Here you will find an energized and inclusive community of people seeking God’s transforming

presence. Grace St. Paul’s is a safe place to connect your spirit and your mind. Please join with us in

experiencing Christ’s love in a diverse congregation that celebrates individual gifts. We invite you to

take part in liturgies that are rich and innovative, in spiritual formation for all ages, and in action for

social justice. We welcome you to share in this joyful journey!

Welcome to

A Progressive Community — Loving God, Serving Others, Journeying Together

The Second Sunday of Creation

Celebration Sunday

Healing Sunday

Honoring Pride in the Desert Weekend

October 12, 2014

8 a.m. service begins on page 3 • 10 a.m. service begins on page 18

2331 East Adams Street • Tucson, Arizona 85719Visit us on the web: www.gsptucson.org

Phone (520) 327-6857 • Fax (520) 327-1347Emergency Pastoral Care (520) 668-5727

Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • Friday 9 a.m.-noonThe Rev. Steve Keplinger: Rector@grace-stpauls.orgRosalind Garcia: Rosalind.Garcia@grace-stpauls.org

KiKi Fenik: ParishAdmin@grace-stpauls.orgDavid Wachter: gsp1@dakotacom.net

Weekly WorshipSunday

8 a.m. – Communion Service10 a.m. – Communion Service

Monday

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.Drop-in Spiritual Direction

Tuesday

6 p.m. – Evening Prayer (1st Tuesdayof month includes Communion)

7 p.m. – Meditation Group

Wednesday

7 a.m. – Communion Service

Thursday

5:30 p.m. – Spirit Now Service

About Today’s Services

Altar FlowersToday’s altar flowers are given to the glory of God and for the beauty of the worship service ! in loving memory of Hetty Lewis, Mary Turner, and Jane Blackwell—grandmother, mother, and sister of

Ann Schlumberger, given by Ann Schlumberger.If you would like to dedicate flowers, please call the church office at 327-6857.

WELCOME HOMEThe people who are Grace St. Paul’s church are pleased you are here and welcome you.

! Regardless of your faith tradition, you are welcome to receive communion in this church.

! Please join us for coffee and snacks after both the 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. services in McBride Hall, across thebreezeway from the church. First-time guests, please stop by the Welcome Table in the Hall and pick upyour special gift for being with us.

! Please fill out a yellow card located in the pew racks and give it to the friendly folks at the WelcomeTable.

! Nursery care (for both services), Sunday School and Youth Group are all located in the rooms belowfrom the sanctuary:

! Nursery care for children ages three and under is in the St. Teresa of Avila room.

! Sunday School, preschool through 5th grade, is held concurrently with the 10 a.m. service.

! Youth group, grades 6 through 12, meets in the St. Francis Room right after the 10:00 service.

! An usher or greeter would be pleased to show you to these areas.

! Restrooms are located just outside the church building in the covered breezeway.

We hope you will return many times and consider Grace St. Paul’s as your church home.

Cover photo: Montezuma Well, Arizona. Photo: David Wachter.

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8 a.m. Communion ServiceThe Rev. Steve Keplinger, Celebrant

You are invited to sit toward the front and center of the church for this service.Hymn numbers refer to The Hymnal 1982 (blue) or Wonder, Love, and Praise (green) in your pew racks.

The Liturgy of the Word

Please remember to silence your electronic devices.

Greeting and Announcements

Celebration Sunday Video

Processional Hymn Creator God, you made the earth (stanzas 1 & 2)

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Opening AcclamationThe Opening Acclamation is adapted from Enriching Our Worship, Church Publishing Inc.

Celebrant: Blessed be the Creator God.People: For ever and ever. Amen.

Chant of Praise

The Collect of the DayThe Collect of the Day is adapted from The Book of Common Prayer, pp. 234-235.

Celebrant: May God be with you.People: And also with you.Celebrant: Let us pray.

Silence

Celebrant:

God, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be givento good works; through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God,now and for ever. Amen.

A Reading from Exodus [32:1-14] The people may be seated.

When the people saw that Moses delayed tocome down from the mountain, the peoplegathered around Aaron, and said to him,“Come, make gods for us, who shall go beforeus; as for this Moses, the man who brought usup out of the land of Egypt, we do not knowwhat has become of him.” Aaron said to them,“Take off the gold rings that are on the ears ofyour wives, your sons, and your daughters, and

bring them to me.” So all the people took offthe gold rings from their ears, and broughtthem to Aaron. He took the gold from them,formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf;and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel,who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”When Aaron saw this, he built an altar beforeit; and Aaron made proclamation and said,“Tomorrow shall be a festival to YHWH.” They

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rose early the next day, and offered burntofferings and brought sacrifices of well-being;and the people sat down to eat and drink, androse up to revel. YHWH said to Moses, “Godown at once! Your people, whom you broughtup out of the land of Egypt, have actedperversely; they have been quick to turn asidefrom the way that I commanded them; theyhave cast for themselves an image of a calf, andhave worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, who broughtyou up out of the land of Egypt!’” YHWH saidto Moses, “I have seen this people, howstiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so thatmy wrath may burn hot against them and I mayconsume them; and of you I will make a greatnation.” But Moses implored YHWH his God,and said, “O YHWH, why does your wrath

burn hot against your people, whom youbrought out of the land of Egypt with greatpower and with a mighty hand? Why should theEgyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that hebrought them out to kill them in the mountains,and to consume them from the face of theearth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; changeyour mind and do not bring disaster on yourpeople. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,your servants, how you swore to them by yourown self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply yourdescendants like the stars of heaven, and all thisland that I have promised I will give to yourdescendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”And YHWH changed YHWH’s mind about thedisaster that YHWH planned to bring onYHWH’s people.

Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s Creation.People: Thanks be to God.

Psalm 106 [1-6,19-23] The Psalm is read responsively by full verse.

1 Praise GOD!O give thanks to GOD, for God is good; *

for God’s steadfast love endures forever.

2 Who can utter the mighty doings of GOD, *or declare all God’s praise?

3 Blessed are those who observe justice, *who do righteousness at all times.

4 Remember me, O GOD, when you show favor to your people; *help me when you deliver them;

5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, *

that I may glory in your heritage.

6 Both we and our ancestors have sinned; *we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.

19 They made a calf at Horeb *and worshiped a cast image.

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20 They exchanged the glory of God *for the image of an ox that eats grass.

21 They forgot God, their Savior, *who had done great things in Egypt,

22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, *and awesome deeds by the Sea of Reeds.

23 Therefore God vowed to destroy them—had not Moses, God’s chosen one, stood in the breach before God, *

to turn away God’s wrath from destroying them.

A Reading from the Continuing Revelation of God[“A Spirituality of Ecology” by Joe Nangle

Taken from an article in Sojourners Magazine, September-October 1998]

Put aside the Holy Scriptures for a whileand read God’s first revelation—natureitself. Such was the advice offered some

years ago by a profound, Christian thinker. Westress “Christian” here because this person offaith intended no offense to God’s Word, norto us who hold that Word sacred. His pointwas that long before the writing of Genesis,humanity could already read God’sself-revelation in the natural world.

A reading of nature also strikes us as awonderful primer on the most elemental factabout our life in community: Humanity liveswithin a wondrously complex, interactiveecosystem. We humans receive from thissystem, impact on it, dwell inside of it, dependupon it; we are not in any sense of the wordapart from the natural order, but bound to itfor our very survival. This original community,Earth and the cosmos, brings us forth, embracesus, and surrounds us at every moment of ourexistence. It receives what remains when ourspirits go to God.

That greatest of Christian saints, Francis ofAssisi, recognized all of this nearly 800 years

ago. Without doubt it is Francis’ understandingof our community with nature that makes himsuch a universally beloved figure. He wrote withgreat intimacy and familiarity about our naturalworld: “Praised be You, my Lord, with all yourcreatures, especially Sir Brother Sun....Praisedbe you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and theStars....Praised be You, my Lord, throughBrother Wind, and through the Air, cloudy andserene, and every kind of weather....Praised beYou, My Lord, through Sister Water...throughBrother Fire...through our Sister MotherEarth....”

For that kind of intimacy and familiarity withcreation hyper-critics called the saint of Assisi apantheist—one who identifies God with createdthings. Far from being a pantheist, however,Francis was a contemplative, for he saw thehandprint of the Divine in all of nature. Onecannot miss Francis’ sense of community withthe entire natural order: “brother” sun, “sister”moon and stars, “brother” wind, “sister” water,“brother” fire, “sister, mother” earth. It’s anamazing vision for a person rooted in the 13thcentury.

Sequence Music The people may stand.

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A Reading from the Holy Gospel [Matthew 22:1-14]

Deacon: The Holy Gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ according to Matthew.People: Glory to you, O Christ.

Diácono: Santo Evangelio de nuestro Salvador Jesucristo, según Mateo.Pueblo: ¡Gloria a ti, Cristo!

Once more Jesus spoke to the people inparables, saying: “The kingdom ofheaven may be compared to a king

who gave a wedding banquet for his son. Hesent his slaves to call those who had beeninvited to the wedding banquet, but they wouldnot come. Again he sent other slaves, saying,‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I haveprepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calveshave been slaughtered, and everything is ready;come to the wedding banquet.’ But they madelight of it and went away, one to his farm,another to his business, while the rest seized hisslaves, mistreated them, and killed them. Theking was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyedthose murderers, and burned their city. Then

he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, butthose invited were not worthy. Go thereforeinto the main streets, and invite everyone youfind to the wedding banquet.’ Those slaves wentout into the streets and gathered all whom theyfound, both good and bad; so the wedding hallwas filled with guests. But when the king camein to see the guests, he noticed a man therewho was not wearing a wedding robe, and hesaid to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in herewithout a wedding robe?’ And he wasspeechless. Then the king said to the attendants,‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him intothe outer darkness, where there will beweeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many arecalled, but few are chosen.”

Deacon: The Gospel of Jesus Christ.People: Praise to you, O Christ.

Diácono: El Evangelio del Jesucristo.Pueblo: Te alabamos, Cristo.

The Sermon The people may be seated.

Preacher: The Rev. Linda Hutson

A period of silence follows the Sermon, marked with meditation bell.

The Nicene Creed The people may stand.

The Nicene Creed is a historical statement of faith used by the early Christian community to define orthodoxy.Please join us as you feel called.

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God,

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eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father [and the Son]. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

The Filioque (Latin for “and the son”), the dogmatic formula expressing the double procession of the HolySpirit, was added to the Nicene Creed by the Western church.

The Prayers of the People Parish intercessions are listed on page 37.

The Prayers of the People were adapted from those written by The Rev. Claudia Heath.

Each prayer is read by a different member of the congregation. Please feel free to participate by readinga prayer. It is perfectly acceptable for multiple readers to participate simultaneously in reading prayers.

Leader: Creator God, Architect of the Universe, we gather to praise your holy name and givethanks for all of your creation and our place in it.

Majestic mountains point our hearts and minds upward to your splendor. You bless us withpeace and grace that flow like your rivers. Like the flowers bursting with blooms, we toocan glorify your Name. Like your love and kindness, the twinkling stars and blazing sun giveus warmth and light for the journey.

*We pray for the people of South Sudan; Katherine Bernard; Toni Sue Brooks; Catherine Brown; Oma “Sam” Guard;Ann Grisel; Joyce Henderson; Jackson Loew; Christine Nelson; Suzanne Nystrom; Danielle Phillips; Dorée Ramey;Barbara & Sam Reynolds; Peggy Scott; Susan Southwick; Heather Williams; Ed; Lee; Alison Bower; William Brown;Francesca Jarvis; Tony Jones; Julie LaRue; Maribel Ortiz; Peggy Southwick; Cody & family; Jerry & Rondy; Joel; Karl; Leah;Monica, Roman & Danitza; Nichole; Nick & Emily; Vince & Amy.

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For these and all of the other blessings of creation, we thank you.People: Give us grace to learn lessons from nature.

Leader: In speaking your word and truth, help the Church be like the determined and single-mindedsalmon, struggling upstream against the current. We pray for our Diocese as we meet forConvention this Friday and Saturday.

(People add specific prayers for the church either silently or aloud.)

God, who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to swim upstream.

Leader: When we gather to form nations, cities, and governments, help those in high places and allof us learn from the small ants that teach us to replace greed and exploitation withcommunity, teamwork, responsibility, and diligence. This week we give thanks for NobelPrize winners Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for inventing blue lightdiodes that will save energy across the planet.

(People add their own prayers silently or aloud.)

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to live in harmony with each other.

Leader: We thank you for the creatures that are irritants to us, reminding us that challenges andconflicts are a part of life. We especially pray this week for containment of the Ebola virus.

(People add their own prayers silently or aloud.)

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to live life with passion and joy.

Leader: Give us the wisdom to see that our hearts can be like the fire, sending sparks out into theworld as light and warmth for others. This week we give thanks for the Sixth AnnualInterfaith Pride service on Tuesday and our opportunity to come together to pray andwork for dignity for all. We also pray for those in need on our prayer list* and for thosewe name now either silently or aloud.

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God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to kindle our hearts with your Love.

Leader: Comfort us with the lessons from seeds. We are born; we grow; we bloom; we die; andwe are born again. This week we especially pray for Thomas Eric Duncan.

(People add their own prayers silently or aloud.)

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to believe in our own resurrection.

Leader: The affection of our companion animals reminds us to cherish each other and loveunconditionally. This week we give thanks for the commissioning of eight new Communityof Hope pastoral caregivers to help care for this community and others in our region.

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to take time for fellowship and friendships.

The Collect after the Prayers for the People is composed and adapted by The Rev. Steve Keplinger.

Celebrant:

O God of earth and sky, assist us in being aware of your presence in the world around us. Teachus to treat all of creation as part of your glory and to realize that we are not masters of the earth,but a strand in its web. We ask that these things be revealed to us through the power of theincarnation. Amen.

Confession of Sin The Confession of Sin is from The Book of Common Prayer.

Deacon: Let us confess our sins against God, our neighbors, and God’s creation.

All: Most merciful God,we confess that we have sinned against youin thought, word, and deed,by what we have done,and by what we have left undone.We have not loved you with our whole heart;we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ,have mercy on us and forgive us;that we may delight in your will,and walk in your ways,to the glory of your Name. Amen.

Celebrant:

Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through Jesus Christ, strengthen youin all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen.

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The Peace

Celebrant: The Peace of God be with you and all of God’s creation.People: And also with you.

Meditation bell will bring us back to silence.

The Liturgy of the Table

Today’s loose offering is designated to support the Rector’s Discretionary Fund.

Offertory Sentence The people may be seated.

Celebrant:

O God, you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power; because you have created all things,and by your will they were created and have their being. [Revelation 4:11]

Offertory Music

On this Celebration Sunday, you are invited to come forward with your regular offering and yourAnnual Giving and Receiving pledge to Grace St. Paul’s. Those serving at the table will lead us. Thecongregation will follow, beginning with the front row, through to the back of the church. If you arenot able to come forward, raise your hand and an usher will come to you to receive your offeringand pledge. Thank you.

Table Chant The people may stand.

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The Great Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer C is adapted from The Book of Common Prayer.

Celebrant: God is with us.People: God is present here.Celebrant: Rejoice! Lift up your hearts.People: We lift our hearts to the Most High.Celebrant: Let us give thanks to the Holy One.People: It is right to offer thanks and praise.

Celebrant:

God of all power, Ruler of the Universe, you are worthy of glory and praise.

People:

Glory to you for ever and ever.

Celebrant:

At your command all things came to be: the vast expanse of interstellar space, galaxies, suns, theplanets in their courses, and this fragile earth, our island home.

People:

By your will they were created and have their being.

Celebrant:

From the primal elements you brought forth the human race, and blessed us with memory, reason,and skill. You made us the caretakers of creation. But we turned against you, and betrayed yourtrust; and we turned against one another.

People:

Have mercy, God, for we are sinners in your sight.

Celebrant:

Again and again, you called us to return. Through prophets and sages you revealed your righteousLaw. And in the fullness of time you sent your only Son, born of a woman, to fulfill your Law, toopen for us the way of freedom and peace.

People:

By his service, he reconciled us.By his love, we are healed.

Celebrant:

And therefore we praise you, joining with the heavenly chorus, with prophets, apostles, andmartyrs, and all those in every generation who have looked to you in hope, to proclaim with themyour glory, in their unending hymn:

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Celebrant and People:Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,heaven and earth are full of your glory.Hosanna in the highest.Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.Hosanna in the highest.

The people may stand or kneel.

Celebrant:

And so, Father, we who have been redeemed by him, and made a new people by water and theSpirit, now bring before you these gifts. Sanctify them by your Holy Spirit to be the Body and Bloodof Jesus Christ our Savior.

On the night he was betrayed he took bread, said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to hisfriends, and said, “Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for the remembranceof me.”

After supper, he took the cup of wine, gave thanks, and said, “Drink this, all of you: This is myBlood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of me.”

Remembering now his work of redemption, and offering to you this sacrifice of thanksgiving,

People and Celebrant:

We celebrate his death and resurrection,as we await the day of his coming.

Celebrant:

God of our Mothers and Fathers; God of Sarah, Leah, Rebecca and Chloe, Abraham, Isaac, andJacob; God and Father of Jesus Christ: Open our eyes to see your hand at work in the world aboutus. We give thanks for the opportunity to come to this Table for solace and for strength, forpardon and for renewal. Let the grace of this Holy Communion make us one body, one spirit inChrist, that we may worthily serve the world in his name.

People and Celebrant:

Risen Christ, be known to us in the breaking of the Bread.

Celebrant:

Accept these prayers and praises, Father, through Jesus Christ our great High Priest, to whom, withyou and the Holy Spirit, your Church gives honor, glory, and worship, from generation togeneration. AMEN.

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The Lord’s Prayer (traditional) The people may stand.

Deacon: As our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to pray,

Deacon and People:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

Diácono y Pueblo:

Padre nuestro que estás en el cielo, santificado sea tu Nombre, venga tu reino, hágase tu voluntad, en la tierra como en el cielo.Danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día.Perdona nuestras ofensas, como también nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden.No nos dejes caer en tentación y líbranos del mal.Porque tuyo es el reino, tuyo es el poder, y tuya es la gloria, ahora y por siempre. Amén.

The Breaking of the Bread

Fraction Anthem The Fraction Anthem is adapted from other texts by The Rev. Steve Keplinger.

Celebrant: Be known to us, risen Christ, in the breaking of the bread.People: Alleluia. The bread which we break makes all of us one with you. Alleluia.

The Invitation to Communion

Celebrant: The Gifts of God for the People of God.

The Communion The people may be seated.

No matter who you are, or where you are on your spiritual journey, you are invited to receive communion atGrace St. Paul’s. It is appropriate to stand or kneel.

Sacrament of Healing

Following reception of Communion, those desiring the sacrament of healing may proceed directly to one ofthe healing stations in the Julian Chapel or in the same back corner of the sanctuary. You are invited to offeryourself, whatever your need of spirit, mind, or body, and ask for healing and wholeness.

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Communion Music

Sending Eucharistic Visitors

After communion, the service resumes here. The Celebrant may name the Eucharistic Visitors and those whomay receive Holy Communion at home. All say together:

We send you forth bearing these Holy Gifts. May those to whom you go share with usin the Communion of Christ’s Body and Blood. We who are many are one body,because we all share one bread, one cup.

Postcommunion Prayer The people may stand.

The Postcommunion Prayer is adapted from The Book of Common Prayer, p. 365.

Celebrant and People:

Eternal God, divine Creator,you have graciously accepted us as living membersof your Son our Savior Jesus Christ,and you have fed us with spiritual foodin the Sacrament of his Body and Blood.Send us now into the world in peace,and grant us strength and courageto love and serve youwith gladness and singleness of heart;through Christ our Savior. Amen.

Blessing

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Recessional Hymn Rejoice, ye pure in heart (Blue) No. 556 (stanzas 1 & 2)

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Dismissal

Deacon: Let us go forth into the world, rejoicing in the power of God in Creation! Alleluia! Alleluia!People: Thanks be to God! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Postlude Toccata in F Major Dieterich Buxtehude

Please join us following this service for Celebration Sunday breakfast inMcBride Hall (across the labyrinth).

This week’s saints include Henry Muhlenberg, R.T. Ely, William Bliss, WilfredThomason Grenfell, Vida Dutton Scudder, Philip, and Samuel Isaac JosephSchereschewsky.

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg was an 18th-century pastor in coastal Carolina, Georgia, andPhiladelphia who called together Lutherans and is regarded as the patriarch ofLutheranism in North America. R. T. Ely was an Episcopal economist in turn-of-the-20th-century America who claimed that the Gospel was social rather than individualistic. Heconsistently called the church to work toward the reform of capitalism for the sake of therights and dignity of the American worker. William Dwight Porter Bliss was an Episcopalpriest at the turn of the 20th century who also believed that the church was called towork for economic justice. He organized the first Christian Socialist Society in the U.S. in1899. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell was a turn-of-the-20th-century medical missionary,serving in Iceland and the Bay of Biscay, building the first hospital in Labrador, as well asboarding schools and hospital ships. Vida Dutton Scudder was an educator at WellesleyCollege with a deep spirituality and social conscience. She was involved in foundingDenison House in Boston, the Women’s Trade Union League, and the Episcopal ChurchSocialist League. Philip was one of seven men appointed by the apostles to distributebread and alms to widows and to the poor in Jerusalem. Samuel Isaac JosephSchereschewsky was a 19th-century son of Jewish parents in Lithuania. He was ordainedin America and became Bishop of Shanghai in 1877. He spent over 20 years translatingthe Bible into Wenli.

Service Participants, 8 a.m.

Deacon: The Rev. Chris LedyardLectors: Lois Mervyn, Marilyn ThompsonGospel in Spanish: Heather Williams

Chalice: Kay Bigglestone, Sara HeitshuAcolyte: Terry ShreveAltar Guild: Ann SchlumbergerUshers: Robert Rosenberg, Peggy Scott

Listings of lay ministers are subject to last-minute changes after the bulletin is printed.

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10 a.m. Communion ServiceThe Rev. Steve Keplinger, Celebrant

SACRED SPACEPlease respect those who seek time for quiet reflection before worship begins andwhile listening to the prelude. Your sanctuary is a sacred place for all to prepare forworship in meditation and prayer. We encourage you to socialize and greet others inthe foyer in the back of the church (the narthex) and in McBride Hall.

Hymn numbers refer to The Hymnal 1982 (blue) or Wonder, Love, and Praise (green) in your pew racks.

The Liturgy of the Word

Please remember to silence your electronic devices.

Greeting and Announcements

As the Greeting and Announcements end, the church will be darkened and the candles will be lit by theacolytes, signaling the silence we enter into before worship.

Celebration Sunday Video

Processional Hymn Creator God, you made the earth

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Opening Acclamation

The Opening Acclamation is from The Iona Community Worship Book,(Glasgow: Wild Goose Publications, rev. ed. 1991), 48. Copyright 1991 The Iona Community.

“Although the principal purpose of this book is for use in the Abbey Church,it is hoped that the services and resources will be well used and adapted for use elsewhere.”

From the preface, page 4.

Celebrant: In the beginning, God made the world:Women: Made it and mothered it,Men: Shaped it and fathered it;Women: Filled it with seed and signs of fertility.Men: Filled it with life and song and variety.

Celebrant: All that is green, blue, deep, and growing,All: God’s is the hand that created you.

Celebrant: All that is tender, firm, fragrant, and curious,All: God’s is the hand that created you.

Celebrant: All that crawls, flies, swims, walks, or is motionless,All: God’s is the hand that created you.

Celebrant: All that speaks, sings, cries, laughs, or keeps silence,All: God’s is the hand that created you.

Celebrant: All that suffers, lacks, limps, or longs for an end,All: God’s is the hand that created you.

Celebrant: The world belongs to God,All: The earth and all its people.

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Prayer of Invocation The Prayer of Invocation is from the United Methodist Book of Worship

(Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1992), 472.Copyright 1992, the United Methodist Publishing House.

Celebrant: Like the sun that is far away and yet close at hand to warm us, so God’s Spirit is everpresent and around us.

People: Come, Creator, into our lives. We live and move and have our very beingin you. Open now the windows of our souls. Amen.

Chant of Praise

The Collect of the DayThe Collect of the Day is by The Episcopal Church’s Season of Creation Liturgical Committee.

Celebrant: May God be with you.People: And also with you.Celebrant: Let us pray.

Silence

Celebrant:

God, maker of marvels, you weave the planet and all its creatures together in kinship: Your unifyinglove is revealed in the interdependence of relationships in the complex world that you have made.Save us from the illusion that humankind is separate and alone, and join us in communion with allinhabitants of the universe, through Jesus Christ, our Liberator, who topples the dividing walls, andby the power of your Holy Spirit; who live and reign with you for ever and ever. Amen.

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We Proclaim and Respond to the Word of God

A Reading from Exodus [32:1-14] The people may be seated.

When the people saw that Mosesdelayed to come down from themountain, the people gathered

around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, makegods for us, who shall go before us; as for thisMoses, the man who brought us up out of theland of Egypt, we do not know what hasbecome of him.” Aaron said to them, “Take offthe gold rings that are on the ears of yourwives, your sons, and your daughters, and bringthem to me.” So all the people took off the goldrings from their ears, and brought them toAaron. He took the gold from them, formed itin a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and theysaid, “These are your gods, O Israel, whobrought you up out of the land of Egypt!” WhenAaron saw this, he built an altar before it; andAaron made proclamation and said, “Tomorrowshall be a festival to YHWH.” They rose earlythe next day, and offered burnt offerings andbrought sacrifices of well-being; and the peoplesat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.YHWH said to Moses, “Go down at once! Yourpeople, whom you brought up out of the landof Egypt, have acted perversely; they have beenquick to turn aside from the way that Icommanded them; they have cast for

themselves an image of a calf, and haveworshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, who broughtyou up out of the land of Egypt!’” YHWH saidto Moses, “I have seen this people, howstiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so thatmy wrath may burn hot against them and I mayconsume them; and of you I will make a greatnation.” But Moses implored YHWH his God,and said, “O YHWH, why does your wrathburn hot against your people, whom youbrought out of the land of Egypt with greatpower and with a mighty hand? Why should theEgyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that hebrought them out to kill them in the mountains,and to consume them from the face of theearth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; changeyour mind and do not bring disaster on yourpeople. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,your servants, how you swore to them by yourown self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply yourdescendants like the stars of heaven, and all thisland that I have promised I will give to yourdescendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”And YHWH changed YHWH’s mind about thedisaster that YHWH planned to bring onYHWH’s people.

Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s Creation.People: Thanks be to God.

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Psalm 106 [1-6,19-23] At the beginning, the Choir sings the Antiphon, then all repeat the Antiphon.

1 Praise GOD!O give thanks to GOD, for God is good; *

for God’s steadfast love endures forever.

2 Who can utter the mighty doings of GOD, *or declare all God’s praise?

3 Blessed are those who observe justice, *who do righteousness at all times.

ALL REPEAT THE ANTIPHON

4 Remember me, O GOD, when you show favor to your people; *help me when you deliver them;

5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, *

that I may glory in your heritage.

6 Both we and our ancestors have sinned; *we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.

19 They made a calf at Horeb *and worshiped a cast image.

ALL REPEAT THE ANTIPHON

20 They exchanged the glory of God *for the image of an ox that eats grass.

21 They forgot God, their Savior, *who had done great things in Egypt,

22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, *and awesome deeds by the Sea of Reeds.

23 Therefore God vowed to destroy them—had not Moses, God’s chosen one, stood in the breach before God, *

to turn away God’s wrath from destroying them.ALL REPEAT THE ANTIPHON

Antiphon

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A Reading from the Continuing Revelation of God[“A Spirituality of Ecology” by Joe Nangle

Taken from an article in Sojourners Magazine, September-October 1998]

Put aside the Holy Scriptures for a whileand read God’s first revelation—natureitself. Such was the advice offered some

years ago by a profound, Christian thinker. Westress “Christian” here because this person offaith intended no offense to God’s Word, norto us who hold that Word sacred. His pointwas that long before the writing of Genesis,humanity could already read God’sself-revelation in the natural world.

A reading of nature also strikes us as awonderful primer on the most elemental factabout our life in community: Humanity liveswithin a wondrously complex, interactiveecosystem. We humans receive from thissystem, impact on it, dwell inside of it, dependupon it; we are not in any sense of the wordapart from the natural order, but bound to itfor our very survival. This original community,Earth and the cosmos, brings us forth, embracesus, and surrounds us at every moment of ourexistence. It receives what remains when ourspirits go to God.

That greatest of Christian saints, Francis ofAssisi, recognized all of this nearly 800 years

ago. Without doubt it is Francis’ understandingof our community with nature that makes himsuch a universally beloved figure. He wrote withgreat intimacy and familiarity about our naturalworld: “Praised be You, my Lord, with all yourcreatures, especially Sir Brother Sun....Praisedbe you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and theStars....Praised be You, my Lord, throughBrother Wind, and through the Air, cloudy andserene, and every kind of weather....Praised beYou, My Lord, through Sister Water...throughBrother Fire...through our Sister MotherEarth....”

For that kind of intimacy and familiarity withcreation hyper-critics called the saint of Assisi apantheist—one who identifies God with createdthings. Far from being a pantheist, however,Francis was a contemplative, for he saw thehandprint of the Divine in all of nature. Onecannot miss Francis’ sense of community withthe entire natural order: “brother” sun, “sister”moon and stars, “brother” wind, “sister” water,“brother” fire, “sister, mother” earth. It’s anamazing vision for a person rooted in the 13thcentury.

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Sequence Hymn Sing praise to God who reigns above The people may stand.

(Blue) No. 408

A Reading from the Holy Gospel [Matthew 22:1-14]

Deacon: The Holy Gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ according to Matthew.People: Glory to you, O Christ.

Diácono: Santo Evangelio de nuestro Salvador Jesucristo, según Mateo.Pueblo: ¡Gloria a ti, Cristo!

Once more Jesus spoke to the people inparables, saying: “The kingdom ofheaven may be compared to a king

who gave a wedding banquet for his son. Hesent his slaves to call those who had been

invited to the wedding banquet, but they wouldnot come. Again he sent other slaves, saying,‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I haveprepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calveshave been slaughtered, and everything is ready;

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come to the wedding banquet.’ But they madelight of it and went away, one to his farm,another to his business, while the rest seized hisslaves, mistreated them, and killed them. Theking was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyedthose murderers, and burned their city. Thenhe said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, butthose invited were not worthy. Go thereforeinto the main streets, and invite everyone youfind to the wedding banquet.’ Those slaves wentout into the streets and gathered all whom they

found, both good and bad; so the wedding hallwas filled with guests. But when the king camein to see the guests, he noticed a man therewho was not wearing a wedding robe, and hesaid to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in herewithout a wedding robe?’ And he wasspeechless. Then the king said to the attendants,‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him intothe outer darkness, where there will beweeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many arecalled, but few are chosen.”

Deacon: The Gospel of Jesus Christ.People: Praise to you, O Christ.

Diácono: El Evangelio del Jesucristo.Pueblo: Te alabamos, Cristo.

The Sermon The people may be seated.

Preacher: The Rev. Linda Hutson

A period of silence follows the Sermon, marked with meditation bell.

The Prayers of the People Parish intercessions are listed on page 37.

The Prayers of the People were adapted from those written by The Rev. Claudia Heath.

Each prayer is read by a different member of the congregation. Please feel free to participate by readinga prayer. It is perfectly acceptable for multiple readers to participate simultaneously in reading prayers.

Leader: Creator God, Architect of the Universe, we gather to praise your holy name and givethanks for all of your creation and our place in it.

Majestic mountains point our hearts and minds upward to your splendor. You bless us withpeace and grace that flow like your rivers. Like the flowers bursting with blooms, we toocan glorify your Name. Like your love and kindness, the twinkling stars and blazing sun giveus warmth and light for the journey.

For these and all of the other blessings of creation, we thank you.People: Give us grace to learn lessons from nature.

Leader: In speaking your word and truth, help the Church be like the determined and single-mindedsalmon, struggling upstream against the current. We pray for our Diocese as we meet forConvention this Friday and Saturday.

**We pray for the people of South Sudan; Katherine Bernard; Toni Sue Brooks; Catherine Brown; Oma “Sam” Guard;Ann Grisel; Joyce Henderson; Jackson Loew; Christine Nelson; Suzanne Nystrom; Danielle Phillips; Dorée Ramey;Barbara & Sam Reynolds; Peggy Scott; Susan Southwick; Heather Williams; Ed; Lee; Alison Bower; William Brown;Francesca Jarvis; Tony Jones; Julie LaRue; Maribel Ortiz; Peggy Southwick; Cody & family; Jerry & Rondy; Joel; Karl; Leah;Monica, Roman & Danitza; Nichole; Nick & Emily; Vince & Amy.

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(People add specific prayers for the church either silently or aloud.)

God, who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to swim upstream.

Leader: When we gather to form nations, cities, and governments, help those in high places and allof us learn from the small ants that teach us to replace greed and exploitation withcommunity, teamwork, responsibility, and diligence. This week we give thanks for NobelPrize winners Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for inventing blue lightdiodes that will save energy across the planet.

(People add their own prayers silently or aloud.)

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to live in harmony with each other.

Leader: We thank you for the creatures that are irritants to us, reminding us that challenges andconflicts are a part of life. We especially pray this week for containment of the Ebola virus.

(People add their own prayers silently or aloud.)

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to live life with passion and joy.

Leader: Give us the wisdom to see that our hearts can be like the fire, sending sparks out into theworld as light and warmth for others. This week we give thanks for the Sixth AnnualInterfaith Pride service on Tuesday and our opportunity to come together to pray andwork for dignity for all. We also pray for those in need on our prayer list** and for thosewe name now either silently or aloud.

(People add their own prayers silently or aloud.)

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to kindle our hearts with your Love.

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Leader: Comfort us with the lessons from seeds. We are born; we grow; we bloom; we die; andwe are born again. This week we especially pray for Thomas Eric Duncan.

(People add their own prayers silently or aloud.)

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to believe in our own resurrection.

Leader: The affection of our companion animals reminds us to cherish each other and loveunconditionally. This week we give thanks for the commissioning of eight new Communityof Hope pastoral caregivers to help care for this community and others in our region.

God who is with us in all Creation,People: Give us grace to take time for fellowship and friendships.

The Collect after the Prayers for the People is composed and adapted by The Rev. Steve Keplinger.

Celebrant:

O God of earth and sky, assist us in being aware of your presence in the world around us. Teachus to treat all of creation as part of your glory and to realize that we are not masters of the earth,but a strand in its web. We ask that these things be revealed to us through the power of theincarnation. Amen.

Confession of Sin The Confession of Sin is by The Episcopal Church’s

Season of Creation Liturgical Committee.

Deacon:

Let us confess our sins against God, our neighbors, and God’s creation.

People:

Merciful and sustaining God:we confess that we have sinned against you,lacking humility and gratitude for the beauty and bountyof your creation as it sustains us and all that lives.We confess that we have misused your earth;grant us amendment of life, we pray.We confess that we have been intemperate in our appetites;strengthen us in self-control.

We confess that we have taken the abundance of your world for granted;make us urgent now for its protection,and, through our Savior Jesus Christ, forgive and renew usby the power of the Holy Spirit,with whom you live and reign one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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The Absolution was composed and/or adapted by The Rev. Steve Keplinger.

Celebrant:

May the God of Creation pardon us for the sins that we heap upon God’s earth, our island home.May the Creator refresh us and renew us with love, and guide us again to see all of the cosmos asour kin. Give us the strength to protect all of God’s world as a Mother protects her children. Andmay the blessing of God, Creator, Liberator, and Sustainer be upon us and all of the cosmos.Amen.

The Peace

Celebrant: The Peace of God be always with you and all of God’s Creation.People: And also with you.

Meditation bell will bring us back to silence.

Farewell Prayer

The Liturgy of the Table

Today’s loose offering is designated to support the Rector’s Discretionary Fund.

Offertory Sentence The people may be seated.

Celebrant:

O God, you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power; because you have created all things,and by your will they were created and have their being. [Revelation 4:11]

Offertory Anthem Heyr himna smiður Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson

Brianna Devereaux, soloistTranslation: Listen, smith of the heavens, to what the poet asks. May your mercy softlycome unto me.So I call on you, for you have created me. I am your servant, you are my God.God, I call on you to heal me. Remember me, mild one, we need you most of all.Drive out, O king of suns, generous and great, every human sorrow from the city of theheart.Watch over me, mild one, we need you most of all, truly every moment in the world ofmen.Send us, son of the Virgin, good causes, all help comes from you in my heart.

On this Celebration Sunday, you are invited to come forward with your regular offering and yourAnnual Giving and Receiving pledge to Grace St. Paul’s. Those serving at the table will lead us. Thecongregation will follow, beginning with the front row, through to the back of the church. If you arenot able to come forward, raise your hand and an usher will come to you to receive your offeringand pledge. Thank you.

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Chant

Pause

Prayer over the Gifts The Prayer over the Gifts is from A New Zealand Prayer Book.

Celebrant: Giver of life, receive all we offer you this day.People: Let the Spirit you bestow on your Church continue to work in the world

through the hearts of all who believe. Amen.

Table Chant The people may stand.

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The Great Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer C is adapted from The Book of Common Prayer.

Celebrant: God is with us.People: God is present here.Celebrant: Rejoice! Lift up your hearts.People: We lift our hearts to the Most High.Celebrant: Let us give thanks to the Holy One.People: It is right to offer thanks and praise.

Celebrant:

God of all power, Ruler of the Universe, you are worthy of glory and praise.

People:

Glory to you for ever and ever.

Celebrant:

At your command all things came to be: the vast expanse of interstellar space, galaxies, suns, theplanets in their courses, and this fragile earth, our island home.

People:

By your will they were created and have their being.

Celebrant:

From the primal elements you brought forth the human race, and blessed us with memory, reason,and skill. You made us the caretakers of creation. But we turned against you, and betrayed yourtrust; and we turned against one another.

People:

Have mercy, God, for we are sinners in your sight.

Celebrant:

Again and again, you called us to return. Through prophets and sages you revealed your righteousLaw. And in the fullness of time you sent your only Son, born of a woman, to fulfill your Law, toopen for us the way of freedom and peace.

People:

By his service, he reconciled us.By his love, we are healed.

Celebrant:

And therefore we praise you, joining with the heavenly chorus, with prophets, apostles, andmartyrs, and all those in every generation who have looked to you in hope, to proclaim with themyour glory, in their unending hymn:

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Sanctus (Holy)

The people may stand or kneel.

Celebrant:

And so, Father, we who have been redeemed by him, and made a new people by water and theSpirit, now bring before you these gifts. Sanctify them by your Holy Spirit to be the Body and Bloodof Jesus Christ our Savior.

On the night he was betrayed he took bread, said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to hisfriends, and said, “Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for the remembranceof me.”

After supper, he took the cup of wine, gave thanks, and said, “Drink this, all of you: This is myBlood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of me.”

Remembering now his work of redemption, and offering to you this sacrifice of thanksgiving,

People and Celebrant:

We celebrate his death and resurrection,as we await the day of his coming.

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Celebrant:

God of our Mothers and Fathers; God of Sarah, Leah, Rebecca and Chloe, Abraham, Isaac, andJacob; God and Father of Jesus Christ: Open our eyes to see your hand at work in the world aboutus. We give thanks for the opportunity to come to this Table for solace and for strength, forpardon and for renewal. Let the grace of this Holy Communion make us one body, one spirit inChrist, that we may worthily serve the world in his name.

People and Celebrant:

Risen Christ, be known to us in the breaking of the Bread.

Celebrant:

Accept these prayers and praises, Father, through Jesus Christ our great High Priest, to whom, withyou and the Holy Spirit, your Church gives honor, glory, and worship, from generation togeneration. AMEN.

The Lord’s Prayer (Contemporary) The people may stand.

Each Sunday at Grace St. Paul’s, the Lord’s Prayer alternates between English and Spanish.

Deacon: As our Savior Christ has taught us, we now pray,

Deacon and People:

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.Give us today our daily bread.Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.Save us from the time of trial, and deliver us from evil.For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever. Amen.

Diácono y Pueblo:

Padre nuestro que estás en el cielo, santificado sea tu Nombre, venga tu reino, hágase tu voluntad, en la tierra como en el cielo.Danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día.Perdona nuestras ofensas, como también nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden.No nos dejes caer en tentación y líbranos del mal.Porque tuyo es el reino, tuyo es el poder, y tuya es la gloria, ahora y por siempre. Amén.

The Breaking of the Bread

Fraction Anthem The Fraction Anthem is adapted from other texts by The Rev. Steve Keplinger.

Celebrant: Be known to us, risen Christ, in the breaking of the bread.People: Alleluia. The bread which we break makes all of us one with you. Alleluia.

The Invitation to Communion

Celebrant: The gifts of God for the people of God.

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The Communion The people may be seated.

No matter who you are, or where you are on your spiritual journey, you are invited to receive communion atGrace St. Paul’s. It is appropriate to stand or kneel.

Everyone is invited to receive Holy Communion. Please approach the altar rail from the center aisleand take the first available space at either side. You may choose to stand or kneel for communion.You may come forward to receive a blessing if you prefer not to receive communion. Place crossedarms on chest to signal your desire for a blessing. You may also do this if you prefer not to receivethe wine. You may touch the chalice and the chalice bearer will say the words of administration.

Sacrament of Healing

Following reception of Communion, those desiring the sacrament of healing may proceed directly to one ofthe healing stations in the Julian Chapel or in the same back corner of the sanctuary. You are invited to offeryourself, whatever your need of spirit, mind, or body, and ask for healing and wholeness.

Communion Anthem Seed of God Kristopher Lindquist

Communion Hymn We gather at your table, Lord No. 89, Voices Found

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Sending Eucharistic Visitors

After communion, the service resumes here. The Celebrant may name the Eucharistic Visitors and those whomay receive Holy Communion at home. All say together:

We send you forth bearing these Holy Gifts. May those to whom you go share with usin the Communion of Christ’s Body and Blood. We who are many are one body,because we all share one bread, one cup.

Postcommunion Prayer The people may stand.

The Postcommunion Prayer is adapted from the www.webofcreation.org website.

Celebrant: Let us give thanks for this meal.

People: We thank you Christ, for the meal we have celebrated with you, and wepray that through your body and blood we may be healed and becomeagents of healing for our kin on Earth. Amen.

Celebrant: Christ calls you to be his disciples, to serve him with love and compassion, to serveEarth by caring for creation, and all creatures in danger or need.

Will you care for creation?

People: We will care for all creatures.We will sustain our endangered kin.We will nurture our planet.

Blessing

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Recessional Hymn Rejoice, ye pure in heart! (Blue) No. 556 (stanzas 1-5)

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Dismissal The Dismissal was adapted from a prayer by The Rev. Debbie Royals.

Deacon: Go now into the four Sacred Directions, the east, south, west, and north.Go into your communities, into unknown lands and places.Go where God’s name is well known and where it has yet to be known.Go to those who welcome you and those who reject you.Go and share the Gospel of God in Creation with all who will hear, Alleluia, Alleluia!

People: Thanks be to God! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Postlude Toccata in F Major Dieterich Buxtehude

Please join us following this service for Celebration Sunday brunch inMcBride Hall (across the labyrinth).

Service Participants, 10 a.m.

Deacon: The Rev. Chris LedyardAssisting: The Rev. Steve KelseyLectors: Chuck Dickson, Jean Marie SmartGospel in Spanish: Juan LooSubdeacon: Kyle Devereux

Chalice: Richard & Mary Ann Miya,David & George Ruder

Ushers: Anagrace & Dan Misenhimer,Janet Roths, Judith Turner

Altar Guild: Aimee Graves, Gwen McCaffrey,Karen McVean, Nancy Smith

Greeters: Nancy Barton, Eric Carr

We thank Brianna Devereux, soloist, for her musical offering at the 10 a.m. service.Listings of lay ministers are subject to last-minute changes after the bulletin is printed.

This week’s saints include Henry Muhlenberg, R.T. Ely, William Bliss, Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Vida DuttonScudder, Philip, and Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky.

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg was an 18th-century pastor in coastal Carolina, Georgia, and Philadelphia who calledtogether Lutherans and is regarded as the patriarch of Lutheranism in North America. R. T. Ely was an Episcopaleconomist in turn-of-the-20th-century America who claimed that the Gospel was social rather than individualistic. Heconsistently called the church to work toward the reform of capitalism for the sake of the rights and dignity of theAmerican worker. William Dwight Porter Bliss was an Episcopal priest at the turn of the 20th century who also believedthat the church was called to work for economic justice. He organized the first Christian Socialist Society in the U.S.in 1899. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell was a turn-of-the-20th-century medical missionary, serving in Iceland and the Bayof Biscay, building the first hospital in Labrador, as well as boarding schools and hospital ships. Vida Dutton Scudderwas an educator at Wellesley College with a deep spirituality and social conscience. She was involved in foundingDenison House in Boston, the Women’s Trade Union League, and the Episcopal Church Socialist League. Philip wasone of seven men appointed by the apostles to distribute bread and alms to widows and to the poor in Jerusalem.Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky was a 19th-century son of Jewish parents in Lithuania. He was ordained in Americaand became Bishop of Shanghai in 1877. He spent over 20 years translating the Bible into Wenli.

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We hold the following in our prayers today:

We pray for Katharine our Presiding Bishop; Kirk our Bishop; Steve, our Rector; and theclergy and staff who serve Grace St. Paul’s; The Church of the Province of West Africa,The Most Rev. Dr. Solomon Tilewa Johnson, Primate & Metropolitan, CPWA,Archbishop of Internal Province of West Africa, and Bishop of Gambia; St. Paul’sSudanese Mission in Phoenix; Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Tucson.

We pray for peace in Zimbabwe, Syria, Congo, Sudan, Gaza, and in all places. We pray forthose in the military, especially those serving in combat zones, including RonaldBerryhill; Christopher Gallo; Michael Hannan; Andrew Harris; Donna Heath; FrederickJenning; Jordan S. Marks; Eric Osche; Mark Pundt; Terrence Robinson; Laramie Struble;Brian.

We pray for the people of South Sudan; Katherine Bernard; Toni Sue Brooks; CatherineBrown; Oma “Sam” Guard; Ann Grisel; Joyce Henderson; Jackson Loew; ChristineNelson; Suzanne Nystrom; Danielle Phillips; Dorée Ramey; Barbara & Sam Reynolds;Peggy Scott; Susan Southwick; Heather Williams; Ed; Lee; Alison Bower; WilliamBrown; Francesca Jarvis; Tony Jones; Julie LaRue; Maribel Ortiz; Peggy Southwick; Cody& family; Jerry & Rondy; Joel; Karl; Leah; Monica, Roman & Danitza; Nichole; Nick &Emily; Vince & Amy.

We hold in prayer animal companions who are in need.

We hold in prayer our animal companions who have died, especially Coco.

We pray for those who have died.

We pray also for those who have died in the desert on our border and all those who havedied in Afghanistan.

PRAYER LIST GUIDELINES

Names of parishioners submitted this week will remain on the list during the currentmonth. Please contact David Wachter by 4 p.m. on Wednesday (327-6857 or e-mailgsp1@dakotacom.net) to add a name to the list printed in the bulletin. Names of non-parishioners, including relatives of parishioners, will remain on the prayers for one weekonly—if the crisis continues, please call the church office each week by 4 p.m. onWednesday to renew, or send an email to gsp1@dakotacom.net. Full names will be listedunless “first name only” is requested. The Intercessory Prayer Team will receive all namessubmitted; this large team maintains daily intercessions. There are no time limitations onthis ministry.

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GSP Parish Life – October 12, 2014The Sunday bulletin is filled with information about events at Grace St. Paul’s or of interest to the GraceSt. Paul’s community. Please take it home and read it at your leisure. There’s something for everyone!

Check out GSP’s website: www.gsptucson.org.Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church • 2331 E. Adams St., Tucson, AZ • www.facebook.com/gracestpauls

Celebration Sunday Today

Our Giving and Receiving Campaign for 2015 will be celebrated this morning aspledges are received during both worship services. Please prayerfully considerwhat your regular giving will be next year to support Grace St. Paul’s and our manyministries and bring your pledge forward during the service to be dedicated.

If you have already submitted your pledge but would like to participate in thein-gathering today or if you don’t have a pledge form, there are extra formsavailable at the usher’s tables.

Everyone is invited to continue the celebration after each service inMcBride Hall. There will be a Mexican breakfast for the 8:00 worshipersand a Mexican buffet after the 10:00 service.

The Giving and Receiving Team, Co-chairs Chris Eastoe and Peggy Scott, Virginia Zuelow, DaveCoatsworth, Kitt Leonard, Roger Pierce & Sue Pierce, express their gratitude for your supportduring this six-week campaign of Living Generosity.

Thank you especially to the following who demonstrated Living Generosity by donating beautifulpieces of their art as door prizes: Pat Dickson, Rosie and Henry Dirtadian, Sara Heitshu,Annie Holbrook and Katherine Thompson.

To everyone who contributed a devotional reading for the Living Generosity Devotion booklet,thank you for sharing your own stories of generosity.

And special thanks to Kitt Leonard and her daughters, Kayla and Kelsea, for creating our video,“Do Something.”

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SpiritSong: Worship in the Style of TaizéTonight at 6 p.m. in the chancel area of the church

SpiritSong is GSP’s monthly contemplative worship experience in the style of thevery popular Taizé movement in France. Using candlelight, times for silentreflection, lovely repetitive chants from Taizé, and opportunities for personalreflection, SpiritSong is designed for anyone who seeks to go deeper in the Spirit.SpiritSong, led by Roger Pierce and Jane Click, occurs on the second Sunday ofeach month at 6 p.m. Join us in the chancel area for the beautiful experience ofSpiritSong.

6th Annual Multifaith Pride Service“Weaving A Common Sacredness”

Tuesday, October 14, 7-9 p.m.Temple Emanu-El, 225 N. Country Club Rd.https://www.facebook.com/events/306110846234964/

Please join us for Tucson’s annual multifaith service in support of Southern Arizona’s LGBTQcommunity. Supportive faith traditions from across the metro area will join together in song,prayer, and words of praise to honor the love, diversity, and blessings of the LGBTQ community.Reverend Debra Peevey, Faith Outreach Director from Why Marriage Matters Arizona will be oneof our key speakers. Grace St. Paul’s is one of the sponsors of this service.

Following the service will be a light reception and an opportunity for interested service goers(limited availability) to record a 3-5 minute marriage equality story for Why Marriage MattersArizona.

Advertisements in the GSP Directory

Do you have a business, product, or service you would like to let the GSPcommunity know about? We will be offering full-color advertising space in thechurch directory. Four different sizes are available: 1/8 of a page, 1/4 of a page, 1/2of a page, and full pages. Please contact Holly at hollyshinn74@gmail.com for pricesand other details.

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GSP Is Making a Photo Directory!

Photography sessions have started! Many of you have already had your picturetaken, and many more of you are scheduled for the remaining dates: October 28,29, and 30.

Buy a Wreath and Help Save National Forests!*Sunday, October 5 – Sunday, November 9

Prices range from $19-$35; all sales benefit GSP youth programs.

The youth are once again selling beautiful wreaths** and other Christmas greenery. Lookfor our table outside McBride Hall or contact Rosalind Garcia at 327-6857 orRosalind.Garcia@grace-stpauls.org.

These wreaths make beautiful gifts and they can be mailed directly to recipients.

*Gift recipients have a seedling planted in their name in a national forest. Over 400,000 havealready been planted!

**Greenery is harvested in a manner that does not damage the trees.

We’re Going to the Pumpkin Patch!When: On Sunday. October 19

Where: we will be heading to Buckelew farms in Marana for the annual pumpkin festival.

Who: Everybody is invited to join, but kids under 5th grade MUST have their parents oranother trusted adult with them and must have transport arranged. The youth leaderswill be responsible for kids and teens 5th grade and older.

Here’s the pertinent info:

! We will be leaving after the 10 a.m. service from the GSP north parking lot.

! Cost is $4 entry fee and pumpkins are 50 cents a pound. If cost is a problem, please speak withRosalind by Oct. 12.

! Please RSVP to Rosalind at Rosalind.Garcia@grace-stpauls.org by Thursday, Oct 16. We musthave final numbers to arrange transport of 5th graders and youth.

! We will be back by 5:30 p.m., but will call as we leave Buckelew farms.

! The website is http://www.buckelewfarm.com/pumpkin/pumpkin_festival_information.html.

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Scary Halloween Week Fun for the Youth!When: Saturday evening, October 25

Who: GSP’s youth groups (Rite 13 and older only, please)

What: “Terror in the Corn” at Buckelew farms in Marana.

Here is other pertinent info:

! Cost is $25, which gives us access to everything.

! We will leave GSP from the north parking lot at 5 p.m.

! Let Rosalind know by Oct. 19 if cost is a difficulty.

! We will return around 9:30 p.m., calling parents before we leave Marana.

! Please RSVP no later than Oct. 19—we must arrange transportation! RSVP toRosalind.Garcia@grace-stpauls.org.

We should have a frightfully good time!

WANTED: COOL STUFFfor our Saturday, November 22

GRACE ST. PAUL’SJ2A RUMMAGE SALE

To support GSP Youth Programs

Please consider donating items you no longer need, but that still have lots of life left. We areespecially in need of:

! Housewares (china, silver, glassware, small appliances)

! Sporting Goods (including bikes)

! Working electronics (TVs, radios, CD players, PDAs, cameras, laptops)

! Furniture

! Children’s toys (no stuffed animals)

! Holiday Items (especially Christmas)

! Entertainment (DVDS, Videos, CDs, board games, electronic games)

! Tools

! Clothing (especially jewelry and children’s clothes, nothing torn or stained)

Goods in all sizes and price ranges are gratefully accepted.Please bring your items in the Mary of Bethany room (room 11 in the undercroft).

IF YOU CAN’T DELIVER IT, WE WILL COME PICK IT UP!

TO VOLUNTEER OR GET MORE INFO, CONTACT:Rosalind Garcia at Rosalind.Garcia@grace-stpauls.org or at (520)-603-1140

Rummage sale from 7:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. on the labyrinth, in the breezeways, and in McBride Hall

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Please Help Us Keep Our Children Safe at GSP By:! signing your child into Sunday School or Nursery care every Sunday

! remembering that no one under 18 may sign a child into or out of Sunday School

! signing your child out of Sunday School immediately after the 10 a.m. service

! remembering to pick up your St. Cecilia’s Choir member immediately after choirpractice

! knowing your child’s whereabouts at all times after you have checked her or him outof Sunday School

! not allowing your child to wander our open campus and parking lot alone

! escorting your child to the restroom yourself if he or she is not checked into SundaySchool or Nursery care

Thank you all for your help in keeping our children safe. If you have any questions, pleasecall or email Rosalind Garcia at 327-6857 or Rosalind.Garcia@grace-stpauls.org.

Coffee Hour HospitalityWe’d like to make coffee hour self-supporting. Your donations of food and any monetarycontributions you make can help offset the costs of condiments and paper products.

Coffee and light refreshments are offered on Sundays at 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in McBrideHall. We have wonderfully generous members and talented bakers and we want to takeadvantage of both. So, in an effort to have the wealth spread evenly across the variousSundays each month, we’ll ask folks to provide goodies based on the first letter in their lastnames:

! The first Sunday of each month: last names that begin with letters A–F

! The second Sunday of each month: last names that begin with letters G–L

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! The third Sunday of each month: last names that begin with letters M–R

! The fourth Sunday of each month: last names that begin with letters S–Z

Our hope is that, by providing some sort of schedule, we will have something delicious tooffer consistently every Sunday. Let’s have a feast every week! Of course, anyone inspiredto share good food on additional Sundays is welcome to do so. If you have any questions,please contact Kathy Allen, the chair of the Coffee Hour Hospitality ministry, at 327-4448.

Liturgy & Music

SPIRIT NOW: An Emerging WorshipE x p e r i e n c e , I n c l u s i v e a n dInteractive—Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. inMcBride Hall. Join us for a contemporaryweekday worship service. Each week wefocus on a different theme and our liturgyincludes simple chants, readings from othertraditions, and a shared Eucharist.

INTERFAITH MEDITATION GROUPPlease join us for meditation every Tuesday at 7 p.m.for an intimate, candle-lit gathering in the JulianChapel. Our meditation group is inclusive and opento all regardless of where you may be on yourspiritual journey or whether you are new tomeditation or an experienced meditator. Our formatbegins with a short optional walking meditation thatflows into our 20-25 minutes of silent seatedmeditation. For more information please contactDavid Clements at 429-4438.

LOOKING FOR A CHANGE INYOUR PRAYER LIFE? Would you like totry Prayer in a small community? Come to EveningPrayer on Tuesdays, from 6 to 6:30 p.m. in the JulianChapel. On the first Tuesday of each month,Evening Prayer will include Communion. Stayafterwards for the brief fellowship afterwards ifyou’d like. Come join us in the joy of small, prayerfulcommunity. If you have any questions, feel free toask Br. Chuck or Nan Hannan, Gale Odion, or MarkDrew.

INVITATION FROM ALTAR GUILDGSP needs a small amount of your time each month tohelp make its worship space a place of beauty, and toprepare and clean the vessels used for communion. Ifyou would like to consider volunteering for thisministry, the Altar Guild would love to have you.Please contact Jane Thrall at either (520) 296-1241 ortucsonjane@aol.com. Thank you!

DIGITAL BULLETIN AVAILABLE!For those who find it an aid to worship (and can helpsave trees and money), we have made our Sundaybulletin available for download on electronic devices.You can access the bulletin by visiting our website andclicking on “Sunday Bulletins,” clicking on the linkprovided in the left column of the Friday e-mail, or byscanning the QR code right here.

If you choose to download the bulletin,please be respectful of your neighbor and beparticularly careful about the light that yourdevice casts. Our goal is always to create themost spirit-filled, meditative, energizing, and

enlightening worship experience possible for all.

RECORDINGS AVAILABLECD and DVD recordings of the 10 a.m. service may beordered; please contact the church office (327-6857).

FLOWERS—Did something special happen toyou recently that you’d like to celebrate? Honor itwith altar flowers or plants! Perhaps you wantflowers or plants in memory of or in honor of aloved one. If so, call the office (327-6857) toarrange flower or plant dedications. Any OfficeWelcome Team volunteer will be happy to takeyour information and give it to KiKi Fenik, ourParish Administrator.

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Adult Spiritual Formation

TODAY: No class scheduled, so that allmay be part of Celebration Sunday!

Special Event: A Poetry Reading withGreg Miller—Sunday, October 19, 9a.m. in the Bloom Education Center.Greg Miller will read from The Sea Sleeps, acollection that draws heavily from the coredevotional strain in Miller’s poetry, offering whatnovelist Fenton Johnson described in his review ofIron Wheel as “the vision and experience of thatplace where dark merges seamlessly into light; thehouse and home of grace-unasked for and perhapsundeserved, but transformative all the same.” Thenew poems reflect on the callings and limits of art inresponding to desire, history, mortality, and injusticeand are set in the American South, France, SouthSudan, among other places, addressing and invokingthe divine.

Poet Greg Miller grew up in Kentucky and studied Frenchliterature and political science at Vanderbilt University.He earned an M.A. in English and creative writing fromStanford University and a Ph.D. in English from theUniversity of California, Berkeley. Miller is the author ofthe collections Iron Wheel (1998), Rib Cage (2001),Mississippi Sudan (2006), Watch (2009), and The SeaSleeps: New and Selected Poems (2014).Wide-ranging in his interests, he has written on southernculture, community, family, and the experiences ofSudanese refugees, and has held residencies at theCamargo Foundation and the CAMAC Centre d’Art inFrance. Miller’s poetry frequently deals with both visualart and the life of cities. His scholarly work includes thebook George Herbert’s “Holy Patterns”: ReformingIndividuals in Community (2007). For a decade, Millerserved as chair of the Sudanese Ministry Committee ofthe Episcopal Church, diocese of Mississippi. Millerrecently took early retirement from his position asprofessor of English at Millsaps College and works nowas an assistant editor at Sheep Meadow Press in NewYork.

The Great Mystery: What’s a Deacon?—Sunday, October 26, 9 a.m. in theBloom Education Center. Let’s discuss themeaning of Servant Leadership, briefly processtogether the vows of a Deacon and how they aresimilar to our Baptismal Covenant, and review a briefdescription of the various ministries conducted byDeacons. Ministries have evolved—so let’s also talkabout how ministries have changed Grace St. Paul’s.Led by Deacons Nancy Meister Book, Linda Hutson andChris Ledyard.

Film Series: How Do We LiveAbundantly?—Friday, Nov. 14, from 7-9p.m., in the Bloom Education Center.“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”— John 10:10We are constantly tempted by aspirational desirescreated by the marketing strategies of a globalconsumerist culture that attempts to convince us thathaving more stuff, acquiring the latest gadget or owninga certain brand of clothing will make our lives better.How do we live the promise of abundant life that theGospel of John promises? How do we know when wehave enough? How do we define abundance forourselves? What really makes us happy? Join us for onemore documentary film that attempts to illuminatehow others have grappled with finding answers tothese questions. A discussion will follow the film.

! Nov. 14: Happy (2011).Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps ofLouisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search ofwhat really makes people happy. Combining reallife stories of people from around the world andpowerful interviews with the leading scientists inhappiness research, Happy explores the secretsbehind our most valued emotion. (75 min.)

The series is offered by Catherine Penn Williams andco-sponsored by the Giving and Receiving Ministry.Catherine is an Episcopal layperson and experienced small-group leader. She has a long-standing interest in findingspiritual themes in contemporary films.

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Children, Youth & Families

T E M P O R A RY C L A S S R O O MCHANGE The fourth- and fifth-grade Sunday Schoolclassrooms will change temporarily fromSunday, Oct. 12 through Sunday, Nov. 21.During this time the fourth- and fifth-grade SundaySchool will be meeting in the Weeks Room at 10a.m. instead of the Mary of Bethany room. This willallow us to more easily collect and store donationsfor the Rummage Sale.

Health & Healing Ministries

MEDICARE UPDATEThe Community of Hope is sponsoring a MedicareUpdate on Friday, October 16 from9:30-12:00 in the Bloom Education Center.Parishioners or friends of the parish are invited. Thepresentation will be by Anne Sunderland, GSPmember and a Medicare Presenter trained by thePima Council on Aging. This workshop is guaranteedto dispel your confusion and provide information soyou and others can make informed decisions.

QUILTING MINISTRY NEWSQuilt Sunday is next Sunday, October 19. Thequilts will be hung in the church so that all of youcan see what we do. These quilts will be available forpurchase; if you see one you would like to purchase,take it down and bring it to McBride Hall where wewill have a table display after each service onOctober 19. All proceeds go for material andsupplies to make quilts.

This is our second year for Quilt Sunday. TheQuilting Ministry began in October 2011. We quiltevery Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in McBrideHall. Stop by or call Judith Turner at 822-4227. Wewould love to have you join us. NOTE: There will beno quilting until Wed., October 22.

GOOD GRIEF SPIRITUAL SUPPORTGROUP 2014Grace St. Paul’s grief group is a place of solace, likea best friend, where you can fully express your

feelings of loss or how lonely you feel and wherepeople will listen.

Our goal is to support each other during this time. Forsome of you, your loss may have been some time ago.Working through grief involves remembering andtalking about the person who has died and sharingthose memories. It usually will involve accepting one’slife without that person.

Each week will have a simple assignment to share withthe group the following week. The group will meet for7 weeks on Monday evenings from 7–8 p.m. startingOctober 27, 2014. If you are interested please callChris Ledyard at 321-4123 or Virginia Zuelow at403-4342 no later than October 15. There is limitedspace available for this group. Please note this is not agrief and loss therapy group.

PASTORAL CARE EMERGENCIESIt is easy and quick to reach a member of the pastoralcare team. If you have a pastoral emergency, please call668-5727. If you would like to learn more about howto volunteer as a pastoral care giver, please contactThe Rev. Steve Kelsey at 989-1514 or via e-mail atsmkelsey@gmail.com.

Social Justice & Outreach

GSP’s Social Service staff is looking for atemporary residence for a parishioner intransition. If you think you may be able tohelp, contact the Rector for moreinformation.

JOSEPH’S PANTRYThe amount of people coming to Joseph’s Pantry forfood continues to increase, but the pantry’s resourcesdo not. Currently what is needed the most is cannedfood: chili, fruit, veggies, soup with meat, ravioli, tuna,and beans. We also could use unopened hotel-sizedtoiletries (lotion, shampoo, conditioner, soap, andbody wash); no shower caps, please. And there arevolunteer opportunities throughout the week. Pleasetalk to Kyle or Andrew. Thank you for yourgenerosity.

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TIHAN NEEDS YOUR HELP!Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network (TIHAN)seeks donations of all kinds for 2014. Especiallyneeded are toilet paper and paper towels (othercongregations are taking care of other needs).Donations may be placed in the TIHAN box inMcBride Hall. Thanks for your help!

DRIVERS NEEDED: BREAD FROMTHE PANTRYDo you have 45 minutes to spare once a week? Oronce a month? Bread from the Pantry is lookingfor drivers to collect and deliver bread on differentdays during the week. Volunteers can sign up for thesame day every week or the same day once a month.We’ll work with your schedule!

Volunteers need a good-sized sedan or small SUVand need to be comfortable working alone in theevening. Volunteers collect bread from BeyondBread (on Campbell south of Ft. Lowell) onMondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays andSaturdays. The bread is collected at 8 p.m. anddelivered to GSP. If you’re interested or would likeadditional details, please call Bill Trujillo at 344-8498.Thank you!

Parish Membership &Administration

We believe everyone who comes to GraceSt. Paul’s has something to offer thiscommunity, and we are happy to welcomeyou. Information forms are available in thechurch office Monday through Friday, and inMcBride Hall at the Welcome Table onSundays, 9 a.m. to noon.

GET YOUR NAME TAG!If you don’t already have a name tag, please sign upfor one at the Welcome Table in McBride Hall or onthe bulletin board across from the Welcome Table.

HOW DO I SUBMIT ITEMS FOR THESUNDAY BULLETIN?Please send bulletin announcements to David Wachterat gsp1@dakotacom.net. Please make prayer listrequests by calling the church office at 327-6857 andspeaking with the Office Welcome Team volunteer, orby sending them directly to David Wachter atgsp1@dakotacom.net. The deadline for the Sundaybulletin is 4 p.m. on the preceding Wednesday.Prayer list requests for the bulletin may be madeuntil 4 p.m. on Wednesday this week. Thanks!

HOW DO I SCHEDULE EVENTS ATGSP?If you would like to schedule a meeting or event atGrace St. Paul’s, contact KiKi Fenik, GSP’s ParishAdministrator, in the church office; please e-mail herat ParishAdmin@grace-stpauls.org.

Community News

ARIZONA EARLY MUSIC SOCIETYCONCERTArizona Early Music Society presentsthe Broken Consort, Music of 13th-century Iberia, today at Grace St.Paul’s. The Broken Consort presents a hauntingrecreation of the music of Catholic, Sephardic andMuslim traditions of 13th-century Iberia. Pre-concertlecture begins at 2:30 p.m.; concert at 3 p.m. Ticketsare available at the door.

FREE INTERFAITH LECTURE ANDCONCERTMonday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. at TempleEmanu-El. The Arizona Early Music Society andTemple Emanu-El invite the GSP community to a freeinterfaith lecture and concert at Temple Emanu-Eltomorrow, Monday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. UADistinguished Professor Albrecht Classen will presentthe historical context of 13th-century Iberia, and themusicians of The Broken Consort will lecture andperform music from the Catholic, Muslim and Jewishfaith traditions of the time. Temple Emanu-El is at 225N. Country Club Road, Tucson.

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The Sunday Octave: October 12 – 19Sunday, October 12Second Sunday of Creation; Celebration Sunday8 a.m. – Communion Service, followed by

Celebration Sunday Breakfast – Sanctuary,McBride Hall

9:45 a.m. – Childcare & Nursery – Teresa of AvilaRoom

10 a.m. – Communion Service, followed byCelebration Sunday Brunch – Sanctuary, McBrideHall

10 a.m. – Sunday School – Undercroft Classrooms11:45 a.m. – Youth Group – St. Francis RoomNoon – Lay Minister Training (Ushers, Chalice

Bearers, Readers, Acolytes) – Chancel12:30 p.m. – Youth Ensemble Choir rehearsal – St.

Nicholas Room3 p.m. – Arizona Early Music Society concert –

Sanctuary6 p.m. – SpiritSong: Worship & Prayer in the Style of

Taizé – Chancel

Monday, October 1311:30 a.m. – Drop-In Spiritual Direction – Julian

Chapel4:30 p.m. – Spirit Dojo Karate – McBride Hall6:30 p.m. – EfM Year 14 Group – Bloom Education

Center7 p.m. – GSP Joseph’s Pantry meeting – Mary of

Bethany Room7 p.m. – Healing Touch Clinic – Weeks Room7 p.m. – Tucson Masterworks Chorale rehearsal –

Sanctuary7:30 p.m. – AA Southside Group – McBride Hall

Tuesday, October 145:30 p.m. – Family Caregiver Support Group – Mary

of Bethany Room6 p.m. – Evening Prayer – Julian Chapel6 p.m. – Arizona Repertory Singers rehearsal –

McBride Hall7 p.m. – Interfaith Meditation Group – Julian Chapel7 p.m. – Sixth Annual Multifaith Pride Service –

Temple Emanu-El

Wednesday, October 157 a.m. – Holy Communion – Julian Chapel

Noon – GSP Prayer Shawl Ministry – McBride Hall12:30 p.m. – GSP Clergy Meeting – Bloom Education

Center1:30 p.m. – Liturgy Planning Meeting – Bloom

Education Center4:30 p.m. – Spirit Dojo Karate – McBride Hall7 p.m. – Education for Ministry (EfM) – Weeks Room

Thursday, October 1611 a.m. – Bridge Group – Bloom Education Center3 p.m. – Healing Touch Clinic – Weeks Room5:30 p.m. – Spirit Now: An Emerging Worship

Experience, Inclusive and Interactive – Labyrinth7:30 p.m. – Choir Rehearsal – Chancel

Friday, October 17Diocesan Convention9:30 a.m. – Community of Hope meeting – Bloom

Education Center6:30 p.m. – Film & Fellowship Monthly Movie &

Potluck – Bloom Education Center8 p.m. – AA Goodlife Group – Weeks Room

Saturday, October 18Diocesan Convention10 a.m. – Way of the Monk, Path of the Artist:

Seeking God Through Contemplation andCreativity – McBride Hall

11 a.m. – Tucson Masterworks Chorale rehearsal –Sanctuary

Sunday, October 19Third Sunday of Creation8 a.m. – Communion Service, followed by Coffee &

Conversation – Sanctuary, McBride Hall9 a.m. – Special Event: A Poetry Reading with Greg

Miller – Bloom Education Center9:45 a.m. – Childcare & Nursery – Teresa of Avila

Room10 a.m. – Communion Service, followed by Coffee &

Conversation – Sanctuary, McBride Hall10 a.m. – Sunday School – Undercroft Classrooms11:45 a.m. – Youth Group – St. Francis Room12:30 p.m. – Youth Ensemble Choir rehearsal – St.

Nicholas Room

The Mission & Vision of Grace St. Paul’s

Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will be a spiritualhome, open to all, providing food for the journey, andcalling people to change the world. We will move toward this

vision through spiritual formation embodied in the experience of Christ’s love,in innovative worship, in progressive Christian education and in generousresponse to the gifts we have received. We will strive to be a diverse andsupportive community. We will celebrate individual gifts and integrate peopleof all ages into our programs. We will be a beacon to our wider community,known for our care of creation and for our promotion of social justice.

VestryRoger Pierce, Senior Warden; Mark Drew, Junior

Warden; Rob Rauh, Chancellor; Tom Pitello, Treasurer;

Lou Ann Bieging, Clerk of the Vestry

Vestry Members: Bianca Lara, Kitt Bret Harte, David

Clements, Kyle Devereux, Chris Eastoe, Zara Larsen,

Steve Mattix, Richard Rhoads, Holly Shinn, Jean

Smart, Angel Wang, Steve Williams

ClergyKirk S. Smith, Bishop of Arizona; Mary Delaney, Joe

Fitzgerald, Rosanna Kazanjian, Steve Kelsey, Priest

Associates; Nancy Meister Book, Linda Hutson, Chris

Ledyard, Deacons; Lynn Marie Hunter, Ana Ortiz,

Interfaith Ministers; Steve Keplinger, Rector.

StaffJane Click, Pianist; Lieto Ensemble; Pamela Decker,

Organist; Argelia El-Khayat, Childcare Giver; KiKi Fenik,

Parish Administrator; Rosalind Garcia, Director of

Children, Youth & Family Ministries; Christina Jarvis,

Music Director; Patti Morrison, Bookkeeper; James

Teal, Facilities Assistant; David Wachter, Publications

Manager, Computer Specialist, & Associate Organist;

James White, Sexton.

Sunday School Teachers, Youth MentorsBeginning (Preschool & Kindergarten) (meets in the

Martha of Bethany Room): Anne Harri, Nikki

Kerns, Chanel Willis

Primary (Grades 1-3) (meets in the St. Jude Room): Jane

Conlin, Amy Cormode, Judy Gossard

Intermediate (Grades 4-5) (meets in the Weeks Room):

Kristen Bury, Jim Kane, Jean Keplinger

Youth Groups (Grades 6-12) (meets in the St. Francis

Room): Eric Carr, Brianna Devereux, Alice

Garcia, Kendyl Reisinger

VergerBeth Miksa, Verger