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Updates - Nov 22, 2021

Follow Up and Documents from the Fall Congregational Meeting

All Grace members and adherents were invited to the Sunday, November 21 Fall Congregational Meeting, through the website, email, Bulletin and November newsletter notices, and Worship announcements. The meeting 'Zoom Doors' opened at 6:30 pm for a time of fellowship. The meeting began at 7:00 pm. The agenda and documents and information for the meeting can be found here. Agenda: Congregational Meeting Agenda - Congregational Meeting Agenda Spring Congregational Meeting Documents Minutes from Congregational Meeting of April 18, 2021 -Minutes of the Congregational Meeting April 18, 2021...

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UncategorizedUpdates - Oct 29, 2021

The 59th Cake Bake: Half Batch, Full Fellowship

The 59th Cake Bake took place the week of October 21. The goal was half-batch of 820 cakes. Though there are half the volunteers - the smell of the cake, the clatter of trucks and volunteers moving supplies into the church, and the chatter of physically distanced volunteers mixing, prepping, baking, cooling, wrapping (and all of the other tasks) under the watchful eye of the Cake Bake Boss, Lorna McNeil, is a welcome experience, as Cake Bake was cancelled last year. In the past, cake bake has included volunteers from the English Language Learners program, the community , and other Grace...

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Updates - Mar 4, 2021

March Message from the Grace Ministry Team

We are approaching the first anniversary of when Covid-19 drastically changed everyone’s lives. One year ago, Lent 2020 had just begun when we suddenly found ourselves in a position where we had to give up lots and take on new ways of doing almost everything.  In some ways, it feels like Lent never ended as we have all made significant sacrifices as we’ve been pushed further into a pandemic wilderness.  Rev. Paulette Brown, a Presbyterian minister in Ontario, described Covid-19 as “reckless” in a recent interview. When we consider the toll that Covid-19 has taken on the world,...

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Updates - Jan 25, 2021

Call for Satellite Food Bank Volunteers 

Grace’s operation of the Satellite Food Bank has been up and running for a few months.  Each Thursday, up to 15 households are provided healthy food through the Calgary Food Bank.  Volunteers have found their work very gratifying. There is a need for more volunteers:  some to serve one or more Thursday mornings a month, from 8:30 to 9:30, to receive and sort the food, and some to distribute the food hampers to the clients at the church on Thursday afternoons between 3:30 and 5:30. Volunteers need to be comfortable with lifting and understand the need for confidentiality for the clients. ...

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Updates - Jan 7, 2021

A New Year Letter From Rev. Christian, Rev. Maren and Rev. Jake

This past Advent and Christmas was much different than any of us can recall. And as we enter into 2021 many of us have mixed feelings about the year ahead. No one could have predicted how 2020 would play out. As we near the one-year mark of suspending in-person worship at Grace Presbyterian Church we wonder when life will get back to normal. The truth, quite bluntly, is that things will not be the way they used to be. As individuals we have changed, Grace has changed, Canada has changed, the world has changed. Some of us are enjoying the simplicity and quietness of these early days in...

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Updates - Jan 2, 2021

Winter Resources: Mental Health, Counselling, Suicide Prevention, Domestic Violence and More

Looking for some resources to help  cope during the pandemic? There are many paths to support. Please find a series of resources, websites and phones numbers where you can access help in Calgary. Know more? Share them with communications@gracecalgary.org and they will be added to the list. MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES Government of Canada – Mental Health Services or call 1-866-585-0445 Wellness Together Canada provides immediate single session telephonic counseling, mood assessment/tracking, resources and activities for both children and adults to help cope with mental health during COVID-19...

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Updates - Dec 4, 2020

The Story of Grace Church Christmas Cakes (Cake Bake 2020: Postponed, not Forgotten)

Members of the Dorcas Group of Grace Presbyterian Women’s Fellowship were the pioneers of the Christmas Cake baking project. In 1961 they were looking for a profitable project in which many women could participate.Several worthy ideas were put before the group, and they decided to make “a good old-fashioned Christmas Cake”. The next goal was to find a never-fail recipe that everyone liked. It took many experiments to find the perfect recipe and they finally agreed on Lady Eaton’s recipe which was shared with Kay Caspell during a golf game. With a few modifications over the years, this...

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CommunitySocial JusticeUpdates - Nov 4, 2020

The Food Bank Project at Grace

One Month In: Grace as a Beltline Food Bank Satellite Location The vision and mission of Grace are well known: Vision: Transforming lives through God`s grace Mission: Inspired by the Holy Spirit, we grow disciples of Jesus Christ to love our neighbours and effect social change The Calgary Food Bank is one way Grace is living out the vision and mission. Calgary Food Bank Vision: A hunger-free community Mission: Together, we fight hunger and its root causes so that no one goes hungry As we at Grace embrace being a missional church, we understand the need to partner with agencies in the...

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Updates - Nov 4, 2020

Faithfulness: A November Letter from Rev. Christian, Rev. Jake and Rev. Maren

Are we there yet? We probably think of kids asking this question during a road trip, but perhaps it reflects how some of us are feeling this November. Are we on the other side of isolation yet, are we closer to some sense of normalcy yet? While some of us are eager to get back to some sense of the way things used to be, some of us are happy with the way things are, and some of us are simply tired of where we are. As one community how do we keep everyone together and happy? Maybe we can, and maybe we cannot. Being part of Grace Presbyterian Church means being part of a large congregation,...

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