THE SEASON OF NEW BEGINNINGS
 

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS

READINGS  

REFLECTION

TALK BACK

THANK YOU

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all who expressed their concern or were willing to fundraise for the 2011 Budget. Thank you to the 199 pledgers and thank you also to those who increased their pledges and/or gave one-time donations to the operating budget after hearing that we had a projected shortfall. The proposed budget is in the narthex with a letter of explanation attached. Again, thank you to all who contributed.  Kickie Fulmor, Senior Warden

NYACK HIGH SCHOOL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA - FREE CONCERT

In March, The Nyack High School Chamber Orchestra will compete at the 2011 National Orchestra Festival in Kansas City.  This is the third time the orchestra has been invited to compete at this prestigious festival.  As they prepare, the Chamber Orchestra will perform their competition program twice for the Nyack community,  including a free concert at Grace Church on Sunday, February 6 at 4:00pm.   The program includes Mozart's Divertimento K. 136, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, and works by Debussy and David Diamond.   Another concert will be held on Sunday, March 6 at 7:00pm at The Nyack Library.  Tickets for the Nyack Library performance can be purchased online at www.carnegieroom.org.  Tickets are $25/$20 senior/$14 young adult (35/under), $5 child (12/under).  

NEXT SUNDAY:  "Souper Bowl" Sunday

It's not just the big game, it's our annual day to collect cans and cash donations in a special drive for People to People.  We'll have collection baskets at all services for cans and $1 (or more!) to help stock People to People's shelves. 

GRACE CHURCH ANNUAL PARISH MEETING

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2011 at 10:45am

Services will be 8:00am & 10:00am

This year the Annual Parish Meeting will again be structured to provide an opportunity for members to come together in small groups to discuss ministry and mission, as well as to gather in plenary for reports from the rector and wardens and to vote.  To make it possible for the widest-possible attendance at the meeting, our Sunday services will be at 8:00 and 10:00am, with the meeting taking place at 10:45am.  Please note that church school classes/childcare will take place and continue through 12:30pm so that parents and teachers can attend this important gathering. 

In preparation for the meeting members will soon receive a letter inviting them to a specific table fellowship group led by a member of the vestry. In addition, the Parish Forum on February 6 will provide an introduction to the Annual Meeting and some of the issues and material to be discussed.

Please remember that while the Annual Meeting is open to all, only pledging members are eligible to vote.  A list of those eligible to vote, minutes from the Annual Parish Meeting of 2010, and the report of the Nominating Committee will be posted at the entrance of the church beginning January 30, 2011.

PEOPLE TO PEOPLE

Please remember to bring a non-perishable food item to church every Sunday for People to People.   121 West Nyack Rd. Nanuet NY 10954 845.623.4900.

KEEP IN TOUCH

PARTING THOUGHT

"Snow" by Anne Sexton, from The Awful Rowing Toward God

Snow

Snow,

blessed snow,

comes out of the sky

like bleached flies.

The ground is no longer naked.

The ground has on its clothes.

The trees poke out of sheets

and each branch wears the sock of God.

There is hope.

There is hope everywhere.

I bite it.

Someone once said:

Don't bite till you know

if it's bread or stone.

What I bite is all bread,

rising, yeasty as a cloud.

There is hope.

There is hope everywhere.

Today God gives milk

and I have the pail.