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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 a.m

Conversations to Care for Creation
First Sundays in the sanctuary during coffee hour

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

TONIGHT, Thursday, February 27
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

7th – 12th grades • Games, Hot Drinks, Sweet Treats

Sponsored by Grace & St. Barnabas Episcopal Churches with the other Open & Affirming churches and youth organizations of Bainbridge Island.

At Coquette, Winslow Green

Take your mind away from the troubles of the world as gentle voices sing simple, meditative songs to relax and replenish your spirit. Learn how Threshold singers provide comfort to those in pain or at the end of life and how you can request their presence for a friend or loved one.

A reception follows this free event. Donations are welcome.

Learn more, and listen to the choir here.

Sunday, March 2 after the 9:30 service

Please join us for the 2025 Annual Meeting. We will:

• Review 2024 using the Annual Report
• Vote for new Vestry members, and delegates and alternatives to the 2025 Diocesan Convention
• Vote on the proposed 2025 Budget
• Thank our lay leaders and staff

All members are encouraged to attend in person or via Zoom so that we reach our quorum of 50 members. If you have attended Grace three times in the last year and participated in Eucharist then you are a member! If you have questions, please reach out to the Rev. Eric Mason or Grace’s Wardens, Heather Paar and Tom Ringo.

Click here to read the Annual Report.

Click here to join the meeting on Zoom.

Note that you will need to log off from the 9:30 worship service and log on again for the meeting.

Tuesday, March 4, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

As we prepare for Lent, Holy Week, and the joy of Easter, join your Grace family in Walker Hall to share an evening of pancakes and fun. The Men of Grace will be serving a feast of buttermilk pancakes, gluten-free pancakes, sausage, vegetarian sausage, and applesauce. Suggested donation is $5 per person or $15 per family. You are invited to dress festively and bring a friend. Think Mardi Gras.

Men of Grace:
Host Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
Tuesday, March 4th, 4:15 – 8:30 p.m

Guys, come lend a hand as the men of Grace host the Shrove Tuesday Supper. We will be setting up, serving, and cleaning up after this fun meal. Please click here to sign up or contact Eric Matthews at eric@ericEmatthews.com or 206.718.2254 to sign up or learn more.

Families, and anyone with a competitive syrup (I mean, spirit!), please join us for our second annual Pancake Olympics. Relay races for adults & kids of all ages. May the best team win the coveted golden syrup prize! The team to beat this year is led by reigning champion Dan Rohan.

For questions and to sign up, please contact Kim Cockroft. Or just show up! Pancake Olympics begin at 6:30 p.m. on the patio outside Walker Hall.

Dear People of Grace, 

We live in a time of seismic shifts: the rise of social media, astounding technological advances, sociopolitical disruptions, global migration, and rapid societal change. For many, this is disorienting and anxiety provoking. As people of faith, how do we take it all in? As systems we once knew and trusted transform for better and worse, what would Jesus have to say? Where is God in the midst of it? How then shall we live?

Join us this Lent at Grace as we consider this question and what it means to be both citizens of our country and the Kingdom of God. 

We begin that journey on Ash Wednesday, where we are reminded of own mortality and dependence upon the Giver of Life. On Sundays, we will have speakers from Fishline, Scarlet Road, and Chaplains on the Harbor who will share their experience of what it means to be citizens of the Kingdom of God. On Tuesday evenings, we will gather in community to share food and conversation and explore our own response to the challenge of living responsively out of love and wisdom rather than reactively out of fear and anxiety.

Please do join us.
Rev. Eric

Tuesdays in Lent

March 11 – April 8 from 6:15 – 8:30 p.m.

We will gather Tuesday evenings at 6:15 for soup & supper. From 7 – 8:15 pm we will discuss What is God’s Kingdom and What Does Citizenship Look Like? by Mennonite pastor, Cesar Garcia. We will close with Evening Vespers.

Seattle Mennonite Church Pastor Megan Ramer will be our guest speaker on March 18.

The book and a reading schedule are available in the narthex for a suggested donation of $12.

We need your participation! If you'd like to help make or serve soup, please contact Rachel Yobs.

If you have other questions, please contact kim@gracehere.org.

If you are new to Grace, you are invited to the Newcomers dinner at 6:00 p.m. in Walker Hall. Rev. Eric Mason and other parish leaders will be there to answer questions and welcome you to our community. If you missed any of the former Newcomer gatherings and would like to attend, please come. Childcare will be provided. See you there! Please RSVP to Liz Powell.

Mondays at 10:00 a.m.

Launch your week in community and reflection (and coffee and treats!) at Grace.

There is no prep needed for this group — just show up! We'll be exploring one Psalm every session using Eugene Peterson's Psalms: Prayers of the Heart. Together we'll explore how the Psalms open our conversation with God in new ways.

Here are some of the topics: Praying Our: Inattention, Intimidation, Trouble, Creation, Fear, Hate, Tears, Doubt, Death, Praise.

Questions? Please contact Kim Cockroft or Florrie Munat.

If you are new to Grace and curious about the Episcopal tradition, a teenager or adult who wants to be confirmed, or you have been around Grace a while and want a refresher, join Rev. Eric and Kim Cockroft after the 9:30 a.m. service. It’s a new members class, a confirmation class, and a spiritual repast combined. 

What if it’s our job as parents to help our kids get to know God and discover that God can be trusted? What if faith is not constructed brick by brick, but rather woven strand by strand?

We'll be discussing Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From, by Meredith Miller.

We will meet on the second Monday of each month at Kim Cockroft's home. Details and RSVP – kim@gracehere.org.

Live music, images, and poetry invite reflection on our changing climate.

For the Birds features a jazz quintet performing the original music of Seattle pianist and composer Nelda Swiggett. But this is not just a concert. The performance engages the power of artistic expression — live music, spoken words, images and poetry — to connect audiences deeply and emotionally to the scientific realities of climate change. Ultimately this is a story of hope, and audiences leave the performance feeling empowered to take meaningful action.

Why birds? Birds are a part of our daily life experience, and an inspiring connection to the natural world. But climate change is having a significant and alarming impact on many bird species, and this should be a wake-up call for all of us.

Hosted by the Earth and Spirit Ministry of Grace

Suggested Donation $10 - $20 / Students $5

Rides are needed to 9:30 a.m. Sunday services for Ellen Walls, who lives in Winslow across from Ace Hardware.

Thanks very much to all who have offered rides!

On February 19th, the U.S. Department of State granted PeaceTrees Vietnam temporary permission to resume our demining and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance operations for 12 weeks in Quảng Trị Province and 8 weeks in Quảng Bình Province.

This is encouraging news, but challenges remain as there is no guarantee that authorization or funding will continue beyond these timeframes. Additionally, we’re still seeking clarity on the State Department’s review process and what the future holds for humanitarian mine action globally.

Over the past month, PeaceTrees’ supporters have rallied to sustain our mission—donating to our fund for deminers, contacting representatives, sharing resources, and coming together to discuss what lies ahead. We’re grateful to each of you for a shared community that is passionate, caring, and responsive.

In response to the initial funding freeze and stop-work order, this same community has raised an incredible $120,000 to support our deminers. These generous gifts have provided a strong foundation of support, which will enable us to remain flexible, nimble, and adaptable as we navigate this funding freeze, stop-work order, and the changing funding landscape of mine action.

As we work closely with the State Department and our teams to return deminers to the field, your generosity and friendship ensures that we can continue creating safer communities in Vietnam.

How You Can Continue to Help

• GIVE: Make a gift to help PeaceTrees navigate our changing operational context and provide support to deminers.
• ADVOCATE: Keeping using our Advocacy Toolkit to contact your elected officials to let them know you support PeaceTrees and humanitarian mine action.

Thank you for showing up for PeaceTrees through these uncertain times and for being a part of our vital work.

Are you dealing with the difficult emotions surrounding the loss of a loved one? A Grief Share Program will begin on Sunday, March 2 from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. for thirteen weeks at St. Cecilia Parish (across from the BI Library). You do not need to attend every session. The group is non-denominational, open to anyone, and free. Each meeting will include workbook questions, videos, and discussion led by trained facilitators. Average group size is 6-8.

For more information and to register, call 206-842-3594 or email St. Cecilia Parish. Visit the Grief Share website.

Thursday, April 3, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Cathedral and livestreamed. Registration required.

We live in fraught times when violence seems to be the common denominator in a calculus based in mistrust and misanthropic othering. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind… Drawing on inspiration from his work with language and religion, conflict and peacemaking, this truth-teller of our time will draw us into an orbit of soulful wisdom and poetic grace.

Fee: $15 (for in-person and livestream participation). Visit Pádraig Ó Tuama’s website, and click below for more information about the event.

If you are interested in travelling together to this event and catching dinner together beforehand as a group, please register and contact Kim Cockroft.