Grace Presbyterian is a Christian Church. This statement shouldn’t surprise you.  We’re a Christian Church, yet occasionally Gnosticism slips into our lives. Gnosticism is the ancient Greek religion that, among other things, teaches that the body is bad and the soul is good.

God made humans and calls us good. God chose to take on flesh and live among us as a human. We know that there is much to celebrate about being human, about having bodies. As Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor says, “Matter matters to God.”

We are a congregation rich in experts when it comes to bodies.

In fact, we don’t have time to fit in all of our experts in four weeks. During the month of June you’re invited to hear from doctors in our congregation as they share about different aspects of being human.  This series is at 10 am in Sunday mornings in the Great Room.

• June 5:             Ravi Bajaj and Tom Bloxham
• June 12:           Francie Ekengren
• June 19:           Hugh Ekengren and Joyce Crane
• June 26:           Ron Brown and Patty Wyatt-Harris

It’s Global Leadership Summit time: time to mark your calendars and make reservations for Thursday and Friday, August 11-12, 2016. Join with people across the country to learn and grow as a Christ follower, to be inspired and uplifted, to be

challenged to use the gifts God gave you.

Commit now to set aside two days so that God can do powerful things in you and the community during the 2016 Global Leadership Summit, Thursday and Friday, August 11-12, 2016. This year the Summit is downtown at Century II.

Speakers include:

• Bill Hybels, Senior Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
• Melinda Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Patrick Lencioni, Leadership Consultant and Best-selling Author
• Alan Mulally, Former CEO and President of Ford Motor Company
• Wilfred De Jesús, Sr. Pastor, New Life Covenant Church
• John Maxwell, Leadership Expert and many more!

Additional spaces can be reserved for $169. Scholarships are available.

Red Cross Blood Drive: June 5

• Every two seconds someone in the US needs blood.
• One pint of blood (the approximate amount given in a donation) can be used to help up to three people.
• About 1/3 of the United States population is eligible to give blood.
• Five million patients in the United States need blood every year.

On June 5, we host a Red Cross Blood drive at Grace from 8 am – 2 pm. All donors receive an Honor Your Heroes Red Cross T-shirt.  Sign up to donate on Sundays at Grace, by calling the office – 684-5215, or:

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