Entries by marburch@mygpc.org

Food Donations

Each month Grace invites you to contribute to our “Yellow Bag” Sundays.  Yellow reusable grocery bags are available, and you are encouraged to fill them with the item of the month and return them to the church.  In March you generously donated items for the International Rescue Committee (IRC). We aren’t in the building in […]

Congregational Letter After Easter

April 15, 2020 Dear Grace Community, Christ is Risen! In our tradition we celebrate Easter as a season of 50 days. If there were ever a year we needed to hold onto Easter, this is it. We cling to the promise of our risen Lord. We’ve now worshiped online as a congregation for five Sundays. […]

Easter Crosses 2020

We did not gather together at Grace for Easter worship in 2020.  Instead we worshiped online together.  Since we did not create together the Grace Easter cross members of our community created their own crosses at home.

Rituals

In a time of uncertainty, change, and loss, rituals can be a great help.  There are rituals for big things in life: weddings, funerals, and birthdays, and we can create rituals for anything. As a pastor, I have created and/or led rituals for home blessings, for friends moving, for leaving a home, and more.  In […]

One Great Hour of Sharing

Each year we receive the PCUSA One Great Hour of Sharing offering at Palm Sunday and Easter. This offering goes to support three areas of ministry in the national PCUSA: The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance The Presbyterian Hunger Program The Self-Development of People program. At the end of March 2020, the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Program set […]