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Operation Holiday Volunteer Day: December 12

We need your help! Every year Operation Holiday (Interfaith Ministries) serves over 12,000 people. Operation Holiday provides food, coats, and gifts for families in need.

On Saturday, December 12, we sort donations to Operation Holiday. We did this two years ago and sorted coats and thousands of canned goods. It’s a fun, active way to serve and do something good for people of all ages. Children and youth (with an adult) are welcome.

There are two shifts on December 12: 10 am – 1 pm or 1 pm – 4 pm. Call the church office to sign-up. The volunteer site is 6225 E. Kellogg (the old Davis-Moore dealership between Edgemoor and Woodlawn).

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We Can Help Our Neighbors in Need Have a Warm Holiday & Winter

Through Operation Holiday, Inter-Faith Ministries expects to serve 14,000 of our neighbors in need this December with the gifts of coats and other warm items, canned foods, and toys all shared by our community.  We are part of this gift giving.

From Nov. 15 through Dec. 13, please bring gifts of warm coats for adults, infants and toddlers, clean blankets, and warm hats and scarves, gloves and mittens to Church and place them in Inter-Faith Ministries’ Operation Holiday boxes near the North door and near the coffee bar hallway area.  (Coats for infants through toddlers are always in short supply.)

Gifts of gently used coats can be taken directly to In The Bag Cleaners for dry cleaning at no charge. They also deliver them to Operation Holiday.

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Special Music in December

Advent and Christmas is a wonderful time for music, and we have several special offerings planned.  All of these are great opportunities to come together, and invite friends to join, in praising God and celebrating the season.  May all be to the Glory of God!

We have three Advent Concerts on Sundays during the month of December from 10:15-10:40 am in the sanctuary.  Each group also helps lead music in the 11 am worship service.

  • December 6 – Mountain Dulcimer and Fiddle, Erin Lewis and Amber Rogers
  • December 13 – Woodwind Trio
  • December 20 – Epic Brass

Donna Hetrick, our Director of Music/Organist, presents an organ recital of Advent and Christmas music on Sunday, December 6 at 3 pm.  This is in the Chapel in the Administration Building at Bethel College in N. Newton, KS.  The recital is free, and all are invited.

On Sunday, December 13, our Wind and String Ensembles combines for our 9 am worship service. They offer a variety of Christmas Carols for worship. If you’re interested in playing with us, please contact Donna Hetrick at Donna@mygpc.org.

Say Grace Race

Race with Grace, Then Feed Your Face! November 26, 2015

GraceMed Health Clinic is hosting its 5th annual ‘Say Grace’ Thanksgiving Day 5K Race on Thursday, November 26 at 9:30am. Enjoy all your holiday indulgences GUILT FREE by joining us on Thanksgiving morning for a 5K run, walk, or stroll with your family through one of Wichita’s most historic neighborhoods.

Last year’s event raised nearly $50,000 for GraceMed Health Clinic. To register, visit either GoRun Wichita locations or click below.

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Click on Join a Team and enter Race with Grace.

Several team trophies are up for grabs:

  • The best dressed gang of turkeys
  • The most participants
  • The fastest team
  • The best team name.

Come join us for a fun morning! Contact Christy Vavra or Bill Hetrick for questions, or contact the Grace office, 684-5215.

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Worship, Installation, Lunch: Sunday, November 22, 2015

Sunday, November 22, is a special day at Grace. There is one worship service at 10:30 am in the sanctuary. During the service Catherine Neelly Burton will be installed as the senior pastor by a commission from the Presbytery of Southern Kansas. Up to this point, Catherine has been the designated senior pastor.

In addition we are joined in worship by sisters and brothers from the Presbyterian churches in Chase, Kansas, and Caldwell, Kansas. Scott Randle, an elder in our congregation, preaches once a month at the churches in Chase and Caldwell. We are excited about the ways God is using Scott and look forward to worshiping with people from these communities. Both the Chase and Caldwell churches are small with around 20 people in worship each week.

Following worship, everyone is invited to lunch in the Great Room. This is the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and every year we gather for lunch on this day. Lunch is $8 for adults and $3 for children 11 and under with a family cap of $19.