Growing a Life of Wholeness
April 11, 2012
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The Rev. Elsa Worth
Rector
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The Rev. Nancy Gage
Deacon
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Dear friend,   

I hope you all had a beautiful Easter! I'm writing to let you know that the monthly Recovery Eucharist is coming up this Saturday at 5:30 pm. Once again we'll enjoy the toe tapping music of the Theodicy Jazz Collective, and for the first time, we'll welcome the Rev. Susan Pfeil of the First United Church of Bridgeport as our guest preacher. Susan's topic: "Christ has Risen, but the Wounds Remain." I hope you can make it, and maybe you'd like to invite some friends (remember - this and next month are the last Recovery Services before the summer break). Now that we have this nifty new enews, you can easily share this email with friends (hyperlink to sharing)

 

I thought you might also enjoy hearing about two more ways to participate in healing and wholeness coming up at Grace Church. You are most welcome to join in:

 

The Grace Youth Group (GyG) is taking part in healing the earth on April 14th at the Great Salt Marsh Cleanup. More info is below. If you'd like to help clean up this important watershed along with GyG and a number of other area groups, please join us!

 

Need some exercise? The Bishop's 5K for Kids is on May 19th. This timed race raises money for children across CT who are growing up in homes much like many of us did - they're kids who could use some good role models and positive experiences in otherwise difficult lives. The bishop's fund sponsors innovative preschool, afterschool, and camping programs and the race is the #1 fundraiser for the fund. Grace Church has a team of runners and walkers each year. Come run or walk with us! You can register for the race HERE.

 

So, maybe you don't run. You can still contribute! I'd really appreciate your pledges - running is not easy for me and I'd appreciate your support. You can pledge for me HERE, and/or for other members of the "Spirit of Trumbull" team, HERE. 

 

I wish you blessings and new life this Easter season.

 

Hope to see you soon,

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Upcoming Events
Join Grace Youth Group (GyG) for our next Environmental Action:
The Great Salt Marsh Clean Up
                        Saturday, April 14th
                          9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Healing the Earth... 

 

 The small but mighty Grace Youth Group (GyG) is at it again - they've planned their next important environmental action.  This month, GyG is teaming up with CT Community Boating for the Great Salt Marsh Cleanup on the Stratford/Bridgeport line.  This is the second year that GyG has helped CT Community Boating in their work to recover and reclaim this once neglected piece of shoreline.  Salt marshes serve as natural filters for the ocean, but when they get clogged with trash, the important work of microbes, worms, shellfish and shoreline plants is inhibited and damaged.  GyG will be joining the boy scouts, the girl scouts and a group coming down from Boston College to help CT Community Boating clean up the Stratford Salt Marsh on April 14th.  If it's anything like last year, huge piles of trash and debris will be removed from the shore. 

    The cleanup will take place from 9-1 on Saturday April 14th at 600 Long Beach Boulevard in Stratford (to join up with our group, keep following the road around the back of the last warehouse building).  GyG invites the people of Trumbull to grab their work gloves and some tough trash bags and meet them at the cleanup site at 9 - or to meet in the rear parking lot of Grace Church (5958 Main Street in Trumbull) at 8:30 if you want to carpool.  Please wear long pants (rubber boots if you have them, ratty sneakers if you don't) and bring some bug spray, sunscreen and water along with you.  

     If you go to the GyG page HERE, you can view the video made by the group last year about the the cleanup along with some facts about discarded plastic.  The problem of plastic pollution can be pretty overwhelming.  Here's a chance to roll up your sleeves and do something about it, Trumbull!  Come help GyG heal the earth!

To find out more, contact Steve HERE.

Inviting All Runners & Walkers!

Bishop's 5K
May 19, 2012

For the past two years Grace Church has taken part in the Bishop's 5K for Kids in West Hartford.  The first year, we had a team of three runners.  Last year we had a team of 5 runners/walkers.  This year, I hope we have even more! 

 

And what's more, the three Episcopal Churches of Trumbull are teaming up this year into one mega-team - the Spirit of Trumbull - in an effort to make an even bigger difference in the lives of at-risk kids in CT.  The money we raise together will go to innovative preschool, after school, educational, recreational and camping programs.  It'll be great to join together in outreach in this fun way and hopefully the Spirit of Trumbull can make a significant donation to the fund this year.
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