Grace Notes Weekly is a newsletter of Grace Episcopal Church in Chattanooga, TN,
and is used to communicate the upcoming activities of this community.
The Season After Pentecost
OCTOBER 12 , 2018
Pride Mass on Saturday
To culminate Pride Week in Chattanooga, Grace invites all to a Pride Mass on Saturday evening, October 13, at 5:30 p.m. God’s creation is intricate and diverse, and our culture has been slow to realize that the many variations of humanity are strengths rather than weaknesses, with all beloved and all created by the same hand. Come honor the God of diversity and God’s myriad expressions of personhood through a celebration with the LBGTQ+ community; all are welcome!
IN THIS ISSUE
Pride Mass
Family Promise
Healing the Broken Justice System
Grocery Gift Cards for Thanksgiving
Food Pantry & Hurricane Relief
Joseph Campbell RoundTable
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
Family Promise
Next week, Grace will host Family Promise at the Church of the Nazarene, with three families as guests. Some slots have been filled, but volunteers are still needed for overnight stays and perhaps a few other roles pending confirmation from those who have filled various positions during past service weeks. If you’d like to volunteers, please contact Skeeter Makepeace at skeeterellen55@gmail.com .
Helping to Heal the Broken Justice System
Perhaps you read the article in Tuesday’s paper on a group organizing to raise funds for providing bail bond moneys for individuals that cannot afford to post bond. There is a Community Bail Fund meeting on October 18th . Their goal for attendance is 5-person commitments from organizations across the city. If you are interested in ways in which our justice system is broken and would be interested in attending this meeting please let David Stanislawski know and we will try to organize a group of at least 5 to attend from Grace. You can contact him at david.stanislawski@chattanoogastate.edu .
Gift Cards from Grocery Stores for Thanksgiving
It is not too early to think about gift cards for grocery stores to donate to Metropolitan Ministries. Either put them in alms plate or leave at church office. Publix is giving ten dollar gift cards if you get a flu shot there, and all of us should get a flu shot!
Outreach Committee
Opportunities to Help -- Food Pantry, Hurricane Relief
Food Pantry -- Though we are not at Mother Hubbard levels, several of our pantry staples are dwindling. If you’d like to help restock our shelves, these are the things whose populations are currently endangered:
 
·       canned vegetables (peas, carrots, pinto beans, especially)
·       peanut butter
·       jars of spaghetti sauce
·       saltine crackers
·       tuna
·       Chef Boyardee pastas
·       beef stew
·       mashed potatoes
·       beanie weenies
·       squeeze packets of apple sauce
·       oatmeal
 
You’re gifts have made life easier for grandmothers, for disabled veterans, for abandoned wives and families whose savings have vanished because of illness and medical bills. Thanks, thanks, thanks!
 
Hurricane Relief -- First Florence, and now Michael (and of course there are still problems from Maria and Irma and Harvey, too). If you’d like to donate to help, you can do so in a couple of different ways:
 
 
You’ll be able to donate via credit card at whatever level you’d like. You may mail a donation to ERD at P.O. Box 7058, Merrifield, VA 22116-7058.
 
 
2.  Gift Cards for New Bern, NC: You can help in either (of both!) of two ways;
 
1.  Buy a gift card of any amount from Lowes, Wal-Mart, Target, Food Lion, or Publix, and send it to the Ven. Chris Harpster, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Kingsport TN. St. Paul’s will be collecting gift cards through October.
 
2.  Send a check payable to St. James Episcopal Church – be sure to include “Rector’s Discretionary Hurricane Help” in the memo line. Send the check to St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 North Broadway, Knoxville TN 37917, Attention: Hurricane Help.
Joseph Campbell RoundTable
Dr. Deborah Levine
The Magic Marble Tree: A Writer's Journey
 
Please join us Monday, October 15th for author and cultural diversity consultant, Deborah Levine to present on her latest book The Magic Marble Tree: A Writer's Journey.  She will discuss the role of writing and storytelling in developing the perspective and tenacity to face life's challenges, and the spiritual growth which comes as a result of facing them. Deborah's own tradition is Judaism and she will share of her own spiritual and mystical experiences. Her professional training and experience has been in working with cultural/religious diversity. Her articles have been published widely, but most recently, with her own column in the Chattanooga Times/Free-Press.  
 
The RoundTable meets at 7 pm at Grace Episcopal (20 Belvoir Avenue; at the intersection of Brainerd and Belvoir). Park in the upper parking lot and walk up the sidewalk toward the church. At the breezeway, turn right into the building. The Merritt Room is down the hall on the right.  
 
Visitors and guests are welcome. There is no charge to attend, though small donations are appreciated which go to support the Roundtable program for the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and our local host, Grace Church.  

Handicapped access is available through the lower parking lot, use the middle red doors to access the elevators.
MEETINGS THIS WEEK
Vestry (Barth Room) -- Tuesday, October 16, 6:00 p.m.
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m.
Serving This Sunday
At the 8:00 a.m. service : Lectors, Thomas Evans, Emily Evans; Intercessor, Dick McGee; Chalice, Alan McMurray; Acolytes, Cindy Davidson, Thomas Evans; Usher, Jim Dorris; Greeter, Vivian Dodds
 
At the 10:45 a.m. service : Lectors. Savannah Jackson, Janet McCollough; Intercessor, Blair Callaway; Chalice, Paul Thomas, Terry Burnett; Oblations, George Reed, III, and Sandra Reed; Acolytes, Stephen Jones, Ouisi Hamilton, Jerry Draper; Lead Usher, Mike Revenig; Greeters, Jim and Laura May; Webcast (camera and sound), Bill Boren

Lectionary Readings
Amos 5:6-7, 10-15; Psalm 90:12-17; Hebrews 4:12-216; Mark 10:17-31
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