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Sunday 
8:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher:  The Rev. Noah H. Evans
LEM: Eva Englert
Usher: 
John Schlesinger
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: Kate Woodward 
Lector I*:
Laura Duggan
Lector II *: 
Butch Edgecomb 
Acolytes: 
Genita Johnson, Brianna Nwachukwu and Solomon Nwachukwu, Jr. 
Ushers: 
Dennis Hale and Daniel Egger 
Altar Guild
Elaine and Robin Sheets  
Coffee Hour Hosts: Vin Maganzini, coffee, Food  host needed 
Counters:  
Wes Foote and Dennis Hale 
Vestry Person of the Day: Nathan Brawley
    
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

Cameron Deane (5/4); Steve Bucchianeri and June Pietrantoni (5/5); Crystal New and Myra Skeete (5/6); Carrie Cross (5/7); Gloria Craven (5/10); Molly Maguire (5/10).

 

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!
We celebrate the Eucharist on Sundays at 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.  Sunday School begins promptly at 9:45 AM.  Nursery care is available for young children. 

Come celebrate Eastertide with singing and prayers in the church at 5:00PM on May 4. We will be back in the church for continued Experiments in Evening Worship.  

Protestant services at Tufts are at 7:00 PM in Goddard Chapel.  Click here for the schedule. 
Outreach Corner    
The next opportunity to help with St. Luke's Community Dining is May 31.  For a few months, we will be preparing bagged lunches in the Grace Church kitchen from 9-10:30 AM and distributing them at St. Luke's between 11:00 AM and noon.  Please contact Brenda Pearson at brendapearson@comcast.net
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, May 4 are coffee or tea.

We Need Help...Semi-Annual Clothing Pantry

This Spring our pantry will be held on Saturday, May 10 from 9:00 AM to noon.We need volunteers to help with set-up, pantry day and close down.Whatever time you have available to help, even just an hour, would be greatly appreciated. Adults only are needed on Saturday.

 

Our set-up days are as follows:

Thursday, May 8 from 4 to 8 PM for sorting in the church.

Friday, May 9 from 4:00 PM until set up is done.

In the past adults and their children have helped with sorting and folding.

 

Please, let Maria Fenn know if and when you can help.  Thanks so much to all who have helped in the past.  Thanks also to the kind people who donate their gently used clothing.

Kid's Corner

 

Sunday School Teachers

Pre K - Teacher: 

Michael Fenn Assistant:  Maria Fenn

Early Elementary - Teacher: 

Vin Maganzini  Assistant:  Nathan Brawley

Upper Elementary - Teacher: 

Sue Maltz  Assistant: Michael Lwanga 

 

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!

We have already had 6 kids register for Summer 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 May 7: The Kossuth Family 

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

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM 

 

Intern "Last Lecture" Series

May 7 and 14 at 6:45PM

Our two beloved interns will each be giving a "Last Lecture" of what they learned at Grace over the last few years, and their reflections on what our community needs to know and do moving forward into the future. This Summer, both Eva Englert and Rachael Pettengill-Rasure will be leaving Grace and moving on to their next opportunities in the ministries and development.  Eva is attending Boston University School of Theology in the fall.  And Rachael Pettengill-Rasure, God willing, will be ordained this upcoming June, and will be leaving Grace in order to share her gifts with the greater church and another parish. May 7 - Eva Englert and May 14 - Rachael Pettengill-Rasure,


Wednesdays at Grace  

End of the Year Potluck Celebration!

Wednesday, May 21 at 6:00PM

No classes - just a potluck and a celebration. 

Bring a dish to pass of something you love to make or eat!

 

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. 

 

 

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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!

     * 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, 2014 (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.

 

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.