Entries by marburch@mygpc.org

IGNITE Mission Trip Car Wash 2021

Sunday, June 6, is our Annual Mission Trip Car Wash. This year’s money raised goes to support 27 youth and guides on their Mission Trip to Copperhill, Tennessee. We partner with TEAMeffort to serve the surrounding area with much needed home repairs and painting. Youth are challenged and pushed outside of their comfort zones allowing […]

Mission Spotlight: Fisher Gift

Longtime Grace member Lois Fisher died in 2020 and left a financial gift to the church. The gift was to be used by the church Mission Distribution Team, a team Lois was part of for many years. The gift was $84,000, and the team spent time all winter and spring discerning how to share half […]

PCUSA Per Capita

Each year Grace is financially assessed for each member of our congregation.  This assessment is done by our presbytery and is called per capita.  Per capita is not a tax.  Nothing happens to us if we don’t give (or pay) it, but we do give it because it strengthens the Presbyterian Church.  What we give […]

Memorial Garden

Grace Presbyterian has a memorial garden on the east side of the building. The garden includes benches, a fountain, and a monument.  The memorial garden may be used for burial of ashes.  The monument lists names of those whose ashes are buried there. If you want to learn more about the memorial garden contact Catherine […]

Pentecost Offering

Pentecost is Sunday, May 23.  Each year we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and as part of our celebration we receive the Pentecost Offering.  The Pentecost Offering supports ministries with children and youth. Sixty percent of the offering goes to the national PCUSA, and 40% stays in our community. This year we split […]