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All children & youth (under 18) attend free!

Deadline to register: Tuesday, September 10

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

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.

Grace Homecoming
September 8 after the 9:30 service

Regular programming for children begins this Sunday

Suquamish Museum Tour 
Wednesday, September 11 at 1:30 p.m.
RSVP required

Gallery at Grace Artist Reception
Sunday, September 15, 2024

What's Your Story Writing Group Begins
Monday, September 23, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Memorial Service for Greg Abell
Saturday, September 28 at 2:00 p.m.
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

A weekend with Steve Garnaas-Holmes
November 16 – 17

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

Meditation/Centering Prayer
Thursdays from 5:00 – 6:15 p.m.
new program year beings on 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.
next meeting: October 4

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

Come Home to Grace on September 8!

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.

Regular programming for children begins this Sunday!

When you arrive, please bring your children with you into the sanctuary; and feel free to sit by the altar near the Children’s Rug so your children can engage with others in quiet activities. After the Children’s Moment, they will be guided by their teachers to two learning spaces: one for younger children with more tactile storytelling and activities, and one for older children. Together, we build community through story, ritual, and fun activities before your children join you again for communion in the sanctuary. Youth are always welcome to join us as helpers for the younger children!

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

Saturday, September 28 at 2:00 p.m.
at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church

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!”

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.

Rides are needed to the 9:30 a.m. Sunday services for Ellen Walls, who lives in Winslow across from Ace Hardware. Please note that she has a walker and there will need to be room in the trunk.

Thanks very much to all who have offered rides!

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. 

Grace’s ministry programs and beautiful facilities are made possible in large part due to your generous financial and volunteer support. If you made a pledge for 2024, you will be receiving a statement shortly reflecting payments received to date. If you have questions about these statements or if you do not yet pledge and would like to do so, please contact Tootie Kuhn, Trustee for Stewardship, at cgkuhn407@gmail.com.

Many of us have been reading and discussing the book, Becoming Kin. As part of our journey together, we’ll be touring the Suquamish Museum. If you have not been part of the book group but would like to join us, you are very welcome! We’ll meet at the museum on Wednesday, September 11, at 1:30 pm. After the tour, we’ll head to Old Man House Park to debrief. Please RSVP to kim@gracehere.org, as there is a cap of 15 people for our tour.

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

Retreat: Saturday, November 16, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading: Saturday, November 16, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Homily: Sunday, November 17,  at 8:00 & 9:30 a.m. services

Events are free | suggested donation for retreat lunch: $20 | RSVP: kim@gracehere.org

Steve writes: “What if God is not some imperious judge far away in heaven, but an intimate, life-giving presence, walking with you? What if God is not “a spirit,” but Spirit, The Spirit, the living, loving Heart of Being, Love itself, living within you? What if God is an infinite fountain of life, blessing, and healing, and you are a vessel of that energy? And what if God is in conversation with you? God knows you from the inside, calls you by name, calls you to follow, calls you into a particular life, a particular way of living. God has given you gifts, gifts of God's own being, God's Spirit, inside you, gifts that are there for you to share. How do we encounter that God, open ourselves to that calling, and get in harmony with that energy? We'll explore that on this retreat.”

About Steve Garnaas-Holmes

Steve is a poet, songwriter, and retired United Methodist pastor. He served churches for 40 years in Montana and New England. For 37 years he wrote and performed music and comedy around the country and on NPR with a quartet called the Montana Logging and Ballet Company. He writes a daily reflection of poetry, parables, the occasional weather report, and other worship materials, at www.unfoldinglight.net, where you can buy his book of his poetry. He leads retreats and workshops on poetry, spirituality, and our images of God. He lives in Wells, ME, with his wife, Beth, a spiritual director, piano teacher, and retired pastor. They have three grown sons. He bicycles, walks in the woods, and kayaks around the Maine coast.

April 28 – May 2, 2025

Experience the ancient art of “writing” the Gospel with paint and prayer. Join this five-day, all-inclusive day retreat, led by renowned iconographer, Theresa Harrison. Using JoSonja acrylic paints and 23 carat gold leaf, paint an icon of your choice together in sacred community at Grace Church. 

Saturday, September 14: The Most Reverend Bishop Michael Curry will preside over the Ordination and Consecration of The Rev. Dr. Philip N. LaBelle at The Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. Doors open at 9:30 a.m.

Our new Bishop will be Seated at St. Mark’s Cathedral on Sunday, September 15 during Evensong, beginning at 4:30.

RSVP and find additional information about the events on the Diocese of Olympia website.

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.

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.