Grace
Episcopal Church
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Grace
Notes
13 October 2016
Stewardship Sunday is this coming Sunday, 16
October. If you have not sent your
pledge card to the parish office already, bring your card for collection on
Sunday.
This area being football-mad, let’s consider
a football analogy in what we are trying to do in stewardship. We’d love to get an immediate touchdown (and
run up the score!), but the reality is that our most practical focus is to get
enough yards on the next play that we get “a new set of downs”. It is rare that any initiative or campaign
will just result in that touchdown, that immediate change, but continuing to
hold the ball and march down the field we’ll come closer to the end zone.
It would be welcome to have a flashy player,
a franchise player who can scramble, throw, jump, etc. The reality is that a good old-fashioned
utility running back who “runs north and south” but who averages enough yards
to always get a new set of downs will keep us marching down the field. The reality is that those of us who aren’t a
“skill” player can still offer the crucial gift of blocking on every down, so
that the ball can continue to advance.
A pledge is your way of blocking so the ball
can advance. A pledge allows all of the
other players to better know their assignments and what the play is. A pledge allows us to focus on strategy,
rather than to be just reacting and hoping on every play. A pledge is about ball control, and ball
control wins games.
“Go, Grace, Go!”
Grace
abounds: Please thank:
§ Kevan and Traci
Revis, and the Boland-McIntosh family for the Sunday coffee hours.
§ Ben Dobey and Bobbie
May for gardening.
§ Randie Barrows for
electrical repair.
Call for
Contributions: If you
have a spiritual reflection to share, or want to point your fellow worshipers
toward a resource, submit your contributions to Fr. Karl (by email) by
Wednesday in the week of publication.
Energy
Conservation! Please treat Grace as
your home. If you turn something on,
turn it off! Don’t assume anyone else
will lock or turn off.
Don’t forget
“Something Extra for Grace”: Supplemental
giving envelopes can be found in pews.
If you want to give something extra, please use an envelope to ensure
that you are credited.
Special appeal: Later this Fall we will have a grounds
cleanup day that will include ground cover and shrubbery trimming. We are, however, overdue for major reshaping
of shrubbery, and the arbor vitae which flank the church entrance are
out-of-control. Quotations for shrub
reshaping and removal/replacement of the arbor vitae run into the thousands of
dollars. Major work will not be a 2016 initiative, but we are
appealing for your donations now, to build a fund for work in the Spring of
2017. Keep Grace beautiful! Give
“Something Extra”.
Update: The Processional Cross will be restored. This will begin next Monday, and while the
cross is out for repair (which will take some months) we are blessed with a
cross made by Scot Fabiano. If you wish
to help, please us a “Something Extra for Grace” envelope and mark
“Processional Cross” on the envelope or in a check memo. line.
Music
this Week: The
Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24C)
Organist: Ben Dobey.
Prelude Meditation on Christe Sanctorum Geoffrey Vintner
Entrance
Hymn
1 “Father, we praise thee” Christe sanctorum
Offertory
Hymn 632 “O Christ, the Word incarnate” Munich
Communion
Motet God be in my head John Rutter
Communion
Hymn 345 “Savior,
again to thy dear Name we raise” Ellers
Closing
Hymn 535 “Ye servants of God, your Master
proclaim” Paderborn
Postlude Prelude & Fugue in G
J. K. F. Fischer
Parish
Notices
§ Adult
Christian Formation: On Sunday
at 9:00 a.m. we continue with the fourth session of a six-week course, The Christian Worldview Through the Artists’
Eyes, taught by Christi Jentz, a professional artist, illuminator and iconographer
resident at St. Josaphat’s Basilica in Milwaukee.
§ Pledge
Cards: will be gratefully
received on Sunday. Blank pledge cards are available on the table in the
Narthex.
§ A
Winter’s Warm Week in Key West! As an
incentive to increased giving in our 2017 Stewardship Campaign, Bill and Deb
Gagin have donated a week at a luxury time-share condo in Key West, Florida,
for the week of 5 to 12 March 2017 (just when the weather in Sheboygan will be
oh-so-enjoyable!) Details about location can be found on the table in the
Narthex. This incentive will be awarded to the person who has: (a)
The largest percentage increase in an existing, current 2016 pledge; or (b) The
largest new 2017 pledge; whichever exceeds the amount of $500 by the greatest
dollar amount. In discerning what your gift in 2017 will be, be incentivized in
a little healthy competition for a generous prize in the service of God’s
Church.
§ Fall Clean-up:
Next Saturday, October 22nd,
there will be a Fall Clean-up – inside and outside – commencing at 8:30 a.m. -
noon. Snacks will be provided. Rain date will be October 29th.
Please sign up on the sheet in the Narthex.
§
26th Annual Coats for Kids: is a community service campaign that over that last
25 years the community has donated 20,000 coats to those in need. Area
residents are asked to donate clean coats in good repair. We accept coats of
all sizes for people of all ages, with the need being greatest for children’s
coats. These coats will be distributed to Sheboygan county residents who would
otherwise go without. Drop off location: Reinbold-Novak Funeral Home,
1535 S. 12 St. Sheboygan, Tuesday, September 6th – Wednesday,
October 19th, Monday–Friday 8:30am–4:00 pm.
Distribution Location: Salvation Army, 710 Pennsylvania Ave. Sheboygan,
Friday, October 21st, from noon to 6:00 p.m.
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