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Sunday Services

8:00 AM

Celebrant:  

The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold 

Preacher: The Rev. Noah H. Evans  

LEM:  Mia Benjamin  
Usher:
Wesley Foote, Sr. 
Altar Guild:June Pietrantoni
 
10:00 AM
Celebrant:  
The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold
Preacher:  The Rev. Noah H. Evans  
Minister of Music:  Ruth Roper
LEM I:
Margaret Smist 
LEM II: 
Mia Benjamin 
Lector I*:
Deborah Jennings  
Butch Edgecomb 
Acolytes:
Genita Johnson, Brianna Nwachukwu and Solomon Nwachukwu 
Ushers:
James Kossuth and Steve Duggan 
Altar Guild
Olivia Bracken  
Children's Homilist:  The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold
Vestry Person of the Day:
Sue Maltz 
Coffee Hour Hosts:
Steve Duggan, coffee   
Counters:
Steve Duggan and Tom Hamel 

5:00 PM
Celebrant and Preacher:
The Rev. Noah H. Evans  
Musician: 
Cheryl Forest Morganson
Altar Guild: 
Mia Benjamin and Carolyn Rogers 
 
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Birthdays

 

James Peloquin and Carolyn Rogers (4/27); Gary Williams (4/29); Jennifer Anderson and John Rogers (4/30).


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

We celebrate the Eucharist at 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.    The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold is the celebrant at the 8AM and 10AM services. The Rev. Noah H. Evans is the celebrant at the 5PM service. The Rev. Noah H. Evans is the Preacher at all services on Sunday.  There are no Sunday School classes due to the school vacation. The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold will offer a children's homily in Wiles Hall following the Gospel reading.  

Children will return to the church for the Peace.  Nursery care is available.

Follow the Grace Church organ restoration project on the "Restoring Grace" blog. 

Recently, for the first time since its installation, the organ was completely dismantled piece-by-piece and sent to David E. Wallace and Co. organ builders in Gorham, Maine for a complete restoration.

The organ restoration project is the final project to be paid for by the 2011 Grace Church Capital Campaign along with additional fundraising being done to help support this effort.

Wednesdays at Grace

5:30: younger children's Godly Play classes

6:00: Community Dinner

Dinner Hosts on April 29:  Matt Bell and Ellery Klein  

6:45: older children's classes

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM

 

Celebrate Earth Month with Grace Church 
 

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'.

 

There will also be a presentation by a local community group about recycling and waste in our own community. 

 

This free screening is sponsored by the Medford Film Collaborative, Grace Episcopal Church, and the City of Medford Office of Energy and the Environment.

Outreach Corner 

 

The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining is May 30.  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, April 26 is tuna. 
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GreenUp CleanUp Event Hosts Needed!
 http://gracemedford.org/greenupcleanup/

If you are interested in being the point person for a CleanUp, or represent a group that would like to partner with Grace Church to clean up a park, please let us know.  No prior experience is necessary.

Email us at  greenupcleanup@gracemedford.org  to get the process started.  If you have questions, please ask a member of the GreenUp CleanUp team: Alicia Hunt, Margaret Smist or Ann Frenning-Kossuth

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Medford Community Park Clean Ups on April 25th!
In addition to organizing community park clean ups, members of Grace Church also support other area cleanups.  This year, for Earth Day & DCR Park Serves Day there are 5 cleanups on Saturday April 25th in Medford. Let Alicia Hunt know if you want to coordinate a Grace Church group to any of these events:

9AM-noon Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) will host a river and park cleanup to celebrate Earth Day on Saturday, April 25 from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Volunteers should meet at the DCR Torbert MacDonald Park parking lot off of Mystic Valley Parkway/Route 16 in Medford.  Contact:Andrea Ritter

9am-1pm Friends of the Middlesex Fells will host a day of service in conjunction with DCR Park Serve Day.  Available projects will include trail cleanups and habitat restoration at sites throughout the Fells Reservation.  Volunteers should meet at Flynn Rink (300 Elm St., Medford) between 9am and 10:30am
 to register and receive your work assignment.  All ages are welcome! Please bring water, snacks, sunscreen and/or bug spray to suit your needs. Any required tools will be provided.  Lightning cancels, otherwise please dress for the weather.  Contact: Rich Sanford

9:30am-1pm - Friends of the Mystic River - 20th annual Mystic River Spring Cleanup
Volunteers meet at Hormel (90 Locust St.) to sign in and pick up bags, gloves and instructions. Work will focus on the Mystic Riverbend Park and adjacent MacDonald Park areas, but participants are welcome to travel to any other location along the Mystic in Medford that they may wish to clean up. At the end of the event, organizers will collect all bags of trash that have been filled and return them to the Hormel site for pickup by the city.
2pm-4pm - Medford Community Coalition - Medford Square
Participants should meet at Burying Ground Plaza at the corner of Riverside Ave. and River St. in Medford Square by 1:45 p.m. Jointly with Medford DPW, Green Medford, and the Medford Department of Energy and the Environment.  Contact: Laura at medfordcoalition@gmail.com.

2pm-4pm - Hickey Park clean up with The Roberts PTO

Sponsored by the Roberts PTO and Grace Church's GreenUp CleanUp team. Hickey Park is located at Fellsway West and Park Street. Bring a reusable water bottle for hydration. Light refreshments provided by Whole Foods and the Roberts PTO. See Ellery Klein for more information.

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Water Chestnut Pull
Our river is covered with an invasive plant - water chestnuts.  The City of Medford, the Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) and the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation are involved in a multi-year project to remove this plant from our river.  One portion of the work each year is hand pulling the weeds.  The work is messy, wet and fun!

Saturday July 18th, 9am-noon
 join members of Grace Church to hand-harvest water chestnuts with MyRWA.  Advance registration will be required to reserve space in a canoe. For more information contact Alicia Hunt.
Other Announcements
 

New Multicultural Play Coming to  

Grace Church October 2015!

Open Auditions will be held for "The Virtue of Penelope: A Chinese Odyssey" on April 18th and 25th from 10:00 AM to noon and 1:00 to 2:00 PM at Medford's Grace Church, 160 High Street, for actors aged 10 years -old to adult. All applicants should be prepared to audition with a two-minute monologue. "Call backs" will be on Saturday, May 2nd, 10:00 AM to noon and 1:00 to 3:00 PM at Grace Church. "Odyssey" will premiere at Grace Church this October 16th and 17th in conjunction with CACHE's October "Arts Around Medford" celebration.

 

Written and directed by Laura R. Duggan, "The Virtue of Penelope: A Chinese Odyssey" is based upon Homer's Epic Poems, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." It will be done in a Chinese theatrical style with both authentic dance and kung-fu staged by Medford's Ninja Nguyen of XTreme Ninja on Riverside Avenue.  Direct all inquiries to Laura R. Duggan at LauraRDuggan16@gmail.com.

 

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Medford Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

 

20/30s Fellowship

Join us for a simple meal and discussion on Friday, April 24th at 7:00 pm.  We'll be having a classic Stone Soup meal so please bring your favorite soup ingredients ready to add. Contact Mia Benjamin mia@gracemedford.org to RSVP or join our Facebook group.

 

Confirmation

Confirmation will be held on Saturday May 2, at 10:30 AM at St. Paul's, Malden, with Bishop Gayle Harris. Several of Grace Church's wonderful and amazing members will be confirmed or received into the Episcopal Church, cheered on by their families and mentors! The whole parish will have a chance to celebrate with them the next day, Sunday, May 3, at the 10 AM service. Join us to witness to the gifts of the Holy Spirit in our midst!

 

"Walk for Hunger" with Rite 13

Join the "Walk for Hunger" with the Rite 13 group on May 3rd. go to www.projectbread.org and search for Grace Medford to join the team or to donate. Walk one mile or twenty! For more information, contact anyone in the Rite 13 group including Jaeda Hamel, Nzube Opara, Chioma Opara, Briann Nwachukwu, C. J. Nwachukwu, Emma Maganzini, Elizabeth Woodbury or Catherine Woodbury. The team will meet at Wellington T station at 7:30 AM on May 3rd.

 

Calling all artists!

The SHARE Grace team is looking for artists (children and adult volunteers) to create portraits from photographs of the residents of Medford Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. We will have a portrait workshop and masterpiece creation party after the 10am service on May 3. Portraits will be displayed in the Parish Hall and then presented to residents in May. If you are interested using any range of media to create portraits or looking to get involved, please contact Mia at mia@gracemedford.org.

 

Yoga Class

Jenn ( Param Sevak Kaur ) Woodward is offering a free hour and a half Kundalini Yoga and Meditation class, May 3rd 3:00pm at Grace, to help us let go of all the pressures from the world and go calmly within.

 

The class will include meditation, breath work, a yoga set and yes, even some Dancing!  There is no experience necessary! Just bring a blanket or a mat with you.

 

"Kundalini Yoga is called the Yoga of Awareness.[It] precisely and consciously combines breath, mudra, eye-focus, mantra, body locks, and postures to balance the glandular system, strengthen the nervous system, expand lung capacity, and purify the blood. It brings balance to the body, mind, and soul."-3ho.org  

 

Dancing through the Decades

The date is Friday May 8th. Breaking news tells us that the Grace Church Bell Tower in Medford, MA was just struck by lightning. Suddenly...we are thrown back in time. The 1950's to be exact. Come celebrate with us as we try to dance our ways through the decades back to the present. This is a fun-filled night for all ages! Bound to please! Pizza and refreshments will be served.

 

Come dressed in the clothes of your favorite decade!

 

$5.00 per person or $15.00 per family. All proceeds will go towards the Youth Leadership Academy Mission Trip to El Salvador.

 

When: May 8th from 6:30 - 10:00

   

Book Club

The Women's Book Club meets every third Thursday except in August at 7 pm. Any woman is welcome to attend any meeting.  On May 21 we're discussing The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kid.. For more information, see Genita at the 10 am church service or email her at