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Sunday 
8:00 AM
Celebrant: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Preacher: Rachael Pettengill-Rasure 
LEM:  June Pietrantoni
Usher: 
John Schlesinger
Altar Guild:  June Pietrantoni 
10:00 AM

Celebrant: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans 
Preacher: 
Rachael Pettengill-Rasure 
Minister of Music:
Ruth Roper 
LEM I: Kate Woodward  
LEM II:  Rachael Pettengill-Rasure
Lector I * Barbara Povey
Lector II *
Julia Lisella 
Acolytes:
Caroline Daly, Kayleigh Brawley and Jaeda Hamel   
Ushers: 
Linda Foote and Steve Duggan 
Altar Guild:
 
Dottie Palladino and Margaret Smist 
Coffee Hour Hosts: Tom Hamel, coffee and Carolyn Rogers and Jone Marceau, food 
Counters:
Steve Duggan and Linda Foote
Vestry Person of the Day:  Genita Johnson 
    
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

 

Nancy Egger and Jordan Williams (9/22); Gaby Cuba, Deborah Lwanga-Jennings and Kate Woodward (9/23); Wesley Foote, Sr. and Carl Kleifgen (9/24); James Klasen, Tina Riedel and Nikolas Sullivan (9/25); Edith Auner and Nikolas Sullivan (9/25); Edith Auner and Andrew Zafiris (9/26); Peter Bozovic and Lauren Henson (9/27); and Louise Fortino and Nancy Rogers (9/28).

 

If we do not have your birthday, please contact the church office at 781-396-7215 or office@gracemedford.org  

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Installation of the solar panels on Grace Church
 Welcome!
Please join us at Grace Church. 
On Sunday, we celebrate the Eucharist at 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM.  Sunday School classes will be harvesting and planting fall crops in the Grace Church Garden with Eva Englert, Emmaus Fellow on Sunday.  Nursery care is available for young children.

New Sunday Evening Worship at 5:00 PM 

September 22: At and with First Lutheran Church, Malden (located at 62 Church St., Malden).

 

September 29: Our second "Worshipful Walk" at the Brooks Estate.  Park on Grove St - meet at the gate at 275 Grove St. 

 

Contact Eva or Noah for more information.  

 

Protestant services at Tufts are at 7:00 PM in Goddard Chapel.  Click here for the schedule. 

Outreach Corner    
The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining is September 28.  Please contact Brenda Pearson at
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 items for Sunday, September 22 are coffee or tea. The items for Sunday, September 29 are jam or jelly.
 

Other Announcements     

 

One-on-One Meetings with Noah

Noah, our Rector, is back from his sabbatical. One of his first priorities in returning to community life is to schedule some time to sit down one on one with members of our community. The goal is to get some time with everyone--hopefully to be wrapped up by the end of the calendar year.

 

Time slots are available Mondays during the day and Wednesday afternoons. Evening meetings can also be scheduled-- just let us know.   

 

You can sign up on the bulletin board or contact Carol in the office at 781-396-7215 or office@gracemedford.org or noah@gracemedford.org

 

Wednesdays at Grace  

5:30: Preschool Godly Play & Godly Play 2 

6:00: Community Dinner

Dinner Host on Sept. 18: Linda Rogers 

6:45: Godly Play 3, Faith Explorers,  

Rite 13 and J2A

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM

Series on Jeremiah

(September 18 & 25, October 9)

Rachael Pettengill-Rasure and Matt Rasure 

Over the next couple months our Sunday Lectionary readings feature passages from the book of Jeremiah. Join Rachael Pettengill-Rasure and Matt Rasure for a three week discussion on who Jeremiah is, what he had to say to the people of God in his time, and what we today can learn from his message. 

 

Creation Care Celebration & Solar Panel Blessing

October 2 at 6:00PM

Bishop Bud Cederholm, the "Green Bishop"

Join us as we celebrate caring for God's Creation with Bishop Bud Cederholm.  This special inter-generational evening will begin with a service to bless our solar panels, followed by dinner and an inter-generational program celebrating our care for creation.

 

Visiting El Salvador with the Diocesan Youth Leadership Academy

October 16

Beth Graham

Grace Church parishioner Beth Graham served as a mentor for the Diocesan Youth Leadership Academy last year, and traveled with the youth to El Salvador over the summer.  Come hear about her experiences. 

 

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October 23 

Dee Morris 

Today the art scene is thriving in Medford. Not surprisingly, it is the flowering of a long-standing tradition. During the late 19th into the mid 20th century, some critically acclaimed impressionists, landscape artists and portrait painters had ties to our community. Medford native, Leslie P. Thompson, and Grace Church member, Joseph DeCamp, worked out of the famous Fenway Studios. Joseph Morviller found inspiration in our bucolic landscapes while May Hallowell Loud combined art with her dedication to the N.A.A.C.P. And there were others. Let's revisit these artists, enjoy their paintings and celebrate their Medford ties. 

 

Book Club 

The Grace Church Women's Book Club meets on the third Thursday each month at 7:00 pm. We welcome any woman to join us at any meeting. Please contact Genita in church or at pawleyslegacy@verizon.net for meeting locations.  

·         September 19 - State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

·         October 17  - Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

·    November 21  - Between Heaven and Mirth by James Martin  

 

Congregational Resource Day

Saturday, September 28
is the diocese's Congregational Resource Day
and this year's  focuses on the work of B-PEACE. Rev. Kathleen Adams-Shepherd of Newtown, CT will be sharing some of her story, and there will be workshops for adults and opportunities for youth. Please join us as we learn what it means to be peacemakers in a broken world. The event is free (optional boxed lunch is $10) and will be from 9:00AM-4:00PM at Roxbury Community College. For more information, go to

diomass.org/event/fall-resource-day-2013.  

You can also talk to Eva for more information about B-PEACE's mission. 

 

Mysticfest:  On September 29, 2013 there will be music performances at the Condon Shell in Medford between noon and 6:00 PM.  There will be a canned food drive to benefit food pantries in Medford organized by Vin Maganzini at the event.

 

"Sisters in Song" produced and directed by Jeff Pietrantoni proudly announces a program of duets to benefit the Ellie Fundwill be held in Wiles Hall at Grace Church on Saturday,October 5 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 

Members and friends of Grace Church are cordially invited to attend. We urge you to support the concert with your presence and/or a donation. Helping those with breast cancer who need help is our passion.Some of the

"Sisters in Song," are survivors of breast cancer themselves. 

 

Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at the door.Additional donations are welcome. 
Checks should be payable to "Sisters in Song."

 

Visit the website www.elliefund.org for information about the work of the Ellie Fund or to make a donation online.

 

null "Mrs. Jack at Fenway Court" will be performed at Grace Church as part of the CACHE Arts Across Medford festival.  The performance is Sunday, October 6th, at 3:00 PM.  For tickets, see Laura Duggan.  The 'Early Bird' tickets are $12.50 and $15.00 at the door.  Call the church office to reserve tickets or see Laura Duggan.  This one woman show is a fundraiser for the Grace Church youth.  To read more about it, click here.