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Reflection

The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.

Howard Thurman in Footprints of a Dream : The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (1959)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

9:00am Church School Teachers (Church School Area)

12:00pm Liturgy of Thanksgiving for the Life of Betty Jean Birchett

 followed by a reception in Memorial Hall

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I)

9:30am Holy Eucharist (Family Service) 

10:10am Church School Registration (Patterson Hall)

10:30am Junior Youth Group parents

11:00am  Holy Eucharist (Rite II w/choir)

12:00pm Coffee Hour& Farewell to Mo. Alon (Memorial Hall)

2:30pm Amazing Grace Circus rehearsal (Memorial Hall)

5:00pm Concert for Remembrance

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

Primary Election - Polling in Memorial Hall throughout day

9:30am Staff Meeting (Rector's Office)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall)

7:30pm Adult Education & Spiritual Formation Book Group (Fenton Room)

7:30pm Choir rehearsal (Choir Room)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

10:00am  Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I)

9:30am Holy Eucharist (Family Service)

10:10am Church School Classes Begin

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II w/choir)

12:30pm Coffee Hour to welcome Fr. Owen

2:00pm AGC! Rehearsal (Memorial Hall)

If you have a favorite sweet or savory breakfast dish that you would like to share, or can help with set up/clean up, please be in touch with Kris Burns at 845-405-1203 or 

CHURCH SCHOOL REGISTRATION ON SUNDAY

Church School registration forms and syllabi will be available on Sunday, September 8 and Sunday, September 15, following the 9:30am service.  A new form must be filled out each year to ensure that we have current information on your child(ren). Classes begin Sunday, September 15, and run through June 8, directly following 9:30 am service and lasting 45 minutes - one hour.  Our classes combine a lectionary-based lesson and choir instruction. The church School is a cooperative program; we need the participation of many parents to keep things running smoothly!  Most of our teachers are parents; parents can assist teachers in the classroom, and parents bring refreshments for everyone to enjoy every Sunday. If you would like to know more about our church school and how you and your family can be involved, please contact Lainie Murrell at 825-6236 or gracekidsnyack@gmail.com .

NEW JUNIOR YOUTH GROUP (JYG) - PARENT MEETING

Junior Youth Group (JYG) is about Grace Church 6^th - 8^th-graders bonding and developing a sense of community with each other.  Weekly sessions between the 9:30am and 11:00am service feature team building games, discussions about topics that will help youth navigate their way in today's world and lessons that will help them understand their Christian faith.  All JYG parents are asked to attend a parent meeting on Sunday, September 8at 10:30 am in the Bradley Chapel to learn about the JYG program and activities scheduled for the year. Church School Coordinator Lainie Murrell will also be available to answer questions on September 15. 

The 12th Annual Concert for Remembrance, 9/11 will be held at 5:00pm on Sunday, September 8, in memory of the victims and heroes lost on September 11, 2001.  Edward Simons, Music Director, and Holly Druckman will conduct. There is no charge for admission. The Concert for Remembrance 9/11 Orchestra is composed of professional musicians from orchestras in the Greater NY/NJ Metropolitan area and gifted students who all volunteer their time for this concert. 

Barbara Allen, American Ballet Theatre's principal harpist, will open the program followed by the world premier of "Resolution", a reflective piece composed by Jeremy Wall to remember all of the victims of September 11^th. Mr. Wall is a founding member of Spyro Gyra and a Grammy Award nominee on numerous occasions. Holly Druckman will conduct. Jacqueline Drechsler, flute, Heather Vogel and Alison Crowther, violins, will perform a LeClair duet, with the third part composed by Edward Simons.The concert will conclude with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 48, Jeremy Wall, soloist with Edward Simons conducting.

For information about the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust, please visit  www.crowthertrust.org.  The Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust is recognized as a not-for- profit organization according to section 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) of the Internal Revenue Service Code.  Donations to the support the work of the trust that benefits young people are gratefully accepted.

For information, please call 845-358-2766.

LOOKING AHEAD  

Join us for a special coffee hour to welcome Fr. Owen following the 11:00am service.      

NEW WELCOME TO FR. OWEN

At coffee hour following  our new rector's first services with us on Sunday, September 15, we'll welcome Fr. Owen  and his family with "A Taste of Rockland," a selection of treats from our favorite places throughout the county.  If you can sign up to bring something, or help with clean up/set up, please be in touch with Kris Burns at 845-405-1203 or  kmpburns@optonline.net

HELP WANTED

With our fall schedule around the corner, we're looking for someone who can work Sunday mornings as our kitchen coordinator -  making coffee,  setting up/monitoring/cleaning up post-service coffee hours, and supporting the volunteers who bring refreshments and act as hosts.  It is a paid position with hours of roughly 9:30am - 12:30pm.  If you are interested in learning more, please contact the office:  parishoffice@gracechurchnyack.org or 845-358-1297.

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Parting Thought 

"Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.

The innocent in gaols
Beat on their bars together.
A hunger-striker's father
Stands in the graveyard dumb.
The police widow in veils
Faints at the funeral home.

History says, don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.

So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracle
And cures and healing wells.

Call miracle self-healing:
The utter, self-revealing
Double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky

That means someone is hearing
The outcry and the birth-cry
Of new life at its term."

Seamus Heaney

from "The Cure at Troy," (Heaney's translation of "The Philoctetes," by Sophocles.)