Sunday School for children: 10 a.m. in the Pavilion. Drop off the offspring as you head in for the 10 a.m. service so you can worship without having to react to hand-tugs, serendipitous leaps into the fountain and worrisome primal screams from behind the bushes.

8 a.m. Service -- This service will be held in the Nave (main indoor worship space), as long as the community continues to see a decline in infection rates. We will continue to celebrate Holy Eucharist in one kind (bread only), and the priests will wear masks throughout the service, unless they are preaching or officiating. The windows will be open and fans will be blowing. All in attendance at the 8am service, vaccinated or not, are asked to wear masks.

10 a.m. Service -- We will continue to hold outdoor worship at 10 a.m. in the courtyard at Grace. We felt it important to continue to worship outdoors to offer an option to families with young children, individuals who are not yet vaccinated, and others who are not yet ready to be worshipping inside. 

We ask that those who are not vaccinated wear masks when in close proximity to others at outdoor worship. Priests will continue to wear masks when distributing communion. We also recommend wearing sunscreen and/or a sunhat for this service.  We will always have some chairs available, but we ask that those who can bring their own chairs do so.  

Online Worship -- For those who must still be cautious about gathering among flesh-and-blood humanity, the 10 a.m. service will be live-streamed on

Facebook; the bulletin is available HERE.

That whoosh you hear is the coattails of June whipping around the corner to let July have the stage, which means that Arts Camp is closer than you think! If you're planning to enroll any of your offspring, grandchildren or visiting cousins, please leap -- or, considering the humidity and temperature, ooze -- into action. Details are below:

Arts Camp itself has been scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, July 24 and 25; Grace kids, grandkids, and children related to Grace visitors are invited to participate. We are not sure how many we can host in this era of COVID and quarantine, and we plan to handle things outdoors as much as possible.  

We need all volunteers from past years who might be willing to help. There will be some morning set-up on Saturday and Sunday, so even if you can't help with kids, perhaps you can help with that!! Please let me know if you are interested by emailing Maria at mariahurt1915@gmail.com or texting her at 423-503-4531. 

HERE : https://us04web.zoom.us/j/780772724

& the password is: compline 

The Rev. April Berends will be out-of-town this week and not available for office hours. The Rev. David Burman will be in the courtyard from 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, July 6. You can contact David at dburman@saygrace.net should you wish to set up an appointment at another time.

The last day of June brought 19 visitors toiling through the humidity to access the pantry; they left with food for 65 (38 adults and 27 children. Though it was less of a run on supplies than last week's food for 98, we find ourselves short of a number of goods. Should you be out and about this week and can pick up an item or two to relieve our emptiness, we will be very grateful! Most needed this week are:

Thanks on bended knee to parishioners and to our oh-so-generous Belvoir neighbors, whose donations enable us to help those who find themselves without so many essentials. Thanks also to the battalion of volunteers who helped this week with collection and distribution of goods: Richard Hyatt, Phaen Stone, Anderson Barger-Howell, Jim Harris, Nate Konsavage, Jim Dorris, Gail Dooley and Linda Wideman, who take care of both the pantry and the visitors. We are greatly blessed to have so many willing hands!

Directory -- Weary of having to stay on the home page and eschew travel during the pandemic, the online directory has kicked up its heels and headed off to a new location. You can access the new directory at https://graceepiscopal.breezechms.com/ the user name is ‘saygrace’ and the password is ‘Chattanooga’.

[In order to make access as easy as possible, we've added "BREEZE" to the menu items listed across the top of the webpage at www.saygrace.net. Click on BREEZE and use the above information to log in. And presto! You're there!]

In the process of moving the data, we noticed that a lot of the pictures are outdated. Some of the children in the photos are now adults who have moved out and are on their own. We will be updating the pictures later in the year as we come back to normal services. However in the mean time, please log in and review your data. If you see things that need to be changed or added, please send the new information to jnmilburn@epbfi.com.

Altar Flowers -- With in-person services occurring now at Grace, the church is once again offering the opportunity for parishioners to donate altar flowers and dedicate them in memory of or in thanksgiving for a loved one or important life-event such as birth, marriage, anniversaries, and other remarkable milestones. Cost is $77 (includes the delivery fee), and donors need do nothing more than write a check and supply the dedication. Sundays are available beginning in July; call (423) 243-3257 or e-mail Dabney at dcarden@saygrace.net to inquire about the availability of a Sunday.

Because it's been 16 months since we've dedicated altar flowers and some people's situations have changed, we are erasing all the standing orders we have on record and starting from scratch. If you have had a standing order in the past and would like to reinstate it or would like to establish a standing order, please contact the office using the information above.

Gentlemen of Grace, if 15 months of pandemic have given you an appetite to get away with the guys, you might consider the Laymen's Conference of the Episcopal Churchmen of East Tennessee. Dubose will host the 75th annual gathering of this estimable group from August 20-22.

This year's theme is Life After... A Look at the Christian Perspective on Dealing with Life Transitions and How We Approach, Embrace and Thrive after Them. Speakers include NFL Hall-of-Famer Willie Roaf (Pre-recorded; Life after the NFL), Bob Corker, (In-Person; Life after Politics), and Dr. Peter Doherty (pre-recorded; Life after the COVID 19 Pandemic). For more details or to register, go to

http://tnchurchmen.org .

With the donation match, Pride Mass raised just over $3,400 for the Trans Empowerment Project and Appalachian OUTreach. Thank you to everyone that donated to this year's collection.

https://vimeo.com/566669923 (Pride Mass)

https://vimeo.com/566661317 (Interview with Bishop Cole and The Rev. Joseph Wallace-Williams)

Brother Andrew Morehead has promised information on how to get a "God Made You Fabulous" t-shirt in the Diocese's next dispatch; you can e-mail him directly at amorehead@dioet.org if you'd like to sign-up for Pride news.

Jennifer Thompson, June McEwen,  Amy, Deborah, Jim Hinkle, Andrea, Ann Ludwig, the Hale family (Austin, Amanda, and Autumn); the Brown family, Reba, Niysah, Daniel Parker, Valorie Lephart, Terrie, Alex, Steve Slack, Angela, 

We pray for those who have died, that your will for them may be fulfilled, and that they may share with all your saints in the full revelation of your eternal glory.

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. The Anglican Communion has adopted a cycle of prayer called "From Aba to Zululand," praying its way alphabetically through its members on a daily basis between January 1, 2021 and September 2023. The newsletter and, in the future, the printed bulletin, will include the prayers for Sunday; if you would like to see the daily prayer requests, you can find them HERE.

In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: Pray for St. Andrew's, Harriman, TN; Mediator, Kyle, SD; and for the country (BCP p. 815).

John Woodham, Elaine Harrison, Marcia Magers, Major McCollough,