February 2016 - GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Engaging the Word: Readings for 3/6/16 (The Fourth Sunday in Lent)

Engaging the Word / By Barbara Klugh / February 28, 2016 February 28, 2016 / 2 Corinthians 5, Barbara Klugh, Engaging the Word, Grace Episcopal Church, Joshua 5, Luke 15, Psalm 32, Traverse City, Year C Lent 4

By Barbara Klugh Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32. . Go to www.lectionarypage.net to read or print the weekly lectionary text. In this week’s readings, the Israelites celebrate their first Passover in the Promised Land, Paul reminds us that we are ambassadors for Christ, and Jesus tells the parable of the Prodigal Son. …

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Voice of the vestry: “Fear not”

grace notes, voice of the vestry / By Donna Olendorf / February 26, 2016 February 26, 2016 / Clare Andreasson, Grace Episcopal Church, Traverse City, Voice of the Vestry

By Clare Andreasson Last year at this time our oldest child was in the second semester of his senior year of high school. As a family we were up to our necks in one of the major transitions of our life together. On an ordinary Saturday afternoon I found myself standing in the doorway of …

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Search Committee Application

Interim Rector / By Donna Olendorf / February 22, 2016 February 22, 2016 / Grace Episcopal Church, Rector search, Search committee application, Traverse City

The vestry has approved an application process for those interested in serving on the Search Committee for our next Rector. If you would like to be considered, please download and complete the application. You can also pick up a hard copy of the form in the Parish Office. Your application must be delivered to the …

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Engaging the Word: Readings for 2/28/16 (The Third Sunday in Lent)

Engaging the Word / By Barbara Klugh / February 21, 2016 February 21, 2016 / 1 Corinthians 10, Barbara Klugh, Engaging the Word, Exodus 3, Grace Episcopal Church, Luke 13, Psalm 63, Traverse City, Year C Lent 3

By Barbara Klugh Exodus 3:1-15; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9. . Go to www.lectionarypage.net to read or print the weekly lectionary text. In this week’s readings God calls Moses from a burning bush, Paul warns the Corinthians and us to resist temptation, and Jesus tells us to repent or perish. Exodus 3:1-15: Earlier …

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Vestry minutes – 02/16/16

grace notes, vestry minutes / By Donna Olendorf / February 21, 2016 February 21, 2016 / Grace Episcopal Church, Sue Kelly, Traverse City, vestry

Vestry Members: Clare Andreasson, Maria DiStefano-Post, Nancy Flowers, Eddie Grim, Helen Hankins, Sue Kelly, Michael Mittelstaedt, Anne Montgomery, Donna Olendorf, Jeff Tibbits, Marian Vermeulen, Chuck Wolterink (Absentees in Italics) Guests Present: Connie Riopelle, Mark Stackable Staff Present: Ann Hackett, Rosemary Hagan Clergy Present: The Rev. Katheryn King Scripture & Study Donna opened with a Prayer …

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We are called to serve

grace notes, ministry of the week / By Donna Olendorf / February 17, 2016 February 17, 2016 / Grace Episcopal Church, Katherine Will, Service participants, Traverse City

By Katherine Will Music and Worship Coordinator We at Grace are a people called to serve and we do it with an assortment of gifts in a variety of ways. One of those ways is by assisting in our liturgy each week, either as a Lector, a Lay Eucharistic Minister, an Acolyte, an Intercessor, or …

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Engaging the Word: Readings for 2/21/16 (The Second Sunday in Lent)

Engaging the Word / By Barbara Klugh / February 14, 2016 February 14, 2016 / Barbara Klugh, Engaging the Word, Genesis 15, Grace Episcopal Church, Luke 13, Philippians 3, Psalm 27, Traverse City, Year C Lent 2

By Barbara Klugh Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35. Go to www.lectionarypage.net to read or print the weekly lectionary text. In this week’s readings, God makes a Covenant with Abram, Paul exhorts us to “stand firm in the Lord,” and Jesus grieves for Jerusalem, the city that will destroy him. Genesis 15:1-12, …

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Keeping Lent

adult study, grace notes / By Donna Olendorf / February 11, 2016 February 11, 2016 / Grace Episcopal Church, Katherine Will, Lent, Traverse City

By Katherine Will Music and Worship Coordinator “I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s holy Word” (Ash Wednesday Liturgy, BCP pg. 265). This winter, several of us in the …

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Safe Harbor & Grace: something to make us proud

grace notes, Jubilee Ministries / By Donna Olendorf / February 11, 2016 February 11, 2016 / Grace Episcopal Church, Jenika Burden, Jubilee Ministries, Safe Harbor, Traverse City

By Jenika Burden What we now know as Safe Harbor began in 2003 when a man experiencing homelessness died of exposure on the old state hospital grounds. That winter, The First Church of the Nazarene opened their doors to offer overnight shelter, and stayed open for 45 straight nights, housing as many as 26 people …

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Officers discerned at vestry retreat

grace notes, voice of the vestry / By Donna Olendorf / February 7, 2016 February 7, 2016 / Donna Olendorf, Grace Episcopal Church, Traverse City, Voice of the Vestry

The vestry enjoyed a prayerful retreat at the Augustine Center on Feb. 6 – 7, 2016. Under the guidance of Parish Administrator Ann Hackett, The Rev. Greg Brown, and Canon William Spaid, the group discerned new leaders and laid plans for the year ahead. Named to office: Senior Warden – Donna Olendorf Junior Warden – …

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Engaging the Word: Readings for 2/14/16 (The First Sunday in Lent)

Engaging the Word / By Barbara Klugh / February 7, 2016 February 7, 2016 / Barbara Klugh, Deuteronomy 26, Engaging the Word, Grace Episcopal Church, Luke 4, Psalm 91, Romans 10, Traverse City, Year C Lent 1

By Barbara Klugh Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13. Go to www.lectionarypage.net to read or print the weekly lectionary text. Lent (literally “springtime”) is the time when we Christians symbolically go into the wilderness with Jesus for forty days. We are called to contemplate the life of Jesus, his path of service …

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Changing seats on the Grace train

grace notes / By Donna Olendorf / February 4, 2016 February 4, 2016 / Catherine Turnbull, Grace Episcopal Church, Traverse City

Dear People of Grace: I’ve sometimes said that when our church life is at its best, it’s like a moving train: the route is set by the Spirit, and people hop on to become stokers, or engineers, or porters—and maybe some people sit down for a while, and some do hop off—but the train itself …

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Month: February 2016