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Worship at Grace
Year-round Schedule
Sunday Services at 10:30 am Celtic Meditations at 5:00 pm Healing Services every week at 5:00 pm Young and the Restless Chapel at 9:00 am the second Sunday of the month All are always welcome to worship and pray with us at all services
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This Week's Calendar
Wednesday
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Art Class
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Thursday
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Office Hours
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Saturday
7:00 pm
AA
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Sunday
9:30 am
Choir Rehearsal
10:30 am
Holy Eucharist
11:30 am
Coffee Hour
5:00 pm
Celtic Service
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Monday
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Leadership
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Rector
Vestry
Joanne Moar,
Sr. Warden
David Ashton,
Jr. Warden
Peggy Carter, Clerk
Jesse Angeley,
Treasurer
Jonathan Bailly
Jane Eskelund
Tom Gaither
Christopher Patzke
Jason Stonehouse
Caroline Watson-Felt
Staff
Eileen Hunt,
Interim Director of Music
Tom and Karen Tucker, Sextons
Worship
The Reverend
Debbie Phillips,
Chair
Hugh MacKay
Joanne Moar,
Vergers
Pauline Grady,
Altar Guild Directress
Deb Papps,
Flower Committee Chair
Celtic Meditations Team
Eric Wagner
Jane Stewart
Joanne Moar
Kathleen Tone
Director of Church School
Melissa Barnes
Anna Layne
Finance
Jonathan Davis
Jesse Angeley
Tom Lemons
Angela Williams
Anne Busteed
Real Asset Management/Property
David Ashton
Eric Wagner
Mike Ouellette
Tom Tucker
Bob Cole
Jon Papps
Stewardship
Ministry Team
Joanne Moar, Chair
Priscilla Lemons, Clerk
Caroline Watson-Felt
Tom Gaither
Nathaniel Bowditch School Partnership
Paige Nalipinski,
Team Leader
David Ashton
Ingrid Fox
Pam Myrie
Deb Papps
Debbie Phillips
Eric Wagner
Representatives to the North Shore Mission Hub
Paige Nalipinski
Convention Delegates
Laura Beasley-Topliffe
Joanne Moar
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Twenty years ago today, on Holy Cross Day, Grace Church embarked on a new ministry. It was my first day as your rector and we started developing our relationships so that we could better fulfill the will of God at Grace Church. Today, those relationships are strong and we continue to listen to God so that we may do God's work in Salem and beyond.
I have fallen more deeply in love with God while here because of you. I have felt God's love more deeply because of you. This defines grace. Our ancestors chose the name of our parish well.
This Sunday morning, we will celebrate the blessings we have experienced together during the 10:30 am service. We will ask for forgiveness for the times we did not do our best to fulfill God's will, especially when that involved pain for another. We will recommit to our baptismal vows. And, we will gather around the Lord's table to break bread together with him in love.
My heart overflows with gratitude for the years spent with this parish. May God grant us many a year to love and serve our Lord.
- Debbie
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The Sunday's readings remind us of God's gracious mercy and of our response to forgive.
At 10:30 am, we welcome Eileen Hunt as our organist and choir director, and our Parish Choir returns to sing Harold Friedell's "Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether." During the service, we will hear Eric Wagner and Deb Papps give an epistle to the parish about the Garden of Life, we will renew our baptismal vows, Debbie will renew her commitment to the parish and we will have a litany of thanksgiving for the church. Coffee hour will follow as we celebrate our 20 years of mutual ministry with Debbie as our Rector.
At 5:00 pm, Celtic Evensong with Communion will begin a new series of services with prayers and music focused on Creation. This week's reflection will be given by Joanne Moar. All are welcome to come to this quiet and reflective time with God and one another.
Please join us wherever you are
in your search for meaning.
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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
10:30 am
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Presiding and Preaching
Eileen Hunt, Organist
Joanne Moar, Hugh MacKay, Vergers
Avery Ross, Acolyte
Charlotte Ross, Lector
Ingrid Fox, Joanne Moar, Chalicers
Jason Barnes, Peggy Carter, Ushers
Lois Nicholson, Altar Guild
Jane Thompson, Flowers
Anne Busteed, Peggy Carter, Counters
Celtic Service
5:00 pm
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Presiding
Debbie Phillips, Eric Wagner,
Musicians
Joanne Moar, Opening and the Lesson
Joanne Moar
, Reflection
Paige Nalipinski, Affirmation and Prayers
Paige Nalipinski, Chalice
Bob Marchand, Greeter
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Our beloved Babs died last Saturday morning following a brief illness. Her memorial service will take place at Grace Church on Wednesday, September 20 at 11:00 am with interment in the Quinlan Memorial Garden. Following the service, all are invited to Abbot Hall for refreshments and to greet her family.
Light perpetual shine upon her and may her soul and the souls of all the departed rest in peace.
Her obituary may be found here.
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October 1: Blessing of Animals
This is our annual blessing service for our pets at both services. Please make sure you invite your neighbors to this event!
October 8 Young and the Restless:
For infants, toddlers, their families and for all those young and restless at heart, come to this service of music and communion at 9:00 am. This month's story is the story of Creation.
October 13: Friday the 13th Organ Spooktacular
Come hear Mark Engelhardt give a Halloween Organ Concert, beginning at 7:30 pm. This concert is sponsored by the Boston and Merrimack Valley American Guilds of Organists.
October 21 and 28: Silent Movies
Two perfect movies for the season: Nosferatu and Phantom of the Opera, accompanied on the Grace Church organ by Ryan Patten.
October 29: Blessing of Trick or Treaters
Come dressed in your Halloween costume at 10:30 am and receive a blessing and prayer for safety for Halloween night trick or treating. Halloween Coffee Hour to follow.
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