Dear Middletown Reformed Church Family and Friends, Grace and peace to you in this season of Ordinary Time! Beloved MRC people, we have been given a wonderful opportunity in the areas of learning and serving. This year we will have an intern at our church, Grace Modla. Raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, Grace is currently a Member-in-Discernment in the United Church of Christ (UCC). She is a 2nd year seminarian in the Master of Divinity program at Drew Theological School, Madison, NJ, with the eventual goal of ordination in the UCC. Grace is an award-winning mixed media artist. Born in Northern Italy, her family emigrated to the US when she was a child, and thankfully discovered that art was a way to bridge language barriers. Whether expressing Nature, Birds, Angels, Figures, and Abstracts, her body of work explores the spaces where the physical and spiritual worlds intersect and play with vibrant color and a dreamlike timelessness. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, theaters, solo shows, juried group shows, fine arts festivals, and private collections in the States, Canada, and Europe, and can be seen at gracemodla.com. In gratitude for the joy of being your pastor and the holy call of loving you, Pastor Trish |