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Upcoming Events

 

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS

 

 

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Vacation Bible School

At Grace Reformed UCC

 

Saturday, July 12

9:00 am – 12:00 noon

 

Theme: “Christmas in July”

 

Everyone is invited to participate in a “one-day” bible school on Saturday, July 12, from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon to celebrate Christmas in July!  For children ages 5 through 12, there will be music, bible stories, crafts, games and more!  For teens and adults, there will be a Crismon workshop lead by Mandy Luck.  Each person will make a Crismon ornament for the church Christmas tree or for your own Christmas tree. 

Please, call Peggy Kurt, church secretary if you plan to attend Vacation Bible School.  464 - 4421

 

There will be refreshments for everyone, …  and at 12:00, … we will have a hot dog cookout.  Please invite your family, friends, and neighbors to join us for a wonderful day of fun and fellowship!

 

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July … Worship Services … in the Fellowship Hall

 

Your favorite hymns will be sung at our casual worship services (11 am) in the Fellowship Hall during July.

 

 

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Other Upcoming Events and Meetings

 

July Events

July Sundays at 11 am                           Worship Services … Your favorite hymns will be

                                                                 sung at our casual worship services in the

                                                                 Fellowship Hall during July.

 

                                                                 

July 12th at 9 am                                    Vacation Bible School    Everyone is invited to

                                                                 participate in a “one-day” bible school on Saturday,

                                                                 July 12, from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon to celebrate

                                                                 Christmas in July!  For children ages 5 through 12,

                                                                 there will be music, bible stories, crafts, games and

                                                                 more!  For teens and adults, there will be a

                                                                 Crismon workshop lead by Mandy Luck.  Each

                                                                  person will make a Crismon ornament for the

                                                                  church Christmas tree or for your own Christmas

                                                                  tree.  There will be refreshments for everyone,

                                                                  and at 12:00, we will have a hot dog cookout.  

                                                                  Please invite your family, friends, and neighbors

                                                                  to join us for a wonderful day of fun and

                                                                  fellowship!

 

                                                                  Please, call Peggy Kurt, church secretary if you

                                                                  plan to attend Vacation Bible School.  464 - 4421

 

 

 

July 15th at 11 am                                   Grace Church will prepare a meal for the Corner

                                                                  Table.   If you would be willing to help … please 

                                                                  call Peggy at the Church Office (828-464-4421).

 

August Events

 

November Events

 

November 2nd at 11 am                      La Catrina String Quartet – See information

                                                               located at the bottom of this page.

                                                               (www.lacatrinaquartet.com)

 

***   Reminder   ***

 

Sunday School Classes – 9:45 to 10:40 am

Two Classes

 

Chapel Class taught by Angela Phillips and Jackie Hendricks and Parlor Class taught by Larry Bolick and Mandy Luck

 

June—August 2008  “Images of Christ”  A study of images of Christ in Hebrews, the Gospels and in Us

 

A children class is also provided as well as a worship nursery.

Wednesday Bible Study

12 noon -1 pm  Taught by Pastor Jim Luck  Book Study  Don’t Know Much About the Bible  by Kenneth Davis

Choir Practice

Choir Practices Every Wednesday Night at 6:30 in the choir room - come make your voice be heard!  Bell Choir practice at 7:30 pm.

African Drum Circle

African Drum Circle meets at 6:30 pm on the 1st and 3rd Sundays.

Volleyball

Volleyball on Thursday nights.  Pizza at 6:00 and volleyball will start at 7PM.

 

Women’s Walking Group

Women’s Walking Group every Monday Evening.  We will meet in the church gym parking lot at 6:30 PM.

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La Catrina String Quartet

http://www.lacatrinaquartet.com/about.htm

 Grace Church

Sunday, November 2nd   - 11 am

 

Founded in 2001, the La Catrina Quartet has a triple mission: to work closely with living composers in order to promote the performance of new music, to promote Mexican and Latin- American art music and to perform the masterworks of the string quartet repertoire. Its members have played as soloists with a variety of orchestras in Mexico and the United States and given recitals in Japan, England, the United States, and Mexico.

Currently the Quartet-in-Residence of the Western Piedmont Symphony and the Chamber Music Festival of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the La Catrina Quartet has already given multiple world premieres of works written for them, such as Our Hands Were Tightly Clenched, a string quartet by composer Zae Munn, published by Arsis Press and premiered by them in 2003 at Chicago’s College of Performing Arts. They have recorded works by Mexican composer Germán Romero, under the Quindecim label, and collaborated with several other artists, including a recording of Mozart’s clarinet quintet with renowned Cuban clarinetist Alfredo Valdés-Brito.

They have received important awards and recognitions, such as Western Michigan University’s All University Research and Creative Scholar Award. At Kent State University, where they completed a master of performance degree in chamber music, the Miami String Quartet invited them to perform Mendelssohn’s octet, to showcase the accomplishments of Kent State University’s string department.

In the summer of 2005, they premiered works by composers Tom Janson and John Ferrito at the Kent Blossom Music Festival as part of a grant to promote the works of outstanding Ohio composers. Because of their brilliant performance at the festival, they were invited to offer a chamber music master class the following summer. On November 2005, they were semifinalists at the fourth International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition.

The La Catrina Quartet performs regularly at San Miguel de Allende’s chamber music series, Pro Música, and last fall they were in residency for two weeks in Hickory, North Carolina, where they were featured in the Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics series as part of a year-long search, dubbed "The Battle of the Bows," that culminated with their appointment as Quartet-in-Residence of that orchestra.

Some of this year’s activities have included their participation in the highly competitive Association of Performing Arts Presenters 2007 convention in New York City, which concluded with a performance in Carnegie Hall showcasing them as one of the "next generation of classical stars." This summer they conducted a two-week residency for the Chamber Music Festival of San Miguel de Allende, where they collaborated with the Brentano Quartet for a performance of the Mendelsohnn octet. Prior to their San Miguel de Allende residency, they began an ambitious two-week chamber music festival for kids ages 5-18 at Kent State University (for detailed information, click here). Recipients of the Bascom Little Fund Grant, which is given to outstanding artists to promote the creative endeavor of composers from Ohio, the La Catrina Quartet will release a compact disc in the fall of 2008. Next season they will be featured in concert series throughout the US and Mexico.

 

 

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