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Mother Suzanne and Ed Carrette are headed to Kansas City next Tuesday through Friday to attend the Episcopal Parish Network Annual Conference. On Thursday at 2:00 PM, they will be panelists for a session titled "Leveraging Grants To Fund Your Mission"
Rector's Bible Study will reconvene on Tuesday, February 25th.
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Wednesday, March 5th
Ashes-To-Go
With Bishop Hector Monterroso
During Mobile Food Pantry
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Ash Wednesday Services:
Two services will be offered on Ash Wednesday, March 5:
Noon, Imposition of Ashes with Holy Communion (no music).
6:00 PM, Imposition of Ashes with Holy Communion & Choir.
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A Lenten Holy Experiment
Begins March 6
Lent Madness
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Three Ways To Participate | |
We will be talking about the Saints for the week updating the brackets every Wednesday during our Lenten Soup Suppers. | |
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Wednesdays Beginning
March 12th, 5:30 - 6 PM
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In lieu of a Lenten Book Study, this year all are encouraged to attend Wednesday Taize Prayer
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Wednesdays Beginning
March 12th, 6-7 PM
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New this Lent, we will be offering a medley of four soups to try every Wednesday. More opportunities to "take something on" during Lent! We will have four crockpots of soup to taste. Brooks Short will be back again this year with his delicious artisanal breads. | |
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Fridays Beginning March 7th, 6 PM
Stations of the Cross
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Next Bishops Visitation Sunday, May 11
Mother's Day
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Altar Flowers Given To The Glory of God
In Celebration of Paul Humphrey’s Birthday
By Bill, Lester, and Greyson
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The Seventh Sunday after The Epiphany
February 23, 2025
- Click Here For The Church Calendar
- Click Here For The Server Schedule
- Click Here For The A/V Guild Schedule
- Click Here For The Parish Directory - please download and check for accuracy
- The Prayer list is now merged with the Worship Bulletin linked below
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Story
For more than 2,000 years, people have heard the same Gospel stories. The only thing new or different is what’s going on for us, the hearers of the story. God’s revelation to us will be a kind of synergy between what is going on with a very old scriptural story, and what is going on today in our own heart and imagination. And that creates a whole new story.
Br. Curtis Almquist, Society of Saint John the Evangelist
Click Here To Read More
When we begin to open, to be present to our lives here and now, miracles start happening. One of the deepest miracles is that you let drop a neurotic habit, or a source of pain and suffering that you have perhaps carried for 20 years or more. You see it, you understand it, you reframe it in a larger context—and suddenly it lets go - the eneagram institute -
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ADDITIONAL WAYS TO SERVE AT GRACE: Looking for ways to plug in at Grace, meet new people, and contribute to the beauty of our worship? Sign up for one of our ministry teams: Ushers, Lectors, Lay Eucharistic Ministers, Acolytes, Altar Guild, Audio & Video, Hospitality, or Coffee Hour. Click here to let Mother Suzanne know.
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Parish Finances
Regular giving towards your pledge to our ministry budget empowers our mission and ministry. Thank you.
You can give via online giving, bank ACH, mailed checks, or checks deposited in the offering plate or church mailbox. We encourage all regular givers to consider setting up automated online giving via your bank or on our website here.
Click Here To Give Online
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Altar Flowers Given To The Glory of God
In Celebration of Paul Humphrey’s Birthday
By Bill, Lester, and Greyson
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Please help us conserve resources by downloading to your mobile device or printing ahead of time and bringing it along with you to church | |
- Holy Eucharist Rite II, Led by Mother Suzanne
- The service will also be live-streamed via YouTube - a musical prelude will begin at 8:50 a.m.
- 3 ways to Give today: Text the word ¨Fund¨ to 844-943-0932 to give via text, download and use the Vanco Mobile* app from the Google or Apple App Store, or visit the link below. Alternatively, you can mail a check to the church office at 112 W. Lang, Alvin TX 77511
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The coffee hour hosts sign up sheet will be available in the parish hall kitchen every Sunday. You can also contact Anna Arendell at anamerican1@yahoo.com. | |
Or you can find The Preaching Moment on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. | |
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The Rector's Bible Study
Will Reconvene On Tuesday, February 25
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Mother Suzanne teaches an interactive and engaging class. We continuing a study of the book of Revelation. All are welcome, regardless of your knowledge of the Bible. | |
Noonday Prayer Around the World | |
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On Wednesday, let's pause together as we join our prayers with brothers and sisters around the world via Zoom and Facebook Live.
Beginning at 11:55 you can log in to Zoom here (passcode 032547) to join us as an active participant in the prayers. Or if you prefer, just follow along via Facebook Live beginning promptly at 12:00 PM this coming Wednesday, Book of Common Prayer beginning on page 103, which you can download ahead of time here.
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The Grace Sanctuary Choir rehearses Wednesdays 7:00–8:00 pm and sings each Sunday at the 9:00 am Sunday Worship Service and on some Holy Days (the choir meets 30 minutes before each of these services).
This group is open. Contact our Organist and Music Director, Paul Humphrey to meet and learn more about our choir - gphumphrey@yahoo.com
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Celebrating Five Years
Next Church in the Streets
Mobile Food Pantry
February 27, 2025
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Click on the arrow above to watch our
Thursday Mobile Food Pantry story
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Please consider volunteering, even if just for an hour - we could use your help. We begin setting up at 7:00 am and distribution ends at 12 Noon. Clean-up follows that. We especially need volunteers for deliveries to the homebound and to help with tear down and clean up starting at around 11:30. | |
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Your Food Ministry Statistics
From Harriet Sturgeon
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Weekly Update
The week of February 13, 2025, we distributed 15,646 pounds (nearly 8 tons) of food to 255 families, including 40 homebound deliveries, totaling 758 people. We welcomed 14 new families. This was all made possible by the 60 volunteers (including drivers) who showed up to make it happen.
Monthly Update - January
For January, we distributed 102,810 pounds of food to 1,169 families, including 239 homebound deliveries, totaling 2,545 people. We welcomed 40 new families. This was all made possible by the 288 volunteers (including drivers) who showed up to make it happen.
2024
As of the end of December 2024, we distributed 837,473 pounds of food from the Houston Food Bank to 13,036 families, with 632 new families coming to us for food. We made a total of 3,046 deliveries. The total number of individuals served is 37,344. It required 2,968 volunteers to pull this off!
The Catholic Daughters of
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Fill The Bowl Ministry
1,076 meals prepared in January, up 16% from prior year
Total Meals Delivered To Grace in 2024
10,317
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Volunteers Needed From 9 AM - 1 PM | |
Have you noticed the cards on the table as you enter the church on Sunday? Well, one of our parishioners sets these cards out for us to sign and send a greeting to someone we may not have seen in a while, or someone who is ill.
Please take a minute as you come in, or before you leave to sign the cards and maybe write a brief note.
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MISSION & OUTREACH AT GRACE
Almighty and most merciful God, we remember before you
all poor and neglected persons whom it would be easy for us
to forget: the homeless and the destitute, the old and the sick,
and all who have none to care for them. Help us to heal those
who are broken in body or spirit, and to turn their sorrow
into joy. Grant this, Father, for the love of your Son, who for
our sake became poor, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BCP - Prayers and Thanksgivings #35
Grace is committed to helping those in need, including vulnerable children, the unhoused, and those experiencing food insecurity. To learn how you can get involved, check our website or send us an email edcarrette@gracechurchalvin.org
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1st Sunday
Did you know that the loose plate offering on the first Sunday of each month goes to the Rector’s Discretionary Fund? This fund is used, at the Rector’s discretion, to assist the poor and indigent and to further the ministries of the church, not covered in the church budget. One of the main uses of this fund, at Grace, is to fund our Blessing Box and Blessing Refrigerator.
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
You are invited to make a financial offering in honor of your birthday or anniversary. These offerings go to the Herrington fund, which provides scholarships to church conferences and camps for members of our church. Your offering may be placed in this little basket beside the piano as you approach the Chancel steps.
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Kroger Community Rewards
You can help support Grace by simply linking your Kroger Rewards Customer number to Grace. You only need to sign up once and you will earn rewards for the church with every shopping trip! You can enroll at any time, so please try to get your family and friends to sign up as well! Every time you make a Kroger purchase, Kroger will make a donation to Grace. (And you still receive your reward points)
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Matching your gift is a great way to make a bigger impact. Many companies match cash gifts from employees to qualified non-profits. Some even match gifts from retirees or spouses. To find out if your company will match gifts to Grace, visit your Human Resources Department. The Parish Office can provide you with a copy of our IRS Letter of Determination and W9 should you need it. | |
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In case you hadn't noticed, we've expanded our social media presence to Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube | | | | |
