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News and thoughts
Children’s Sunday School
Kids age 2 through 12th grade are welcome to join us for Sunday School March 7, 14 and 21. From 9:30-10:15 am, we’ll be learning about some of the really upside down things Jesus taught. For instance, “happy are you when people spread lies about you” or “if you want to be great, you have to be the servant of all.” Why did Jesus say such…
Special Valentine’s Service on Sunday
Please join us for a special Valentine’s Day service this Sunday, 10:30 am. We’ll be celebrating God’s love and learning about St. Valentine. Hope to see you!
U.C.C. Women’s Week
U.C.C. Women’s Week begins this Sunday, February 7. We will be celebrating wonderful women of faith in our worship service at 10:30. A special sermon will be preached about one of the heroines of the Bible. Please plan to join us and remember to celebrate the Godly women in your life!
Haiti Relief
Thanks to everyone who gave so generously in our recent offerings for Haiti. We collected $1500 which will be sent to Habitat for Humanity International. They will be providing temporary and new permanent structures to those devastated by this earthquake. Please continue to pray for the people of Haiti.
Service of Remembrance
This Sunday morning, January 10, we will celebrate our annual service of remembrance remembering the members and friends of Grace Church who have gone to their eternal rest in the last year. Please join us to celebrate their lives.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
I know this is a little late, but don’t forget to come out to our 11:00PM Christmas Eve service, a beautiful way to greet the arrival of Christmas Day. I believe we are the only one in Lancaster anymore at 11:00PM. And remember, “to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.” (Luke 2:11, NRSV) …
Celebrate Thanksgiving with Grace
This Sunday, November 22, 10:30 am, our youth will be leading a Thanksgiving worship service. Kelsey Jones will be preaching a sermon entitled, “Living Thanksgiving.” I’ve read it and it’s great! Hope you’ll join us!
Christians are Turkeys
Last Thanksgiving, while driving home to my parents, I heard a story on National Public Radio explaining why we call turkeys “turkeys.†After all, turkeys are indigenous to North America, so why are they named after a country in Eastern Europe? It seems it all began when turkeys were taken to England from the Americas in the 1500s. At this time, the English called…
The 80th (approximately) Chicken Noodle Supper!
It’s November and you know what that means. It’s Chicken Noodle Supper time! Since at least 1926, we’ve been serving up delicious chicken noodles, divine cole slaw, taste-bud tingling mashed potatoes and sweet-tooth satisfying desserts on a Saturday in November. This year the date…
Blood drive again
It is that time again. We’ll be having a blood drive on Wed, 28 Oct from 1-7PM. Call Julie Walter at the church to schedule a time to donate. We had a great turn out for the “emergency” drive the Red Cross asked us to have in late August, and we’re hoping for the same this time.