the plant material:
Jeff Workman, Kristina Shaneyfelt, Jerry Evans, Beth & Mickey Myers.
-- Help! Meanwhile, several other garden areas are untended and deteriorating. We need more volunteers to work one or two hours a month on our grounds. If this ministry of tending our urban oasis appeals to you, please contact Kristina or Lisa. We lost the very little funding we had to pay for additional weeding, so anything our current volunteers can't address will simply go feral.
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Knoxville Gay Men’s Chorus in Concert
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Broadway is coming to Grace on Friday, June 1, when the Knoxville Gay Men’s Chorus will present highlights from their recent show
Broadway on Gay Street
at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is by donation
, and all profits will be used to support local LGBTQ organizations.
Founded in 2012 by a casual group of 15 who were probably more interested in establishing a friendly community than becoming an upper-echelon performance group, the choir has grown to around 50 members who perform to very high standards and use their considerable talents to enrich Tennesseans artistically and to build bridges between the LGTB community and the general population. The group is directed by Dr. Alan Stevens, who is also Associate Director of Choral Activities and Coordinator of Vocal Music Education at East Tennessee State University.
Come support the group’s mission to promote acceptance and inclusion for all people in Tennessee and the nation -- and hear some excellent performances of great music as well!
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We are still seeing high levels of demand both for vouchers to the Food Bank and for non-perishables from our food pantry.
Food Vouchers
-- Grace gave out 22 food vouchers in March ($220) and 24 in April ($240). The Outreach Committee originally planned to give 20 vouchers each month, but because we gave far fewer in the early months of our program and because of generous donations from our parishioners, we have some leeway to exceed our limits now and again.
Food Pantry –
We are still seeing lots of activity in food pantry – some of our clients have no transportation and can’t get to the Food Bank, and some ask for vouchers before sufficient time to renew eligibility has passed (60 days) – their families don’t quit needing to eat because of official policies. Grace folks have been marvelously generous in their donations of non-perishable food items, but we nevertheless find ourselves in short supply of a few crucial items (listed below). If you’d like to donate some of these in the next few weeks, we’ll be very grateful:
Breakfast items
– packets of instant oatmeal, granola bars
(
no boxed cereal
, please -- many of our clients don’t have milk, so things that can be rendered consumable with water or merely by unwrapping are best.)
Pasta and spaghetti sauce -- boxes or bags of spaghetti or noodles, jars of sauc
Crackers -- Saltine
Peanut Butter
Canned Fruit
Many thanks for your continuous support of this important ministry!
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Once again, Metropolitan Ministries is most grateful to Grace Church for its continued support of their ministries. The diapers, personal hygiene products, soaps and perfume -- plus monetary donations -- will be used up immediately.
Thank you from the Outreach Committee!
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Thanks to Jerry Draper, Bells of Grace and Hosts
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Profuse thanks to Jerry Draper and his devoted crew of ringers for all the planning and labors that brought the Westminster Concert Bell Choir to Grace last week. The smoothness of the visit showed the care and attention that been given to every detail. The concert, with its jaw-dropping skill, beauty and warmth, was a magnificent gift to Grace and the surrounding community. And special thanks to those who hosted the ringers and fed them here at the church. Your generosity rang out through the land, both literally and figuratively!
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Dear Friends,
I am writing to inform you that the Rev. Canon Pat Grace has accepted a call to serve as the interim rector for Church of the Good Shepherd in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her last day with us will be June 26th.
In my brief time here as bishop, I have learned a great deal about the ministries and people of the diocese from Canon Pat. My selfish hope was that Pat’s many gifts for equipping others for ministry and mission would continue to be offered here as canon to the ordinary for years to come. However, I have appreciated Pat’s faithful discernment and affirm her sense of call to a new place and in close proximity to family.
Pat has served this diocese in numerous capacities and has been a blessing to many of us over the years. No doubt, we will want to find ways to express our appreciation and gratitude for her. Along with prayers and notes, I would invite you to consider contributing to a financial purse for Pat as a tangible sign of our thanks for her. If you wish to do so, please send a check, made out to the diocese, with memo line for Pat Grace Purse, by the 20th of June. Our address here is
814 Episcopal School Way, Knoxville TN 37932
.
Please keep the diocesan staff in your prayers as they also say good bye to a colleague and friend. In coming days, you will hear more from me about the process for calling a new canon to the ordinary.
Peace,
Bishop Brian
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Endowment Committee (Merritt Room) -- Sunday, May 20, 9:30 a.m.
Joseph Campbell RoundTable (Merritt Room) -- Monday, May 21, 7 p.m.
Vestry (Barth Room) -- Tuesday, May 22, 6:00 p.m.
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m.
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At the 8:00 a.m. service:
Lectors, Michael Waterson, Nan Fortiner; Intercessor, Andy Lane; Chalice, Dick McGee; Acolyte, Thomas Lane; Ushers, Andy Lane, Rick Jones; Greeter, Vivian Dodds
At the 10:45 a.m. service:
Lectors, Connie Parker, Diana Peterson; Intercessor, Rebecca Williams; Chalice, Andy Belcher, Rosy Milburn; Oblations, Kevin Boles, Will Pinson; Acolytes, Sean McEwen, Michael Waterson, Jeff Bertrand; Lead Usher, Tom Lifsey; Greeters, Catherine Durham, Erica Kelley;
Webcast (camera, sound), Augie Sevart, Bill Boren
Lectionary Readings
Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 104: 25-35, 37b;Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
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