The Second Sunday of Easter

April 27, 2025

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In celebration of Earth Sunday, all are invited to bring a flower to the 9:30 am service! Before the service, place your flower in one of the vases near the altar. After the service, please take home a bloom that you did not bring.

Thursday, April 24

For 7th – 12th grades. Games, Hot Drinks, Sweet Treats at Coquette, Winslow Green

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

On Good Friday morning, the Grace Outreach ministry delivered nearly 60 pounds of peanut butter, baby wipes, and soap to the farm and offices of Chaplains on the Harbor. This Sunday after the 9:30 a.m. service we will pack items that are donated this week.

There is still time to donate any of the following items:

hygiene wipes (baby wipes) • new warm socks and underwear • peanut butter • warm hats & gloves (winter)

Donation baskets are in the narthex by the kiosk.

THANK YOU for your loving generosity for our friends in Grays Harbor County.

Advance registration requested

If you have attended the Foundations Class and are seeking confirmation and have not signed up yet, please email Kim Cockroft and Eric Mason as soon as possible. Likewise, if you have family members coming with you to Cathedral Day and they would like lunch vouchers, please email Kim or Rev. Eric if you have not already done so.

Cathedral Day is a “family reunion” for Episcopalians from across western Washington—a time for connecting across communities, experiencing your cathedral in a new light... and having a lot of fun. There’s something for everyone—no matter your age!

A liturgy of Holy Eucharist with the rites of Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation for candidates from parishes near and far will begin at 10:30 a.m., opening with a grand, colorful procession of parish banners.

Following the service, all are invited to enjoy lunch from food trucks and participate in activities for all ages. (Food truck lunch is free with advance registration.) Afternoon activities include face painting, demonstration of the Mighty Flentrop, paper airplane launch from the organ loft, docent-led tour including the crypt, a walk through the Greenbelt, and more!

Exploring Spirituality’s Vital Relationship with Resilience

A three-part seminar at Grace
Tuesdays, May  6, 13, 20, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m

Join Counselor & Spiritual Director Nita Baer as we consider works of Dr. Lisa Miller, John Philip Newell, and others, who inform our understanding and nourish our relationship with resilience. Free. All are welcome. Please email Kim Cockroft sign up: kim@gracehere.org.

Join the Grace Men’s Group for a Spring Gathering & Potluck on Wednesday, May 7 at 6 p.m. in Walker Hall. 

Visit this link for more information and to sign up.
You may also email Eric Matthews or call him at 206-718-2254.

To ensure that Grace Church is welcoming to all guests, the Growing Grace Team has proposed a comprehensive update of exterior signage to be installed during May.

Included in the update will be colorful directional signs on Day Road and along the entry lane just past the Island School, an entry and exit sign at the gate that welcomes arriving visitors and wishes them Peace when departing, and a Church Hours sign to be affixed to the gate itself so it is visible when closed.

Also planned are new signs for guest parking and upgraded signs for handicapped parking as well as new directional signs for the Grace Trails, Labyrinth, Columbarium, Memorial Garden, Office, and Bike Parking. 

In addition, the Bainbridge Island Park District will be installing additional signage along the Trails directing hikers to Grace Church, our Labyrinth, and our Memorial Garden.

I would like to give special recognition to team member Rhonda Peacock, whose graphic design expertise made these signs possible. 

Participating in the Growing Grace Team has been enlightening and challenging as we collectively work to make Grace a more welcoming place. I encourage any member of Grace who is interested in helping with this initiative to speak with Jeff Bassett, Kim Cockroft, or Eric Mason for more information.

— Mike Leamon, For the Growing Grace Team

The RWG team has been very busy during the past two weeks. After many attempts to find housing in the Kent area for the Ahmadi family, we expanded our search. We visited the Redmond Ridge Apartments, a tax credit property with reduced rental rates. The property has everything an immigrant family will need: a helpful staff, two playgrounds and trails in the nearby woods, a top-rated elementary school one mile from the property, and a community of immigrants, all trying to make a better life for their family. The Ahmadi family successfully filled out an application and was accepted in one day thanks to Grace RWG co-sponsoring their rental costs for the family's six-month lease. Donations to offset the family's rent for these next few months will be greatly appreciated.*

We will be helping the Ahmadis move this coming weekend (April 26 & 27) and will continue to provide assistance by registering the children in school, helping with medical appointments, and introducing them to the Muslim community support centers in Redmond. Thank you for the many offers of furniture, house supplies, and other donations.

* Click here to donate online through Realm, or write a check to Grace Church with RWG in the memo line. Contact: Email Kathy Deasy or call (928) 606-3410.

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

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Vespers at St. Barnabas

1187 Wyatt Way NW, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

St. Barnabas’ Schola Nova and St. Cecilia’s Compline Choir invite you to a special vespers service for Mother’s Day. Music of Biebl and Casals, plus beautiful chant. Sunday, May 11, 6:00 p.m.

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