The Season after Pentecost
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Though the Brainerd Market always has multiple attractions, this Saturday will be something else entire as the goats from Dixie Does Alpines/DixieSoaps will visit this weekend! You can discover the intricacies of milking goats; you can learn about goat husbandry, taste goat milk and cheese and even fudge!
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Goats to Visit Market Tomorrow
Barbara Burrows Funeral & Obituary
Grace Welcomes David Burman
Sunday Book Review Class
Summer Schedule to Begin 6/23
Food Ministry in May
Summer Solstice/ Make Music 6/21
Presiding Bishop Pride Message
Support Sought for Film Project
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
Hymns
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Dixie Soaps is owned by Bill and Becky Ensinger. They live and work on a six acre farm in Dayton, Tennessee. Becky has raised dairy goats and farmed for 25 years. Becky began making soap as a way to use surplus milk and eventually began selling her soaps and other skin care products. Dixie Soaps focuses on sustainable farming methods, and currently raise Alpine and LaMancha dairy goats.
The Market runs from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturdays in the Brainerd Road parking lot.
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Barbara Burrows Funeral and Obituary
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Grace Welcomes David Burman as New Curate
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David Burman, our new curate, came to us on Tuesday and leapt right in to the zoo of Grace, helping out at Arts Camp, finding his way around the nooks and crannies, and meeting staff and a variety of volunteers here for the camp, food ministry and Neema’s ESL classes. He will be with us this weekend for his first Sunday liturgies; welcome him warmly to the Grace carnival!
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The Book Review Class will meet this Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. in the Barth Room.
Coffee and doughnuts will be available in the third floor kitchen for those who need sustenance during the proceedings.
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Summer Schedule Begins June 23
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Mathematicians and temporal scholars, here is a puzzle for you: what do you get when you combine 8:00 and 10:45? The answer is 10:00, at least if you’re talking Sundays in the morning. On Sunday, June 23 – not this Sunday but next -- Grace will shift into its summer mode, consolidating its usual two liturgies into one service at 10:00 a.m. This schedule will stay in place through August 4; the traditional configuration of two liturgies with education time between the services will return on August 11.
Godly Play will be on hiatus through the summer, but there will be story-time for the young at 9:00 a.m.; the summer Book Review Class will also meet at 9:00 a.m. beginning the 23
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, with coffee and doughnuts available in the upstairs kitchen to save you the necessity of cramming breakfast into an earlier-than-usual schedule.
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The food ministry had another big month in May, thanks to all you generous folks who slip checks into the offering and leave bags-full of food in the kitchen and sacks of cans and packets in the alms-baskets on Sundays. You can see below where your donations went and how many folks you provided aid for:
Vouchers
– 84 visitors got 98 boxes of food from the Food Bank, which fed 255 people courtesy of Grace’s parishioners; we gave 6 milk vouchers
Food Pantry
– 38 visitors, representing 118 people, received food from our pantry
June has started out with a bang; by Tuesday the 11
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, we’d given 82 of the 85 available vouchers. Food will begin flying off the pantry shelves before you read this article; if you’d like to help us keep the pantry stocked, please see below for the things we need most:
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Tuna in pop-top cans or pouches
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Hearty soups and stews
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Spaghetti and spaghetti sauce
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Saltine crackers
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Summer Solstice/Make Music Chattanooga
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On the Summer Solstice, June 21st, please join the Joseph Campbell RoundTable and Yoga with Grace, to help with
Make Music Chattanooga
at Grace in the Pavilion. This is a national day of making music, particularly by non-professional musicians, and we are an unofficial venue this year. Various musicians will be playing during the day, including Kofi Mawuko in the late morning. Sharla Benedict Region will lead a Jam at 6 pm.
At 7, the RoundTable annual mandala will begin. A variety of natural and man-made materials will be included. Bring what you'd like. Multiples of things help spread the symmetry of the design, but singles are always welcome. ;-)
The RoundTable will supply "light liquid" refreshments. Belvoir Association has offered to supply water. Donations of "light food" are welcome and appreciated.
A chair or blanket might come in handy, plus insect spray for the evening.
Diana Peterson
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Presiding Bishop Honors LTGBTQ Episcopalians in Pride Month
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[June 12, 2019] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry today offered the following statement:
Jesus said: “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35)
In my years of ministry, I have personally seen and been blessed by countless LGBTQ sisters, brothers and siblings. Dear friends, the church has in like manner been blessed by you. Together with many others you are faithful followers of Jesus of Nazareth and his way of love. You have helped the church to be truly catholic, universal, a house of prayer for all people. You have helped the church to truly be a reflection of the beloved community of God. You have helped the church to authentically be a branch of the Jesus movement in our time.
Your ministries to and with this church are innumerable. I could speak of how you often lead our vestries, and other leadership bodies in the church. I could speak of how many of you organize our liturgies of worship, lift our voices in song, manage church funds, teach and form our children as followers of Jesus, lead congregations, ministries and dioceses. But through it all and above it all, you faithfully follow Jesus and his way of love. And in so doing you help the church, not to build a bigger church for church’s sake, but to build a better world for God’s sake.
During June, Americans and people around the world observe Pride. Today, as we mourn the 49 people who were murdered at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando three years ago, I am mindful that Pride is both a celebration and a testament to sorrow and struggle that has not yet ended. Especially this month, I offer special thanks to God for the strength of the LGBTQ community and for all that you share with your spouses, partners and children, with your faith communities, and indeed with our entire nation.
The Most Rev. Michael Curry
Presiding Bishop
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Support for Film Sought
(from the Diocese of East Tennessee)
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A Kickstarter campaign is in process to bring to life a feature documentary about the Philadelphia 11 - the women who, in 1974, went against the leadership of The Episcopal Church and became the first women priests in the church. The campaign is close to meeting its goal, and has only seven more days to go;
it ends on June 20
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You may remember that two of the Philadelphia 11 (the Rev. Alison Cheek and the Rev. Dr. Carter Heyward) were part of a symposium in our diocese in Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Women’s Ordination. The 45th anniversary is on July 29 this year.
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Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m.
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At the 8:00 a.m. service
: Lectors, Amie Brien-Slack, Katie Walters; Intercessor, Andy Lane; Chalice, Lyn Martin; Acolyte, Thomas Lane; Usher, Mike Revenig; Greeter, Jim Oakes
At the 10:45 a.m. service
: Lectors, Connie Parker, Diana Peterson; Intercessor, Breezie Finley; Chalice, Andy Belcher, Will Benson; Oblations, Tom and Skeeter Makepeace; Acolytes, Laura Bertrand, Ali Stahlwood; Lead Ushers, Jerry Evans, Tom Carroll; Greeter, Ann Watkins; Web Broadcast, Richard Hyatt, Phaen Stone
Lectionary Readings
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-15; John 16:12-15
Hymns
Holy! Holy! Holy!
(Hymnal 362);
To Thee, great One in Three
(Hymnal 365, verse 4);
Holy God, we praise thy name
(Hymnal 366, vs. 1-4);
Loving Spirit
(from Voices Found);
Ye watchers and ye holy ones
(Hymnal 618)
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