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Reflection

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot." You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the centre of the world."

John Burroughs from

GRACEMUSIC PRESENTS GAIL ARCHER, organist

Sunday, January 27 at 4:00pm

GraceMusic presents international concert organist Gail Archer in the series' first solo organ recital in more than 15 years. Dr. Archer is Professor of Music at Barnard College, director of the Columbia-Barnard chorus, and College Organist at Vassar. Her program will be eclectic (Messiaen, Ives, Bach, more) - something for everyone's tastes. Come hear our Cassavant shake the rafters. Tickets $20; Seniors $15; $5 Students Meet the Artist reception follows each performance.

NEXT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 AT 4:00PM
CHORAL EVENSONG

A light to enlighten the nations

Join the Grace Church Choir and clergy on the first Sunday of each month through May for the traditional Anglican service of prayer, music, and reflection. In February we mark The Feast of the Presentation with service music that includes "I sat down under his shadow"   (Bairstow); Preces & Responses (Morley),  Fourth Service Canticles (Batten) and  "O nata lux" (Tallis).

NEXT SUNDAY IS "SOUPER" BOWL SUNDAY - Bring a dollar and a can!

It's not just the big game, it's our annual day to collect cans and cash donations in a special drive for People to People. Members of the Senior Youth Group will be on hand at all services to collect your donations. The need is greater than ever -- help restock the shelves at People to People.

SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE DINNER

Indulge with us! The Grace Church Confirmation Class invites you to come celebrate with our parish family before the long season of Lent. Pancakes and syrup, bacon and coffee, orange juice and milk will be served up in Memorial Hall from 5:30-7:00pm on Tuesday, February 12.

ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES: February 13 at 8:00am/noon/8:00pm

Interfaith Symposium

The Abrahamic Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam- Session 3  

PLEASE JOIN US IN WORSHIP, LEARNING, AND SHARING

Friday, February 8, 2013 at 7:30pm,  

Temple Beth Torah, 330 N. Highland Ave. (Rte. 9W), Upper Nyack, NY

Join Rabbi Brian Beal and Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham as they lead a Learning Service, a combination of prayer and commentary, to help bring alive the meaning of each prayer and explain how the structure of a service takes us on a spiritual journey. Refreshments will be served. 

Organized by: Congregation Sons of Israel, First Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church, First Reform Church of Nyack, Grace Episcopal Church, Islamic Center of Rockland, St. Ann's Catholic Church, Temple Beth Torah   

This interfaith program was supported by the Men of Reform Judaism (MRJ) Congregational Interfaith Grant, made possible by funding from the Jewish Chautauqua Society, MRJ's interfaith education project.

HELPING HANDS - February 2013

After our coming January dates (1/26,27,28), Grace Church will next host approximately 25 homeless Rockland County residents on Saturday, February 16, Sunday, February 17, and Monday, February 18. We need volunteers to provide a breakfast for our guests on Sunday morning at @7:30. We also need volunteers to be overnight supervisors. You can bring a sleeping bag and pillow and spend the night on the comfortable couches in Patterson Hall. If you can help, please contact Charlie Cross cjcross3ny@yahoo.com, 358-4599; or sign up on the bulletin board in the Narthex

We're recruiting folks who are willing to be trained to serve at the family service as ushers, chalice bearers, acolytes, sub-deacons....If you are interested, please fill out one of the forms located at the entrance to the church and leave it in the office, put it in the collection plate with your offering or speak with Mother Alon or Evelyn Lombardi.

A hearty thank you to all who have pledged for 2013. We are nearing our goal of $320,000, but have a way to go. The vestry is working to finalize the 2013 budget for approval at the annual meeting, so if you are still intending to pledge please do so ASAP. If you need a pledge card, call the office. Or, if you want to expedite things, you may email the pledge secretary, Sally Ann Mock with your intentions @ samock34@aol.com. Remember, in order to vote at the annual meeting, you must have made a pledge for this year.

MISPLACED YOUR PLEDGE PACKET?  

Your Stewardship Committee: Jim Gilbert, chair

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Parting Thought 

I Got Kin 

Plant
So that your own heart
Will grow.

Love
So God will think,

"Ahhhhh,
I got kin in that body!
I should start inviting that soul over
For coffee and
Rolls."

Sing
Because this is a food
Our starving world
Needs.

Laugh
Because that is the purest
Sound.

Someone Should Start Laughing  

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:

How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:

What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean

Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,

O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing 'Now!