Sunday and Daily Liturgies
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Morning Prayer on Sundays
-- Morning Prayer continues online this Sunday, and you are invited to join us via the device of your choice at 9:00 a.m. to worship together from our various living rooms, kitchens, dens and decks.
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Online Liturgies
Children's Ministry
Food Pantry
Community Care
Tornado Relief
Stewardship Update
Easter Flowers
Parish Prayer List
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Videos of Morning Prayer will be posted on our
Facebook
page and
website
at 9am. Bulletins for each week’s service will be sent along with the GraceNotes Friday issue and will be posted on the website alongside the video for the service. If you miss the 9am video stream, you can always go back and watch later. You can find the bulletin for this Sunday
here.
Daily Morning Prayer and Compline --
Along with our virtual Sunday liturgy, Grace offering daily prayer online via zoom! Morning Prayer, which takes 20-25 minutes, is at 9 a.m. every day, and Compline, which takes 10-15 minutes, is at 8 p.m. every day.
Meeting ID: 160 460 538
To get to Compline at 8 p.m. every day, here is the link & meeting ID:
Meeting ID: 780 772 724
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Children's Sunday School --
Well, children's Sunday school has been behind, but we are catching up. We have started moving online with a first lesson this week. Please email me if you didn't get the short videos.
I would love to include video from the kids themselves and from kid-friendly church members. If you have garden projects, art projects or favorite stories that you would like to share by video, let me know. It can be a favorite poem or an activity you'd like to share. You can record yourself or give it to me and I'll have someone record it. Just as in the weekly online service, we would like to have a variety of faces and many good brains involved in our children's ministry.
Grace Episcopal Arts Camp 2020 --
While we may not be able to have a live-and-in-person art camp, we are beginning to think about how we can do it online. Your suggestions and help are welcome. The theme is
Exploring the Chattanooga Art Scene
. It seems appropriate that in this stay-at-home year we focus locally.
One thing I want to do, whether we are in person or online, is to make slideshows of art and architecture around town. If you have any good shots, with or without people in them, that I could use, please send the pictures to me. I am trying to get everything from the walking bridge, Aquarium, carousel, Choo-Choo & Hunter Museum to the many murals & statues that make our city more fun. Most photos I find online have a watermark and won't be good in a slideshow.
Furthermore, if you have memorabilia, videos or anything related to Chattanooga culture that you'd like to share or suggest, please let me know. If you'd like to help edit videos and slide shows, let me know that as well.
Maria (mhurt@saygrace.net)
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Thanks to a generous neighborhood and a congregation willing to make a trip on Wednesdays to bring supplies, Grace's pantry has continued to provide food for a number of visitors each Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. This week, we had 12 people ring the doorbell, and they left with food for themselves and the other 21 folks in their households.
Thanks to all who brought food on Wednesday and to Richard Hyatt for his coordination with the Belvoir neighborhood and his stalwart presence on Wednesdays!
Should you be in a position to obtain a thing or two for us this week, here are items most needed:
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hearty soups and beef stew
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Canned hams
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Spam or similar
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Canned tuna
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Canned pinto beans
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Peanut butter (16 oz. jars)
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Pudding
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Instant mashed potatoes
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Packets of instant grits and oatmeal
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Spaghetti sauce and noodles
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Community Care in Anxious Times
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Our pastoral care Grace check-in teams are continuing to check in on households. Team leaders for each check-in group will be 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 (choose April Berends or Dabney to get to the right extension)
. We will be checking these messages regularly even if we aren’t in the office.
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The later hours of Easter Sunday and early the following morning brought high winds and tornadoes in the Chattanooga area, especially in East Ridge, East Brainerd, Ooltewah and Cleveland. Since then, our priests and teams of lay leaders have been reaching out to members of our community to make sure that they are safe. Our rector, April, also met online with leaders from local Episcopal parishes whose communities were affected by the storms. This group decided to direct funds to Grace (for local needs in the Chattanooga area) and St. Luke’s, Cleveland (for needs in the Cleveland area). Funds collected at Grace will be used to meet needs that arise from the tornado in Hamilton County, attending to the needs in our parish communities and those we serve through our outreach ministries. If you would like to make a contribution for this purpose, you may contribute
online
(be sure to select “Rector’s Discretionary Fund” from the drop-down options on the right-hand side) or send a check to:
Grace Episcopal Church
Rector's Discretionary Fund--Tornado Relief
20 Belvoir Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37411
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The last time we met at Grace for an in-person worship service was on March 8th. We continue to adapt in these uncertain times and I hope you are finding the time to attend one of the virtual church services on the church Facebook page or website.
In addition to social distancing and the disruptions of our daily life, many of us face uncertain economic times as well. Grace church is no different -- we still have to pay the bills. Even though some of our expenses are lower since we have closed the building, our income from donations and pledges have also decreased. If you have not yet made your April pledge, you can do so online at
https://www.saygrace.net/give-552103.html
or you can mail your check to Grace Episcopal Church, 20 Belvoir Avenue, Chattanooga TN 37411. If you are unable to maintain your pledge at this time, or need to adjust your pledge, please call Paula Gardner (423-243-3250, ext. 2) or send a quick email to pgarner@saygrace.net so that we may adjust our budget as needed.
Also, you are probably aware that congress recently passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act. Following are three items from that Act that may affect charitable giving this year:
New charitable deduction for taxpayers who do not itemize.
Beginning in 2020, individuals can deduct $300 in charitable contributions from their gross income even if they do not itemize deductions. Donations must be made in cash to a charity. Gifts of appreciated securities, and gifts to a donor advised fund or supporting organization, do not qualify.
No cap on charitable deductions for taxpayers who do itemize.
Donors who itemize their deductions can usually deduct cash contributions up to 60% of their adjusted gross income. For 2020, that cap is lifted, and donors contributing cash to charity may deduct up to 100% of their income, a significant tax savings for anyone able to contribute larger amounts. Again, this is only for gifts of cash, and only for gifts made directly to a charity (not to donor-advised funds or supporting organizations).
No required minimum distributions, but qualified charitable distributions still possible.
The CARES Act eliminates required minimum distributions (RMDs) from many retirement plans in 2020. Some donors have been using their RMDs for tax-advantaged charitable gifts by making a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) directly to a charity. Under the CARES Act it is still possible for donors who are 70 ½ or over to contribute up to $100,000 directly to a charity without paying tax on the distribution.
The CARES Act is a complex new law. Donors should always consult with their own professional advisors before making a gift.
Thank you for your generous support of this community of Grace, which continues to sustain us and keep us connected, even in difficult times.
Peace,
Richard Hyatt, Stewardship Chair
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As of Wednesday, there were several Easter lilies and a lone white hydrangea in the courtyard-kennel, awaiting their forever homes. If you would like to adopt one of these plants, please feel free to do so; if you feel inclined to make a donation to the church to help defray the cost, so much the better! The lilies are lined up on the left side of the courtyard around the wall of the flower bed just past the fountain, and the hydrangea is (or was) on the right, sitting on a walkway near the building.
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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.
We pray for parishioners and loved ones, especially Jane Williams,
James and Barbara Dooley, Kathleen and Caroline Belcher,
Bo and Mary Minor Brown, Helen Williams, Nancy Mapel, David Stanislawski, 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, Chris Barker, Cooper Jones,
Sally Cauthen, Charles Smith, Jonathan Purple, Steven Mosman, John Woodham, Libby Workman, Rebecca Cook, 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, Jordan Tschoepe, 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 Erin Baker, Kerry Baker and Lizzy Mouron, who are with child.
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.
We pray for those who lost homes, property, and loved ones in the storms last weekend, and ask for strength and perseverance for those coping with damage to their homes and neighborhoods.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer:
Pray for the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and The Most Rev. Michael Lewis, Archbishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East and Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf.
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
: Pray for The Church of the Good Samaritan, Knoxville, and for St. Barnabas, Jefferson City; and for these South Dakota churches: Trinity, Pierre; Holy Innocents, Parmalee.
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
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