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Worship at Grace
Sunday Services at 8:00 am and 10:30 am
Healing Services on the third Sunday of the month
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 am - 12 noon Office open
Thursday
Happy Thanksgiving!
Sunday
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:30 am Parish Choir Rehearsal
10:30 am Holy Eucharist
10:30 am Church School
4:00 pm Choral Evensong
5:30 pm Rehearsal for Celtic Service
Monday
10:00 - 12:00 Office Hours
Tuesday
6:00 pm AA
6:00 pm Dinner and Deanery Meeting at Christ Church, Hamilton
Wednesday
10 am - 12 noon Office open
4:00 pm Choir School
7:30 pm Parish Choir Rehearsal
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Leadership
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Rector
Anne Busteed, Sr. Warden
Joanne Moar, Jr. Warden
Peggy Carter, Clerk
Gary Young, Treasurer
Vestry
David Ashton
Melissa Barnes
Eric Fialho
Tom Lemons
Jacquie Valatka
Caroline Watson-Felt
The Reverend Laurel Deery, Deacon
Ryan Patten,
Director of Music
Tom and Karen Tucker, Sextons
Pauline Grady,
Altar Guild Directress
Deb Papps,
Flower Committee Chair
Eric Wagner,
Member Engagement Chair
Jonathan Davis,
Finance Chair
David Ashton,
Real Asset Management Chair
Stewardship Ministry Team
Stephen Allen
Priscilla Lemons
Joanne Moar
Paige Nalipinski
Helen Watson-Felt
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 It is wonderful to be back from pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Deb Papps and I will share the experience with you over the next few weeks.
Now we begin a new journey together, the season of Advent. This Sunday, we start out anew, letting the familiar story influence our faith in new ways. Advent is the time the Church sets aside for preparation, not for Christmas, but for the time when Christ comes again and the new creation is completed. We look forward to this time when justice and peace reign, and bitterness and rancor cease forever. This is the time to wait as a church with excitement, for the majesty of God. See you this Sunday as we start the journey.
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Happy New Year!
Sunday is the beginning of Advent, the new year of the church. The readings for the day caution us to pay attention, stay alert, keep watch. All of this is more easily done with others, which is why the Church gathers together to wait.
At our 10:30 am service, we will bless the greens that adorn our church during this season.
At 4:00 pm, we will hear the beautiful sounds of the Parish Choir and the Choir School singing Evensong for Advent.
Come and celebrate as we prepare
for Jesus Christ to come among us!
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Choral Evensong for Advent
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8:00 am
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, presider and preacher
Priscilla Lemons, assisting
Cindy Rhodes, altar guild
The Entire Committee, flowers
10:30 am
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, presider and preacher
The Reverend Laurel Deery, deacon
Hugh MacKay, Joanne Moar, vergers
Jeremy Valatka, acolyte
Babs Hawkes, lector
Deb Papps, Babs Hawkes chalicers
Walt Lederhaus, Pauline Grady, ushers
Graham Gunnigle, greeter
The Flower Committee, flowers
Beth Brown, altar guild
Tom Lemons, TBD, counters
4:00 pm
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, officiant
Jason Stonehouse, acolyte
Eric Fialho, lector
Gary Young, Eric Fialho, ushers
Eric Fialho, greeter
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"Celtic Meditations: Ancient Practices of Healing and Communion" is our new Sunday evening liturgy. Beginning December 7 at 5:00 pm, we will offer meditations, healing and communion in a quiet and peaceful setting.
Come and let the music and poetry of Celtic spirituality ease your weary soul.
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Bowditch/Grace Church Partnership
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Thank you to all who spent time with the students from the Bowditch School on their field trip to Grace Church. Their notes to us are posted on the bulletin board. Please take time to read them to see what an impact these small gestures on our part make to these children.
In December we have two opportunities to support the 4th graders at the Bowditch School. Please show your support for these students by attending one or both of these events.
On December 12th the 2nd-4th graders put on a Winter Showcase beginning at 6:30.
On December 22nd there will be a Winter concert in which some of the4th graders will participate, again beginning at 6:30. This is also the Festival of Trees.
Check your calendars and see if you can come and support these students be attending their events.
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We are well on our way to our goal of 100% participation in pledges. If you have already pledged,
THANK YOU!!!
If you haven't sent in your pledge card, please do so soon.
If you have questions about pledging, please speak to a member of the Stewardship Ministry Team or to Debbie.
Everyone has a stake in the work of Grace Church; please intentionally consider your commitment.
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Our Prayers are offered for:
Sue Morey, The Madden Family, Joe L'Heureux, Joe Doherty, David, Giffy Russell, Marilyn Russell, George and Sue Erickson, Kathleen Hoff, Pauline Grady, Pauline Zwicker, Vivien Forbes, Colin, Todd Cheney, Corey and Suzanne MacNeil, Karen Tucker, David, the Ryan family, Dorette Jodoin, Sally Coleman, Don, Jeanne Parler, Jeff Bowie, Gary Young, Jr., Elisabeth Thomas, Cindy Carr, Ross Dolloff, Fran Nalipinski, The Tache Family, Alison, Blair and family, Bernice Conway, Jeff and family, John Mason, Karen, Susan Warren, Camilo Notario, Jr., Esmunda Notario, Tom D., Robert Duff, Stephen Duff, Rick Rizoli, Ian J. Surabian, Ashley Galvin, Gerry M., Mary K., the Castiello Children, Eric Rielly, Maureen Joyce, Linda and Patrick Grant, the soul of Carol Sczerba Rielly, Glenn Murer, Carpenter Family, Karin O'Brien, Judy Rao, Marge Bastos, Patricia McDuffe, the Clancys, Beatrice Jideofor, Rachel Davis, Dr. Elizabeth Prout, Albert Engelken, Mary Carter, Harry Davis, Fatima Pinto, Kori Rodriguez, Mary Manning, Pat Carr, Love, Tiffanie Surabian, Nate, Phoebe and family, Jannett, Marcie, Andrew Rossi, Norman Belanger, Joanna Morse, Virginia Steadman, Soiesette Robinson, Lisa J., Nancy Moore, Sarah Fialho, Bertram Furrowh, Jeannie and Harry W, Hank and Ann Cook, Do�a Yoya, Patrick O'Donoghue, Kathleen Hoff, George and Sue Erickson, the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Salem Public Schools, especially the Nathaniel Bowditch School.
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