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Red Cross Blood Drive: March 4

Did you know?

  • Every two seconds someone in the United States needs blood.
  • One pint of blood (the approximate amount given in a donation) can be used to help up to three people.
  • About one-third of the US population is eligible to give blood.
  • Five million patients in the US need blood every year.

On March 4, we host a Red Cross Blood drive at Grace from 8 am – 1 pm.  Sign up to donate on Sundays at Grace, by calling the office at 684-5215, or by going here:

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You may use the “rapid pass” and save time on the day of your donation.  Go to the Red Cross website to finish the pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online before coming to your appointment.

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Lent 2018: I Believe

Our Lenten theme this year is, “I Believe.”  During the six Sundays of Lent we look at the Apostles’ Creed and what it means to say we believe it.  We also look at what it means to say, “I believe,” about anything.

Worship loosely follows along with Adam Hamilton’s book, Creed, which examines the Apostles’ Creed.  You are invited to join one of several book study groups or to purchase the book and read it on your own.  There is more information about all of this throughout the e-news and Grace This Week.

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Cookies!

 

It’s time to bake and deliver cookies to our community. This is the fifth year for our cookie initiative, and we’re excited to again offer a blessing to those who work in our city.  In early February a bulletin board goes up by the coffee bar. You sign up to bake two dozen cookies, or you sign up for a location to deliver them.  Locations include places like: fire stations, public library, the hospital ER, and more.

If you sign up to bring cookies, you do so on either February 11 or 18. You bring them to the church kitchen and volunteers package them up for delivery. On those same days volunteers pick them up and deliver them during the week.

This is a small and valuable way for us to show some love to our community!

 

Morning Worship

Bus Tickets and Morning Worship: February 15, 20118

Each month Grace distributes bus tickets to people in our community.  This happens on the 15th of the month, or if the 15th is a weekend we meet the Friday before. Volunteers and those receiving tickets begin to gather around 6:30 am in the Grace Alcove. Guests are greeted with smiles, coffee, water, and a place to sit. Tickets are distributed at 7:50 am.

We invite all guests to a brief worship service with communion in the Great Room at 7:35 am.

We can always use volunteers to help with set-up, clean-up, and ticket distribution.  Want to help?  Contact Kirk Anderson, kirk@mygpc.org or 684-5215.

Yellow Bag Sundays

Yellow Bag Sundays: February 2018

Each month on the first Sunday you’re encouraged to take home a re-usable yellow grocery bag, put some non-perishable items in it, and bring it back the next week, or soon thereafter.  In February our donations go to the Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church food pantry.  Consider bringing cereal or canned vegetables.