Growing in Faith. Creating Inclusive Community.
Serving with Compassion. Working for Social Justice
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February 28, 2021
Lent 2
(In person worship has resumed at 8, 9:15, and 11)
NEW
5 PM Sunday
Family Vespers
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PLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND
seating is limited
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Giving to Grace
2021 Annual Giving Campaign
Thank you to everyone who has supported the work and ministries of Grace Church through a pledge to the 2021 Annual Giving Campaign. As of February 24,188 individuals and households have pledged $708,707. We acknowledge and thank you here. We are both grateful and humbled by your generosity.
Stewardship — of God’s creation and of God’s Church — is unceasing. Throughout the year ahead we will be back in touch to update you on Grace’s financial health. We cannot be the church we aspire to be — one that is growing in faith, creating an inclusive community, serving with compassion, and working for social justice — without you.
It is never too late to add your pledge. You can make a pledge online through your Realm account, or by completing a pledge card found on the welcome table at the back of the church. As ever, please let us know if there’s anything we can do to help.
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Welcome Melissa!
Great News! Grace Church Brooklyn Heights has a new Parish Administrator. Please welcome Melissa Kelly to Grace as the new Parish Administrator. She will join us on March 1, 2021. If you see her, please introduce yourself and welcome her to Grace.
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Sundays In Lent 2021
February 21 – March 21,
10:00-10:45 am
Join us for a LENTEN BOOK STUDY
with the Rev. Dr. Allen Robinson
"WHO KILLED JESUS?”
by John Dominic Crossan.
The book study will be held online
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Introducing
FAMILY VESPERS
Sundays at 5pm via Zoom
While we are excited to resume our in-person 9:15 family service, we understand that some may not be quite ready to return to church. All are welcome to join Fr. Chris on Sunday evenings during Lent and Easter for this short service of prayer, featuring Scripture readings, a brief interactive homily, and song. Click here to join on Zoom.
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Deanery-wide
Way of the Cross
Fridays in Lent, 12:30-1:00 pm,
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Join neighboring Episcopal parishes in the Way of the Cross liturgy via Zoom.
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Who Am I?
II was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer born in Dayton, Ohio.
After my death, I attained standing as America’s foremost black poet and my works are prized as some of my greatest achievements. Who am I?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Black History Month
Who Am I?
I was born in 1858 in Raleigh, North Carolina and into slavery. I became one of the most prominent African-American scholars in the United States. I studied at the University of Paris ,Columbia University, Oberlin College and St Augustine’s University during the years of 1884-1924. Mary Church Terrell was one of my classmates at Oberlin and I was part of a literary society for women; the program featured many distinguished speakers. When I moved to D.C., together with Ida B. Wells, Mary Terrell and others, we formed the Colored Women’s League. The goals of this organization were to promote unity, social progress and the best interests of the African-American community
I wrote a book entitled A Voice from the South:By a Black Woman of the South in 1892 and I delivered many speeches calling for civil rights and women’s rights. I was a member of the same sorority as the current Vice President, Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA). I was referred to as the “Mother of Black Feminism”, because of my writings. In1964 I died in D.C. at the ripe old age of 105 and was buried in Raleigh, North Carolina, where my life and career began. Who am I?
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The Right Rev. Orris G. Walker, Jr.
UBE Chapter of the Diocese of Long Island
Saturday, February 27, 2021
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Please register in advance for this free special event here:
Presents a Special Virtual Screening of
Passage at St. Augustine: The 1964
Black Lives Matter Movement That
Transformed America
Followed by a Q&A Discussion with award-winning
Documentary Filmmaker, Clennon L. King
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Join the Rector’s Bible Study
on Tuesdays
Exploring the Book of Revelation
Join the Rector’s Bible Study on Tuesdays from 10:30-12 noon online here.
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Centering Prayer
Centering prayer is a Christian contemplative practice, a form of meditation. While many contemplative practices involve putting your attention on something — counting, a mantra, the rosary, a guided visualization, or even just heightened awareness — centering prayer takes a gentler and more radical approach. As thoughts go by, you don’t label them, watch them or push them away. You simply let them go and re-surrender to the silence. Centering prayer cultivates and trains this gesture of surrender, through which we let go of our desire to control and manage and understand everything. While its goal is a relationship with the divine, in this way it is also training for a life with more serenity, less anxiety — a useful antidote to this often ungrounded modern world.
For more Centering Prayer info and events, click here.
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Giving to Grace
Thank you for your on-going support as we continue to worship remotely. We are happy to let you know that you may now make a pledge or general offering donations by text!
Please send a text to 73256 with the message "GraceBrooklyn". The first time, you will be prompted to provide your name and address, including your card number. If you save that information for future use, the second offering by text will be immediate. You may also make one-time pledge payments and general offering donations online here.
If you would like to set up a recurring pledge payment on Realm, please contact Kate Rock for an invitation to join.
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In Remembrance or Gratitude...
Altar flowers are a wonderful way to express gratitude for life's blessings or memorialize a loved one.
If you would like to contribute Altar flowers, please contact Marilyn Grant. An acknowledgment will be included in the service bulletin.
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Parish Prayer Concerns
For peace and reconciliation for our nation and the world. For the homeless, the hungry, those who are alone, and those who are afraid. For children and teachers returning to in-person school. For those suffering from COVID 19, and those for whom prayers have been requested, especially: Marcelle; Linnea; Chris; Aryiro & Eric & family; Richard B.; Jane K.; Rosemarie; Andrew; Katie Lynn; Noreen; Stephen; Richard & Linda F., and all who care for sick or aging loved ones. For those who have died, especially the more than 500,000 Americans who have died of COVID 19, and for those who mourn.
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Weekday Visits to Grace
To insure your safety and maintain the workplace standards established by the Department of Health, we ask you to let us know ahead of time when you will be stopping by. When you visit please use only the Clergy Door, which is the first door on your right in the Hicks Street courtyard. Sign the Visitors Log at the door (should we need to do any contact tracing), sanitize your hands and, as always, wear a mask.
To minimize traffic, particularly while children are at school, please refrain from moving through the Parish Hall. The restroom at the back of the sanctuary is available for your use. We thank you!
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