The Last Sunday After Pentecost/Christ the King - November 22, 2015
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS 
Bob & Donna Weber, Mickey Federico, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck, Catherine Lubeck, Shirley Federico, Courtney Hoenveld, Janet, Thomas Humeston, Elaine MacPhee, Tankert Mahler, Marie Haynie, Jack Seeman, Miranda Pinckert, Adele, Clinton Taplin, Dominique Rhoklin, Fred Teyan, Peggy, Madeline Schnalzer, Peter Zakrepine, Betty Mettler, Marvin Spruck, Jeannie, Lyn Casey, Rosemarie Buri, Louise Bohr, Carl, Sally Sarvent, Alexandra Mettler,.Rosemary Owen, Kathleen Hoenveld, Tom LaColla, Joanne Carter, Luke Oullen, Barbara Krusko, Andrew Biscamp, The Rev. John Meyer, May, Barbara, Dennis McSherry, Joanne, Dolores Puhl, Pam, Brady O'Sullivan, Ruth Daly, Elizabeth, Janine Carter, Mike Maslanek, Dr. John Finn, Anita Sevier-Berg, Diane, Ethan Mathews, Ian, Jean, Jeff Adams, Bill Weber, Sylvia Manley 
Readings  [We are using Track 2 of the indicated readings.]
 
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COLLECT OF THE DAY
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. 
Reflection
In the Midst
 
We no longer have to ask ourselves if we are approaching a state of emergency. We are in the midst of it, right here and now, and we expect the future to mirror the past.... It is in the midst of this dark world that we are invited to live and radiate hope. Is it possible? Can we become light, salt, and leaven to our brothers and sisters in the human family? Can we offer hope, courage, and confidence to the people of this era? Do we dare break through our paralyzing fear? Will people be able to say of us, 'See how they love each other, how they serve their neighbor, and how they pray to their Lord?' Or do we have to confess that at this juncture of history we just do not have the needed strength or the generosity? How can we live in hope so as to give hope? And how do we find true joy?
 
Henri J. Nouwen in Clowning in Rome
Coming This Week
Are you on the worship ministry schedule for this weekend?  Check here.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 
Harvest Gala: Havana Nights has been postponed.
Senior Youth Group paintball outing

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22  8/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist
10:10am Church School Classes/Bible Study/Refreshments
12:15pm Program Council (Rector's Office)
4:00pm Matthew Baier recital (see below)
6:30pm Senior Youth Group Thanksgiving potluck

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24
12:00pm Brown Bag & A Bible (Patterson Hall)
6:00pm Youth Event/Interfaith Thanksgiving (Reform Temple of Rockland)
7:30pm Interfaith Thanksgiving Service (Reform Temple of Rockland)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 - Office Closes at Noon - re-opens 11/28

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28   
10:30am Youth program Advent Wreath Construction (Memorial Hall)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29     
8/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist 10:10am 
Church School Community Activity: The Night Tree

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 
12:00pm Brown Bag & A Bible (Patterson Hall)
7:00pm Advent Home Gathering (The Paskowski home, Blauvelt) 

 12-Step meetings at Grace 
(Go to our event calendar for more....)



Saturday, November 21  
Annual Harvest Gala: Havana Nights


POSTPONED
WATCH FOR NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED


IT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT!!



Sunday, November 22 - A Recital by Matthew Baier at 4:00pm
Guitarist/composer Matthew Baier returns to Grace for his annual recital of original works, this year featuring: Trio for Piano, Violin, & Cello, Songs on Poems by William Butler Yeats & E.E. Cummings, Three Songs by Dean Beaver , and more...With Performances by Marigene Kettler - Soprano, Melissa Alexander - Piano, Jacquelyn Drechsler - Flute, Christopher Cardona - Violin, Martha Colby - Cello and Matthew Baier - Guitar Admission will be $15 at the door.

Tuesday, November 24 - Interfaith Thanksgiving Service
This year, the Reform Temple of Rockland (formerly Temple Beth Torah, 330 N. Highland, Nyack) will host the annual Nyack Interfaith Thanksgiving Service on Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30pm.
The traditional service of song and thanksgiving is led by clergy and choirs from throughout our community.  Youth groups from member congregations will meet for supper and a community service project at 6:00pm.

OUR FIRST ADVENT HOME GATHERING WILL BE ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1. Please look for signup sheets at church, or  send us a message to let us know you're coming, how many will attend, and what you'll bring.   
Announcements
WORSHIP MINISTERS
Have you given us your availability for December & Christmas?  If not, please
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ORDER YOUR ADVENT WREATH

Once again the junior youth group will be making Advent Wreaths for the entire Grace Community to enjoy! The wreaths include biblical herbs, candles, fresh juniper and white pine greens. The cost for a wreath is $25. Payment is due upon ordering. The wreaths will be made on November 28 and the pick up date is November 29. 
  Order forms are available in the church entrance, and should be returned with payment by November  24.  You may also send a message to reserve your wreath and send in your payment to us by mail, to be received by November 24.
THANKSGIVING HELP TO OUR NEIGHBORS
Our partners at People to People can always use help in providing the fixings for the kind of Thanksgiving meal everyone deserves.  It's not too late to help in their "Talk Turkey" effort. 
CLICK HERE for details.

DROP OFF FOR NYACK HOMELESS PROJECT COAT DRIVE 
Through December we'll be collecting coats and other warm clothing for distribution by  
Bring your New and gently used winter coats, hats, gloves, new socks and underwear, blankets, new toiletries, canned/boxed foods as well as financial donations to purchase additional warm coats and food, especially for children, to church on Sunday or to the office during the week.

WE'RE GETTING THERE.... BUT WE'RE NOT THERE YET.   HAVE YOU PLEDGED ?
Grace Church touches the lives of hundreds of people every week of the year.  Because of people like you, Grace Church is able to provide a creative church school and meaningful programs for our youth and young families; to welcome twelve-step and other community groups into our parish hall for meetings every day of the week; to support outreach programs like Helping Hands and People to People and to offer pastoral care, beautiful music, and  a variety of worship opportunities within our beautiful sanctuary. It's not too late to pledge!   Please think and pray about how you can be part of God's generosity in your pledging.
If you're currently enrolled in the Diocesan e-pledge program or pledge via a credit card,
we need you to complete a new pledge card for 2016.


CLICK ON THE LINK TO MAKE YOUR PLEDGE ONLINE.
Parting Thought
Kindness
Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. 
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
     purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.
  
From The Words Under the Words: Selected Poems
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