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Memorial Service for Greg Abell
Saturday, September 28 at 2:00 p.m.
at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church
Zoom link

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

What's Your Story Writing Group
Continues Monday, October 7 & 21, November 4 & 18, December 2
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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 a.m.

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

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

Zoom link

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.

Registration for Parish Retreat weekend is closed.

• When you arrive at Seabeck Conference Center, head up the main driveway and bear right to arrive at the Pines Building. Park behind the building and enter through the back door. You will find welcomers with name tags, room assignments, carts for luggage, and other information.
• If you are arriving on Friday, please plan to arrive any time from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. to check into your rooms. Social hour begins in the Pines Building at 5 p.m., and dinner is at 6 p.m.
• Daytrippers, when you arrive on Saturday, come right through the front door of the Pines Building. Morning Prayer begins at 9:15 a.m. in the Pines building, and our first session begins at 9:30 a.m. in the same building.
• Checkout is at 1 p.m. on Sunday (late checkouts incur a fee, so consider packing up and checking out early before lunch at 11:30.)
• Please note there is nursery care during the sessions on Saturday, and when appropriate, there will be fun alternate programming for kids and youth.
• If you have any questions about housing, please email Edith Coburn. If you have questions about volunteering, please email Rachel Brandt. For questions about payment, please email Lindsay. For all other queries, please contact Kim.

Bookmark the Parish Retreat web page to keep it handy. We will be posting more details next week.

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!

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.

You don't need to be a caregiver to attend.

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

You may find the Zoom link on this page.

• The 8:00 a.m. service at Grace is cancelled.
• Priest Associate Kate Kinney will preside at the 9:30 a.m. Sunday service, which will not be livestreamed.
• 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 a.m. Please give yourself plenty of time to arrive and find the gathering in the Pines building.

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!

October 6
Island Center Hall, 8395 Fletcher Bay Rd NE

November 3 and December 1 at Grace

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to set up/tear down and coordinate dinners at Grace! Please click the button below.

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.

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.