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Update 3/12/20: because of the recent expansion of concern regarding COVID-19, to cancel the Saint Patrick’s Corned Beef supper scheduled for this coming Saturday night and fast from having coffee hour on Sundays for now in the spirit of Lent.  

St. Patrick’ Day Corned Beef Supper Saturday, March 14th @6:00Tickets are now available and seating is limited!!

Tickets are $8.00 per person in advance (with a max of $24 per family with school-age children. Tickets –if available –are $10.00 per person the door (with a max of $30 per family).

Please see Nancy Johnson for tickets; Teddi McIntosh or Nancy-Ann Feren (at 8:00 service)

Find the Spirit of the Season at Grace Episcopal Church’s
Service of Lesson and Carols
Offering from Annual Event to Benefit FIT-NH

(Manchester, NH) – On Sunday, December 15, at 4:30 PM, Grace Episcopal Church will offer its annual service of Lessons and Carols. This exquisite event recounts the miraculous story of Christmas through Old and New Testament readings, prayers, carols, choir anthems and organ music. The event will be held in the historic sanctuary located at 106 Lowell Street in Manchester.

This year, in respect for the savior’s humble and austere beginnings, the freewill offering collected at the service will be donated to Families in Transition-New Horizons. “As we celebrate the beautiful miracle of Christ’s birth, we are also called to remember that we are all God’s children,” says Grace Church Rector the Rev. Marjorie Gerbracht. “We are obliged to share the warmth of the season’s spirit to our brothers and sisters in need.”

The service of Lessons and Carols is modeled after a celebration first offered by the King’s College Choir at England’s Cambridge University in 1918 and still broadcast annually on the BBC. The Grace Episcopal Church Lessons & Carols features seven lessons and familiar Christmas Carols such as “Once in royal David’s city”, ‘Away in a manger”, “We three Kings” and “The first Nowell”. The acclaimed Grace Church Choir, with Director Mark Cleveland, will lead the congregation in song. Grace Church Organist Kenneth Grinnell will feature the complete “Variations on a Noël” by Marcel Dupré on the church’s custom built pipe organ.

The service of Lessons and Carols is free and open to all. Guests are also invited to stay afterwards for a festive reception held in the Great Hall.

Come find the spirit of the season and let that spirit—and the music—move you!

Thank you to all those who gathered on the morning of Saturday, November 16th for our annual, outdoor Fall cleanup day. Our campus looks beautiful because of all of you!

Join the Hospitality Committee on Sunday, October 27th, after the 10:30 service, for a Howling Good Time as we host the first ever Indoor Trunk or Treat for the youth of our church.

How can you help, you ask.  That is a great question.  There are two way you can help.

The first way you can help (and the most fun for the children) is by decorating a box with your spookiest Halloween decorations. Then by bringing the box to church that Sunday, full of candy or prizes, to pass out as the children go from box to box to trick or treat.

The second way you can help is by donating a bag of candy to the event to help supplement what other parishioners bring for their displays.

We look forward to seeing you at this fun event!

Special thanks to the mountain of volunteers (21 total!!) who attended our June Laundry Love program.  We are especially grateful to Holly Daigle, director and operator of the Manchester Kona Ice truck, who worked with us to serve shave ice to our Laundry Love parishioners and parish volunteers this past June.

Remember, NO Laundry Love in July!  Our next opportunity to serve will be Tuesday, August 6th.  The Kona Ice truck will appear again that evening as well.