Kid's Corner

Sunday School begins this week on Sunday September 14th at 9:45 AM. 

Godly Play Training at Grace Church

Grace Church is hosting Godly Play teacher trainings for the New England region on September 19-21st. During this training participants experience all aspects of the Godly Play method and begin to become fluent in the Godly Play core stories and lessons. Core training follows an action/reflection model of learning with a mixture of trainer-led presentations and participant storytelling presentations. Core training plenary presentations cover: the Spirituality of the Child, Setting up a Godly Play Environment and Supporting the Circle of Children. This will be a wonderful opportunity to become a Godly Play teacher, with the training right here at Grace Church! Let Noah if you are interested, or might be interested in this.

Children and Youth Programs!

Register for Fall Children and Youth programs at www.gracemedford.org

Wednesdays at Grace begins on September 17.  See below for Adult Education programming. 

Acolytes are needed

Any child, 9 years or older who is interested in becoming an acolyte can speak to or have their parents speak to Wes Foote, Jr.

Friday night youth event on September 26:

Grace Church is hosting an evening of games and fun for youth, grades 6-12, on Friday, September 26th from 6-10pm. Parent chaperones are Maria Fenn and Cheryl Woodbury. Dinner is not provided, but kids can bring a favorite board game to share.

Enchanted Garden Tour

Laura Duggan is offering a tour of her "Enchanted Garden" to the children and families of the parish. Please RSVP to the parish office or on Facebook (where a carpool sign-up is also available), to give Laura an idea of how many to expect. The magic happens at 31 Hickory Avenue, 1:00-2:30 PM, Sunday, September 28th. An appropriately charming snack will be served.

Wednesdays at Grace

5:30: younger children's Godly Play classes

6:00: Community Dinner

6:45: Older children's classes

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM

Environmental Film Series

September 17, 24 and October 1

This fall during Wednesdays at Grace we will be looking at a few different environmental issues through an environmental film series. This series goal is to educate us so that we can better live out our faith commitments to "care for all creation."

A Visit to the Bakken Oil Fields

September 17, 6:45PM

This summer, during his trip out west, Noah Evans, our rector visited to area of Western North Dakota know as the Bakken oil fields. Due to the development of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), this formerly desolate region is experiencing an enormous "oil boom." Oil production has led one town to grow from 1,500 to 15,000 people in just two years. The experience of visiting in Bakken was an important lens into the effects and impacts, in addition to climate change, of our current extraordinary reliance on fossil fuels. Using several short films about the region Noah will tell the story of what he learned, and how as people of faith we might respond.

A Will for the Woods, film screening

September 24, 6:45PM

This film was directed by Tony Hale, son of Grace Church parishioners Dennis Hale and Adele Travisano.

Determined that his last act will be a gift to the planet, a man prepares for his own green burial. Musician, psychiatrist, and folk dancer Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial while battling lymphoma, determined that his last act will be a gift to the planet. Boldly facing his mortality, the spirited Clark and his partner Jane have joined with a compassionate local cemeterian to use green burial to save a North Carolina woods from being clear-cut.

Documenting one community's role in the genesis of a revolutionary movement, A Will for the Woods follows Clark's dream of leaving a legacy in harmony with timeless cycles, and environmentalism takes on a profound intimacy.

Gasland II, film screening

October 1, 6:45PM

In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide). GASLAND PART II, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most important environmental issues facing our nation today. The film argues that the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth's climate with the potent greenhouse gas, methane. In addition the film looks at how the powerful oil and gas industries are in Fox's words "contaminating our democracy".

Save the Date! 

Visit by the Rt. Rev. Alan Gates

January 7, 2015

Bishop Alan Gates will come to Wednesdays at Grace on January 7, 2015.