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Sunday Services
 

8:00 AM

Celebrant and Preacher: 

The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold 

 

LEM:  Mia Benjamin  
Usher:
Wesley Foote, Sr. 
Altar Guild:
  Mia Benjamin 
 
10:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher:  
The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold 
Minister of Music:  Ruth Roper
LEM I:
Kate Woodward 
LEM II: 
Mia Benjamin  
 Lector I*:
Dennis Hale   
Patrick Hardy 
Acolytes:
Tim Lwanga, Ava Murray and Amanda Murray 
Ushers:
Vin Maganzini and Jane Scherban 
Altar Guild
Dottie Palladino and Margaret Smist
Healing Ministers:  Sara Folta, Cindy Scott and Margaret Smist  
Vestry Person of the Day:
Tom Hamel  
Coffee Hour Hosts:
Vin Maganzini, coffee and Marie Glynn, food   
Counters:
Jane Scherban and Bryan Spence  

5:00 PM
Celebrant and Preacher:
The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold
Musician: 
Cheryl Forest Morganson
Altar Guild: 
Mia Benjamin and Carolyn Rogers 
 
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

 

Molly Maguire (5/10); Jacob Davidson (5/12); Jessica Sciullo (5/13); Alexandra Martinez and Cassaday Saunders (5/14); Jackson Page (5/15) and Chioma Opara (5/16).


Owen Martin Stumpf Paquet born on May 2

 

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 and preacher at the 8AM, 10AM and 5PM services.  Sunday School begins promptly at 9:45 AM.  Nursery care is available during the 10AM service. 
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

6:45: older children's classes

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM


Wednesday, May 13th - 6:45 PM

Serving the Spiritual Needs of the Elderly

A panel discussion

Grace's LDI team (SHAREgrace) has been developing an outreach ministry to the Medford Rehab and Nursing Center throughout this year. We organized this Adult Education educational panel on May 13th to learn more about the spiritual needs of the elderly, especially those with dementia or mental illness. The class will be led by a panel of Grace Church parishioners and experts who have served as spiritual supports and caregivers to the elderly and those with dementia and Alzheimer's

Wednesdays at Grace  

End of the Year Potluck Celebration!

Wednesday, May 20th at 6:00PM

No classes. Just a potluck and a celebration. Bring a dish to pass of something you love to make or eat!

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 items for May 10 are coffee or tea.  The item for May 17 is Jelly or Jam.

Kid's Corner 

Our last day of Sunday School will be May 10th. For the remaining Sundays through the Spring and Summer we will be offering children's sermons at the 10 AM services.

 

Children's and Youth Leadership Sunday will be May 17th. Come and witness our wonderful children in action as they usher and read the lessons. And join our middle school kids for the Rite 13 ceremony, marking the beginning of their journey to adulthood in our faith community.

 

Our final Wednesdays at Grace program for this school year will be on May 20th, with a potluck dinner and year-end celebration. Come for games and fun!

 

And finally, our amazing Wednesdays at Grace and Sunday School teachers will be honored during the 10 AM service on Sunday, May 31. Let's lift up these creative, generous, hard-working saints among us.

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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

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


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

 

Grace 20/30s are also invited to help Mia represent the 2000s decade at Dancing through the Decades on Friday, May 8th at 6:30pm! Come ready to shake a leg!

 

Grace Church and SHAREGrace invite you to celebrate National Nursing Home Week

The SHAREGrace team is focusing on bringing hope and renewal to the elderly and mentally ill in our community and to our neighbors, the residents of Medford Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.  The week of May 10-16th is National Nursing Home Week. We are looking for volunteers to help bring flowers to the women residents on May 10th at 1:30 pm. We are also looking for volunteers to help the residents with simple carnival games on Thursday, May 14 from 2-4pm.  If you are interested in volunteering for either or both opportunities, please contact Mia at

mia@gracemedford.org.

 

Senior Men's Lunch

The next Senior Men's Lunch will be Wednesday, May 20th at noon at John Brewers Tavern in Malden.

   

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  

pawleyslegacy@verizon.net.

  

Pentecost - multilingual reading!

Do you speak another language? Pentecost, May 24, is the birthday of the church and the festival in which we celebrate the disciples speaking in all of the languages of the world. We will be reading one of the lessons that day in many different languages. If you speak another language and are willing to participate, please let Noah Evans know (noah@gracemedford.org). You will only have to read two lines, so amateur linguists are welcome.

 

20/30's Fellowship

Grace Church 20/30s Fellowship are meeting up with 20/30s fellowship groups from Christ Church Waltham and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on the evening of Friday, May 29th in Waltham. We'll be talking about what it means to be a young adult in the church and contemplating questions like: What role does our cohort play in the church? What keeps us coming back? What would it look like to feel fully supported and included at church?...and many more!

More details to follow, but save the date. Contact Mia mia@gracemedford.org with questions and join our Grace twenties and thirties Facebook group!

 


Medford Community Day
Come and represent Grace Church at the Medford Community Day! We need some enthusiastic members to help out at our exciting booth from 1:00-4:00pm on Sunday, May 31. Let Mia mia@gracemedford.org know if you're interested!

Yoga Class

Jenn ( Param Sevak Kaur ) Woodward is offering a free hour and a half Kundalini Yoga and Meditation class, June 7 at 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