Since there are fewer plants in play this year, please call or e-mail the church office (243-3257; dcarden@saygrace.net) to make sure the kind you want is available. If you do not want a plant but would like either to submit a dedication or just help defray the church’s cost, you are welcome to make a contribution in whatever amount is comfortable for you. The deadline for inclusion in the Easter bulletins is noon on Thursday, April 14.     

During Lent the Sunday morning adult formation group will be working on Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent which is part of the Becoming Beloved Community program of the National Church. The Way of Love has seven themes: Turn, Pray, Learn, Bless, Rest, Worship, and Go. We will be focusing on one of these during each of the seven Sundays of Lent. We hope you will be able to join us in the Barth Room at 9:30 a.m. for all or some of the sessions.

Inquirers' Class/Episcopal 101 continues this week at 9:30am (in the Merritt Room) and 6:30pm on Thursday, March 31^th  (via Zoom), all who are interested in baptism, confirmation, reception, or reaffirmation are invited to explore church tradition, history and our place in the Episcopal faith through Inquirers’ classes. Led by Lay Catechist Laura Bertrand, Rev. April and our seminarians, this class will be a space for exploring questions about belief and practice within the Episcopal Church, as well as the life of faith in general. 

(While registration is not required, we would love to know you're coming!). Please contact Laura Bertrand for more information (laura@laurabertrand.com). 

For the safety of the community, we encourage all to take advantage of vaccinations and boosters, and we ask that all who attend either service or any indoor activity 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.

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

1. Due to intense scheduling, we are calling a late- notice meeting for THIS SUNDAY, 27 March, at 12:30 pm at Grace Episcopal Church, 20 Belvoir Avenue.  We apologize, but this is new enough that we decided more details needed sorting. For newcomers, this is a wonderful way to "stick in a toe" for those who are curious. Lunch is provided. We meet in the Rebecca Merritt Room, 3d floor. Business begins as soon as we get a bowl of soup.

2. Until we get web access, our new Facebook page is our public media. This is a private Facebook group where we hope to exchange events, questions, ideas, and information for our region. It is "GreenGrace Chattanooga." Ask to join, answer the questions and, voila. See  https://www.facebook.com/groups/322239923203733.

Upcoming events. These are public events; all are welcome. Events giving Master Gardener hours are noted with *.  

On Wednesday, heroic volunteers Gail Dooley and Linda Wideman served 20 visitors, who took food for 61 -- 40 adults and 21 children (we also served two families on Tuesday, bringing the week's total to 67). We started out extremely well-supplied and finished with some impressive swaths of emptiness on the shelves. Most needed to fill those gaps are:

* canned chicken and tuna

* canned hams

* canned fruit (15-oz. preferred)

* Spaghetti sauce and spaghetti noodles

* hearty chicken soups

* canned baked beans

* saltine crackers

* packets of instant mashed potatoes

* packets of instant grits

* beanie weenies (large cans)

* pop tarts

* pudding cups

Thanks to all of you who contribute food and $$ to keep the pantry stocked; we are not only blessed with generous donors within the parish but with multitudes of open hands and hearts in the surrounding Belvoir neighborhood, who send bins of goods each week. Special thanks this week to Kathryn Barger-Howell (assisted by April and Anderson, no doubt!), who set out bins, collected bins and delivered bins; greater love hath no one than to unload bags upon bags from vehicle to cart on a blowsy Tuesday morning!

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

& the password is: compline 

The application deadline is April 30th, 2022. If you wish to apply, please contact Paula Garner, Parish Administrator (423-243-3250, ext. 2), for an application. 

Here I Am Day

On Saturday, May 21, the Episcopal Church in East Tennessee will host its annual Here I Am Day. This program is intended for anyone who is discerning a call to licensed lay ministry, religious orders, the vocational diaconate, or to the priesthood. It will include remarks by the Bishop, panel discussions with lay and ordained ministers, and opportunities for prayer and fellowship.

All individuals who have begun a process of discernment within their parish are expected to attend, along with their sponsoring clergy. Others who are just beginning to explore a call and who would like more information about different ministries and tools for discernment are also encouraged to participate.

Please feel free to contact Jon Humber, Episcopal Engagement Specialist, with any questions at jhumber@dioet.org.

Grace's next Family Promise stint will be in June -- dates TBA. If you volunteer for this ministry or are interested in becoming involved, activate your radar as Mothers' Day creeps close and watch for details in Grace Notes and the bulletin.

Please use Grace's P.O. Box for dispatches containing money or other valuables: hard times persist for some of our neighbors, and checks have disappeared from our mailbox more than once. The address is Grace Episcopal Church,

The directory can be accessed via the church's webpage (www.saygrace.net). Find the menu item “BREEZE” at the right end of the menu options that sprawl across the screen near the top, click and log in; user name is ‘saygrace’ and the password is ‘Chattanooga.’

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Church of the Province of Myanmar. 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: Please pray for these South Dakota churches: Ascension, Blackfoot; St. Mary, Promise; St. Thomas Station, On the Tree; Emmanuel, White Horse.