October Worship Schedule

9 am         Worship in the Great Room

10 am       Education and Fellowship

11 am       Worship in the Sanctuary

Worship at 9 am is in the Great Room and is led musically by our band.  The style is less formal than the 11 am service.  The 11 am service is in the Sanctuary and is led musically by our choirs.  The style is more traditional.

Sunday, October 14, is the Wichita Prairie Fire Marathon. The marathon and half marathon run by Grace, impacting traffic, and giving us an opportunity to share joy with the community.  On this day there is one service at 10 am on the lawn.  There is no Sunday School, but nursery is available.

We have Sunday School for people of all ages on Sundays: October 7, 21, and 28.

Children and Youth

  • Children ages 0-Pre-K

A nursery is available all morning from 8:50 – 12:15. From 10 – 10:45 Colissa Fry leads a Sunday School lesson for these children.

  • Kindergarten – 2nd Grade

Kindergarten – 2nd grade meets in room B10 (in the basement) also known as the Foundation Station.

  • 3rd – 6th Grades

3rd, 4th, and 5th graders meet in Tower Room (on the 2nd floor).  This year 6th graders join this class as mentors for the younger students.

  • Youth

7-12th graders meet in the Youth Center (downstairs)

Adults

There are three options for adults to participate in Sunday School:

October 7

  • Love and Logic – Meets in the Parlor

Cindy Dethloff and Jennifer Snook team up to lead another Love and Logic class. The Love and Logic philosophy can fit any relationship, and the focus of this class is on parenting. Love and Logic helps parents raise self-confident, motivated children who are motivated for the real world.

  • Bible 101 – Meets in Room 101

Bible 101 is an opportunity to dig into scripture.  Each week we take a different book of the Bible and give a 101 summary of it.  For five weeks Martin Burch teaches on I and II Samuel and Judges.

  • Steamer Class: Attend Bible 101

October 14

  • No Sunday School – Marathon activities on the lawn

October 21 – 28

  • Love and Logic – Meets in the Parlor

Cindy Dethloff and Jennifer Snook team up to lead another Love and Logic class.  The Love and Logic philosophy can fit any relationship, and the focus of this class is on parenting.  Love and Logic helps parents raise self-confident, motivated children who are motivated for the real world.

  • Happy? What is it and How to Find It – Room 101

Happy? What It Is and How to Find It by Matt Miofsky answers the question of how we can find lasting happiness in our lives. The book defines what happiness looks like according to the Bible and then describes ways that we can achieve happiness through relationships, a forgiving lifestyle, living in the present, feeling gratitude, and learning to release control.

Matt Miofsky explores these concepts through some unexpected biblical texts, but his basic theology is sound: it is only when we turn to God that we find lasting happiness.

The class meets for four weeks.  A book is available for purchase for $10.  The book will enhance the classes, but it is not required.

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Financial Peace University: Changed Perspectives, Changed Lives

What if families didn’t have to face car payments or credit card debt? What if couples were on the same page with their finances and could avoid destructive money fights? What can people accomplish when finances don’t hold them back?

Money is one of the toughest topics for people in America to talk about. But as a key component of discipleship, learning how to deal with money is a desperately needed skill. For many years Grace has been a place where people can come and learn how to handle money.

Financial Peace University is an important part of Grace’s financial discipleship ministries in Wichita, and it is really a ministry to the community. Over the years, the classes at Grace touched many people whose only connection to our church has been through this discipleship ministry. People of all ages in many different circumstances learned that God’s way works no matter how many resources you have or don’t have, no matter your age.

Grace held their first Financial Peace Class in 2013, and the results that followed have proven what God can do when we trust God with everything, including our finances. During the nine-week classes we have offered over the years, people have paid off over $64,000 in non-mortgage debt, saved over $130,000, and cut up 22 credit cards. Participants in Financial Peace University learned how to create a budget they can actually follow, and they’ve rewritten their stories—changing their futures forever. It’s all because Grace makes this course available and promotes the life-change that comes when people learn to take control of their money.

 

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Yellow Bag Sundays: October

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As we all know, some of us have more than others. Over the Thanksgiving holiday those with more have an opportunity to help those with less.  Grace Presbyterian is helping our neighbors by collecting food (or money) to help the Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church Food Pantry.  For the Yellow Bag collection in October and throughout our Stewardship season our congregation is collecting specific items to fill food baskets.

Below are the items we need to fill each food basket:

  • Canned Veggies – 3 (Green Beans, Corn, etc.)
  • Canned beans – 1
  • Spaghetti O’s, Rivoli, etc. – 1
  • Tomatoes (sauce or diced) – 1
  • Soups – 2 (Ckn Noodle, Tomato)
  • Ramen Noodles – 1 pkg. (Ckn & Beef)
  • Mac & Cheese – 1
  • Canned Fruit – 1
  • Canned Meat – 1 (tuna, ckn)
  • Meat Helper – 1
  • Cereal – 1
  • Toilet Paper – 2 rolls
  • Canned Cranberries
  • Dressing Mix
  • Can of Chicken Broth
  • Gravy Mix
  • Mashed Potato (dry in box)
  • Jello w/canned fruit cocktail
  • Muffin Mix

ALL MONETARY GIFTS HELP US PURCHASE PERISHABLES SUCH AS MILK, BREAD, CHEESE, TURKEY BREAST, ETC.  CHECKS CAN BE MADE OUT TO GRACE, BUT PLEASE DESIGNATE YOUR DONATION FOR FOOD PANTRY.

OUR GOAL IS TO PROVIDE 35 FULL THANKSGIVING FOOD BASKETS.

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Watermark Books Event: October 25

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We welcome our neighbors and friends from Watermark Books back to Grace. On Thursday, October 25, at 6:30 pm, award-winning editor, author, and historian Hampton Sides shares about his book On Desperate Ground.

The event is free and open to the public.  Watermark events are great ways for us to offer hospitality, and we enjoy sharing cookies and drinks with our guests before the event.  We need volunteers to greet and set out refreshments.  Let Catherine Neelly Burton (catherine@mygpc.org) know if you are available to help.  You are also welcome to come to the event!

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Peace and Global Witness Offering: October 7

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On Sunday, October 7, we celebrate World Communion Sunday.  Along with siblings in faith around the globe we share the Lord’s Supper in worship.  We also receive the Peace and Global Witness Offering.  This offering is one of the PCUSA offerings we receive every year.  Fifty percent of the received offering goes to the national church for peacemaking efforts around the globe. Twenty-five percent goes to the Presbytery of Southern Kansas for peacemaking efforts in the region. The Grace Mission Distribution Team determines how to use the remaining 25%.

This year the Mission Distribution Team designates our percentage for the Good Neighboring Movement in the Wichita South Central (SoCe) Neighborhood.  They describe themselves this way:

The Neighboring Movement by SoCe Life researches, practices and teaches about neighboring. We practice good neighboring in the South Central (SoCe) neighborhood of Wichita, KS. Our dream is for a Neighboring Movement to sweep the nation in a way that strengthens communities, connects individuals, and revitalizes churches. 

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