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Grace Notes: Mardi Gras Pancakes this Sunday!
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Grace Notes
February 13th, 2026

Beloved of Grace,

What did you think of the super bowl halftime show? I personally loved the joyful resistance put forth by Bad Bunny. It reminds me of Hanna Reichel's chapter 15 in our Lenten book series. Chapter 15 is Rejoice always or lean into joy. Reichel encourages us: "Pay attention to your body, your mind, your heart, your friends and chosen family, your miraculous encounters. Where do joy, glory, and gratitude break through gloom and suffering in your own life?"
I know a way we can all lean into joy: Join us at church this Sunday for a wonderful celebration. Due to the school holiday next week, we are moving Shrove Tuesday pancake supper to this Sunday for an Epiphany pancake breakfast. Same celebration, at hopefully a better time for folks.
We will celebrate with a Mardi Gras pancake breakfast, beads, decorating the Alleluia banner, and having a good time together.  Come! Bring friends!
This Sunday's schedule:
9 am Zoom
10 am in person worship
11 am Mardi Gras pancake breakfast.
 
Next week is Ash Wednesday. We have our Ash Wednesday service in the church  at 7pm.
If you or your loved ones would like to come receive ashes at a time other than the 7 pm service, please email or text me to set up a time. I would be glad to meet you during the day and offer you ashes on Ash Wednesday.
 
Finally, our Lenten book series will begin on Sunday Feb. 22nd. Please see details below about what chapters to read each week. If you ordered a copy from Grace we will email you with details about picking up your book. We will have our first intergenerational discussion during coffee hour on Sunday the 22nd. I hope you will join us. 
 
See you Sunday, 
Lauren

 
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Oboe player Christa Robinson joins us this Sunday
 
Please plan to join us this Sunday for some wonderful music for oboe, piano, organ and choir.  The service will start with an arrangement of Gabriel Fauré's Sicilienne for oboe and piano.  This piece with its lush harmonies and haunting melody has become one Fauré's best known pieces.  

At the offertory we will hear a lovely Pastorale written by Charles Wesley Jr. His father, Charles Wesley, was an English Anglican cleric and leader of the Methodist movement.  Charles Wesley Sr. was also a prolific hymn writer.  The text to hymns like O for a thousand tongues to sing, Christ, whose glory fills the skies, and Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim are well known to many of us.  As a side note, you will notice that many of the hymns on Sunday will have Alleluias in them. This is our last chance to get them in before Lent!  

During Communion the choir will sing a setting of For the Bread Which Thou Hast Broken, written by contemporary composer William Bradley Boberts who was professor of church music at Virginia Theological Seminary an Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria for many years.

We will conclude our service with a dance, or Gavotte, written by 1800's English composer Matthew Camidge.  

One last note.  If you have a chance, you might want to congratulate our oboe player Christa on the Grammy award that she just won!  Christa plays with a contemporary band called Alarm Will Sound which plays a wide variety of music.  One of their recent recordings won a Grammy.  If you'd like to hear a bit you can click on this link.

https://www.youtube.com/user/alarmwillsound
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Book Club Discussions
Grace Church Lenten Book Club
 
Bishop Mariann Budde, says this book is "like taking a daily vitamin for our soul-- every page is filled with good things that make us stronger. If we all read one entry a day and take its message to heart, together we'll become the change we long to see in our world."
  
We will gather each Sunday at coffee hour and discuss a section of Reichel's book. You can read daily, or read the whole week's worth in about a half hour.
  • February 22 (Part one: Gathering--pages xi-37)
  • March 1 (Part two: Listening and Responding--pages 41-71)
  • March 8 (Part three: Communion--75-100)
  • March 15 (Part four: Sending--103-136) 
  • March 22: Discussion of the whole book: How will you live in "such a time as this"?
If you are feeling stuck, go to the first aid kit on page 137.
The study guide begins on page 139. We will use some of these discussion questions each week.
Thank you for joining us in our Lenten Book club!
Grace Community Needlework Group
All Skill Levels Welcome
 
 

Zoom Links this week at Grace:

Please access our Zoom here:
Zoom Link: Click Here
Meeting ID: 863 8545 6163
Passcode: 597633

Sunday, February 15th @9am on Zoom
The bulletin is HERE

Bible Study

The reading for Wednesday's Bible Study is HERE.

Click HERE and HERE for Bible study commentaries.
 

Bible Study - Wednesday, February 18th @ Noon on Zoom.

 
Want to give to Grace Church? Scan the QR code or give via
Zelle: giving@gracehastings.org

 

Sunday  (2/15) 10am         
Ushers: Ken Murphy, Emily Richards
Lectors: Ken Murphy, Francesco Scioscia
Altar Guild: Laura Frobel
Chalice Bearer: Rick Daniel
Counters: Katie Appel Duda, Francesco Scioscia
Coffee Hour: Epiphany Pancake Hour, Donald Obrecht, Greg Robbins

 
Sunday  (2/15) 9am online

Lector:    Conrad Bahlke

 
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