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Weferlingen - Sister Church in Germany

1

From Pastor Rob’s Desk 2

Grace Youth News 3

June/July

Anniversaries & Birthdays 3

Caring & Sharing 4

Prayer Chain 4

Congregational Life Events

Church Picnic 5

June/July Calendar 6-7

VBS at Grace in July 8

News Around Congregation 8

Mission & Outreach 9

For All the Saints 10-11

Basement Update 11

Pride Interfaith Service at Grace 12

The Grace Vine

Grace United Church of Christ An Open and Affirming Congregation 25 East Second Street, Frederick, Maryland 21701 ~ www.grucc.com

Great News! The Church Council voted unanimously to extend the hand of friendship to a church we have gotten to know in Weferlingen, Germany. Our Choir sang there and the people were so kind to us. Their Church council president came here in the fall for a sym-posium and stayed with our church council president!

We received word last week that The Wegerlingen Church also

approved the idea. This means we officially have a sister Church in Germany. We will trade newsletter articles, pictures, joys and concerns and if anyone gets to Germany, you would be most welcome to visit!

More about this fun relationship as it unfolds.

June/July 2019

Weferlingen - Our Sister Church in Germany!


From Pastor Rob’s Desk

The LGBT Fallen Heroes Fund was established in 2011 as a way to honor LGBTQ

police, military, and first responders and their survivors in ways that honor their

relationships. Many LGBT Fallen Heroes are not given that honor as they are buried

without acknowledgment of their spouse/partner with the flag and other honors

presented to other family members instead. Our own Sarah Tresselt (Loudon Coun-

ty Detective and Grace Church member who died in 2015) was honored in 2016.

Again this year, Pastor Rob had the honor of serving as the presiding clergy for a memorial service held during

Police Week in the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery where 8 persons were remembered

and their partners/spouses were duly recognized. This year, for the second time, Rob Apgar sang the National

Anthem. Grace Church makes a difference in our community and our world!

Dear Friends,

As summer approaches and the school year come to an end, life goes into slow

gear. And that’s a good thing. I do love summer. It feels so relaxing and stress

free. The Baseball games, barbeques, days at the beach. It is filled with wonderful

opportunities to be with the ones we love and to maybe even get a little time to

ourselves. We need to rest. We need downtime, especially since life is just so

busy throughout the year.

The scriptures talk about the importance of rest and replenishment . Our oft used

word “recreation “, means more than playing. It means re-creation! We are taking time to re-create ourselves; to

re-energize for the months to come. Jesus was very intentional about taking time for himself. He got away by

himself to pray. He spent time with his friends and all those who were important. Jesus knew his boundaries and

he knew when he needed to refresh. Why don’t we? We are certainly no more important than he!

The fact is that we do need to refresh ourselves with relaxation and fun. Read a book, go fishing, spend a lazy day

at the beach or the park. DO whatever you need to do to feed yourself so you are better equipped to be present

for all those who need you.

And you know what else Jesus did? He worshipped! That’s right, even in the midst of busy times, even when un-

der stress, Jesus made time to his faith. And we should too! This summer, don’t forget your faith. Make worship a

priority. If you are away, find a church where you are and visit! If you see something you like, bring it back and tell

me! Maybe we can learn something new here too.

Enjoy your summer but don’t forget the priority of your faith. Set time for worship and keep focused on your spir-

itual practices so that you continue to grow in faith and godliness.

Have a wonderful month!


June/July Anniversaries

Grace Youth News!

Monthly Birthday

Celebration

On the last Sunday of every month, the Con-

gregational Life Commission hosts a birthday

party for everyone who celebrated a birthday

during that month. (Please be sure that your

birthday is on file with the church office so

that we can celebrate you!)

Friday May 24

Tilt Studio - Arcade, laser tag, bumper cars, etc

Meet at Grace at 7pm, back around 10pm

Sunday June 9

Pizza lunch and Mini golf Meet for 1pm lunch at Grace and then go to Mini Golf

July date TBD We are planning a trip to Hershey Park!

If you know a teen who may be interested in participating in summer youth events,

please contact Pastor Jessica at [email protected] or Pastor Rob.

All youth grades 6-12 are welcome! We’re looking forward to continued growth and

engagement in the Grace Youth Group!

Peace, Pastor Jessica

June/July Birthdays

Lana Cross June 3

Judy Tobery June 6

Guy Johnson June 12

Tom Tobery June 13

Joe Kula June 27

Roger Minnick June 29

Betty Erwin June 30

Justin Kula July 5

Gloria Gafney July 6

Frank Erwin July 8

Richard Hough July 15

Trish Culler July 21

Teddi Garrison July 25

Samantha Johnson July 26

Rob Apar & Rob Apgar-Taylor June 3, 2004

Austin And Karen Miller June 10, 1967

Mr. And Mrs. Tom Tobery, Sr. June 19, 1959

Earl & Anita Bartgis July 12, 1980


Called To Care - Grace Folks in Need of a Visit

Following is a list of members and friends of our Grace Church family who are currently ill, home-bound, recovering from an injury or surgery, or hospitalized. If you know of other folks who should be added to this list, please contact Pastor Rob at 240-217-2768 or call the church office.

Caring and Sharing

A Pastoral Care note:

Due to the current HIPAA (Privacy) laws, hospitals are not permitted to contact churches on behalf of patients. If you know of a church member who is hospitalized, please inform the church office. In the case of an emergency hospitalization (whether yourself or a family member), please contact Pastor Rob at 240-217-2768 or call the church office.

Join the Prayer Chain

If you are interested in being part of the Grace Prayer Chain to hold up

those in need of prayer throughout the congregation and beyond;

please contact Pastor Rob or add your name to the sign-up sheet in the

Good Shepherd Room.

Kevin Chapman 1403 Orangetip Ct, Frederick, MD 21703

Millie Davis 801 Pine Ave., Frederick, MD 21701

Debbie Donohue PO Box 55, Keymar, MD 21757

Joe Free Citizens Nursing & Rehab Center

Miriam Himes 9810 Masser Rd., Frederick, MD 21702

Charlotte Hoover 7404 Willow Road, Nursing, Frederick, MD 21702

Pam Kehne 1632 Wall Dr., Pasadena, MD 21122

Betty Linton Sunrise Senior Living

990 Waterford Dr., Unit 206, Frederick, MD 21702

Baby Ivy Jean Stewart was born on 8-May at 19 3/4

inches and 6lbs 6oz. She is doing great and is healthy

as can be! I’m also feeling good. It went smoothly for

first time labor. Can’t wait for you to meet her as

well!! We will see you soon(ish)!

~ Diana & Bryce & Ivy Stewart

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Congregational Life: Upcoming Events - June and July SAVE THE DATESSAVE THE DATES

Congregational Life is looking for more volunteers to join the committee.

If you have a great idea/event to bring members together and would like to head that event, please

contact Gwen Edwards. Congregational Life is happy to help promote new ideas or events.

Thank you to everyone on the committee for your endless time, talents and financial contributions

you make to the church. We could not do what we do without you and your commitments.

It doesn't go unnoticed!

Annual Outdoor Worship Service and Potluck Picnic

Worship begins at 10:30 AM in the “Tabernacle” pavilion

Mt. Tabor Park 13544 Motters Station Rd., Rocky Ridge, MD

Please bring a side dish or dessert to share - hot dogs, hamburgers, and beverages will be provided by the church. A sign-up sheet is posted in the Good

Shepherd Room. RSVPs are appreciated so we can plan ahead.

DON’T dress up, and DO come prepared to get dirty!

Adults and children alike can enjoy the GIANT WOODEN SLIDE.

Carpooling may be available.

Please contact Pastor Rob if you need a ride, or to volunteer as a driver.

Join us! See you there!


Have you noticed how nice the Church grounds look?

Many thanks to Steve Failor for all your hard work

weeding, trimming, mulching, etc.

It is greatly appreciated!

Peter Abell’s Eagle Project

On Saturday’s June 8 & 15, from 9-3, the backyard will be filled with Boy Scouts and adults helping Peter to complete his

Eagle Project. He will be cleaning up the back yard, edging the gardens, and putting in a prayer garden.

Anyone interested in assisting or donating can get in contact with Peter at 250-440-4949 or [email protected]

News Around the Congregation

Mineral Point, Wisconsin Youth Group Sleeping Over at Grace on Friday, June 21

This is a youth group from Mineral Point, Wisconsin associated with Congregational UCC in

Mineral Point. About 21 teens and 6 adults will be using Grace UCC’s Good Shepherd Room

for over-night housing on Friday, June 21. Arriving around 8pm and leaving Sat., June 22

around 7am.

If you are able to serve as a Grace Hospitality Ambassador when they arrive that evening,

or provide a snack or breakfast item for this group please contact the church office or

contact Pastor Rob at [email protected]

Join us for VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 2019!Join us for VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 2019!Join us for VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 2019!

Wed-Fri, July 17-19th, 2019 -- 6-8 PM

Join us Wednesday at 5:30pm for a Hot Dog BBQ kick off!

Snacks ~ Crafts ~ Bible Lessons Snacks ~ Crafts ~ Bible Lessons Snacks ~ Crafts ~ Bible Lessons

Be a Super Hero! Bring a friend! FREE!FREE!FREE!

Vacation Bible School is Back at Grace!

SEE REGISTRATION FORM INSERT IN THIS NEWSLETTER. FILL OUT AND RETURN TO CHURCH OFFICE. OR, GO TO WEBSITE AT

WWW.GRUCC.COM FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION.


Mission, Outreach, and Volunteer Opportunities:

Frederick Community Action Agency’s

Soup Kitchen: Our next service date is Sunday, June 16

Volunteers from Grace Church serve at the Soup Kitchen on the 3rd Sunday of even months.

It's a rewarding mission experience and we always have fun. Won't you join us?

Contact Jerry Princler for more details or to sign up.

Or, you can go on your own...The Soup Kitchen is always in need of volunteers to staff the soup kitchen

and serve food to homeless individuals and needy families. Volunteers are needed M-F, 5-7pm to serve

prepared meals and then clean up. It is an enjoyable and rewarding volunteer activity that does not re-

quire any special skills. For more information, please contact Sarah McAleavy at 301-600-6263.

FCAA - Food Bank

On the third Sunday of every month, we dedicate the “Grace Groceries”

that have been collected in our little red wagon (in the narthex), and then

deliver them to the Frederick Foodbank. Thank you for your continued

generosity!

~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Religious Coalition’s

Emergency Family Shelter

Grace Church was unable to host the Emergency Family Shelter this past May due to the asbestos work

being done in the Church basement; however, Grace will be hosting again this coming August. Those

interested in volunteering should contact Carol Garrison or Trevor Addie ([email protected]).

~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Good Samaritan Fund is designated for emergency relief to members and friends of Grace

Church. Only the pastor and person in need know who receives assistance. Donations to the fund are

welcome at any time, in any amount. If you can help, please place a check in the offering plate made out

to Grace Church with "Good Samaritan Fund" on the memo line. Thank you!

NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS NEEDED,

for example: peanut butter ~ pasta ~ rice ~ spaghetti ~

tomato sauce ~ Cereal ~ canned fish ~ canned meats

Over 140

“Grace Groceries”

were collected

in April/May.

FACEBOOK -- Do you have photos from Grace Church events? If you would like to see them on the Grace Church Facebook page, please

e-mail them to [email protected].

Thank you! ~ Trevor Addie, Outreach Comm. Chair

mailto:[email protected]


For All the Saints

St Columba (June 9)

St. Columba 521-597, Born probably in Donegal Ireland of royal descent he studied at Mo-

ville under St. Finnian then in Leinster at the monastery of Clonard under another St. Finn-

ian. He was ordained before he was twenty-five and spent the next fifteen years preach-

ing and setting up foundations at Derry, Durrow, and Kells. Possibly because of a family

feud which resulted in the death of 3000 and for which he considered himself partly re-

sponsible he left Ireland at 42 and landed on the island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. There he built the mon-

astery which was to become world famous. With saints Canice and Comgall he spread the gospel to the Picts;

he also developed a monastic rule which many followed until the introduction of St. Benedicts. He died on Iona

and is also known as Colm, Colum and Columcille. Feast day is June 9.

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Johann Sebastian Bach (July 28th)

Johann Sebastian Bach was better known as a virtuoso organist than as a composer in his day.

His sacred music, organ and choral works, and other instrumental music had an enthusiasm

and seeming freedom that concealed immense rigor. Bach's use of counterpoint was brilliant

and innovative, and the immense complexities of his compositional style -- which often includ-

ed religious and numerological symbols that seem to fit perfectly together in a profound puzzle

of special codes -- still amaze musicians today. Many consider him the greatest composer of all

time.

Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685. He was taught to play the violin and harpsichord by his father, Johann Am-

brosius, a court trumpeter in the service of the Duke of Eisenach. Young Johann was not yet ten when his father

died, leaving him orphaned. He was taken in by his recently married oldest brother, Johann Christoph, who lived

in Ohrdruf. Because of his excellent singing voice, Bach attained a position at the Michaelis monastery at Lüne-

berg in 1700. His voice changed a short while later, but he stayed on as an instrumentalist. After taking a short-

lived post in Weimar in 1703 as a violinist, Bach became organist at the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt (1703-1707). His

relationship with the church council was tenuous as the young musician often shirked his responsibilities, prefer-

ring to practice the organ. One account describes a four-month leave granted Bach, to travel to Lubeck where he

would familiarize himself with the music of Dietrich Buxtehude. He returned to Arnstadt long after he was ex-

pected and much to the dismay of the council. He then briefly served at St. Blasius in Mühlhausen as organist,

beginning in June 1707, and married his cousin, Maria Barbara Bach, that fall. Bach composed his famous Tocca-

ta and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) and his first cantatas while in Mühlhausen, but quickly outgrew the musical

resources of the town. He next took a post for the Duke of Sachsen-Weimar in 1708, serving as court organist

and playing in the orchestra, eventually becoming its leader in 1714. He wrote many organ compositions during


IMPORTANT NEWS from FINANCE and PROPERTY BOARD

The kitchen/basement project is ongoing and the asbestos has been removed from the kitchen, and we will have another update soon from the contractor. It’s so hard to know so much work is going on without being able to go check in on its progress. A reminder that we will have no access to the basement whatsoever until the abatement processes are complete. We hope the project to be completed by early May. Other Items completed recently are plumbing repairs to the women restroom on the first floor, and additional repairs to the GSR floor tiles, and sprucing up of the front entrance. The broken pew on the left rear side of the church should be resolved soon. Later this summer Peter Abell will be doing his Eagle Scout project in the churches rear yard. This project will provide additional seating area, but should really spruce up the area and make it more inviting to visit, rather than just be an area that we walk through to get to the church. As always, if you notice something in the church that needs to be looked at, please contact me or any member of the commission. Thanks! Mark Edwards, Finance and Property Commission Chair

For All the Saints (cont’d)

this period, including his Orgel-Büchlein. Owing to politics between the Duke and his officials, Bach left Weimar

and secured a post in December 1717 as Kapellmeister at Cöthen. In 1720, Bach's wife suddenly died, leaving

him with four children (three others had died in infancy). A short while later, he met his second wife, soprano

Anna Magdalena Wilcke, whom he married in December 1721. She would bear 13 children, though only five

would survive childhood. The six Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046-51), among many other secular works,

date from his Cöthen years. Bach became Kantor of the Thomas School in Leipzig in May 1723 and held the post

until his death. It was in Leipzig that he composed the bulk of his religious and secular cantatas. Bach eventually

became dissatisfied with this post, not only because of its meager financial rewards, but also because of oner-

ous duties and inadequate facilities. Thus, he took on other projects, chief among which was the directorship of

the city's Collegium Musicum, an ensemble of professional and amateur musicians who gave weekly concerts, in

1729. He also became music director at the Dresden Court in 1736, in the service of Frederick Augustus II;

though his duties were vague and apparently few, they allowed him freedom to compose what he wanted. Bach

began making trips to Berlin in the 1740s, not least because his son Carl Philipp Emanuel served as a court musi-

cian there. In May 1747, the composer was warmly received by King Frederick II of Prussia, for whom he wrote

the gloriously abstruse Musical Offering (BWV 1079). Among Bach's last works was his 1749 Mass in B minor.

Besieged by diabetes, he died on July 28, 1750.


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Pride Interfaith Service at Grace UCC

Saturday, June 22nd -- 11 a.m. Join us on Saturday, June 22nd as we celebrate Frederick Pride!

The Day begins with an Interfaith Pride Service at Grace UCC at 11 AM. Our guest speaker will be JJ Warren, a United Methodist college student

from Sarah Lawrence College, whose impassioned speech at the 2019 UM General Confer-ence went viral on social media. Come join us as we celebrate the common faith we share and the affirmation of all People as God's beloved community!

Following the service, join us at the Carroll Creek Linear Park for Frederick Pride.

We are in need of volunteers to staff the Grace UCC table at Pride. Please contact Trevor Addie at [email protected].

Please consider giving 2 hours of your time to this worthy event!

http://www.grucc.com

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