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Sunday Services 

8:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher:
The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold
LEM: Mia Benjamin
Altar Guild:
June Pietrantoni

10:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher: 
The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold
Minister of Music:
Ruth Roper 
LEM I: Mia Benjamin
LEM II:
Esther Brownsmith
Sandra Eriksson-Ellis
Barbara Povey
Acolytes:
Jaeda Hamel, Ellie Hunt and Emma Maganzini
Ushers:
Don Capuccio and Kristen Spence
Altar Guild
Elaine and Robin Sheets
Vestry Person of the Day:
Dennis Hale
Counters:
Bryan Spence and Don Capuccio
Coffee Hour:  
Vin Maganzini, coffee and the Woodbury family, food.

5:00 PM
Celebrant and Preacher:  The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold
Musician: Nicholas Hayes
 
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Birthdays

Michael Fenn (4/4); Joan Deaderick and Cristina Orsino (4/7); Emily Capuccio and James Deveney (4/9); Jonathan Cowan and Carol Thompson (4/10); Maeve Daly and Francesca Viggiani (4/11); John Rogers, Sr. (4/12).

If we do not have your birthday, please contact the church office at 781-396-7215 or office@gracemedford.org  
 
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We celebrate the Eucharist on Sunday at 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.  Sunday School begins promptly at 9:45 AM.  Nursery care is available.
"Empty tombs": An Easter message from Bishop Gates, Diocese of Massachusetts

...I am thinking about empty places in our lives.  I am thinking about walking past the empty office of a cherished colleague after he had left our long-shared workplace.  I am thinking about perching silently on the bed of my son's empty bedroom after he had gone off to college.  read more





Easter 2016 
3/29/2016 
by Mia Benjamin 
"We journeyed through the most holy week of the year, together as a church, starting from Palm Sunday and ending at the resurrection on Easter. Enjoy some photos from Holy Week..." read more
Grace Church parishoner Susan Maltz is a retired physical therapist.  She lives in Arlington with husband, Al, and dog, Reggie.

Sue Maltz's Book Blog:The Great Wave:  Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and The Opening of Old Japan
 
Here is a book, written by Christopher Benfey, an English professor at Mt. Holyoke College, that may interest history, art, and architecture buffs...read more.
graphic-fist-globe.gif Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy was a Wednesday night Adult Education series led by the Reverend Noah H. Evans based on the book by the same name written by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. Medford Resident, Curtis Tuden wrote an opinion piece featured on InsideMedford.com reflecting on Climate Change and using the tools presented to respond.

Read Curtis's article "Coping with Climate Change: Life Planning in an Age of Crisis" here.

Bishop Alan M. Gates will be at Grace on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:00PM for a Service of Dedication of our restored organ, and a celebration of the completion of our Capital Campaign project.  A festive community dinner will be held at 6:00 PM.  Please join us!
Outreach Corner 
The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining in Chelsea is April 30, 2016. Please contact Lisa Carson with any questions or to volunteer to help. 
  
Food is needed for the food pantries that Grace Episcopal Church supports.  The items for Sunday, April 3 are peanut butter, Sunflower Seed butter or jelly. The items for April 10 are rice or cereal.

We Need Help...Semi-Annual Clothing Pantry
The Spring Clothing Pantry will be held on Saturday, April 30 from 9:00 AM to noon.
We need volunteers to help with set-up, pantry day and close down.  Adults only are needed on Saturday.
 
Our set-up days are as follows:
Thursday, May 8 from 6:00 to 8:00 for sorting in the church. Friday, May 9 from 6:00 until set up is done. Both adults and children can help with sorting and folding!
 
Please, let Maria Fenn or Cheryl Woodbury know if and when you can help.  
Wednesdays @ Grace
Toddler Godly Play class - 5:30-6:30
Godly Play 1-Preschool-Kindergarten,   5:30-6:15
Godly Play 2-Grades 1-2,   5:30-6:15
Dinner,   6-6:45
Child-care for children through 2nd grade, 6:45-8
Bible Class (grades 3-4), 6:45-8
Rite 13 youth group (grades 5-7), 6:45-8
J2A youth group (grades 8-9), 6:45-8
Adult Education classes, 6:45-8
 
Bishop Alan M. Gates will be at Grace on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:00 PM for a Service of Dedication of our restored organ, and a celebration of the completion of our Capital Campaign project.  A festive community dinner will be held at 6:00 PM.  Please join us!
 
"In Memory of Her: Records of Women's Philanthropy through DIT
Led by The Rev. Dr. Maggie Arnold
Wednesday, April 13, at 6:45 PM
Rev. Maggie has been doing research in the archives of the Diocesan Investment Trust, for a presentation to the diocese's Parish Historians. Get a sneak preview read more
 
The Jury in America Triumph and Decline
Led by Dennis Hale
Wednesday, April 27 at 6:45PM
Grace Church parishioner, Dennis Hale will discuss his new book,The Jury in America Triumph and Decline  His book combines legal history, political analysis, and storytelling. read more
Barbara C. Harris Summer Camp
Alessia Doss, Director of the Barbara C. Harris Camp, will be visiting us on Sunday, April 10th. She'll give a presentation on our diocese's wonderful summer camp programs during coffee hour after the 10AM service. Grace Church is a stop on the chartered bus route to camp all summer, and we need volunteers to supervise the camper drop-offs (on Sunday afternoons) and pick-ups (Friday afternoons) from the last weekend in June through the last weekend in July. Are you interested? Contact Rev. Maggie at maggie@gracemedford.org.

Barbara C. Harris Camp & Conference Center Summer Camp registration is now open! Noah will be a camp chaplain and at Camp, Sunday, June 26th - Friday, July 1st. Sign up for that week, or any week of the summer!  Talk to Noah or Maggie about scholarships.  More information at BCHCenter.org 
Green banner GreenUp CleanUp 2016
Grace Church's ministry to engage the community in park cleanups is back for its 6th year!
- May 14th, 10AM - Fellsmere Pond, Malden - with Malden Community Action Group - This park is also known to Medford residents as "Five Bumps" a popular sledding location on the edge of Fulton Heights.

Clean Up Leaders and partners are needed to coordinate other clean ups this year. We're also looking for a volunteer or two to help with media and outreach by taking photos and sending short write-ups  to the local papers before and after events. Anyone interested in learning more and getting more involved with this ministry should speak with Alicia Hunt,
GreenUpCleanUp@gracemedford.org
Other Announcements
School Supplies for Syrian Refugees
Through our World Food Program benefit, we made connections with other churches that also are helping Syrian refugees.  Two members from St. John's Episcopal Church in Beverly Farms attended our benefit and have asked if we can help collect school supplies for refugee children. The school supplies we send will assist refugee children in continuing their education even as millions have been displaced in camps. All basic school supplies are welcome, including writing utensils, paper, notebooks, office supplies and book bags.  St. Johns will partner with NuDay Syria to get the supplies to the refugees.  Go to www.nudaysyria.net or read about NuDay Syria
here.  Bring your supplies to church by April 3, or contact Catherine Smith at smith.viggiani@comcast.net to make alternative arrangements. 
 
Women's Lunch
The April Women's Lunch will be held on Wednesday, April 6 at noon - John Brewer's Tavern, Malden.

Book Club
The Women's Book Club meets every third Thursday at 7PM.   For April 22 its Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and May 19 the book is House Rules by Jodi Picoult.  For more information, contact Genita Johnson at pawleyslegacy@verizon.net. 

Cross-Parish Young Adult Hangout, April 22
Grace Church Twenties/Thirties will be meeting up with young adult fellowships from other parishes in the Boston area on Friday, April 22, starting at 6:00pm. Dinner will be sponsored by Life Together, the young adult service corps based in Boston, and hosted at our intentional community house in Brookline. Email Mia mia@gracemedford.org with questions about carpooling!

20s/30s Habitat for Humanity Build
Join folks in their 20s and 30s from local Episcopal parishes to learn and serve while partnering with families in need of housing! Together, we'll be practicing how to be God's hands and elbows at a duplex construction site in Wayland on Saturday, May 7, 8am-4pm. No equipment or prior experience necessary. Organized by the 20s/30s Group at St. Andrew's, Framingham. If interested, sign up on Facebook http://on.fb.me/1SCFen9 or contact Mia Benjamin

Free Screening of "In Defense of Food" with Michael Pollan on 
May 19 at 7:00PM
In Defense of Food tackles a question more and more people around the world have been asking: What should I eat to be healthy? Based on award-winning journalist Michael Pollan's best-selling book, the program explores how the modern diet has been making us sick and what we can do to change it.  The screening will be held at Grace Church and is part of the Medford Farmer's Market Spring Film Series.  Doors open at 6:30 and film begins at 7:00 PM. Please join us!