(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).

The ever-popular and spiritually enriching Thorne Sparkman School of Religion at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, is returning for its 49th annual session. This year features "Faith and the Environment" with speakers ranging from Dr. Andy Thompson, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, School of Theology, University of the South, to the Rev. Fletcher Harper, Executive Director of GreenFaith.

Ticket pricing options include pricing for regular admission ($30), student admission ($20), dinner options for adults and children, and optional free childcare. The soup-supper preceding the lectures is $30 for all five weeks (adult price).

This year's lecturers are:

March 9 -- The Rev. Fletcher Harper, Executive Director of GreenFaith

March 16 -- Sister Madeline Mary, Prioress of St. Mary's Convent

March 23 -- Dr. Andy Thompson, Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at the University of the South's School of Theology

March 30 -- The Rev. Dr. Leah Schrade, Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary, KY. ordained 2000 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and a climate activist and eco-preacher.

April 6 -- Dr. Sandy Kurtz, environmental educator and activist

For more details on the speakers, click HERE.

Each evening begins with an organ meditation at 5:15 p.m., followed by supper at 5:45. The lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. Registration is currently open.

Click HERE for more information or to register.

This week, volunteers Dixie Riall and David Stanislawski (and the church staff, who fielded several late-comers) fielded 12 visitors, who took food for 38 -- 21 adults and 17 children. Supplies are overall in good shape, and of course we've asked everyone to bring soup for our annual "Soup-er Bowl" collection. Should you find, however, that your fellow parishioners have purchased all the available soup, please feel free to chose alternatives from this list:

Thanks to all of you who so steadfastly bring goods week after week to help the folks in our community whose lives, always hard, have been made even more difficult by pandemic illness, job loss, and other woes. Your generosity is alleviating a great deal of suffering, and we and those who ask us for help are very grateful.

Grace continues to have problems with mail sent to the church’s Belvoir Avenue address; last week, someone apparently took a piece of mail from box – likely a check from a bank or financial institution, judging from the open envelope left on the ground – and spirited it away, leaving no clues as to whose money or what bank or brokerage house was involved. Since the computer-generated checks are apparently quite easy to alter, please make sure than any check coming to Grace from your bank or other financial institution is sent to the PO box address. You may be able to make this change online, or you may need to call, but please make the effort to ensure that these donations reach the church and are not funneled into other hands.

Generally, it is safer to send ANY dispatch containing contributions – checks, gold Krugerrands, Bitcoin passwords, and your granny’s love- letters from Teddy Roosevelt – to the PO box. If the address isn’t one that pops up readily from your memory, it is in the bulletin announcements each week, and we will make sure it appears regularly in Grace Notes Weekly as well. It is also included below for your convenience:

On Sunday, February 13, the Schola Cantorum of the School of Theology of the University of the South, led by Kenneth Miller, will sing choral evensong at 5 PM at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (305 West Seventh Street, Chattanooga). Music includes works by David Hogan, Philip Moore, and Undine Smith Moore. A freewill offering will be taken to support the choir's upcoming residencies at St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, and Westminster Abbey, London in July. The Schola Cantorum is the first Episcopal seminary choir in US history to receive such an invitation; while in the UK, they will sing 15 services in 14 days. Donations may also be made to their pilgrimage at schola.sewanee.edu.

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

& the password is: compline 

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer: The Nippon Sei Ko Kai. 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: St. Martin's and St. Martin's Pre-school, Chattanooga; St. James, Enemy Swim, SD. .