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Save the Dates
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Church Maintenance:
Saturday,
September 14,
9:00 am
Vestry Meeting:
Sunday, September 15,
after church
Fundraiser at Louie's:
September 15-19
Book Group:
Sunday, September 22,
at the Brosses,
6:00
Art Squawk:
Kelly Denton-Borhaug, on the Camino de Santiago,
Sunday, September 29,
3:00 pm
Diocesan Convention:
October 4-5,
Cathedral Church of the Nativity
Grace Talent Auction:
Saturday, November 9
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Sunday, September 15, at Grace
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Eucharist, refreshments, vestry meeting
We celebrate the Eucharist at 10:00. In the gospel, the scribes and Pharisees exclaim about Jesus: "This fellow eats with tax collectors and sinners!"
What would happen if the scribes and Pharisees (or their counterparts today) sat down at the same table with Jesus and the tax collectors and sinners? What kind of a dinner party would that be?
After the Eucharist, we will enjoy refreshments and conversation, then the vestry will meet. All parishioners are welcome to attend the vestry meeting.
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Making War and Making Peace
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Here's a resource
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship unequivocally opposes US military intervention in Syria. The group issued a statement last week, and their website is full of resources on peacemaking and nonviolence. |
Caring for our Building
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Can you help this Saturday, September 14?
People will gather on Saturday morning, September 14, starting at 9:00, to do some maintenance and clean-up projects around the church. Check with Chuck M for more info.
Grace has no paid maintenance staff, so volunteer support is essential to keep our building working, clean, and safe for all who use it (children and teachers in our school, GED students, NA participants, Project IMPACT volunteers and families, pantry guests, church members and visitors).
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Pantry Fundraiser
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Let's go to Louie's
When anyone goes to Louie's Restaurant September 15-19 and presents a special flyer, the restaurant will donate 20% of the food bill to Grace Community Foundation (our pantry). Patrons can eat in or take out. The pantry is grateful for this support.
Flyers are available at church and in the pantry. Click here for more info on the restaurant (2071 31st Street SW, Allentown).
The pantry uses the money to buy food for clients and to pay administrative costs. It serves about 325 households each month in the 18102 zip code.
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Art Squawk
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Hoopla! Destination Downtown is an Allentown festival that will take place September 27-29, and it's the occasion for the next quarterly Art Squawk. The neighborhood will be full of people enjoying the opening of the new exhibit at the art museum (American Wildlife Art) and other festivities. For more on Hoopla, click here.
Grace will have our doors open as well, so visitors can enjoy our beautiful church and we can offer hospitality. The Rev. Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug has agreed to show her photos and describe her one-month pilgrimage in northern Spain. She will focus especially on the "messages" of the Camino ("the Way")--notes that pilgrims leave for each other, statues and sculptures along the route, and other communications that express and shape the meanings of the pilgrimage.
She will offer her presentation at 3:00, and everybody is welcome! Help spread the word, if you can, by taking a flyer or two from the hall table and posting it where interested folks may see it.
If you are able to assist with hospitality for this event, please sign up on the sheet in the hallway or be in touch with
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Book Group
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Fall plans are in the works
The book group is going to be something of a film group this fall, as we use some videos and films to help us look at racism and immigration issues. The graphic below is from the film Cracking the Codes (see website), which we'll watch and discuss over two sessions. In other sessions we'll learn more about immigration and consider Grace's possible roles and responses, given our location in a neighborhood with about 50% people of color, many of whom are recent immigrants.
Jack M is taking a lead on this project this fall, and all are welcome! Our next gathering is Sunday evening, September 22, at the Brosses, at 6:00. The other fall meetings are October 6, November 3, and November 24.  |
Grace's Talent Auction
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Plan on Nov. 9, and bring a friend!
Mike A and Tony V are taking the lead on a new fundraising event for Grace--a Talent Auction.
Parishioners and others will donate their talents or skills, or examples of these, such as artwork, and participants will bid on them. Some items will be in a silent auction, and others in a live auction. There will be food and drink and a festive atmosphere.
Mike and Tony have organized similar events before, and they've prepared sign-up sheets for various committees as well as for donations. These are in the hall; you can also call the church office on weekdays between 8:00 and 1:00 to donate or volunteer (610-435-0782).
Sample donations: two hours of child care, a home cooked dinner, Christmas present wrapping service, art you or an artist have created, the use of a vacation property, the use of a vehicle, etc. If you have any questions, check with Mike and Tony! (Hint: They are not looking for yard-sale items!)
Grace is a small congregation with a large mission in the city, and raising funds will help keep our missions thriving.
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GED at Grace
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The new year has begun
Our multipurpose room is busy again with students three mornings a week. This year's group of about 15 started on Monday. Their teacher is Patricia Cooper, who has done this work with the Literacy Center for about seven years.
Grace donates this space to the Literacy Center--we believe, along with them, that "literacy changes lives."
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