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GraceNotes
The pulse of Grace Episcopal Church
6.8.12
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Become a Member of Grace | |
Would you like to become a member of Grace? Are you interested in learning more about the Episcopal faith tradition? Please contact Fr. Jonathan at togracechurchrector@gmail.com
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Parish Contacts
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If you are planning a formal or informal meeting or event using any space at Grace, please contact Janet so we can be sure the space is available and reserved.
Did we miss your birthday? Has your address, e-mail, or phone number changed? Please contact Janet in the church office to keep us up to date at 255-5147 or via e-mail.
If you are in need of pastoral care or would like to add yourself or someone in need to the Prayer List, please contact either Father Jonathan at togracechurchrector@gmail.com or Deacon Carol Smith at csmith@carthage.edu or by calling the church office.
If you are interested in providing pastoral care for others, please contact Darby Puglielli at PCatGrace@gmail.com
Interested in donating flowers?
Please contact Linda Savage.
If you would like to try your hand at writing the Prayers of the People for the 10 a.m. service, please e-mail togracechurch@gmail.com and we will send you writing tips and guidelines.
The flowers at the altar this week are given to the Glory of God
and in loving memory of Alice and Ara Sergenian, Ara Sergenian, Jr., Daniel Sergenian, Lorraine Sergenian, John Sergenian, Claudia and Emily Good, Garbis Jeknavorian,
Mina Sergenian, and Martin Kaprelian. - by the Sergenian and Jeknavoian FamiliesThe flowers for June 17th are given by Deb Barber in honor of her father.
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Joys and Concerns
| We pray for June Fries, Stafford Kay, The Irving Family, Jerry Germanson, Peter Kloppenburg, Tim Wilson (serving in Afghanistan), Marcia Kurtenacker, Clara Brunner, Ann Palmenberg, Edward Gebelein, Sabine Lobitz, Glenys Hampson, Manami Terrien, Gertrude Waigumbulizi, Noemi Mendoza.
We pray for our homeboundKatie Binger, Genevieve Jackson, Jeannine Denning, Carole Jo Drives, Anne Hausner, Jean Maas, Eve Street, and Charles Ambrosavage. For the souls of the departed the Grandmother of Mary Beth Collins For those who grieve Mary Beth Collins and family For the Hispanic ministry Happy Birthday to: 6/12 Amy Koerner 6/13 Margaret Johnson 6/14 Alexandra Dyer Pat Pollock 6/15 Marian Bolz 6/16 Mary June Fries
6/17
Barbara Borman
Chris DeMarco
6/18
Michael Ferris
(May or may not be turning the big 5-0)
6/20
Michael Covey
6/22
Dottie Raymer
Elsie Raymer
A Blessed Anniversary to:
6/12
Barbara and Lowell Mays
6/13
Corrie Norman and Jonathan Grieser
6/16
Barbara and Merle Perkins
6/17
Lynn and Sally Phelps
6/21
Jean and Bill Chatterton
Carol Carlson and Matt Wilber
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Worship and Fellowship
| ECW Estate Sale today and Saturday
48 Oak Creek Trail Tamarack Trails
Madison, WI 53717 Friday, June 8, 9 am - 5 pm Saturday, June 9, 9 am - 3 pm Another interesting Grace Sale w/ furniture for many tastes, including Victorian, Arts & Crafts style, Primitive & Traditional. More than 60 pieces of framed eclectic art, including Gromme prints & original oils. Lladros, lamps, costume jewelry, Wisconsin Union chairs, linens, glassware, fun clothing, oriental carpets, household, holiday, exercise equipment, patio furniture, garden, garage & more. SPECIAL ITEM: Yellow Model A replica car used in Shriner parades. Amazing amount of miscellaneous! Sign up sheet will be placed at the door at 4 pm Thursday for orderly entry Friday & at 4 pm Friday for Saturday entry. BIDS accepted Friday; HALF-PRICE Saturday. No credit cards. Grace Presents Opera Unplugged
If you have never experienced the magic of Grace Presents, this Saturday will be a fine time to revel in the beauty of Grace Church when it is filled with song. The concert begins at noon in the Nave. Read biographies of the performers and the set list here.
June 10
2nd Sunday after Pentecost
8 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
10 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
11:15 a.m. Coffee Hour Fellowship
Noon Worship (In Spanish) 
Coffee Hour Chip-in this Sunday We extend our sympathies to the family of Mary Beth Collins, whose grandmother passed away this week. As the funeral will be this weekend in La Crosse, Mary Beth will be unable to host Coffee Hour this Sunday as planned. If anyone would like to step forward to make sure the coffee is on or bring a dish or treat to pass, it would be much appreciated. June 13 12:10 p.m. Mid-day Eucharist June 17
The Third Sunday after Pentecost
Father's Day 8 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite I) 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
11:15 a.m. Coffee Hour Fellowship
Noon Worship (In Spanish)
St. Francis House services continue through the Summer
St. Francis House services at Grace will continue on the last Sunday of the month June through August. All services will begin at 5 p.m. except for the June 24 service which will begin at 4 p.m.
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| Called to Serve |
Do you count pennies at night instead of sheep?
Do you enjoy time alone with spreadsheets?
Then Grace has an immediate need for you as treasurer. If you have a business background please consider sharing your time and talents to help Grace Church organize and manage its finances. 
The treasurer is someone who can offer a few hours each week to review financial reports prepared by the Parish Financial Administrator, share information with the vestry, help vestry and staff with budget development, and approve expenditures and sign checks. The treasurer is a member of the executive committee whose work is supported by staff and volunteer committees. We are looking for someone with business experience, not necessarily in finance or accounting, as we are fortunate to have a Certified Public Accountant on staff and a finance committee whose members do have financial and accounting backgrounds.
The position of treasurer is a rewarding call for anyone who has a mind built for numbers. For more information, please contact Father Jonathan through the church office or Mary Ann Cook at 238-6974.
Calling all Brown Paper Bags...
The Pantry is running low on paper grocery bags. If you have a few you can spare, please leave them on the side table in the reception area. Many thanks in advance!
Help Feed the HungryExcept for the 4th Saturdays, all summer weekends in the Grace Food Pantry need crews. Make it quality time with your middle school or teenage kids, your friends, or your coworkers. Contact togracechurchpantry@gmail.com to serve. Vestry on Call in June
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Grace Groups
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Grace Book GroupThank you to everyone who came out for the "Meet the Author" event at the Goodman Center. And thank you to Pat and Wolfgang Werk for your work in organizing this. Our next meeting has been set: Wed., July 18th, 7 p.m. at the shelter beside the pool at Ruth Sanderson's home. We'll be reading The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance. While there are copies in the public library, there are also a number of holds. You are probably better off ordering it from Amazon.com or some other vendors. A bit about the book: "Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots -- which are then sold, collected, and handed on -- he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called "netsuke", he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinary moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothschilds. Yet by the end of World War II when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire." Whether you've finished the whole book by July 18th or not, I hope you can join us! Please contact me for directions to Ruth's.
- Frank Cook 238-6974
The ECW Connection Grace Episcopal Church Women
JUNE 2012 REPORT
The newly expanded executive board met in May with the following members present: Amanda Farrow, President; Pat Werk, Treasurer; Jane Henning, Mary Ray Worley, Ginny Shannon, Jane Ferris, and Linda Savage.
Continuing an ECW tradition, all Grace Church High School graduates were honored and presented with a $100.00 check. It was voted by the board to award a $1,000.00 check to Oscar Rozo, our recently ordained priest graduate for the establishment of his ministry. The ECW also provided the celebration cake for the graduates and congregation at the June 3rd courtyard coffee hour. The Formation volunteers for the past academic year were also thanked with a special cake at the coffee hour celebration.
The Episcopal Church Women held a very successful estate sale in May which netted a profit of over $14,000 for Grace Church.Thanks be to God for this hard earned windfall. Currently, many Grace workers have been laboring to stage another estate sale to be held this weekend (6/8 and 6/9) at 48 Oak Creek Trail (Memorial West H S area). We are expecting a good turnout for this sale, our final one of the spring season. Joyce Pollock and Marlys Bauman are again assisting our wonderful Estate Sale Manager,Susan Kies. Please support our efforts for Grace by shopping the estate sale this weekend. All items will be offered at half price on Saturday.
In other actions at the May meeting, the ECW board approved a $2,000.00 request for the funding of our free concert series, Grace Presents. The varied musical performances at the Saturday series have been well attended. They are proving very popular with the Farmers' Market crowd. ECW commends parishioner Bruce Croushore for his leadership in arranging these excellent concerts.
Mark your calendars, women of Grace, for our next ECW Advisory Council meeting which will be held at the home of Linda Savage (4015 Hiawatha Dr.) on Saturday, July 21st. As always, all Grace women are warmly encouraged to "have their say" at the Advisory Council's 10 a.m. meeting. Light refreshments will be served as we dream and scheme future plans for church projects. The fellowship at our last meeting was heartwarming and we are praying for an even greater turnout at the summer gathering. The ECW board is very thankful for the renewed surge of interest "in all things Grace" by the women in the church. Blessings to all as we shift gears to the 2012 summer months.
Linda W. Savage,
ECW Reporter
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Grace Q & A
| Office staff often receive many questions about the day-to-day reasons why we do what we do and the logistics of church life. Here are a few recent ones:
Q: Why are the acolytes listed by first name only while the other service ministers have both their first and last name?
A: After staff attended the Safeguarding God's Children workshop, we began to think more critically about what type of information we provide, especially in relation to children. As the majority of the acolytes are youth, we felt it prudent to only place their first names in the bulletin to safeguard their identities from someone who may try to discover their home address or other contact information.
Q: If I want to reserve a room at Grace, do I contact Jody?
A: This is a great question which really needs larger clarification. The 24-hour-a-week position of Communication Coordinator (Jody) was formed after the original, full-time Parish Administrator role was eliminated, but it is not the same job. After some time of trying to determine which office staff will pick up the tasks normally associated with the role of Parish Administrator, Janet, the Financial Administrator for Grace, has recently accepted the second title of Parish Administrator.
If you need to reserve a room, place an event on the church calendar, or have any general questions about the day-to-day running of Grace Church, Janet is the go-to. She is readily available to assist you weekly, Monday through Thursday, either via e-mail (togracechurchfinance@gmail.com) or by phoning the church office. Janet also keeps all congregation records and publishes the church directory. If you have an address change, would like to add a birthday or anniversary, or update an e-mail address, please contact Janet to keep this information current.
If you need an event or ministry promoted in GraceNotes, the weekly service bulletin, or This Week @Grace, or would like to serve as a Service Minister, Jody is the office contact. Jody can also serve as a conduit for prayer requests. While her hours in the office vary, she can be reached by e-mail (togracechurch@gmail.com) any day of the week (please allow 24 hours for response time).
Outside of the roles that define us, all staff are always eager to try and answer questions or at best put people in touch with the people who can. We hope you will feel comfortable in reaching out to us, whatever it is you may wonder about or need.
Additional contacts:
Christian Formation: Lauren
Food Pantry: Lorraine
Pastoral Care Team/Holy Casserolers: Darby
Outreach: Linda
Hispanic Ministry: Mary
Episcopal Church Women: Amanda
Members of the Vestry
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Outings of Interest
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Agrace HospiceCare to Offer Grief Support
& Caregiver Support Opportunities in July In July, Agrace HospiceCare will offer a recurring support group, a caregiver discussion group, and an informative session for adults grieving the death of a loved one. These sessions are open to the public and are provided without charge. All groups are held at Agrace HospiceCare, 5395 E. Cheryl Parkway, Madison unless otherwise noted.
Bridges Weekly Support Group is held every Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. This ongoing group is for adults who are grieving the death of someone.
Introduction to Grief is an informative session for adults that offers suggestions on how to navigate the grieving process and provides information about Agrace HospiceCare grief support groups. This session is available by appointment only. Call Mary Severson at (608) 327-7182 to make an appointment.
Caregiver Support Discussion Group is a free group designed specifically to educate and support those who are currently caring for someone with a progressive or terminal illness. This session will be held on Tuesday, July 17, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Agrace. Please call Deb Tripalin at (608) 327-7418 for more information. This is a recurring group that meets the third Tuesday of each month.
Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society prepares to mix it up
Visit: bachdancinganddynamite.org to get all the details on their June 15 - July 1 programs. |
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Grace Episcopal Church Our Sunday Worship Schedule: 116 W. Washington Avenue 8:00am - Holy Eucharist, Rite I Madison, WI 53703 10:00am - Holy Eucharist, Rite II (608) 255-5147 12:00pm - Holy Eucharist or Morning Prayer in Spanish
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