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Deadline to register: September 10

Friday, October 4 – Sunday, October 6 at Seabeck Conference Center

All children & youth (under 18) attend free!

Theme: Body & Spirit

with guest facilitators
Jen Breen and Staci Imes

Note: Priest Associate Kate Kinney will preside at the 8:00 and 9:30 Sunday services at Grace. There won’t be a children’s program, but the nursery will be open. You are also welcome to join us for our closing Eucharist at Seabeck Conference Center. That service will begin at 10:30. Please give yourself plenty of time to arrive and find the gathering.

Care for Creation Conversation
This Sunday during coffee hour.

Becoming Kin Book Group 
Concludes Thursday September 5, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Grace Homecoming
September 8 after the 9:30 service

Gallery at Grace Artist Reception
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Memorial Service for Greg Abell
Saturday, September 28 at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church

Blessing of the Animals
Sunday, September 29 during the 9:30 service

2024 Parish Retreat
Friday, October 4 – Sunday, October 6
at Seabeck Conference Center

The Wednesday Gathering
Wednesdays from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Meditation/Centering Prayer
Thursdays from 5:00 – 6:15 p.m.
On hiatus until September 19 

Walk and Talk
First and Third Sundays after the 9:30 a.m. service

3rd Saturday Grace Grounds Party
Third Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. – noon

Mom’s Morning Retreat
First and Third Thursdays from 9:30 – 11:00 am.
begins on Sept. 19

Open Mic for Caregivers
First Fridays at 4:00 p.m.
on hiatus until October 4

Earth & Spirit’s Care for Creation Conversation
First Sundays after the 9:30 a.m. service

This Sunday, September 1, during coffee hour

Please join us to explore more deeply how we care for our sacred earth.

We worship in a beautiful sanctuary surrounded by abounding nature. Yet do we really see it, experience it? Who takes care of it? How does it impact you?

Let’s dive into this topic together and, weather permitting, take a stroll around our grounds and see it with new eyes.

• Guided, supervised, outdoor play during the 9:30 a.m. service after children’s time & dismissal in sanctuary
• Popsicles, water play, crafts, games
• Gaga ball!

Adult & youth volunteers needed.
Please contact kim@gracehere.org.

Please place purchased gift cards in the basket in the Narthex by August 31. 

THANK YOU to everyone who so generously took an apple envelope to return with a gift card for a KIAC teen! These gifts will allow students to purchase items needed for going back to school that are not provided by the school districts.

Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec

Concludes September 5, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

co-led by Eric Mason & Kim Cockroft

Includes an opportunity to visit the Suquamish Museum. 

Contact kim@gracehere.org if you have questions.

Please stay for lunch after the 9:30 service, and share with your community all the amazing things that have been happening in your life.

Please bring a salad or dessert. Parish Life will provide the main course and drinks.

All are welcome to celebrate the beginning of our new program year!

Kids, please bring your backpacks for a blessing of the new school year, and join us for fun games and crafts.

Ceramics by Grace member Mark Moody are now up in the Gallery at Grace!

“My current work captures moments when identity intersects with ceramic form; platters on which to serve, urns in which to bury, tea bowls from which to sip,” Mark says. “I layer text and color to create complex visual textures over simple clay forms, sometimes to cover an identity, sometimes to enhance, and sometimes in response to being identified.”

Join the artist at a reception on Sunday, Sept. 15 during coffee hour. 

Come One, Come All!

The Grace Supper Club Potluck Kickoff/Re-shuffle will be held at Grace on September 17 at 5:30 p.m. Participants can “re-shuffle” into new groups, and new supper club members will be added. Would you prefer to stay with the group you are in? Would you prefer to be in a group closer to where you live? Would you prefer green eggs or ham? (Just making sure you are reading this).

If you are not able to attend the Kick Off Potluck please Email Rachel Brandt to let her know that you would like to be included for the 2024/2025 season.

 — Warmly with grace, Rachel Brandt and Rachel Yobs

Facilitated by published writers Florrie Munat & Kimberly Long Cockroft

Meeting Mondays this fall from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
September 23 • October 7 & 21
November 4 & 18 • December 2

This group will be capped at ten people,
so email Kim to save your spot

By the end of this program, you will:

• revisit and find new meaning in your life experiences
• meet with two published facilitators and a small group of fellow writers to learn about writing about your life from specific prompts
• learn how to constructively critique others’ writing and receive positive, helpful feedback yourself
• complete at least five stories about your life
• hold in your hands four copies of a completed booklet with your stories and photos that you can treasure, and/give away as gifts 

Here’s what you’re committing to:

• At least four out of six meetings, 1.5 hours long, twice a month this fall
• Writing and receiving feedback on your writing
• Reading others’ writing and giving feedback

A note from Kathleen:

Greg was all about community and relationships. He cherished our Grace church community and loved each of you. I don't know how I would have coped and gotten through these weeks of sharp grief and shock without your deep love, support, and prayers. You all have showered me with many cards and notes of sympathy, wise counsel of women who have gone through this before me, books, flowers, and meals. I am truly grateful and honored to be part of such a remarkable church body. Thank YOU!

The Vestry recently approved an exciting change to Grace’s Legacy Society with a goal of providing the financial resources that will sustain Grace Episcopal Church. 

Bring your companion animals for our yearly Blessing of the Animals service. Please keep your leashed dogs with you on the Walker Hall side of the sanctuary. Other animals are welcome on the Sunday School side. Larger animals will receive a blessing outdoors.

September 1st | 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

St. Mark’s Cathedral

Choral Evensong with Gift Presentation

Reception to Follow

Sunday, September 22, at Eagle Harbor Congregational Church

Registration: 1:30 p.m. • Dance Starts: 2:00 p.m.

Looking for a way to help end world hunger? Church World Services, the Bainbridge/ North Kitsap Interfaith group, is sponsoring a fundraiser. The dances, led by Dances of Universal Peace, are simple circle dances accompanied by songs from many world religious traditions. If you can walk, you will be able to do these dances.

It is a perfect way for Grace to be out in the public eye for a good cause and great fun. Children and adults are welcome.

Come to an organizational meeting this Sunday just after the 9:30 a.m. service (11:00-ish).

Join Teen Talking Circles at Grace Church on October 5th for an evening of live music, delicious food, local beer and wine, a costume contest, a live auction hosted by comedian Dan Rosenberg and a silent auction, all to support youth mental health in our community. Doors open at 5:30pm. Early bird tickets are only $75 until Labor Day. 

The Ordination and Consecration and the Seating of The Rev. Dr. Philip N. LaBelle as the ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia will take place Saturday, Sept. 14 at Meydenbauer Center and Sunday, Sept. 15 at St. Mark's Cathedral.