Life With Grace | January 30
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Worship Services | The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | Sunday, February 1st
Holy Eucharist Rt I | 8 a.m. | Zoom and In-Person
David Cox as Celebrant and Preacher
Christianity and Culture | 9:15 a.m. | Zoom and In-Person
February 1st - Update on the Diocesan Convention - David Cox - David will share news from the convention and election of our new bishop.
Upcoming Christianity and Culture Session
FEBRUARY 8th | Churches of the Valley | Katharine Brown |
| The Church of England was extended to the Virginia colony in 1607 when Jamestown was settled and became the established church, with a parish church for each county (sometimes two,) and chapels of ease for convenience of worshippers, with a settled Anglican minister on a glebe farm. Most colonists were English and a part of this official church. This was NOT the case west of the Blue Ridge, when settlers began coming into the Great Valley of Virginia from Pennsylvania in the 1730s. Most of them were not Anglicans, as they did not come from England. They were dissenters. Their origins were in various German principalities where the Lutheran or Reformed churches were established, or Scotland where the Presbyterian Church was established, or were anabaptists or Quakers who dissented from any established church. The religious dynamics of the Valley differed sharply from the rest of Virginia and afforded an interesting study when the established church came on the scene. This session will look at how the established church functioned in the colonial Valley, the role the Valley played in the development of religious liberty and disestablishment of the Church in the Revolutionary era, and how the new Episcopal Church learned to be just one denomination in a pluralistic society in the years before the Civil War. |
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Holy Eucharist Rt II | 10:30 a.m. | YouTube and In-Person
David Cox as Celebrant and Preacher
The nursery is available during our services.
Adults and older Youth trained in Safe Church are needed to assist in the nursery from 9-noon. We can pay $15/hour. Volunteers also welcome. Please contact James Keane for more information and to offer assistance.
First Sunday Lunch | Postponed until next Sunday February 8. W&L is hosting their Souper Bowl this Sunday if you are looking for lunch after the service!
107th Annual Convention is this weekend, January 30 - February 1.
A livestream of Convention’s Opening worship, and Bishop election will be available on the diocesan YouTube channel www.youtube.com/DIOSWVA. Business sessions will not be livestreamed.
A diocesan-wide Eucharist service will occur Sunday, February 1 at 10:00 a.m. in Roanoke Ballroom. The service will be livestreamed for everyone in the Diocese to enjoy.
Grace Church will have regular Sunday morning services with on-line options at 8 & 10:30 a.m. with David Cox presiding.
A Collect for the Election of Our Bishop
Creator God, whose Church lives beyond the walls of buildings and the boundaries of cities, we ask that you guide our work as the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia moves together through a transition of leadership. We pray for patience in dialogue and wisdom in discernment for the person who will be elected as our next Bishop, and that the work of spreading God’s love in southwestern Virginia and beyond will grow and flourish in the years to come. In the name of your incarnate son we pray. Amen.
Invitation to Hear About a Family in Gaza
Members of the Lexington community—Oishani Basuchoudhary, Meghan Ferguson, Charlie Mayock-Bradley, and Tinni Sen—invite all church members to hear about a family in Gaza:Rawan and her husband, Ahmed, are displaced parents to their one-year-old son, Aboud, who is frequently ill due to malnutrition and scarcity of basic necessities. Despite exhibitingextraordinary resilience, the family continues to face terrible hardships every day. They move from place to place and struggle daily to secure food, diapers, and nutritional supplementsessential to Aboud’s survival and health. Oishani has been in close contact with this family since spring of 2024, since before Aboud was born, communicating via Whatsapp phone calls andregular photographic updates. She is eager to introduce them to her friends and neighbors in Lexington and Rockbridge County.
They will be holding a presentation at Grace in the near future, we will keep you posted.
Morning Prayer | Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.
In-Person & Zoom
Paws to Connect
Paws to Connect will pause for the cold weather. We'll see you soon!
Interfaith Vigil: Turning Grief into Hope and Action.
Inviting you to share space for grief about civil and human rights abuses. Letting grief move with hope and action. Sunday, February 1, 2:30 p.m. Randolph Street United Methodist Church.
Spaghetti Dinner With Bingo and Silent Auction!
To benefit CATE - Children Aspiring To Education, Our ministries In Haiti and South Sudan
Join your friends for a great evening in the parish hall
February 17, Shrove Tuesday
5:00 cocktails and silent auction
6:00 dinner with bingo to follow
Suggested donation, $50 per person
Tickets available: sign up in the narthex or by email with Anne Hansen.
Connections Plus
Connections Plus is now offering three 6-session educational groups in which the participants learn about and organize important documents; such as medical, property, finances, final wishes, and executor information, in order to make things easier for those who must settle our affairs after we are gone.
Cost: $30.00 for materials. Space is limited.
Class #1: 9:30-11:00 am, Thursdays at Sunnyside House at Kendal, 160 Kendal Drive, Lexington
March 12 & 26; April 16 & 30; May 14 & 28.
Class #2: 5:30-7:00 pm, Tuesdays at Manly Memorial Baptist Church, 202 S. Main St., Lexington
March 17; April 7 & 21; May 5 & 19; June 2
Class #3: 9:30 - 11:00 am, Wednesdays at Maury River Senior Center (VPAS) 2137 Magnolia Avenue, Buena Vista
March 18; April 8 & 22; May 6 & 20; June 3
For more information or to register, please contact Connections Plus at 540-463-1848 or info@connectionsplus.care
Prayer List
Please pray for the wider Church and intercessions requested by our Congregants: Pray for Presiding Bishop The Most Rev. Sean Rowe. Pray for Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. Pray today for the people of Grace, Radford and their priest-in-charge, the Rev. William Yagel. Pray for Brendon, Timmy, Laura Stearns, Lynda deMaria, Betty Cadden, Jeff Mason, Joe Irby, Kent Wilson, Jerry & Ann Nay, Paula Cooper, Ned Henneman, Sharon Humphreys, Nancy Mastin, Elizabeth Klein, Carl Pattison, Dot Fogo, David Austin (friend of the Keanes), Buddy Atkins, Stan Driver, Chris Clayton Syrrist (cousin of David Sorrells), Glen Jones, Charlotte & Mike Murphy, Jean & Mike Walsh, Cullen Bahr, Lane Hewett, Susan Martin, Carolyn, Nancy Hellwig, Dennis Coughlin, Mike Haire, Chuck & Biddy Watson, Rob Fleming, Patricia Williams, Patty Irving Sensabaugh, Richard Partlett, Gerry Locher, and those we name aloud or in our hearts. Pray for the people of Israel, Gaza, Sudan, Haiti, Ukraine, and pray for cessation of violence, and for reconciliation, and peace. Pray for those who have died.
In Thanksgiving for January and February Birthdays
1/30 Melissa Gladwell-Sayre, Cary Edgar
1/31 Tom Gosse, Don Robey, Stephanie Sandberg
2/2 Clarinda Carrington
2/3 Willy Nelson
2/9 Benjamin Huger
2/10 Glenn Szarzynski
2/12 Rowan Moles
2/19 Rose Rothermel
2/20 Sammy Eastwood
2/21 Steve Riethmiller
2/23 Beverly Tucker, Graham Hess, Becky Hall
2/24 Holt Merchant
2/25 Jeanne Passmore
2/27 Joseph Henson
2/28 Caitie Carrington, Erin Carrington
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