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
AUGUST 8, 2020
Online Worship
As we continue to row, row, row our liturgical boat gently down the streaming, please note that you can access Sunday morning worship on our Facebook page and website  at 9am and again at 10:45am.  Bulletins for each week’s service will be sent along with the Grace Notes weekend issue, and will be posted on the website alongside the video for the service. If you miss the 9am or 10:45am video streams, you can always go back and watch later. You can access the bulletin for this Sunday here.

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IN THIS ISSUE
Online Worship
Christian Formation
Food Pantry
Webinar -- Repairing the Breach between the Police and the Community
Parish Prayer List
Community Care in Anxious Times
Online Worship (continued)
As we continue to protect our fellow citizens by refraining from gathering for in-person worship, you are invited to join with them in cyberspace through the nearly-daily services of Morning Prayer and Compline that our curate, David, is offering. Available every day (except Sundays) via Zoom, Morning Prayer begins at 9:00 a.m., and Compline at 8:00 p.m.; in order to dodge trolls who are tired of lurking under bridges and hunger for folks to harass, you will need to use the passwords below along with the Zoom addresses: 

Please note that there is a new link/URL for daily Morning Prayer. To  find Morning Prayer each day except Sundays at 9:00 a.m., click the link below


or paste this URL into your browser:


Meeting ID: 746 8859 6599

Passcode: amprayer


To get onto Compline everyday at 8pm, click this link: 


& the password is:

compline
 
Not only to get the support and comfort of the prayers and readings, but also the Zoom-presence of some of your favorite Grace folks. All are welcome!
Christian Formation
Study on Antiracism continues next week, Sundays at 10am 
On Sunday, July 5th, we’ll begin a community-wide conversation on antiracism. The primary text for this discussion group will be I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown. Brown’s memoir of growing up Black, Christian and female in majority-White schools and churches describes her experience of finding her way amidst the racial divide in this country. Brown offers insightful and personal analysis of White Christianity and the church’s attempts at seeking racial justice. 
 
A limited number of copies of I’m Still Here are available through the Grace Bookstore. Contact Dabney Carden at dcarden@saygrace.net to reserve a copy (cost is $19, which included tax). This class will meet via Zoom, and we’ll send out the link to access sessions in next week’s GraceNotes and on our Facebook page. For more information, contact David Burman (dburman@saygrace.netor April Berends (aberends@saygrace.net). 

To attend the class, at 10 a.m. on Sundays, click here:


or, should that not work for some reason, cut and paste this URL into your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84179947644?pwd=cGp3TmQxczlMSjB3aUV2Y3k4OG4vUT09

You’ll find a growing list of anti-racism resources at 



The Rev. Claire Brown, associate rector at St. Paul’s, Chattanooga recently offered a webinar on dismantling racism.  You can view the video here.
Food Pantry
Wednesday brought a lovely August morning in Grace’s courtyard, with water plants and lantana blooming and our crack team ready to receive visitors. Thirteen folks came in search of help and left with food for 43 – 27 adults and 16 kids. 

Many thanks to Linda Wideman and Gail Dooley, whose help is indispensible, and to Caleb Sexton and Jim Harris, who have been coming almost weekly and providing a great deal of assistance. Thanks as well to Richard Hyatt, who coordinates with the Belvoir neighborhood, and to April and Kathryn Barger-Howell and the estimable Anderson, who provide assistance with donations and the unwieldy green bins. The world would be bleaker for a lot of our neighbors without their efforts.

This week’s needs include:

* canned hams
* canned corn
* granola bars
* applesauce in biggish jars (23 oz or thereabouts) and other canned fruits
* Chef Boyardi microwavable cups
* spaghetti sauce and noodles
* pudding 
* packets of mashed potatoes

Thanks to all of our generous donors in the church and the neighborhood. Through your good will, we’re able to make life much less trying for our neighbors.
Repairing the Breach between the Police and the Community
What You and the Police Need to Know

Thursday, August 27, 1:00-4:00 PM

The Absalom Jones Center in Atlanta, Georgia is sponsoring this upcoming webinar with the hope that participants will bring back positive steps to their communities in advancing the conversation and the constructive work around policing. Bishop Brian is hoping that East Tennessee Episcopalians will join in this webinar, especially those with backgrounds in law enforcement. 

If you have an interest in participating, please contact Brother Andrew, amorehead@dioet.org or 865-966-2110, by August 13th so we can know that a delegation of East Tennesseans will join in this conversation as we re-imagine policing and public safety. Together, we all help build the Beloved Community.
Parish Prayer List
Please remember: Donald, our President; the Senate, the House of Representatives, and our Courts of Justice; together with all elected officials, and the other leaders of our country and the nations of the world.
 
We pray for Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury; Michael, our Presiding Bishop; Brian, our Bishop; for April, our priest; for David, our Curate; for George, our assisting priest; for Keith, our Seminarian; for our missionaries, and all other bishops and ministers.
 
We pray for the unemployed and underemployed, especially those in our congregation and community. We pray for the homeless and the hungry, and for those in special need of prayer, especially
 
Don and Ann Ludwig, Jim Munro, Trevor Laymance, Ted, Deb, Doris, 
Emily and Daniel Brelsford, Michael Conner, Chuck and Jason, Tom Wolfe,
Jane Williams, Bo and Mary Minor Brown, Helen Williams, Nancy Mapel, 
Charlotte Dorris, Tyler Horton, Jeff Fugate, Rebecca Williams, Tessa Spaulding, 
J.R. Hicks, Marcia Magers, Major McCollough, Peggy Fugate, Jean Lorren, William Simpson, Timothy Penny, Donald Jones,Cooper Jones, Sally Cauthen, Charles Smith,
Jonathan Purple, Steven Mosman, John Woodham, Libby Workman, 
Elaine Harrison, Jean Williams, Barbara Reed, Elizabeth Harrison, Joyce Smith, 
Jim May, Mary Ruth Clinton, and Ann Swint; 
 
We pray for Wil Mabry, Jake Dorris, Kevin Kelley, Tripp Mouron, Mike Mabry, Alexander Ross, Russel Webb, Logan Roberts, Jim Makepeace, Sean Benson, 
Evan Watkins and all of our Armed Forces, here and abroad;
 
We pray for Kerry Baker and Janine Revenig, who are with child;
  
We pray for this community: For our local leaders; for our schools and marketplaces; for our neighborhoods and workplaces, for protesters and for police. Help us to honor your image in one another. Give us courage to strive for justice and peace among all people, beginning here at home. 
 
We pray for all who are developing programs and policies to deal with the current public health threat; for those who are treating the sick, stocking shelves, transporting supplies, suffering from illness, coping with new life-patterns and finding ways to keep anxiety at bay for themselves and others. 
 
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer:  Pray for the Province de L’Eglise Anglicaine au Rwanda and The Most Rev. Laurent Mbanda, Archbishop of L’Eglise Anglicaine au Rwanda and Bishop of Shyira.
 
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: Pray for young persons (BCP p. 829) and for stewardship of creation (BCP p. 259).
 
Those in need of continued prayer: 
John Cox, John and Cherry Stewart, Gayanne Silver, Garvin Colburn, 
Heather Nelson, Robert Clark, Marty Landis, Dexter and Helen Williams, 
Cheryl McCurry, Ethel Rutledge, Carolyn Minnich, Lanie Lundgrin, Terri Harvey, 
Sue Sears, Anne Getz, Michael Roberts, Jeannie and Andy Williams, Jaime Cooper, Teresa Noel, Tina Knowles, Brad and Kimberly Calhoun, Joyce and Greg Snyder, Martha Killeffer, Robert Durham, Jim Curtis, Hal and Sue, Michelle Maroney, 
Jessica Ricketts
Community Care in Anxious Times
Our Grace check-in teams are continuing to check on households. Team leaders for each check-in group are contacting you via phone, text and/ or email. Please take a moment to pick up or write back to let them know if you’re okay and/or if you need help, pastorally or physically. The leaders of these groups will be in close communication with our priests and our network of volunteers. If you are a new member of Grace and we do not have your information in the directory, please fill out the New Member form here and let us know if you would like to be added to a check-in group. If you have an urgent pastoral need, please call the parish office at (423)243-3250 and leave a message on the main line. We will be checking these messages regularly even if we aren’t in the office.
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