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Sunday 
8:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans   
LEM: June Pietrantoni
Usher: 
Wesley Foote, Sr.
Altar Guild:  June Pietrantoni 
10:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans 
Minister of Music:
Ruth Roper 
LEM I: Margaret Smist  
LEM II:  Rachael Pettengill-Rasure
Lector I *
Deborah
Jennings
Lector II *
Lucia Page 
Acolytes:
Jonathan Jourdan, Alan Novaes and Timmy Lwanga  
Ushers: 
Don and Jill Capuccio 
Altar Guild: 
Dottie Palladino and Margaret Smist
Stewardship Testimonial:  Daniel and Nancy Eger 
Coffee Hour Hosts: Steve Duggan, coffee
Brian and Nanci Branson, food 
Counters:
Bryan Spence and Don Capuccio
Vestry Person of the Day: 
Naida Gavrelis   
    
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

 

Anne Deveney (10/29); Ella Daly, Elisabeth Hunt, Christopher Hunt and Thomas Quick (10/31); Shirley Corcoran, Kristen Cox and Kristen Spence (11/01) Scott Corcoran (11/2).

 

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

Sunday Evening Worship at 5:00 PM 

October 27th:  Celebrate the Feast of All Souls Day with a Solemn Holy Eucharist with incense, candles and prayers for the living and the dead. We will be experimenting with a very "high church" or "Anglo-Catholic" style of worship. 

 

Contact Eva or Noah for more information.  

 

Protestant services at Tufts are at 7:00 PM in Goddard Chapel.  Click here for the schedule. 
The Bridge between our gratitude for the past and our hope for the future.
Grace Church Stewardship 2014

Patrick Hardy's Stewardship Sermon Oct. 20 2013
Patrick Hardy's Stewardship Sermon Oct. 20 2013
Adele Travisano- Stewardship Testimony
Adele Travisano- Stewardship Testimony

To pledge online, click here.

Sunday, November 17:  Finance Forum

"Sundae Sunday" on November 24th. 
An annual tradition, we will end Stewardship season with turning in our pledge cards and an ice cream sundae at coffee hour.
Outreach Corner    
The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining is October 26.  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 are once again coffee or tea.

Kid's Corner    

James will lead games on the front lawn for kids during coffee hour following the 10:00 AM service.

 

Sunday School Teachers

Pre K - Teacher:   Assistant:   

Early Elementary - Teacher:  Vin Maganzini Assistant:  Tom Hamel

Upper Elementary - Teacher:  Jessica Lee Assistant: 

Nursery  -- Sarah Andrade

DIOCESAN CONVENTION IS COMING UP ON NOVEMBER 2

The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston will be the setting for the 228th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.  Your Delegates-elected and attending-from our Parish are Elizabeth Graham and June Pietrantoni.  Margaret Smist will serve as Alternate Delegate, if necessary.  Beth and June attended the Pre-Convention Delegates Forum and Briefing on October 15 at the Cathedral.  Father Noah Evans is our Clergy Delegate.

·        The proposed 2014 Diocesan Budget was presented and reviewed and will be voted at Convention.

·        Nominees for Clerical Deputies and Lay Deputies to the 2015 General Convention were named and those present gave brief statements about their candidacies.   Beth Graham is a candidate for Lay Delegate.

·        Also to be considered and voted:

o   Special Report and Implementing Resolutions on Bishop (coadjutor) Election from the Standing Committee

o   Report of the Committee on Resolutions:

1.      Peace -building in the Diocese of Massachusetts (to continue the work of the B-PEACE and anti-violence work of the Jorge Fuentes Antiviolence Task Force created at the 2012 Convention).

2.      Resolution in Support of a Carbon Tax as a Way to Combat Climate Change

    (a carbon tax to discourage the use of fossil fuels)

3.      Resolution calling for Environmentally Responsible Investing

(to reduce our carbon footprint, our use of fossil fuels and our complicity with the fossil fuel industry)

Parishioners who have questions pre-Convention may contact one of our Delegates:

Beth Graham               617-767-1969  elizabethgraham@gmail.com 

 June Pietrantoni          617-591-9944   June.Pietrantoni@MASenate.gov 

Other Announcements     

 

One-on-One Meetings with Noah

One of Noah's priorities is to schedule some time to sit down with members of our community. The goal is to schedule some time with everyone.

 

Time slots are still 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 Hosts: Laura and Steve Duggan 

6:45: Godly Play 3, Faith Explorers, Rite 13 and J2A

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM

Come learn about Saints  

October 30 and November 6

Margaret Smist and Rachael Pettengill-Rasure 

We celebrate the Saints every November during All Saint's Sunday, and we learn about them during Lent (if you participate in Lent Madness!!!). We will explore the importance of Saints in the Episcopal Church and how we celebrate them in our worship and in our faith life.  The class will help us explore how the Saints help us to get closer to God, and we will get to think about which saint we may identify with.   Join us. 

 

All Saints Sunday, November 3  

Litany of the Saints

This year on All Saints Sunday, during the 10:00 AM service, we will be singing the Litany of the Saints as we proceed around the church to the Baptismal font.  The singing of the Litany of the Saints is an ancient tradition, typically done on high feast days.  The Litany is of many saints, ancient and modern, who are invoked to give us support, witness and powerful examples of living out the Christian faith and life.  If you have a favorite Saint you would like to hear included in this prayer, please contact Noah Evans. You may also bring photographs of loved ones who have died.  These photos will be placed in the Madonna corner before the service and will be present during worship in remembrance of them.  The Rev. Cameron Partridge, Episcopal Chaplain at Boston University will be our guest preacher.

 

Senior Men's Lunch

The next Senior Men's Lunch will be Wednesday, November 6 at noon at John Brewers Tavern in Malden.  Please RSVP to the Parish Office.

 

Parish Prayer List

During the season of Advent we will be reading all of the names on the parish prayer list during worship. In preparation for this Advent, all names on the prayer list will be removed after November 17.  If you have names you would like to remain on the list after then, please contact Carol in the Parish Office at office@gracemedford.org.  Names usually stay on the list for three weeks, unless the office is otherwise notified. 

 

A History of Grace Episcopal Church

On Sunday, November 17th from 2:00-4:00, The Medford Historical Society and Grace Episcopal Church will present A History of Grace Church.  Featured speakers include Mayor Michael McGlynn, The Rev. Noah Evans, parish historian -- Allison Andrews and a panel of Grace Church members.  The afternoon will include tours of the historic H. H. Richardson church and a display of artifacts.  The event is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.

 

Book Club 

The Grace Church Women's Book Club meets the third Thursday of each month at 7 pm (except August and December) at a member's house.  For more information about the Club or the location of a meeting, contact Genita in church or at pawleyslegacy@verizon.net. All women are welcome to any meeting even if you aren't a member of Grace Church.

On November 21 we're reading Between Heaven and Mirth by James Martin.  This year the Club decided to meet in December and have another movie night, on December 19, movie yet to be decided. And on January 16, 2014 we're discussing Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard.

 

Calling all Grace Church artists/crafts persons for a Craft Fair

We are going to hold a craft fair for both Grace Church artists/crafters as well as others from the community.  This fair will be held on Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 9-12.  If you are interested in having a table to showcase and sell your crafts, please contact Cheryl Woodbury (woodburyc@comcast.net or 781-289-2573) by Sunday, November 24th.  The cost per table is $20.