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Maundy Thursday 
7:00 PM
Celebrant: The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Preacher: Rachael Pettengill-Rasure
Minister of Music:  Ruth Roper
LEM: Rachael Pettengill-Rasure and Margaret Smist
Lector I*:  Wes Foote, Jr.
Lector II*:
Branwen Smith-King
Acolytes:
Caroline Daly, Rebecca Spence and Victoria Spence
Usher: Kristen Spence
Good Friday
Officiant: The Rev. Noah H. Evans 
Preacher:  Eva Englert
Minister of Music: Ruth Roper
LEM/Lector
12PM:  Margaret Smist
Altar Guild 12PM: Margaret Smist
LEMs 7PM: Rachael Pettengill-Rasure and Agnes Opara
Lectors 7PM:  Wes Foote, Jr. and Branwen Smith-King 
Ushers 7PM:  Jill Capuccio and Linda Foote 
Altar Guild 7PM: Carolyn Rogers 
Easter Vigil - Saturday
Celebrant:
The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Preacher:  Rachael Pettengill-Rasure
Minister of Music: Ruth Roper
LEMs:  Rachael Pettengill-Rasure and Eva Englert
Lectors:  Laura Duggan, Dennis Hale, Deborah Jennings, Kate Woodward, Patrick Hardy and June Pietrantoni
Acolytes: Michael Lwanga, Tim Lwanga and Hannah Rogers
Ushers:  Jane Scherban, Dennis Hale and Linda Foote
Altar Guild:   
Margaret Smist and Carolyn Rogers
Easter Sunday 
8:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher:  The Rev. Noah H. Evans
LEM: Rachael Pettengill-Rasure
Usher: 
John Schlesinger
Altar Guild:  June Pietrantoni
10:00 AM 
Celebrant and Preacher: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Assisting Priest:  The Rev. Cameron Partridge 
Minister of Music:  Ruth Roper
LEMs: 
Rachael Pettengill- Rasure, Eva Englert, Wes Foote, Jr.   
Lector I*: 
Heather Thompson
Lector II*:  Patrick Hardy 
Acolytes: 
Elizabeth Pardy, Emily Pardy and Kayleigh Brawley 
Ushers: 
Don Capuccio, Jill Capuccio, Linda Foote, James Klasen and Elise Daly
Altar Guild
Carolyn Rogers and Dottie Palladino 
Coffee Hour Hosts: Steve Duggan, coffee, The Vestry, food 
Counters:  
Jane Scherban and Naida Gavrelis 
    
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

Michael Gaughan (4/20); Jenni-Lyn Rogers (4/21); Genita Johnson and Steve Scott (4/22); Sydney Zhou (4/23); Joseph Auner and Ellery Klein (4/24); Jill Capuccio and Lucia Page (4/25).

 

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

Welcome
Please join Grace Church during Holy Week!  

Maundy Thursday- April 17

7:00 PM - Holy Eucharist with

foot washing and stripping of the altar

 

Good Friday- April 18

12:00 noon - Liturgy for Good Friday

5:30PM Holy Week Service for young children

7:00 PM -Liturgy for Good Friday with music and choir

 

Holy Saturday- April 19

10:00 AM Proper Liturgy for Holy Saturday

7:00 PM - The Great Vigil of Easter

with music and choir

 

Easter Sunday- April 20

8:00 AM - Holy Eucharist with Traditional Language

10:00 AM - Festival Holy Eucharist with music and choir followed by Easter Egg Hunt

There is no 5:00 PM service on Easter Sunday

 

Protestant services at Tufts are at 7:00 PM in Goddard Chapel.  Click here for the schedule.  On Easter Sunday, we will welcome students from Tufts at our 10:00 AM worship service.  

 

Grace Church Clean up and Easter Preparation is Saturday 9am-noon.  Come help the altar guild set-up for Easter and help spruce up the church inside and out.  If you would like to work outside, please bring rakes and gloves.

 
Outreach Corner    
The next opportunity to help with 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. For the next few months, the team will be making bagged lunches at Grace Church from 9-10:30AM to bring for distribution at St. Luke's between 11AM and noon.  Contact Brenda Pearson for more details.

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, April 20 is tuna.  The item for Sunday, April 27 is canned soup.

Kid's Corner

 

Children's Holy Week Service and Activities 

Friday, April 18, 5:30pm-6:30pm 

Join in this time to mark Holy Week for Children. We will include elements from Holy Thursday and Good Friday services geared for Children.

 

Easter Sunday, April 20 at 10:00 AM

Eva Englert will offer a children's homily in the Parish Hall.  There will be an Easter Egg hunt following the service.

 

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.

 

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   

 

Worship at 5:00PM on April 27 

Worshipful Walks are BACK! Grace Church's

5:00PM service will be moving outdoors on Sunday, April 27 for our first worship hike together since October. We will hike to Wright's Tower in the Fells, stopping along the way for prayers, scripture, and singing. We will meet at 5:00 at the Bellevue Pond Parking Lot at Middlesex Fells. Get there early (4:45ish) to park, because spots fill up quickly with many folks out and about for nice weather! Grab your family and friends, your walking shoes and we'll see you there! 


Wednesdays at Grace

5:30: Preschool Godly Play, Godly Play 2

6:00: Community Dinner

Dinner Hosts April 30: The Hamels and the Mummas  

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

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM 

 
 
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.

 

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Green Up Clean Up
We have several more cleanups scheduled as well, please mark them on your calendar and help spread the word!

   * Saturday April 26 - Grace is supporting two cleanups in honor of retiring Rt Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, Bishop Diocesan
9:30AM-1PM - Mystic River Cleanup organized by Friends of the Mystic River.  Meet at Hormel Stadium for supplies and assignment, details at  http://www.fomr.org
9:00 - Noon - Spring Belle Isle Marsh Cleanup  organized by Friends of Belle Isle Marsh. Meet at John Kilmartin Walkway across from Short Beach at the Winthrop-Revere (Beachmont) town line.

   * Sat May 10, 10AM-Noon - Dugger Park - West Medford Moms Book Club - Amy Stewart

   * Sunday May 18, 2-5PM - Victory Park with Temple Shalom

    *Sunday June 1, time TBD - Logan Park with Pack 416 Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts

   * Sat June 21, 1-3PM - Clippership Park - as part of "Into the Mystic" Environmental Art & Film Festival, meet at Mystic Art Gallery on Clippership Drive, behind Citizens Bank

If you are interested in any of the above, or have suggestions or requests for areas to focus on, please email: 

greenupcleanup@gracemedford.org 

 

For up to date information click here.

Walk for Hunger

Join us on May 4, 2013 (the first Sunday in May) for the Walk for Hunger.  Walk one mile or twenty.  If you can't walk, please support Grace Church's team.  The Walk for Hunger raises money for Project Bread, which supports a wide variety of programs across Massachusetts, including community-based meal programs, food pantries, and school nutrition initiatives.  Stay tuned for more details or contact Nathan Brawley at 781-866-0979.

 

Book Club 

Grace Church Women's Book Club meets monthly at 7 pm on the third Thursday except August. Any woman is invited to attend any meeting. 
On May 15, we're reading

Someone by Alice McDermott.  For more information about meetings please contact Genita at pawleyslegacy@verizon.net.

 

Senior Men's Lunch

The next Senior Men's lunch (and Bible study!) will be Wednesday, May 21 at noon at John Brewers Tavern in Malden.  Please RSVP to the Parish Office.This is the last month before we break for the summer months.