Belvedere Chamber Music Festival

June 21-24

The 17th Annual Belvedere Chamber Music Festival will be at Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church June 21–24, 2023. Concerts are each evening Wednesday through Saturday at 7 and on Friday and Saturday afternoons at 3. This festival has been presented each year at Grace-St. Luke’s since 2007. It is produced by Luna Nova Music (www.lunanova.org) for the purpose of featuring masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as new works by young, aspiring composers. The festival features twenty performers from Memphis and around the world. Some of the composers featured in this year’s festival are Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, Piazzolla, and Poulenc, as well as many others. Concerts last approximately an hour with no intermission. All concerts are free and open to the public. There will be an opening reception in Trezevant Hall after the concert on Wednesday night. All of the specific program details are at belvederefestival.org and by emailing lunanovamusic@gmail.com or calling its director, Patricia Gray, at 901-493-0958. Complete videos of all the recent festival performances are available at: belvederefestival.org/video. html. Please come and invite friends and neighbors.

GSL Daytime Book Group Summer Reading List

Get a head start on reading for the 2023–2024 Grace-St. Luke’s (GSL) Daytime Book Group. The book group meets on the second Thursday of the month, September through May from 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. at GSL. Bring your lunch if you like. No obligations or requirements, just show up if you read the book, are thinking of reading the book, or just want some nice company who loves books. For further information or to add your name to the mailing list, contact Janie Morris or Carol Ann Mallory via Realm (gracestlukes.org/realm) or through the church office (901-272-7425).

2023-2024 Book List gracestlukes.org/gsl-daytime-book-group

September 5 Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

October 3 Horse by Geraldine Brooks Horse

November 7 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

December 5 Memphis by Tara Stringfellow

January 2 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer

February 6 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

March 5 The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

April 2 The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

May 7 Amy and lsabelle by Elizabeth Strout

The Episcopal Churchmen of Tennessee

Public Theology: Lively Faith in Casual Conversation, June, July, August. Join a member of the clergy and your fellow GSL members for informal conversation about faith and life in a laid-back, casual environment. On Thursdays, June 8, July 13, and August 10, we’ll gather in a quiest space of a local establishment starting at 5:30 p.m. The conversation will continue for an hour or so. No reservations or sign-up needed, just show up! For more details, including each topic, visit gracestlukes.org/public-theology

Vacation Bible School 2023: ReNew: The Green VBS

Dates: June 28 | July 5 | July 12 | July 19

Sign up: tinyurl.com/GSL2023VBS gracestlukes.org/vacation-bible-school

Join us this summer as we dig (pun intended) into the Parable of the Sower from Mark’s Gospel. There is a deep connection between God and creation, one that we forget at our peril. Jesus used many agricultural metaphors to teach us about God and our responsibilities to our communities. This year GSL and Calvary Episcopal Churches are joining together to offer ReNew VBS. ReNew is a curriculum that empowers kids in grades PreK–Grade 5 to grow in faith, have fun, and change the world. Each day, kids will explore Jesus’ Parable of the Sower with three age-appropriate activities that help kids learn how to care for God’s creation. Experience the change your kids can make today!

VBS will be on Wednesday nights from 5:30–8 p.m. and a kid friendly dinner will be provided each night. Rising JK through 5th graders are welcome to attend. The cost is $10 a night, with a family maximum $25 per night. This year we will offer a 4-day package at $30 dollars per child, with a $90 family max. While summer schedules are busy, and the dates for this year were announced later than hoped, we hope parents and volunteers will make every effort to attend. The lessons, while being able to stand alone, are the most impactful as a whole. Adult and youth assistants are needed (a special gift awaits all who serve!)

Anthony Calzia Director of Children & Family Ministry

901-252-6321 acalzia@gracestlukes.org

Generations of Generosity

Giving comes in so many forms—sharing time, funds, expertise, and presence are all ways our parishioners contribute to the life of our church. The Beatty family is an exceptional example of this kind of generosity that has extended over three generations and counting. Many of you have seen the portrait of the Rt. Rev. Troy Beatty which hangs in the Peete conference room. Bishop Beatty first served as rector of Grace Church where he was described as having “made a place for himself in the hearts of all his parishioners as well as in the civic life of Memphis.” In 1919 he was elected coadjutor and consecrated bishop at Grace Church. Following in his father’s footsteps of service, Troy Beatty Jr. served on the vestry of Grace Church and stewarded the parish as senior warden through the tumultuous time that led to the merger of Grace and St. Luke’s parishes. A friend characterized Mr. Beatty as “unselfish in leadership, intense in enthusiasm, and steadfast in perseverance.” He went on to serve no fewer than 5 times as senior warden over 50 years of stalwart membership at Grace and Grace-St. Luke’s.

Tina Beatty McWhorter inherited her father and grandfather’s community spirit and dedicated leadership. A Memphian through and through, she majored in economics at Rhodes College and received a master’s degree in teaching from the University of Memphis. She worked at IBM but is remembered most fondly by her many students for the years spent teaching mathematics and computer sciences at Grace-St. Luke’s School, St. Mary’s School, and Hutchison School.

The Beatty family’s foundational support of our parish community will now extend for another generation and beyond thanks to a most generous gift from Mrs. McWhorter’s estate. Her gift to the Grace-St. Luke’s endowment fund will provide continued opportunities for congregational development and support programming for all ages for years to come.

The Grace-St. Luke’s endowment exists because people like you, who care deeply about our parish, continue to share what you have in support of our community. All gifts to the endowment, whether large or small, provide the firm foundation that helps our church thrive in this generation and the next. Learn more about The Cornerstone Society at gracestlukes.org/plannedgiving. We’re so grateful to be supported by givers like the Beatty family who share their time, money, ideas, and presence to make Grace-St. Luke’s “a thriving community of hope, belonging, and healing through worship, parish life, and service, and who rejoices in the love of Jesus to transform the world.”

Chapman Morrow

Membership and Stewardship Associate

901-252-6328 | cmorrow@gracestlukes.org