Grace Church of Martha's Vineyard
  • WELCOME
    • Leadership
    • Contact Us
  • Online Sunday Services at Grace
    • May 22, 2022 6th Sunday of Easter
    • Sung Compline
    • May 15, 2022 5th Sunday of Easter
    • May 8, 2022 4th Sunday of Easter
    • May 1, 2022 3rd Sunday of Easter
  • Black History Month
  • Climate Change
  • Church and Faith
    • Annual Report 2022
    • Our Three-Year Plan
    • Education
    • Weddings
    • Mission of Grace and Who We Are
    • History of Grace Church
  • News
  • Photographs
  • Liturgies to Say at Home
    • Spiritual Communion
    • Morning Prayer
    • Daily Devotions
    • Noonday Prayer
    • Evening Prayer
    • Compline for nightly use
    • The Angelus
    • BCP Services
  • Lobster Rolls and More
    • Lobster Roll Volunteer Sign-up sheet
    • Summer Lobster Rolls
    • Island Food Pantry
  • Guidelines for Re-Gathering
    • Grace Church Guidelines & Background on Re-Gathering
  • Theology with the Rector
    • Bonhoeffer: "What is Church?"
    • Bonhoeffer: "The Church and the Jewish Question"
    • Bonhoeffer - The Fuehrer & the Younger Generation

Alleluia.   Christ is risen!
The Lord is risen indeed.  Alleluia!

Welcome to Grace Church

We wish you and your family all the joy and blessings of the Easter Season.

Join us for our 10:00am Sunday Service
The Bulletin for Sunday, May 22
Click here to make a Donation

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May 27 is the first Friday of our Grace Church
Lobster Roll Fundraiser for 2022
Click here to order!

When you place your order, please let us know
if you or anyone in your party has food allergies - thanks!

May 20 Covid Update

In order to fulfill our commitment to keep everyone as safe as we can in this current increase of covid-19, the Re-gathering Committee has made the following recommendations, effective immediately:
Please note that we have done all these successfully before.

General:  Masks continue to be required of everyone in the building

8:00 Service:  
•    No changes, except for the option/possibility of holding the service outdoors after Memorial Day if the 8am congregation wants to.

10:00am Service:  
•    Seating in every other pew;
•    Windows open during services
•    Communion will be in one kind only and we are going back to the individually wrapped wafers
•    I will bring the sacrament to those present (i.e. do not come to the Communion rail)
•    Coffee Hour in the Parish Hall is suspended for now; instead, coffee and hot water for tea will be available outside, by the playground entrance.
•  ​   Service will continue to be streamed on Zoom (link above)

Funerals, if any:
•    Masking required.
•    The deceased’s family has priority for seating in the Church;
•    Parishioners welcome to sit in Parish Hall
•    Service will be streamed online.

Choir:
•    No changes:  we will continue to rehearse, masked with the windows open, on Wednesdays at 5pm.

Tuesday School:
•    No changes

Meetings:
•    All meetings currently meeting at Grace Church will continue to do so; all participants are required to wear a mask while in Grace Church buildings.
•    All meetings are to have an online zoom component for those who do not feel safe attending in person.

Lobster Rolls
•    Are considered an essential ministry and will continue as planned.

The Re-gathering committee will continue to monitor the covid situation and will meet again next month to reassess where we are.


Easter Day Bulletin
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Easter Vigil Bulletin
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Good Friday Bulletin
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Maundy Thursday Bulletin
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Click here to make a donation to help 
Episcopal Relief & Development  provide
 humanitarian assistance to people fleeing the violence in Ukraine. 


Grace Church is open for
in person Sunday worship at our 8:00am service and at our
hybrid 10:00am service of Holy Communion.

​Please note that masks are required at both services. 
​We are singing  hymns,
and we have resumed Coffee Hour after the 10:00 service!


You are invited to join us in person at 8:00am on Sunday or in person or online at 10:00am
for our Sunday services 
or
to click on the link to the bulletin and
 say the service at a time convenient with your schedule.
We invite you to sign up for our mailing list by clicking anywhere on this line.

Community Suppers Update

Community Suppers have ended
for the season!


Thank you to all our Volunteers who helped shop for, prepare, distribute, and deliver
our Friday Night Meals this year!


Thank you to all of our Guests!
We love cooking for you!
We wish you a good Spring, Summer, and Fall, and we look forward to seeing you next Winter!


This year, we prepared 780 meals at Grace Church and 160 meals for the overnight shelter:
940 meals in all.

​Thank you, and God bless you.

Regathering Update 
March 18, 2022 

  • Masks:  Masks will continue to be required for everyone inside Grace Church’s buildings, and will continued to be required for liturgical services. 
  • Hybrid:  Grace Church will continue to make all of its meetings and the 10am Sunday Service available online as a Zoom meeting.
  • Seating:  Grace Church will continue to ask those attending services in person to sit in every other pew. 
  • The pew in front of the organ console will be the designated seating area of 6’ distance, as required by the Diocese.  Additional 6’ distanced seating will be available in the Parish Hall.
  • The Choir will continue to be seated throughout the Church and, in order to make more room, two of the pews to the left of the organ console will be removed and placed in the Parish Hall.
  • Coffee Hour:  Will continue as a simple Coffee Hour; masks are to be worn in the Parish Hall except while eating or drinking.

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Click the link below for the Annual Meeting Report:

2022 Annual Report

Thank you for visiting our website and for joining us for worship.  
​The bulletin for the 10:00am service continues to be online for you to say the service individually.
Meetings are beginning to be held in the Parish Hall and Andersen Room - call for more info.
​508 693-0332

Click here for information on Re-Gathering for In-Person Worship
Thank you for your patience, understanding, adaptability, and resilience over this past and difficult year.
We look forward to seeing you in-person or online.   
God bless you, and God keep you safe.
​The Rev. Stephen Harding, Rector

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We welcome all who would like to experience Grace Church as a living faith community.  
Based on our core values, expressed in our baptismal Covenant, “to seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our neighbor as our selves” and “to strive for justice and peace among all peoples, respecting the dignity of every human being”, Grace Church is to serve residents and visitors of Martha’s Vineyard in a way that is nourishing in worship and spirituality, ample in food and social programs, integral to Martha’s Vineyard, with a perspective and a voice in the world.

​We invite you to join us for any and all of our programs, events, and services.

​God bless you,
The Reverend Stephen Harding, Rector
For the Congregation, Wardens, and Vestry of Grace Church


Our office hours are 9:00am - 3:00pm, Monday through Thursday.
Messages on our office phone will be checked regularly. 
For further information or to learn more about the Parish, 
please call the office at 508-693-0332; 
​or click below to email us.
Click here to contact us by email

Follow us on Facebook:  Grace Church MV   or  Grace Church Lobster Rolls
Follow us on Instagram:   @gracechurchgraffiti

Grace Church is located on the corners of Woodlawn and William Street in Vineyard Haven. Parking is located along both streets and behind the rectory on Franklin Street. Handicapped parking space is at the side entrance.



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   Grace Episcopal Church of Martha's Vineyard Mailing Address:
    P O Box 1197
​    34 Woodlawn Avenue
    Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
   (508) 693-0332
Click here to contact us by email:  www.graceepiscopalmv.org/email-us.html
  • WELCOME
    • Leadership
    • Contact Us
  • Online Sunday Services at Grace
    • May 22, 2022 6th Sunday of Easter
    • Sung Compline
    • May 15, 2022 5th Sunday of Easter
    • May 8, 2022 4th Sunday of Easter
    • May 1, 2022 3rd Sunday of Easter
  • Black History Month
  • Climate Change
  • Church and Faith
    • Annual Report 2022
    • Our Three-Year Plan
    • Education
    • Weddings
    • Mission of Grace and Who We Are
    • History of Grace Church
  • News
  • Photographs
  • Liturgies to Say at Home
    • Spiritual Communion
    • Morning Prayer
    • Daily Devotions
    • Noonday Prayer
    • Evening Prayer
    • Compline for nightly use
    • The Angelus
    • BCP Services
  • Lobster Rolls and More
    • Lobster Roll Volunteer Sign-up sheet
    • Summer Lobster Rolls
    • Island Food Pantry
  • Guidelines for Re-Gathering
    • Grace Church Guidelines & Background on Re-Gathering
  • Theology with the Rector
    • Bonhoeffer: "What is Church?"
    • Bonhoeffer: "The Church and the Jewish Question"
    • Bonhoeffer - The Fuehrer & the Younger Generation