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An Important Update from Grace
To Our Grace Church Family and Friends, Grace to you and peace! On behalf of the Vestry, Finance Committee and Sustaining Grace (formerly The Endowment) Team, we are writing with an important update on the successes and challenges of our congregation. We would...
Welcome Back Everyone!
WELCOME BACK EVERYONE! Maybe you are thinking, “Sarah dear, we have BEEN back…” and you are correct, of course. Perhaps we can think of mid-August and Mission Trip Report Sunday on August 27 as our “soft start” while we all recalibrated to our post-summer rhythms. And...
A Healthy Church is a Singing Church
It’s been said that a healthy church is a singing church. How do we define a healthy church? Is it church attendance and growth, or is it something deeper. And what does singing have to do with being a healthy church? Statistically, music plays a significant...
Cultivating Space
Last Sunday, we heard the story of Jesus’s most famous miracle, his walking on the water. I believe that biblical truth resonates on many different levels. Considered from a metaphorical and spiritual standpoint, how it was that Jesus might have been able to...
Children’s and Youth Programming Begins!
Hello Grace Church Community! This Sunday, we are keeping step with the school year and beginning our Children’s and Youth Ministry Programs. Our Grace Garden has been active and tended all summer under the direction of Gayle Davies with support from Yesenia...
Our 2023 Rummage Sale is Right Around the Corner!
Homelessness is California’s nemesis and Napa County has its share of needy people. This July it was reported that there were 506 homeless people in Napa County – up from 494 in 2022. And numbers continue to rise. In the same survey, 197 reported being homeless for...
Sacred Ground Circle Forming August 2023
The Episcopal Church’s work for racial reconciliation and healing Sacred Ground “invites participants to walk back through history in order to peel away the layers that brought us to today, reflecting on our family histories and stories, as well as important...
Blood Drive
The Good News Garden – 2023
The Children’s Garden Every Sunday morning as I open the gate and step into the garden, I am experiencing many emotions. I feel so much anticipation for all the beauty that’s about to happen; the kids will engage in wonder and creativity; there will be new growth and...
The Chosen Season 2!
"A charismatic fisherman struggling with debt. A troubled woman wrestling with demons. A gifted accountant ostracized from his family and people. In this ground-breaking first season of The Chosen see how Jesus reaches each of these and more as He works His first...
What A Send Off!
Dear Grace Family, Thank you so much for the absolutely perfect, joyful, meaningful farewell party. I admit I was hoping for a special celebration after all these years but I never could have anticipated the love and appreciation I felt that day. Brian's...
The Day of Pentecost!
Acts 2:1-8 "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came...