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November 21, 2019
This Week and Beyond
38th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee (Nov. 22-23) This year, GSL is hosting the diocesan community throughout Church and School spaces. Our parish delegation will be the clergy plus six lay delegates, Grant Adams, Linda Khumalo, Debbie McCanless, Chapman Morrow, Lee Nix, Simon Wadsworth, and three lay alternates, Anna Holtzclaw, Ruthie Lentz, and Bruce Williams. For more information and to attend as a guest, visit https://episwtn.org/2019-convention.
Annual Parish Meeting (Nov. 24) All members and newcomers are invited and encouraged to attend the Annual Meeting of the Parish (9:15-10:15 a.m.) on Sunday, Nov. 24, to undertake key business matters, including the election of the Vestry Class of 2022, parish life highlights since the last annual meeting, review of a 2020 operating budget draft, and a state-of-the-parish address from the rector. The slate of Vestry nominees may be found here: www.gracestlukes.org/news/vestry-nominees2019
Thanksgiving Day Eucharist Join us Thanksgiving morning at 10 a.m. as we worship together and give thanks for all our many blessings. We will be treated to full choir and trumpet. Thanksgiving Day also marks our “birthday” at GSL. Grace and St. Luke’s churches joined for the first combined service on Thanksgiving Day, 1940. Read more about our founding at www.gracestlukes.org/events/thanksgiving-day-service.