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Sunday 
8:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans   
LEM: Branwen Smith-King  
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: Agnes Opara  
LEM II: Katherine Woodward
Lector I *
Warren Ramirez 
Lector II *
David Harriman 
Acolytes: 
Caroline Daly, Kaleigh Brawley and Jaeda Voll Hamel 
Ushers: 
Dennis Hale and James Klasen  
Altar Guild: 
Adele Travisano and Marie Glynn
Stewardship Testimonial: Hallie Lee  
Coffee Hour Hosts: Tom Hamel, coffee
Sundae Sunday!  
Counters:  Jean Spiers and Vin Maganzini
Vestry Person of the Day: 
James Klasen    
    
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

 

Peter Brady, Isabelle Brazis, Darlene Ford, Alexa LaValle and Melanie (Silva) Stewart (11/24); Wesley Foote, Jr. and Helen Zhou (11/26); Conor Daly, Rev. Sara Irwin, Brenda Pearson and Kristin Plausky (11/27); Allison Andrews (11/28) and Eva Englert (11/30).

 

Owen Peter Finnegan who was born on November 18th.  Our prayers are with him and his family Corey, Tara and brother, Jason.

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. 
On Sunday, we celebrate the Eucharist at 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.  Sunday School classes begin promptly at 9:45 AM. Nursery care is available for young children.

 

Sunday Evening Worship at 5:00 PM continues!  Sunday, November 24th:  evening Eucharist at Grace Church.

Please come and join us!  

 

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
You can find the Grace Church Stewardship packet online here.

Did you know that you can pledge online? To pledge online, click here.

Click below to see the video of Noah's Stewardship Testimonial.
Noah's testimonial
Noah's testimonial

This Sunday is "Sundae Sunday!"
An annual tradition, we end Stewardship season with turning in our pledge cards and an ice cream sundae at coffee hour.
Outreach Corner    

Grace Church will be helping with a Thanksgiving dinner at St. Luke's Community Kitchen again this year.    There are several ways to help:

Provide green beans - these can be brought to Grace Church on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. You can also donate money for veggies. Just place cash or a check, clearly marked "For St Luke's Thanksgiving" in the collection plate, or give to someone on the Outreach Committee.

Provide cans of whole cranberries - 6 cans needed

Provide apple pies - 4 needed

Provide aerosol cans of whipped cream - 6 needed

Help serve!  Volunteers are also needed to help out on Thanksgiving Day. 6 volunteers and 6 alternate volunteers needed:  2 volunteers (2 alternate volunteers) for 8-11AM shift, and 4 volunteers (4 alternate volunteers) for 11AM-2:30PM shift.  Alternate volunteers will be used if original volunteers are unable to come; final schedule will be established on 17 November.

 

The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining is November 30.  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, November 24 and for Sunday December 1 are jelly or peanut butter.

There is a basket at the back of the sanctuary to collect donations to help victims of the natural disaster in the Philippines.  Please make checks payable to Episcopal Relief and Development, with a notation that it's for the Philippines in the memo line.  We have collected $498 to date. Thank you!

 

The Giving Tree

Grace Church is partnering with the Medford Family Network (MFN) again this year to provide Christmas presents (warm winter clothes, toys and games) for Medford families in need.  Here's how it works: 

  • The Giving Tree will be up in the parish hall by the end of November
  • There will be stars on the tree, each representing an item that Marie Cassidy from the Medford Family Network has on her "wish list" for Medford families during this holiday season (for example, the star will say "doll for a 2-year-old")
  • You can take a star and sign the star list (which will be near the tree) - so we'll know who took which star 
  • Purchase the item on the star, and place under the tree (unwrapped) along with the star by Sunday 15 December
  • The Rite 13 class will wrap the presents, and the Outreach Committee will get them to the MFN
Contact for this project: Linda Rogers

Kid's Corner    


The Christmas season is almost upon us and we are looking for people to be in the pageant. Rehearsal dates will be: Saturday December 14th 10AM-noon and Saturday December 21st 10AM -noon.  If you're interested in being in this year's Christmas Pageant please contact me james@gracemedford.org or our director, Laura Duggan lrduggan@aol.com.

 

Sunday School Teachers

Pre K - Teacher: Michael Fenn  

Assistant: Maria Fenn   

Early Elementary - Teacher:  Vin Maganzini Assistant:  Ellie Viggiani 

Upper Elementary - Teacher: Catherine Smith Assistant: Michael Lwanga 

Nursery  -- Sarah Andrade


Thank you, panelists, for taking part in the History of Grace event on Sunday, and Dee Morris for "coaxing" them to respond.

There is only so much the archives can offer when it comes to sharing the parishioner experience and your comments said a lot. We in the audience sat in anticipation of the next story.

On behalf of the MHSM and myself, thanks again,

Allison Andrews
Office Manager/Cataloger, Medford Historical Society & Museum
and your parish historian

Other Announcements     

 

One-on-One Meetings with Noah

December dates are up on the bulletin board.  There are some weekend times available. Contact Carol in the office at 781-396-7215 or office@gracemedford.org or noah@gracemedford.org to make an appointment or sign up on the board. 

 

There is no "Wednesdays at Grace" on November 27 

5:30: Preschool Godly Play, Godly Play 2

6:00: Community Dinner    

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

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM   

 

 

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.

 

Medford Gives Thanks

  Join the Medford Interfaith Clergy for an interfaith event at Grace Church on Monday, November 25 from 7:00 to 8:00 PM.  We will be collecting non-perishable food donations and monetary donations for three food pantries in Medford.  Checks for donations to the food pantries may be made out to "Medford Interfaith Clergy Association".  Please join us.

 

Thanksgiving Zumba!

Join us for a free "pure turkey madness" zumba session on Thanksgiving morning!  ZumbaŽ is an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance fitness-party™. The Latin rhythms are intoxicating and fun! This class is open to the public, teens and adults. All fitness levels welcome.  Please bring one of the following food items to help support our local soup kitchens: Coffee, Tea or Peanut Butter.  Contact ZumbaŽ instructor Nanci Palladino with any questions nanci.palladino57@comcast.net.  Class will be held at Grace Church in Wiles Hall on Thursday, November 28th from 9:00 am  to 10:30 am.

 

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.

 

KOKA CHRISTMAS WREATHS 

Is it too early to think about Christmas Wreaths?  Well, not for the elves who work for KOKA.  This year we will be performing our usual duty and providing wreaths for those who order them.  See the order form here or look for it in weekly bulletins in the coming weeks.

Grace Church is going Caroling
Join us for a festive afternoon of caroling and hospitality on Sunday, December 15 from 1:00-4:00 PM as we make stops to sing and visit our parish home bound, as well as a local nursing home. We hope you will join us in demonstrating our care for one another and for some of the dearest members of our Grace community. Please RSVP to Eva at eva@gracemedford.org.