The Season After Pentecost
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A Note to Families with Children (From the Rector)
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It's an exciting time of year for families with young children as our children head back to school, check out new classrooms, reunite with friends and make some new ones. I know that for parents, the opportunity to get back to familiar routines often comes as a gift.
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Note to Families with Children
Back-to-School Blessing/Sunday School/
Potluck
Markets Killer Tomato Pie Contest
Market Volunteers Sought
Send-Off Thanks
Opportunities
Prayers
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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Families with Children (continued)
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Parents are often busy, and there's rarely a break in the action. Our busy lives don't leave much time to for moments of reflection, or for taking the time to build relationships. We know it's important for our kids to develop friendships and relationships, but it's important for us, too. Raising kids is beautiful, heartbreaking, difficult work, and it's helpful to have a community, a village, around us as we do this work. The community that we gather around us gives us ways to share hopes and struggles and wisdom.
I want to invite families with children (infants through elementary school) to come together in community this Sunday. This is an event for our regulars, our some-timers and our newcomers to be together. We've welcomed lots of new families to Grace in recent months! This Sunday the kickoff for children's Sunday school, but it's more than that, it's a chance to meet the people who walk with on this journey we call parenthood. Join us for a potluck in the Pavilion outside. Bring a dish your family enjoys. We'll have childcare workers on hand so that parents can be free for conversation.
If you have kids, please check out the schedule below. I hope you'll bring your strengths, your worries, your hopes and maybe a favorite dish to share this Sunday.
Brightest blessings,
April
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Back-to-School Blessing at Both Services on Sunday --
During this "blessing of the backpacks," on August 19, we encourage teachers, school staff, college students, teenagers, and elementary-age children to bring a backpack, book bag or briefcase. Preschoolers and babies are welcome as well. It is our wish to share God's blessing for the new school year.
Back-to-School Family Potluck Picnic
(Noon, in the Pavilion) --After the 10:45 a.m. service, there will be a potluck picnic lunch in the pavilion. Families with children, toddlers and/or babies are encouraged to attend!
The church will provide fruit, veggies, and drinks, but we encourage you to bring a favorite dish to share. You may store food in the hospitality kitchen, where a refrigerator is available. Please let Maria know if you can help with this event.
mhurt@saygrace.net
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Godly Play Kickoff
-- Children's Sunday School returns this Sunday August 19. We hope to see your children there!
9:30 a.m. Godly Play (Elementary age)
10:45 a.m. Godly Play (older 3's, PreK-4, K)
These age groups are recommended. However, exceptions are often made since the curriculum is designed to accommodate all ages. The nursery is available from 8 a.m. until the end of the 10:45 a.m. service.
Maria Hurt
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Market Hosts Tomato Pie Contest (8-25)
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Dust off those cookbooks; dig through Gran’s collection of faded recipe cards and scan the back issues of Southern Living – it’s time for the Brainerd Market’s annual
“Killer Tomato Pie” Contest!
On
Saturday, August 25
th
, 10:00 a.m., you are invited to bring your most cherished tomato pie to the market, where patrons can pay $2 for the privilege of tasting samples and dubbing one the best in the land (well, in the Brainerd parking lot, at least!).
The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate and a year of bragging rights.
Visit the Brainerd Farmers' Market’s Facebook page for updates.
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Volunteers Sought for Farmers Market
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We are seeking volunteers to assist with the Brainerd Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. This is a great way to get to know our neighbors in the Belvoir/Brainerd area, to meet local farmers and artisans, to support local foodways, and to provide a warm welcome from Grace to Brainerd Farmers Market shoppers.
We're looking for folks who can help with the following times and activities on Saturdays:
9-10:30am Set-up -- help greet vendors and set up
booths/tents/tables
10am-12pm Market ambassadors -- Greet market guests
and provide neighborly presence
12-12:30am Break-down -- Put away tents and tables,
assist vendors with packing up
All new market volunteers will receive training from seasoned market volunteers. It's a great way to meet our neighbors, support sustainable agriculture, and get some grocery shopping done at the same time. Interested in helping out? Please contact Catherine Durham (
catheriner.durham@gmail.com
) or Erica Kelly (
erica.d.kelley@gmail.com
).
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I want to express my gratitude to all of you who helped spread a wonderful feast as we bid farewell to Zack Nyein and Michael Waterson last week. Thanks, too, to all of you who sent them off with generous offerings, including the notes and stories that you shared. We throw a good party here at Grace, and I know that Zack and Michael left feeling loved and appreciated.
With gratitude,
April
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Every woman in the diocese and her guests are encouraged to attend this exciting event! We’ll worship with Bishop Brian, spend time with our preacher, the Rev. Gayle Brown, our speaker, the Rev. Dorrie Pratt, renew old friendships, make some new ones, and hear from our own Pat Rutenberg, Province IV Past President and Kae Wrinkle current ECW President about Triennial.
Our special guest is the Rev. Dorrie Pratt who recently returned from a trip to Tanzania with Bishop Cole, several priests, and lay people from the diocese. She’ll share her learnings and observations involving the Women’s Empowerment Movement there and how we as Women in The Episcopal Church might be able to support that effort.
Find information and registration here.
Sewanee School of Theology DuBose Lectures
Sept. 26 and 27
Dr. Charles Marsh, guest lecturer for the DuBose Lectures & Alumni Gathering, began considering the religious and moral paradoxes of his own southern Protestant upbringing. He was struck by the complex ways theological commitments and convictions came into dramatic conflict in the civil rights movement in the American South. His memoir, The Last Days: A Son’s Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of a New South (Basic Books, 2001), is a coming of age account of a minister’s son in a small Mississippi town that was home to the Christian terrorist organization called the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This lecture is the first in a three-year series of DuBose Lectures on racial reconciliation.
Details here
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A Contemplative Approach to Spirituality and Sexuality
Within faith communities, perhaps no other topic provokes such heated debate as sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Join us for this two-day workshop at beautiful
St. Mary's Sewanee
as we engage in healthy and honest discussions around spirituality and sexuality, with the goal of enhancing the capacity of participants—spiritual directors, clergy leaders, or laypersons of any denomination—to discuss issues of faith and sexuality. We will not attempt to convince one another to adopt any view but rather offer a safe and sacred space to share knowledge, and to engage in open and honest dialogue. Tools will be provided for participants to engage in healthy discussion around sex, sexuality, and spirituality.
When: October 4, 2018
Where: St. Mary’s Sewanee (770 St. Mary’s Lane, Sewanee, TN)
The workshop will commence the morning of October 4 and will conclude that evening.
Tuition: $129 through September 5; $160 from Sept. 6
onward
Lodging at St. Mary’s for the night of October 3 may be purchased separately.
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Please pray for the family of Kathleen Harris, mother of Jim Harris, who died this week.
Give rest, O Christ, to your servant with your saints,
Where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing,
but life everlasting.
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Endowment Commitee (Merritt Room) -- Sunday, August 19, 9:00 a.m.
Vestry (Barth Room) -- Tuesday, August 21, 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, Diana McMurray, Alan McMurray; Intercessor, Nan Fortiner; Chalice, Susan Brown; Acolyte, Andy Lane; Ushers, Rick Jones, Mike Revenig; Greeter, Mairi Wright
At the 10:45 a.m. service:
Lectors, Edith Snider, Diana Peterson; Intercessor, Jean Whisenant; Chalice, Justin Bolinger, Nora Kile; Oblations, Kevin Boles, Will Pinson; Acolytes, Riley Hendrix, Jackson Ricketts, Jeff Bertrand; Lead Usher, Bill Pickering; Greeter, Meredith Ogle; Webcast (camera and sound), Adam Bryan, Augie Sevart
Lectionary Readings
Proverbs 9:1-6, Psalm 34:9-14. Ephesians 5:15-20, John 6:51-58
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