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Sunday  
8:00 AM 
Celebrant: 
The Rev. Norm Faramelli
Preacher:  Rachael Pettengill-Rasure 
LEM:  Rachael Pettengill-Rasure
Usher: 
John Schlesinger
Altar Guild:  June Pietrantoni 
10:00 AM
Celebrant:
The Rev. Norm Faramelli
Preacher:  Rachael Pettengill-Rasure 
Minister of Music:
Ruth Roper  
LEM I: 
Margaret Smist
LEM II:
Wes Foote, Jr. 
Lector I*: 
Adele Travisano
Lector II*:  Sean Kerans    
Acolytes:  Christian Burger, Catherine Woodbury and Elizabeth Woodbury
Ushers: 
James Kossuth and Dennis Hale
Altar Guild: 
Carolyn Rogers, Margaret Smist and Jane Scherban
Healing Ministers: 
Brenda Pearson, John Rogers, Cindy Scott and Sara Folta 
 
Counters:  Jane Scherban and Don  Capuccio
Coffee Hour:
Vin Maganzini, coffee; food host needed

*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

 

Kristine Brawley and Mildred Burger (3/11), Susan Honeycutt and Michael Rogers (3/15), Ebby Akiba, James Liberge, Rose Marcelus and Hugh Skeete (3/16).

 

If we do not have your birthday, please contact the church office at 781-396-7215 or office@gracemedford.org  
Welcome!
Please join us at
   Grace Church.    
We celebrate the Eucharist at 8:00 AM and  10:00 AM on Sunday.   Sunday School classes begin promptly at 9:45 AM. Nursery care is available for young children.

 

Please keep the Grace Church Journey to Adult group in your prayers.  This weekend they are on a pilgrimage to New York City with Maria Fenn, Eva Englert and the Rev. Noah Evans.  They are participating in the Nightwatch program at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, visiting the World Trade Center Memorial, St. Paul's Chapel in lower Manhattan and several other pilgrimage sites.

 

Protestant worship services are held at Tufts in Goddard Chapel at 7:00 PM on Sunday evenings.  These services are coordinated by Rachael Pettengill-Rasure, Grace Church's Lay Assoc. for Student Ministry.
Please remember to set your clocks forward one hour on March 10!

Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 10.  Remember to set your clocks to "Spring Forward".

Preliminary Plan from the  

Front Lawn Task Force

The Front Lawn Task Force presented its preliminary plan for renovating our front lawn.  If you did not catch the presentation please check the "Greening Grace" blog. 

 

If you would like to ask questions or offer suggestions, you may do so online by posting a comment to the blog post or at the parish hall bulletin board on March 10 following the 10:00AM worship service. A member of the task force will be standing by the bulletin board on to answer any questions. Thank you for your participation! We are excited for the work ahead.

Lent at Grace Church

 

Lent Madness 2013 

The Saintly Smack Down

What do you get when you combine a love of sports with holy saints? Lent Madness, of course. Based loosely on the wildly popular NCAA basketball tournament, Lent Madness pits 32 saints against one another in a single-elimination bracket as they compete for the coveted Golden Halo. But it is more than that: Lent Madness is really an online devotional tool designed to help people learn about saints.

 

Click Here to check on this week's pairing of Saints.  Cast your vote and see who goes on to the next round.   

Lent at Grace Church:  

Poverty and the Church

The Outreach Committee is sponsoring a series on Poverty and The Church. This will be an opportunity for our community to re-examine what we understand about poverty. The series will have two ways to participate.

 

The first is through a book study.  The reflection group will meet after the 10AM Sunday service. Please finish the book for this week's discussion. 

 

The second way to participate in this Lenten series is through Wednesday Adult Ed. We will be partnering with Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation to lead a four week series on Poverty.  See below under "Wednesdays at Grace" for detailed descriptions of each week's topic.

 

For more information or If you have any questions please contact Rachael Pettengill-Rasure ( rachael@gracemedford.org).

Outreach Corner    

The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining is March 30. Please contact Brenda Pearson at brendapearson@comcast.net if you are interested in volunteering or have questions.

 

Food is needed for the food pantries that Grace Episcopal Church supports. Food items may be placed in the baskets just outside the main entrance to the sanctuary (an usher can help you locate them). The item for Sunday, March 10 is coffee.  The items for Sunday, March 17 are jam or jelly.
Kids Corner 

There will be an Education Committee Meeting today after the 10:00 service on Sunday.

 

This year we will be starting Palm Sunday in a exciting new way! We will be marching to Saint Joseph's on Palm Sunday. Please be here by 9:30 to March. The march will be led by our Director Laura Duggan and the Passion Play crew. There may even be a surprise guest! Rehearsals for the Passion Play will be on Saturday March 16th from 12-2PMand Saturday March 23rd from 12-2PM. Please contact Laura Duggan Lrduggan@aol.com or me James Liberge  james@gracemedford.org with any questions.

 

During Holy Week we will have Children's Services throughout the week.

The schedule is as follows:  

Wednesday: 5:30 Stations of the Cross for Young Children;  

Maundy Thursday: 5:30 Maundy Thursday Service for Young Children;  

Good Friday: 5:30 Good Friday Service for Young Children;  

Easter Sunday there will be a Children's Sermon and an Easter Egg Hunt following the 10:00 service! Please come with the little ones and have a blast with us at the hunt.

 

Sunday School Teachers

Pre K - Teacher: Marina Novaes Assistant: Jessica Lee

Early Elementary - Teacher: Vin Maganzini Assistant: Tom Hamel

Upper Elementary - Teacher: Julia Lisella Assistant: Michael Lwanga

Nursery -- Melissa Deignan

Other Announcements    

 
Wednesdays at Grace   

5:30: Toddler and Pre-K Godly Play

6:00: Community Dinner   

Dinner Host:  Barbara Novaes 

Dinner Host needed on March 6th!  

6:45: Godly Play 2 & 3, Rite 13 and J2A

6:45 Adult Education        

    

This Lent, through Wednesday Adult Education We will be partnering with Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation to learn about Poverty and the Church.

 

March 13th - A theological reflection on class

The third week will be a theological reflection on socioeconomic class and economic reconciliation. We will be joined by Nicholas Hayes and Marisa Egerstrom of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation. In this session we will reflect on how our Christian faith informs who we are as economic beings and how we are called to act in this world. 

 

March 20th - Grace Church: What we have learned/What we can do

The final week of this series will be an opportunity to discuss what we have learned through this series and the diocesan book study on the Rich and the Rest of us. The goal is to think about how our Grace Church community responds to poverty, income inequality, and socioeconomic class both within our church community and out in the world. 

 

Senior Men's Lunch

The next Senior Men's Lunch will be Wednesday, March 20 at noon at John Brewers Tavern in Malden. Please RSVP to the Parish Office.

 

Book Club

On March 21 the Women's Book club is reading An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff.  On April 18 we'll discuss Bel Canto by Ann Patchett and we're reading Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout on May 21. The Book club meets on the third Thursday of the month at 7 pm at a volunteer host's house. We welcome any woman to join us at any time. For more information about the club or our meeting locations contact Genita in person or at

 

Rector's Sabbatical Informational Session

There will be a Sabbatical Informational Session on March 24 at 11:30 AM in Wiles Hall.

 

Grace Church Men's Group Going Bowling

If you are a male aged 13 and up, we are inviting you to an afternoon of bowling at Ryan's Amusement in Malden on Saturday April 20th from 2-4PM. This will be a fun event. If you are planning on joining us or for more information please contact me at james@gracemedford.org.

 

Say Cheese!
A new Grace Church picture directory will be made available later this year.  So save the date! Photographers will be at Grace Church on the following days: April 19th and 20th and April 26th and 27th.  Details will be provided soon.   Volunteers are needed on these dates to help the photographers for 2 hour blocks of time. If interested, contact the Grace Church Office at office@gracemedford.org.  

 

Let's Move! Medford

Let's Move! Medford, the event created by our 2011 LDI Team, is happening again on Sunday, June 9 from 1:00-4:00PM. This day of fun and learning provides information to empower families in Medford to live healthy lifestyles. If you are interested in helping to plan this year's event, please contact Chenine Peloquin at chenine@gmail.com.