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Return from Summer Schedule this week!
Holy Eucharist
(no music):
8:00 am
Young and the Restless Chapel:
9:00 am
Holy Eucharist
(with hymns and choir):
10:30 am
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This Week's Calendar
Sunday
8:00 am
Holy Eucharist
9:00 am
Young and the Restless Chapel
9:30 am
Abundant Life Garden Project for Children
10:30 am
Holy Eucharist
Monday
10 am to 12 noon
Office open
Tuesday
6:00 pm
AA Meeting
10 am to 12 noon
Office Open
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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
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
Stephen Allen,
Stewardship Chair
Jonathan Davis,
Finance Chair
David Ashton,
Real Asset Management Chair
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Thank you to everyone who has participated in the Special Ask! We are now over 50% funded for our current deficit, but have not yet reached our goal. We are asking that each household make a special one time donation of $600 to Grace Church to eliminate our deficit for 2014 and so that we may hire a part time administrator for the office, as Debbie can not continue with the added responsibilities forever. Please direct your payments to "Grace Church" noting "Special Ask" in the memo line. Thank you.
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Sunday Evening Musicians Needed
During Debbie's sabbatical, one of her projects is to design a Celtic meditative service that will be offered on Sunday evenings beginning this fall. More information on the service itself will be announced soon, but we will be in need of instrumentalists (any instrument is welcome) to lead the musical worship aspect of the service. If you or someone you know might be interested or would like more information, please contact Ryan Patten ([email protected]).
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This week's Gospel reading is John 3:13-17, one of the most familiar passages in the Bible.
"God so loved the world..." These famous lines take us to the heart of the cross and to God's loving purposes of redemption. Often read personalistically ("Christ died for me"), they also have universal application, not just to all humanity, but to the whole of creation. All creation awaits redemption, and this is it: God's love in Christ changing the world and cosmic order in the human heart, and in the whole created order. Christ's sacrifice on the cross is therefore truly global, affecting not only the present and the future, but the past as God enters time and space, illuminating all with grace and love.
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This Sunday - Debbie Returns!
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As wind through a pinwheel, the Holy Spirit moves us all; shining, spinning, dancing with the love of God.
We will be welcoming Debbie back to Grace Church on Sunday and celebrating our mutual recommitment on her 17th anniversary with a decorated church, special service and pot luck luncheon!
It will be a BIG day of services and we'll close the day with a big put luck in Abbott Hall immediately following the 10:30am service. We hope you will attend - ALL are welcome! Please also plan to bring a dish to share - entrees, beverages, sides - all are still needed!
The 14th also marks the return of our regular service times and the first Young and the Restless Chapel service of the new academic year! As a reminder, services will be at: 8:00am, 9:00am, and 10:30am.
If you'd like to volunteer and lend assistance in advance of the 14th (for set-up and planning), please let Caroline Watson-Felt know - please feel free to e-mail her directly at: [email protected].
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Bishop's Ordination and Consecration
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Ordination and consecration of
the Rev. Alan McIntosh Gates
Tomorrow at 10:30am
Boston University's Agganis Arena
925 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
All are welcome to come to the ordination and consecration of our new bishop. The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, will be presiding, and The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth Jr., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, will be delivering the sermon.
Seating is at 9:30 a.m.; processions begin at 10:30 a.m. A reception will follow the service. Tickets are required. The event will also be streamed on a webcast.
More information, on ticketing, driving directions, parking info, etc can be found at: http://www.diomass.org/diocesan-news/gatesconsecration
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Thank you to all who have taken leaves from the tree in the lobby. If you have not had a chance to take one, there are still a few left. The teachers are very grateful to receive these supplies. More opportunities to be involved in this exciting partnership will be forthcoming over the next weeks and months.
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Joanne Moar and Hugh MacKay, Vergers
Mason Nalipinski, Avery Ross, and Jeremy Valatka, Acolytes
Eric Wagner, Lector
Juli and Walt Lederhaus, Chalicers
Marc Hawlena and David Latinik, Ushers
Eric Fialho, Greeter
Debbie Papps, Flowers
Lois Nicholson and Helen Watson-Felt, Altar Guild
Anne Busteed and Paige Nalipinski, Counters
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Please continue to add to and remove from the prayer list in the lobby. It will be updated each week for Sunday's leaflet and for Grace Notes.
M. Thomas Shaw, Pauline Grady, Pauline Zwicker, Vivien Forbes, Colin, Todd Cheney, Alan Gates and Family, Corey and Suzanne MacNeil, the Ryan family, Dorette Jodoin, Sally Coleman, Don, Jeanne Parler, Jeff Bowie, Nancy Dolan, 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, the DaSilva family, 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., Peter Brown, the Castiello Children, Eric Rielly, Linda and Patrick Grant, the soul of Carol Sczerba Rielly, Glenn Murer, Carpenter Family, Karin O'Brien, Judy Rao, Kathy Christopher, Marge Bastos, Paul Williams, 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, Carolyn Kent, Jannett, Marcie, Taylor Griffin, Andrew Rossi, Norman Belanger, Joanna Morse, Virginia Steadman, Soiesette Robinson, Lisa J., Nancy Moore, Sarah Fialho, Bertram Furrowh, Hank and Ann Cook, the Dodd family, Patrick O'Donoghue, the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Salem Public Schools, especially the Nathaniel Bowditch School.
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