52 back packs filled with pencils, pens, crayons, colored pencils, markers, highlighters, glue sticks, folders, loose leaf paper, spiral notebooks, binders, rulers, erasers, calculators and flash drives have arrived at Lawrence Hall Youth Services in time for the beginning of classes!

Thanks to your generous donations of supplies and money, the many at-risk children who attend school at Lawrence Hall Youth Services will have the materials they need to begin a successful school year.

A big THANK YOU to everyone from the Outreach Committee!

My family and I would like to invite you to my annual piano and pipe organ performance on Thursday August 22nd. We hope you can make it! Here are the details:

What: Grace Episcopal Church "6:26 Performance Series"

Where: 924 Lake Street, Oak Park

When: Thursday August 22nd at 6:26 pm sharp! (The concert begins immediately after the 6PM Evensong service)

Here is my music program:

Military Polonaise Opus. 40 No. 1 - Frederic Chopin

Trio Sonata in C Major B.W.V. 529 - Johann Sebastian Bach

Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque - Claude Debussy

Finale from Symphony One for Organ Opus. 14 - Louis Vierne

Please join us for refreshments in the east garden after the performance.

We hope you are considering purchasing tickets to this year's fundraiser: A Garden Party at Oak Park's DowntoWn Abbey - Grace Episcopal Church.  The party will be Sunday, September 15, 2013, from 3 to 6PM.  Get more info. and purchase tickets at this link.   

At the event, there will be a Downton Abbey Trivia Contest open to all attendees. Prizes will be awarded to the first-, second- and third-place finishers. Prizes will include: a Downton Abbey jigsaw puzzle, a CD of original music from the PBS TV series, and the Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook. 

To help kick-off the event, here is your chance to win a free raffle ticket!  Just be the first person to correctly answer this trivia question: 

What is the correct title for the wife of an earl, as applied to two Downton characters?

Do you like to cook? Do you like to have fun with friends while doing something special for your community? Then PADS COOKS is for you! PADS Cooks meet monthly on the afternoon Grace Church hosts PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter), to prepare a nourishing and delicious, but uncomplicated meal for our guests.

Find out more. Attend an organizational meeting (party) at the home of Sue Wells, Thursday, September 5 at 1:00 pm.

The Book Study Group is now reading Why Christianity Must Change Or Die, by John Shelby Spong, the former Episcopal Bishop of Newark, NJ.

Our first discussion for this book will be Wednesday, September 11, at 7 PM at the home of Bets Howland and Dennis Zavac.   

More information is at this link.

To join the group, contact Bets and Dennis. 

ACOLYTES: Tim Edwards; Mary Hope Griffin, Adult Coordinator

MC/LEMS:   Cherryl Holt; James Redden, Nadia Stefko, Helen Thomason, Bob Vogler, Sue Wells

LECTORS: Helen Thomason, Jim Prescott

INTERCESSORS: Barbara Larsen, Tony Dobrowolski

ALTAR GUILD: Joan Anderson, Heather Bovell, Flora Green, Hansi Kess, Kathy Onayemi, Al Papillon, Willie Polite, Sally Prescott, Natalie Ratz, Marie Rock, Jane Shirley, Mary Ann Urbashich

BREAD BAKER: The Lucé family

USHERS: Laura Morgan Day, Sam Love, Alan Harvey, Donna Anderson

GREETERS: Ade Onayemi, Gloria Rayburn, Jane Shirley

COFFEE HOUR HOSTS: 9:00am: Formation Kick-Off Brunch

10:30am: Weeks Ringle & Bill Kerr