The Rev. Elsa Worth
Rector 
The Rev. Nancy Gage
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Dear friend,
"Grant that all who have been reborn into the followship of Christ's Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith." -today's collect Easter has arrived and again we are offered new life - as we are every new day. This is not just a theological idea. Every day is a chance to let God make us new. In this season most of all, we are reminded that as Christians we are called to live a resurrection life. A resurrection life is a life that is lived in response to God's call to wholeness and reconciliation. It is a life devoted to knowing, loving and serving God first and foremost. Would others recognize the resurrection in your life? Do you? Does the way you treat others show forth God's love? Does the way you treat yourself reflect God's healing? Do the things that you do each day reflect the life you want to live? Do you direct your life to this end: to know, love and serve God? Everyone always has a way to go on these things - what will you do this Easter season to enter more deeply into living a resurrection life? Here at Grace Church we are dancing with life's big questions. Whether you're here just for this Sunday or if you're searching for a community of faith to belong to, we invite you to come to explore, come to connect and come to believe among us here at Grace Church. We'd enjoy both your company and your participation as we follow in the way of Jesus and learn and grow in discipleship together.
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Peace,
The Rev. Elsa Worth
Grace Episcopal Church |
 GyG - The Great Salt Marsh Clean Up 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. Saturday, 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 Avenue in Stratford. GyG invites the people in the Trumbull area 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. If you go directly to the site, continue on the road to the back of the last warehouse to join up with us. 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. For more info, visit our website: www.gracetrumbull.org . If you go to the GyG page HERE, you can also 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 at stevenworth@charter.net.
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Recovery Eucharist
Saturday, April 14, 5:30 PM
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).
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 The GLOW Festival is Coming!
Mark your calendars now for the biggest event Grace Church has seen in many years. And begin thinking now about how you could help it come to life! The GLOW Festival will take place here on Saturday June 2. It will be a day of good food, music, exhibits, talks, classes - even hot air balloon rides! This will be the day that the whole town of Trumbull will see that Grace Church is serious about God's mission of healing and wholeness. We intend to make Grace Church known as a community wide resource for healing and wholeness in body, mind and spirit in the Trumbull area.
Local holistic health practitioners will exhibit or give demonstrations or talks. Our new community partner, Griffin Hospital, will provide some wonderful speakers and services. We are arranging the participation of healthy food vendors, healthy living advocates, environmental organizations and musicians. We might even have a plant/shrub sale and a farmer's market! The wellness team is hard at work on programs, communications, food and administration for this wonderfully fun event.
What can you do? Your presence at the event to be friendly Grace faces is very important - so are your ideas. We could also use a healthy bake sale table with low fat or special diet treats for sale (with recipes attached, so people can repeat the treat at home) and a lemonade stand and a popcorn stand. We'll need parking helpers, friendly hosts, ticket sellers and attendants of all kinds. We'll also need your help on Memorial Day, when we will be present and hospitable during the Memorial Day Parade to promote the GLOW Festival, which is the following Saturday. We could have a bake sale and lemonade stand that day, too! But mostly we need to provide outgoing and friendly hospitality to parade goers inviting them to find out more about us and the GLOW Festival. There will be a question and answer session about the GLOW Festival during coffee hour this Sunday - don't miss it!
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Inviting All Runners & Walkers!
 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.
For more information, click HERE
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Tuesday, April 17
Vestry meeting at 7:00 PM in the Undercroft.
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Sunday, April 22
First Sunday with our new Minister of Music. Dave McWilliams.
Wednesday, April 25
Three Vestry Event with Grace, Trinity, and Christ Church Vestries - at Grace with coffee and dessert potluck.
Saturday, May 5
Three Church Progressive Supper - Appetizers at Christ,Tashua Main Course here, Dessert at Trinity, Nichols. Each church does potluck for their part of the dinner.
Saturday, May 19
Bishops' 5K for Kids
Tuesday, May 22
Rescheduled Vestry meeting
Monday, May 28 (Memorial Day)
Hospitality event for Memorial Day Parade viewers
Saturday, June 2
GLOW Festival
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Parish Hall available for community functions
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