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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:  Eva Englert 
LEM II:  Wes Foote, Jr.
Lector I *: 
Brenda Pearson 
Lector II *: 
Sean Kerans  
Acolytes: 
Jordan Williams, Hannah Rogers and Timmy Lwanga  
Ushers: 
Linda Foote, Jane Scherban and Louis Piper Carson 
Altar Guild
Adele Travisano and Marie Glynn
Healing Ministers:
Rachael Pettengill-Rasure, Carrie Cross, Margaret Smist and Cindy Scott 
Coffee Hour Hosts: Vin Maganzini, coffee, food hosts needed  
Counters:  
Tom Hamel and Naida Gavrelis 
Vestry Person of the Day: Branwen Smith-King
    
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

Beverly Convery, Sandra Eriksson-Ellis, Barbara Hammond, Linda Rogers and Holger Wirz (3/31) and Michael Fenn (4/4).


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. During the Sunday school hour on March 30, Eva Englert will lead Grace children in a children's sermon and gardening activity in the Parish Hall.  Children will be planting seeds for seedlings for the Grace Church Garden.
 

Lenten Prayer and Worship at 5:00PM 

Join us for the Grace Church 5:00PM service's FIRST Lent! We are back in the church with the whole liturgical crew -- candles, music, Eucharist, and readings and prayers for our journey during this holy season, every Sunday from March 9 through April 13.

 

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 April 26 (please note change).  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, March 30 are jam or jelly. The items for Sunday, April 6 are peanut butter or soynut butter.

Kid's Corner


Planting Seeds 

During the Sunday school hour on March 30, Eva Englert will lead Grace children in a children's sermon and gardening activity in the Parish Hall during the Sunday School hour. Children will be planting seeds for seedlings to get our garden back up and running in the late spring. Adults and parents are welcome and encouraged to come and help! If you have potting soil or containers (with drainage holes) to donate, please let Eva know (eva@gracemedford.org). Come join us as we anticipate new life this spring! 

 

Barbara C. Harris Camp

Registration is now open for Summer Camp! Camp is for kids entering 4th grade and older. You can find more information at www.bchcenter.org.  Most Grace Church kids are signing up for July 6-12th this year, but others are signing up for other weeks as well.  Please see Noah for information on scholarships, or for more information on Summer Camp.

 

Passion Play 2014 by the Parable Players

There are just over three weeks before we perform Passion Play 2014, so it's time to start looking at your script!  If you start practicing your lines NOW, it will be a breeze playing your role at our first rehearsal on  SATURDAY , April 5th, 10:00 AM to noon in the sanctuary.  Our second  rehearsal is SATURDAY, April 12th, 10:00 AM to noon.  The performance is on April 13th, PALM  SUNDAY. Cast call for costuming on performance day is 8:30 to 9:30 AM in the Common Room. At 9:30 AM, we will then line up outside in front of the church to parade up to St.  Joseph's.  Is there a pony in our future?  TBA!  Contact Laura at lrduggan@aol.com  or at in person at church!


The next Youth Night is April 11th from 6:30 to 10 PM at Grace Church. All youth Grade 5 and up welcome, bring a snack to share. See Maria Fenn for more information or email her at fennways@verizon.net.  

 

Help Grace Church Send a Kid to Camp!

Grace Church contributes almost $192 per child from Grace Church who goes to Camp on a scholarship (the Diocesan Camp Scholarship Fund pays $191, and families pay the same).  The vast majority of our kids receive a scholarship.  You can help send a Grace Church kid to camp with a contribution to the Grace Church Camp Scholarship Fund.  Please speak to Noah (noah@gracemedford.org) for more information.

 

Other Announcements     

 

Wednesdays at Grace

5:30: Preschool Godly Play, Godly Play 2

6:00: Community Dinner

Dinner Host April 2:  Maria Fenn 

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

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM 

 
Adult Ed Lenten Series: "Free"  Wednesday March 12 through April 9 at 6:45PM
Led by Rachael Pettengill-Rasure and Sara Folta
Join us for a five week series on the book "FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most" by Mark & Lisa Scandrette. In this series we will explore how we use our resources and how we can live according to our values both as individuals and as a community. For more information about the book check out this website: http://markscandrette.com/books/ or speak with Rachael Pettengill-Rasure or Sara Folta.
 

BISHOP SHAW'S VISIT TO GRACE CHURCH

Wednesday in Holy Week, April 16

Bishop Shaw will be visiting Grace Church for the final time before he retires in September.  He will be coming Wednesday in Holy Week.  Please save the date for this special visit from Bishop Shaw as he completes his 20 year ministry with our Diocese.

Stations of the Cross for Children and Adults:  5:30PM

Parish Wednesday Night Dinner: 6:00PM

Holy Eucharist for Wednesday of Holy Week with Bishop Shaw:  7:00PM

 

THERE IS NO WEDNESDAYS AT GRACE ON APRIL 23rd SCHOOL VACATION WEEK

 

Chasing Ice Film Screening

Wednesday, April 30th at 6:45PM

Acclaimed photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

 

Love, Loss and What I Wore  

Friday, April 4 at 7:00 PM at Grace Church

Have you ever gone through boxes of old clothes and discovered a shirt, or a pair of pants, or a coat that brings back old memories? Can you remember the robe your mother wore when you were a child? Or the first time you bought a bra? Or your prom dress? Girl Scout uniform? Those old boots you loved in college?

 

Love, Loss and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and has a cast of five principal women which includes Brenda Pearson, June Pietrantoni and Sarah Masciave. The play revolves around memories we have that revolve around the clothes we remember best! Its' about purses and friendship, shoes and tragedy, coats and love, and robes and loss. It is, at heart, about being a woman. The show encapsulates these moments and uses them to explore what it means to be a mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, girlfriend or wife.

 

Please join us on Friday April 4th at 7pm in Wiles Hall for an enjoyable evening of comedy which will benefit the youth groups, J2A and Rite 13, of Grace Church. You can also help us to fill up our clothing pantry by bringing an item or two for donation. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.

 

Election of the Diocesan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

Sunday, March 30 at 11:30AM

Join in a conversation about the process of electing a new Bishop of Massachusetts with Grace Church's Diocesan Delegates and Rector. Discussion will be about the candidates and needs of the Diocese.  The Diocesan Convention to elect a new Bishop will be held on Saturday, April 5.


Book Club 

The Grace Church Women's Book Club meets on the third Thursday each month at 7:00 pm.

For April we are reading; Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier.  We welcome any woman to join us at any meeting. Please contact Genita  at pawleyslegacy@verizon.net for meeting locations.

 

 

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Green Up Clean Up
Improving Medford's Open Spaces

Green Up Clean Up is a program of Grace Church, in conjunction with the City of Medford and many participating local organizations and individuals. We would like your help to identify parks and open spaces that could use our attention and organizations that would be interested in partnering with us on cleanups. Previous projects have included picking up trash, pruning, spreading new sand or wood chips, removing graffiti and painting. We are already have several projects planned for this spring and we would like to identify several more of interest to the community.


Additionally, the Greening Grace Committee is looking for volunteers to solicit donations of food and coffee to have at the cleanups and for volunteers to post cleanups on local calendars such as the Patch and to represent Grace at cleanups. If you are interested in any of the above, or have suggestions or requests for areas to focus on, please email: 

greenupcleanup@gracemedford.org 

 

Please join us for cleanups this year at:

*Saturday April 5, 9AM-Noon - Capen Street Park with Tufts University
*Saturday April 26, 9:30AM-1PM - Mystic River Cleanup  organized by Friends of the Mystic River and supported by the Mystic Valley Deanery to honor Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw on his retirement as Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts
  • Sunday in May - Victory Park with Temple Shalom