E-Blast for Oct 22, 2021

Our Protocols for Live, In-Person Services

Both Sunday services at Grace St. Paul’s — 7:45 and 10 a.m. — are live and in-person. The 10 a.m. service will also continue to be live-streamed.

To ensure the safety of all present, these are the steps being taken:

Windows and doors to the outside are opened throughout the service.
Merv 13 air filters have been installed.
Pews are marked for seating locations, insuring 6 feet distance between family groups.
Service time is under 75 minutes.
Maximum seating capacity allowed is 200.
All congregants must wear a mask, properly worn over nose and mouth.
Congregational singing is now allowed with masks on.
Communion is served in one kind.
Children and youth and the nursery will meet outside and in McBride Hall, with the swamp cooler running to provide 100% air from the outside.
Only those who have been fully vaccinated should attend services in person.

Parents, please note. The nursery is staffed every Sunday in the Undercroft for the 10:00 a.m. worship service. Kids can be dropped off as early as 9:40 a.m. Nursery is for infants-age 3. Kids are welcome to enjoy church with their families in the Sanctuary.

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LIVESTREAMING CHURCH on SUNDAY, 10 A.M.

Bulletins: GSPtucson.org/bulletins

Livestream the Sunday 10:00 AM service on Facebook: www.TinyURL.com/GSPVirtual

High quality video of Sunday Worship, available Sunday about 7 p.m. www.tinyurl.com/gspvids

*Please wear name tags so folks can recognize you in your mask.*

Don't have a name tag?

Call the office, 327-6857,

or email

ParishAdmin@Grace-StPauls.org.

If you requested a name tag,

please check with an usher

on Sunday morning.

Sunday Offering

Please remember, we do not take the offering during the worship services. You can drop your offerings in the box in the narthex.

You may also make your donations by U.S. mail or via the EasyTithe online portal.

Thank you for your continued support of Grace St Paul’s. We are able to make a difference in the world because of your support & generosity.

Community Celebration of Life/Memorial/Burial & Installation of Plaques

for our Companion Animals,

Oct. 23, at 3 p.m.

Let us honor our deceased companion animals during the Season of Creation as a community by burying your animal's cremains/ashes in our Animal Memorial Garden and/or memorializing them with a plaque on our Memorial Wall.

On Saturday, Oct. 23, at 3 p.m., Grace St. Paul’s will hold its annual service to celebrate the life of companion animals through the burial of ashes/cremains in the Animal Memorial Garden.

All those who are mourning the death of companion animal(s) are invited to attend. Many people have commented on the healing result of this special service for our deceased companion animals. There will be social distancing and masks will be required.

Día de los Muertos and Samhain (Celtic Festival of the Dead)

Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 — 5 p.m. on ZOOM — led by Spirit Now

Link https://zoom.us/j/948146775

Join us for a unique service celebrating Tucson’s combined Irish and Mexican heritage. It will feature a Celtic liturgy as well as the creation of a “virtual ofrenda” or Día de los Muertos altar. Participants are invited to send to steve.kelsey@gmail.com (by Monday, Nov. 4^th) digital pictures of loved ones who have died, or of mementos of them to display “on” our “virtual Ofrenda”. A picture taken with your phone (or scanned) will work fine.

If any who are not on the weekly Spirit Now email list and would like a copy of the bulletin for this service sent to them by email before the service, send a note requesting this to steve.kelsey@gmail.com by Thursday, Oct. 28.

IN ADDITION… Spirit Now is coordinating the creation of a “tangible” Ofrenda in the Sanctuary as is our usual custom, which will remain in the chancel from the Feast of All Saints Sunday, Nov. 7, through Sunday, Nov. 14. If anyone wishes to place on that Ofrenda pictures or mementos of loved ones, or donate Mums, feel free to add them in the 15 minutes before the service you attend on Nov. 7. If you would like to help Steve Kelsey and others with this project, send him an email asap at: smkelsey@gmail.com

NOTE: Spirit Now meets weekly by Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/948146775 at 5 p.m., and all are welcome to join us whenever! We are celebrating the Creation Season through November, and special services being planned on the theme of Caring for Creation on Nov. 11 and Nov. 18. (We are taking Thanksgiving Day off.)

NOVEMBER

FIRST FRIDAY

PLAY READING

"FILM NOIR"

The GSP Spirit Players will host the November First Friday Play Reading via a virtual gathering on Nov. 5, at 7 p.m., still on Zoom. This month we explore "Film Noir," a style of post-World War II American filmmaking, used primarily for crime dramas, and characterized by elements such as cynical heroes, use of flashbacks, and stark contrasts of black and white lighting effects.

Two of the scripts for the evening are of the well-known detective mystery type where a Private Investigator (Philip Fibonacci in "The Big Shell") meets a femme fatale in distress (Polly Nomial in "2 + 1 = Murder") and attempts to solve a murder. A third script — "Hands of Horror" — is one woman's story of her descent into the underworld told through flashbacks. "Film Appreciation" isn't close to the Noir genre, but pays homage to every famous line you've ever heard from any movie. The evening closes with the classic suspense film (and play), "Sorry, Wrong Number."

People who wish to participate as readers on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. should RSVP to Nanalee Raphael (contact information is in the Parish Directory) by midnight Tuesday, Nov. 2 (Election Day). Parts will then be assigned and scripts will be emailed to all participants — readers and audience — on the Wednesday before the reading, along with the Zoom sign-in information. Roles may not be available for everyone, but audience members are always welcome!

All plays are suitable for humans ages 16 and above. All are encouraged to attend! Popcorn and sodas are encouraged.

Check out this beautiful music video about suicide prevention.

Our own Fiona Fischer stars in it.

Thank you, Fiona, for your proactive stance. A singer, musician, and an actor! You rock!

'The Prophet of Nothingness'

We celebrate the release of GSP parishioner Joy Williams's new novel, Harrow.

Be sure to check out Anthony Domestico's review of Joy's work in The Atlantic magazine.

Are you interested in helping people being evacuated from Afghanistan?

We are working with Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest who will be providing information regarding how we can help. You may register with them at www.lss-sw.org/afghanistan-help to show your interest in volunteering.

For donating household goods or furniture, please contact Jean Pascal at jngoie@lss-sw.org. No mattresses will be accepted.

If you are interested in their co-sponsorship program, please email Jessica O’ Donnell at jodonnell@lss-sw.org. This program requires training which is given by Lutheran Social Services.

If you have other questions, email Jill Jenkins at g.g.jenkins44@att.ent and she will try to answer them or refer you to someone at LSS-SW.

VIRTUAL ADULT EDUCATION

Dr. Chuck Dickson's latest Virtual Adult Education presentation is all about St. Luke the Evangelist.

You can find this and all Dr. Dickson's earlier informative offerings on the GSP website .

Church Financial Status to September 30, 2021

Budgeted Revenue: $472,985
Actual Revenue: 447,677

Budgeted Expenses: $493,976
Actual Expenses: 471,990

Actual Shortfall to 9/30: $24,313

Join GSP's

Anti-Racism

Study Group

Next meeting will be Oct. 27

4th Wednesday — 4:30-5:30 p.m.

In response to GSP's vision of social justice, the church's “anti-racism to ally” group has been endeavoring to live into its vision through focusing on social justice. The group has focused on writings regarding racism and white privilege, and aims to "move from anti-racism to ally."

To be put on the list to receive materials, to get zoom information on our monthly zoom meeting, or if you have any questions, please contact Rev. Chris, Jill McCollum, Barbara Morehouse, or Peggy Scott through the church office, 520-327-6857.

Book Study: Self-Revelation — East and West,

Carl Jung and the Tao

Dr. John Dore offers a weekly book study on Sundays at 5 p.m. in the Bloom Room titled: Self-Revelation — East and West, Carl Jung and the Tao.

We begin with the question: “what exactly are we as human beings?” We’ll explore

two ways of responding to the question — Karl Jung’s vision of human nature and with

Taoist beliefs and practices, begun by Lao Tzu, about human consciousness.

This brings up questions like “who am I really?”; a ‘human-doing’ or ‘human-thinking

machine’? “When can I just BE without thinking, doing something?”

The study offers an introduction to Jung’s comprehensive psychology, applying it to

issues that arise. In pondering the Tao we learn the key principles of Taoism. Each

session includes a brief teaching on the book material (often a poem), a discussion of

the most engaging ideas (all sharing is voluntary), as well as some hands-on

experience of these ideas. This includes breathing techniques, meditations (both silent

and guided), viewings of art, audiotapes, and perhaps movement like QiGong.

MIGRANT JUSTICE

Migrant Monday!

The GSP Migrant Ministry will meet in-person on Monday, Oct. 25, 4:30-5:30, in McBride Hall to assemble snack packs for the many migrants leaving Casa Alitas for their U.S. sponsors' homes.

Our packs give them nourishment during their long trips. No soup or other food is needed. Please join us! Many hands make light work.

For more information, please call Margie at 310-903-0280 or email her at mmarjorieking@gmail.com.

A Prayer Vigil is held every first (Nov. 1) and third Monday (Nov. 15), 4:30-5:30 p.m. for migrants, asylum seekers, refugees and those threatened with deportation.

Prayers may be offered in Spanish and English.

All are welcome.

Please join us on Zoom:

zoom.us/j/336535932

Artisans Beyond Borders, (ABB) a bi-national ministry at Grace St. Paul’s, began in 2019 as a way to bring trauma-informed arts and activities to asylum-seekers and their families waiting in shelters and on the streets in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

Today, in the shadow of politics and pandemic, therapeutic arts and the dignity of artisanal craft continue to bring comfort to the traumatized and hope to asylum-seekers. Bordando Esperanza / Embroidering Hope, the flagship program, also helps restore personal agency and income through Etsy shop sales of artisans’ original hand-embroideries.

For more information, please visit the ABB website:

artisansbeyondborders.org/

Casa Alitas Welcome Center

Thank you to our volunteers & supporters! Please spread the word about our work & recruiting friends, family, & colleagues for volunteering. All of our teams could use the help!

Please click here for more info on Volunteering, Donations, & Job Openings!

Donations Currently Needed:

For men: new underwear, socks, T-shirts, baseball caps, athletic pants (especially smaller sizes), shoes
For women: new underwear, bras, new men's underwear, lycra/stretch leggings, socks
For children: clothing sizes 2-12, new underwear, shoes
Backpacks

TiHAN Update

Thanks to the sponsoring faith communities who covered the cost of the meal, brought all of the CarePackage items, and donated prizes for games of virtual BINGO:

Aldea Spiritual Community
Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church
St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church

Please click here to read the latest from TiHAN. Note the picture of Rod Howell & Stephen Hymel unloading their car with items for the CarePartners CarePackages!