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

Who do you say that I am?  

Our own image of Jesus

Wednesday, March 26, 6:45PM

The Reverend Noah H. Evans

Jesus asks Peter and his disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" When they answer that question for themselves it is deeply transformative. We will be exploring that question for ourselves in light of the presentations from this series, and answering it for ourselves, as we approach Holy Week and Easter.

April 1, Holy Wednesday

No Wednesday Night Dinner and Children and Youth Classes

7:00PM - Stations of the Cross

Celebrate Earth Month with the Grace Church Wednesdays at Grace

April 8, 2015 - 6:45PM

Erik Jacobs, Farmer for Plough & Stars 

Plough & Stars Project is a Medford based farm. It is a celebration of community and food's unique capacity to draw people together. Our members are all neighbors - households bound by geography but separated by the pace of modern life. We know each other from a distance, maybe even by name, but rarely do we find the opportunity for deeper connection. Our CSA strives to challenge that, to designate time and create space for those openings. Through our farming we seek to live and nurture lives of meaningful connection: connection to the earth, connection to each other, connection to our work and connection to our food. Through these connections we strive to steward land, nourish bodies, quiet minds and foster community. We believe that living closer to the earth brings us closer to the divine. And that, at its essence is what we celebrate...The Plough and the Stars.

Rosemary (Rosie) Gill, President, Board of Directors, Medford Farmers Market

Rosie Gill is dedicated to building healthy communities around food. She works primarily with non-profits engaged in improving food security through educational means.

April 15, 2015 - 6:45PM

Russell Cohen, Rivers Advocate at Division of Ecological Restoration/Riverways Program, Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game

Russ Cohen currently serves as the Rivers Advocate for the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game's Division of Ecological Restoration. One of his areas of expertise is in riparian vegetation. He has compiled a list of native plant species suitable for planting in riparian areas; written numerous fact sheets on the ecological and other beneficial functions of naturally vegetated buffers along rivers and streams intended to aid the effective implementation of the Mass. Rivers Protection Act; and (with the Appalachian Mountain Club) prepared Trees, Paddlers and Wildlife, a set of outreach materials intended to raise the awareness of paddlers, riparian land-owners and managers, and others about the ecological and other beneficial values of retaining trees and other woody vegetation in and along rivers and streams.

April 29, 2015 

Movie: "Trashed - No Place For Waste"

"Trashed - No Place for Waste" looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment through pollution of our air, land and sea by waste. The film reveals surprising truths about very immediate and potent dangers to our health, a global conversation from Iceland to Indonesia between the film star Jeremy Irons and scientists, politicians and ordinary individuals whose health and livelihoods have been fundamentally affected by waste pollution. Visually and emotionally the film is both horrific and beautiful: an interplay of human interest and political wake-up call. But it ends on a message of hope: showing how the risks to our survival can easily be averted through sustainable approaches that provide far more employment than the current 'waste industry'.

Outreach Corner 

The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining is March 28.  It is not just cooking. There are several other duties that go along with community dining, such as, serving food to people seated, clean up, washing dishes, cutting up vegetables, filling the plates with food before serving and so much more.

Lisa Carson is the coordinator of Grace Church's work with the St. Luke's Community Dining ministry.  Please contact her with any 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 item for Sunday, March 22 is cereal.  The items for Sunday, March 29 are coffee or tea.

Save the Date:  The Spring Clothing Pantry will be held on Saturday, April 11th.  See Maria Fenn if you would like to volunteer for set-up or to help out.