Other News: Tri-State Bluebird Society will hold its season close-out meeting in the Grace Undercroft on Sunday, 14 November, 4:00-5:30 pm. We will also install the inaugural box in our revised Grace Bluebird Trail; we will need volunteer monitors for this 5-box trail beginning next spring. We will show you how to do this fascinating act of citizen science as we document cavity-nesting bird species on our property; it is perfect for kids!

Wherever the River Goes -- This Sunday (October 31) marks the beginning of a new class for adults, one that concerns water and Christians as environmental stewards. The group will meet at 9:30am in the undercroft to watch the film Hidden Rivers of Southern Appalachia, using a new curriculum called "Wherever the River Goes," developed by a Care of Creation grant from the Episcopal Church. All are welcome to join!

Lectionary Class -- This class, which looks at and discusses the lectionary prescribed for each Sunday, has resumed after a pandemic-induced hiatus. Some Sunday's they've met in the courtyard; when the weather isn't cooperative, they'll meet in the Barth Room (bring a mask just in case!). The class is facilitated by David Stanislawski.

Both the 8 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. services are currently taking place in the Nave. Please stop by the courtyard on your way in to assure it you still love it; it may feel lonely after so many weeks of hosting weekly gatherings!

Though the numbers in Chattanooga are improving, we are still firmly in the era of COVID and thus a need for caution, so we are asking that all who attend either service wear masks. The 10:45 a.m. service will be streamed online for those who are unable to attend. You can access the service at Grace's Facebook page , and you can find the bulletin for that service HERE.

Even though vaccinations are not 100% effective against virus transmission, they still remain our best option for reducing illness and death. These vaccines are safe, accessible, and comprehensively tested. Regions where high numbers of individuals are vaccinated are seeing far fewer COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths. It is the best way we have to show love for our neighbors right now, and loving our neighbors is our gospel mandate. If you are eligible to receive a COVID vaccination, but have not yet done so, please do so as an act of community care. Raising the vaccination rates in Hamilton County is essential to the health of all in our community, and essential to our common life at Grace.

If you have questions or concerns about worship practices, please feel free to contact me (aberends@saygrace.net) or Senior Warden, Andy Belcher (belcherandrewr@gmail.com).

Set-up for the reception is planned for Friday, November 5, at noon; if you can help with that or with cleaning up afterward on Saturday, please contact Terry Burnett at terry.burnett56@gmail.com. 

Sunday, November 7, brings our annual All Saints service, during which we remember those who have died in the past year. If you've lost family or friends since last All Saints Day and would like them to be remembered during the service, please contact Dabney by by Wednesday afternoon with their names (243-3257, dcarden@saygrace.net). There will also be an altar on which to put photographs or other memorial tokens during the service; these should be reclaimed after whichever liturgy you attend.

You can email Brittany Williamson at brittwilli90@gmail.com or call/ text at (865) 202-0481. 

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

& the password is: compline 

The Church of the Good Shepherd on Lookout Mountain invites everyone to "Reflect and Remember," a program of music and worship on Tuesday, November 2, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Through music and readings, those who attend will be encouraged to recall and reflect upon the many losses of the past 19 months and offer an opportunity for quiet contemplation as we prepare to move forward. Designed in a "drop-in" format, you are welcome to come at the beginning and remain until the end or to come and spend whatever brief time you have and depart when you will. There will be music and silences, words and time for thought, and an opportunity to light a votive calendar in someone's memory, and a litany.

The service will offer music by Frank Bridge, Richard Billingham, J.S. Bach, Dan Locklair, Tomaso Albinoni, and Samuel Barber. Readings will include selections from the Psalms , poetry by Alice Lupton Smith and reflections by The Rev. Judith Whelchel and Dr. Diana Butler Bass.

The program is open to all. Face masks are required, and socially-distanced seating will be maintained. Should you want more information, please contact John Wigal at jwigal@gslookout.com or via phone at the church (423.821.1583).

The church is located at 211 Franklin Avenue, Lookout Mountain, TN 37350; if you go up Scenic Highway, it's on the right before the road forks at the top of the mountain.

Those of you who enjoy the quarterly Forward Day by Day publication will notice that you are perilously close to the end of issue that concludes with entries for October. Fear not, though; the new one has arrived, so you can proceed without pause into November and sail without impediments through January of 2022.

Hard copies are scattered throughout the building: in the Narthex, on the table in the alcove, on the table outside the choir room, on the shelf outside the financial office and on a table in the Balch Room. Should you for any reason not be able to access these copies, you are invited to avail yourselves of electronic ones (links below). One way or another, you may continue your Forward march!

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria. 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 at ACoP.

In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: Pray for Trinity, Gatlinburg; for Tyson House, Knoxville; and for St. Peter, Ft. Pierre, SD.