The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

September 14, 2025

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Coffee & a Psalm
Mondays from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

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

Knitting Into the Mystery
Third Thursdays at 11:00 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

Join other Grace folks at Seabeck Conference Center. Build friendships, rest and relax, learn and discover.

Friday, October  3 – Sunday, October 5
Register today

The weekend schedule is on the Grace website (click below on Learn More and Register).
You can also download it here as a PDF.

Day Trippers Welcome!

Our facilitator for this year's adult program is Rick Jackson, a co-founder and Senior Fellow of the Center for Courage and Renewal.

Kids and Youth Under 18 attend FREE.

There will be a full roster of engaging activities for kids & youth — amazing crafts, games, and activities, including a field trip to SkyZone!

Sunday, September 14th, following the 9:30 a.m. service

You are invited to gather in the Living Room to learn more and brainstorm about the following questions:

•  Should the work of “Resettlement With Grace” continue? 

•  What would that entail — in dollars, manpower, time?

•  Would expanding beyond our walls be wise (e.g., other churches, Bainbridge Island at-large)?

Questions? Call Kathy Deasy at (928) 606-3410 or email her.

To donate to RWG, a check made payable to Grace Church with 'RWG' in the memo would be greatly appreciated. You may also give through Realm. Thank you!

Sunday, September 14, during coffee hour

Grace welcomes Margret Darrah back to the gallery in September and October for an exhibition of works in cut paper. Margret is a native Seattleite living on Bainbridge Island. She has worked with many media, including textiles and watercolors. Her Scandinavian heritage influenced her appreciation of storytelling and paper. She was greatly influenced by the Old World European Scherenschnitte method. Using small, sharp scissors, she creates original, intriguing, and whimsical scenes.

Sunday, September 14, in a circle near the altar during coffee hour.

We wonder how to live out our faith while resisting. Can we love and respect those with whom we disagree politically? Is there such a thing as sacred resistance? How is resistance part of creation care?

Autumn is a time to look inward and care for what summer has given us. As God tends to us, a gardener considers the roots, remembers the blossoms, prunes back, and protects the most vulnerable. How can we attune our lives to care for creation in this time when so much negativity confronts us? What would a gardener do?

Upcoming community events

Reverence for Fire: Honoring Its Transformative Nature

Monday, September 29th, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
St. Barnabas Church, 1187 Wyatt Way NE

The Bainbridge Island North Kitsap Interfaith Climate Circle invites you to a Web of Life event focused on the element of fire. We will explore our varied responses to how fire becomes imbalanced in a climate-changing world and the power it has to support us in transformation — literally and figuratively. For more info, email climatecirclebinkifc@gmail.com

Bainbridge Island Sun Day Event

Sunday, September 21st, 11:00 – 12:30

Join us at the Bainbridge Public Library to learn about the momentum for solar power in Bainbridge and the world. Then, ask experts and neighbors your questions about solar systems.

We’ll honor the Library’s plans to install a solar system. Jeremy Smithson, founder of Puget Sound Solar, will review the history of solar in the U.S. and explain where the industry is headed. You’ll also learn about solar projects around the Island and by the Suquamish tribe.

Register here.

Unclaimed items will be donated at the end of September.

The office lost-and-found drawer has overflowed, so items have been moved to the narthex. Please check the table and coat racks for your missing items. Bonus: Snag a beautiful piece of unclaimed spiral art, which is now up for grabs!

Local School Districts offer school supplies to teens in need. With your help, Grace’s Outreach/Faith in Action will provide additional help to KIAC (Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center) teens with items such as backpacks, shoes, athletic equipment, haircuts, etc.

Please take an “Apple Envelope” from the Giving Tree in the Narthex, and return it on or before September 28th with $25 Gift Cards from VISA, MasterCard, Walmart, Marshalls, or Ross.

You can make a big difference in a KIAC teen’s return to school this fall!

Mom’s Morning Retreat is a community group where moms come together to learn, receive nourishment, and find support through stories, gentle movement, and laughter. From pregnancy to empty nesting — if you’re a mom, you belong here.

Jen Breen facilitates our sessions on the first and third Thursdays of the month from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Grace Church. This year, we are also hosting informal playgroups on the other Thursdays at the same time in the nursery at Grace.

For additional information or to register, visit momsmorningretreat.com.

Tuesday, September 23 at 5:00 p.m.

Share your story over a delicious hot meal at a co-parishioner’s home.

Each Supper Club group has six to eight attendees, and the group chooses its dinner dates. Suppers are encouraged to be potlucks with rotating hosts. Newcomers are encouraged to sign up!

If you would like to join a fun Supper Club, new groups will be established at the Kickoff Potluck on September 23rd at Grace. Please email Rachel Brandt if you would like to be in one of the upcoming 2025/2026 Supper Club groups, and let her know whether you can attend the Kickoff Potluck on September 23 at 5:00 p.m.

— Warmly with grace, Rachel Brandt and Rachel Yobs

Sunday, September 28, during the 9:30 service

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.

2:00 p.m. at Grace

Please join Rich's family and community in celebrating his life and legacy. Please join Rich's family and community in a celebration of his life and legacy. The service will take place at Grace and will also be livestreamed here.

Nine Men of Grace went on a pilgrimage from August 28-31 on the rugged coast of the Olympic Peninsula. We hiked from Lake Ozette to Cape Alava, then traveled north and up the coast, camping along the way. The most challenging part of the pilgrimage was Saturday, when we hiked around and over several headlands within a two-hour window of low tide in order to get beyond the Point of Arches and to Shi Shi Beach where we camped on Saturday night. We ended our journey with a Sunday Eucharist service before hiking the length of Shi Shi Beach and out to the trailhead and our vehicles. We hiked more than twenty miles in four days. It was a deeply meaningful, rewarding, and demanding experience.

Mark your calendars and save the date. Come get to know some of the guys at Grace during the annual fall retreat at John Kydd’s Cabin on Hood Canal. Details to follow. 

Check out this photo montage from the 2023 Men’s Retreat. If you have any questions, contact Eric Matthews at eric@ericematthews.com or (206) 718-2254.

Friday, October 10th

6:00 Potluck; 6:30 Games Begin

St. Paul's Bremerton Parish Hall
700 Callahan Dr, Bremerton, 98310

Board games, card games, plus any games you bring. We look forward to great food, healthy competition, and making fun connections. 

The annual Teen Talking Circles Gala, filled with an evening of community, connection, dancing, and youth mental health support, is back! We will have delicious appetizers and food from Fig & Spice and The Little Pearl (an artisanal oyster bar from Salish Sea Greens), live music from Rafael Tranquilino, drinks from local breweries Rainy Daze and Hood Canal Brewery, and wine from Eleven Winery. We will also feature an online silent & live auction filled with incredible items, destinations, and experiences from all over the PNW.

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!!

Tickets: $100 • This is a 21+ event • Doors open at 5:30 pm • Program starts at 6 p.m.

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