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All children & youth (under 18) attend free!

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

Theme: Body & Spirit

with guest facilitators
Jen Breen and Staci Imes

We’ve extended our deadline! Join those who have already signed up for this rare time to build friendships and community.

Note: Priest Associate Kate Kinney will preside at the 8:00 and 9:30 Sunday services at Grace. We will not be livestreaming the service. 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.

We are looking for used magazines with bright images for a collage project at this year’s Parish Retreat. If you have appropriate used magazines you would like to donate, please bring them to the parish office, and mark your donation “Parish Retreat.” Thank you!

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

Build and Bequeath a Bouquet Day!
Sunday, September 29 at coffee hour 

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.

Music Circle Rehearsal
Thursdays from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

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

Open Mic for Caregivers
First Fridays at 4:00 p.m.

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

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

When you arrive for the 9:30 a.m. Sunday service, 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!

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

You may read Greg's obituary here.

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.

Come celebrate the abundance of the Gifts of Dirt flower garden by arranging and giving away a bouquet of fresh blooms! We will bring in buckets of all kinds of flowers and vases, and you can put together an arrangement to give to yourself, your neighbor, or whomever you know who might need a bit of cheer in life. We’ll set up close to the coffee hour table so you might nibble, arrange, and chat all at the same time! Questions? Contact Pegge Ashcroft.

As part of our Home Group Ministries, the Southies Home Group gathered last week for conversation at Janie and Chuck Ekberg’s home. Along with sharing stories about family and adventures, they also generated a variety of year-long activities that embody Inclusion, Service, Discovery, and Gratitude. The Southies’ style of fellowship of getting together on a regular basis will enable each of us to deepen their faith with God, and to become closer to our Grace Family. Many thanks to the Ekbergs for opening their lovely home to the Southies, and for embracing our Grace values. It was boo-tiful!

Learn more about Grace Home Groups on our website.

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!

Thank you to all responded and signed up. Details are being sent out this week. If, for some reason, you do not receive a message about our first gathering by Saturday evening, please email Kim.

Live Responsibly, Die Thoughtfully
How to Navigate the Rest of Your Life with Intention and Grace

Our speaker is Johanna Munson, who will discuss her book and share her “Living Responsibly Roadmap.” Copies of her book are available in the narthex for a suggested price of $10.

Inspired by the different ways she experienced her mother’s and father’s deaths, Johanna will guide us through how to make hard decisions while also reassuring us that there is a thoughtful way to die – one that offers peace and grace.

A Kindle version of Johanna's book is available here.

For more information or to be a guest speaker, please contact Florrie Munat. 

You may find the Zoom link on this page.

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.”

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. 

PeaceTrees Vietnam Citizen Diplomacy Trip

January 6 – 19, 2025. Learn more on the PeaceTrees website.

CROP Hunger Walk-Dance

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.

Sign-up or Donate

Vespers at St. Barnabas

St. Barnabas’ Schola Nova invites you to Vespers on Sunday, September 22 at 6 p.m. Please join us as we celebrate St. Hildegard of Bingen, which is our first in a series of three Vespers services honoring female saints. Save the dates for our Vespers services celebrating St. Teresa of Avila on October 20, and St. Margaret of Scotland on November 17. If you are a treble singer interested in participating, please contact Music Director Sheila Bristow.

A New Hope for Youth Mental Health

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 5:30 p.m. Buy tickets. 

Deborah Milton, who co-leads the Earth & Spirit Ministry at Grace, was recently recognized as Battle Point Astronomical Association’s Artist in residence! 

After moving to Bainbridge Island in 2009, I made Gaia painting “my thing,” and published a book which includes many Gaia paintings: Ode to Gaia – Calling Forth our Imaginal Selves. Every image begins by painting the cosmos first using imagination, intuition, and spontaneity. After the cosmos is painted, I study the image, I wait, I gaze some more until I begin to see our human presence in the form of Gaia. Without the billions of years that came before us, without the emergence of our galaxy, our big hot star, our small cool moon, our planet couldn’t support life! We humans are embedded in that long, long story.

Click below to read about her honor, and what she has to say about her art and her passion for the cosmos.