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Becoming Kin Book Group 
Thursdays, August 22, 29 & Sept. 5 from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Capture the Flag!
August 20 at 7:00 p.m.

Save the Date: Parish Homecoming
September 8 during the 9:30 service

Sign up Now for the 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

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

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

Theme: Body & Spirit

with guest facilitators
Jen Breen and Staci Imes

All children & youth (under 18) attend free!

• 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.

All ages welcome!

Come for the game and ice cream cones.

We need to “make” two teams, so RSVP to Kim.

Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec

Continues on Thursdays August 22, 29 & Sept. 5
from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

co-led by Eric Mason & Kim Cockroft

Includes an opportunity to visit the Suquamish Museum. 

Pick up your book & reading schedule in the narthex (suggested donation: $18.00). 

To sign up or ask questions, contact kim@gracehere.org.

"Becoming Kin is a powerful invitation into unlearning and learning. Krawec offers an essential vision for our relationships with the earth, the land, and each other."

— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, author of On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis

Tuesday, August 27 at 6:00 p.m.

This new 35-minute film is a united call for a new economy, delivered by those who have committed their lives to working for systemic change.

‘Closer to Home’ brings together an extraordinary array of thinkers, writers and activists from every continent to make a simple but revolutionary argument: by reducing the scale of the economy, we can not only stop the rush towards social and ecological breakdown but also restore damaged ecosystems and increase our own personal well-being.

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

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. 

Established in 2007, the Grace Legacy Society consists of individuals who have generously provided for Grace Episcopal Church in their estate plans. Legacy Society gifts were invested in the Grace Church’s Endowment Fund and the earnings from that fund were available for certain restricted purposes to support Grace’s ministry programs. This past June, after 17 years of existence, our Endowment Fund had a balance of approximately $14,000 and was only generating approximately $600 in annual income that was available for expenditure on a restricted list of purposes.

Believing we can do better than this, earlier this year the Vestry began considering other options and, with the guidance of a Legacy Giving Working Group, in June approved resolutions to adopt a new program that replaces the Endowment Fund with a new Legacy Fund that would encourage unrestricted gifts in support of Grace’s long-term vitality, with such gifting occurring both during one’s lifetime and through their estate plans. These gifted funds will be managed with a goal of generating substantial resources that will be available for use at the discretion of future Vestries, providing a strong foundation on which we believe we can build for Grace’s long-term health as a faith community.

We plan to hold parish-wide informational meetings in the coming months to talk more about this change as well as legacy giving generally, but if you have questions in the meantime, feel free to contact our Wardens Heather Paar or Tom Ringo, our Stewardship Trustee Tootie Kuhn, or our Rector Eric Mason.

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.

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

YOU are making a real difference in a teen’s return to school this fall!

August 17 from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

Join us to watch The Princess Bride, and enjoy a taco bar and ice cream!

Convention workshops provide an opportunity to share and showcase best practices and to learn from one another. Do you have a program, resource, idea, practice, or area of expertise to share? If so, we invite you to submit a workshop proposal. The deadline for proposals is August 31, 2024.

September 1st | 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

St. Mark’s Cathedral

Choral Evensong with Gift Presentation

Reception to Follow

Save the dates!

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.