Cookies!

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It’s time to bake and deliver cookies to our community. This is the third 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 will go up by the coffee bar. You’ll sign up to either bake twi dozen cookies, or you’ll sign up for a location to deliver them. Locations include places like: fire stations, public libraries, the hospital ER and more.

If you sign up to bring cookies, you do so on either February 7 or 14. 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 but valuable way for us to show some love to our community!

Photo credit: m01229 via Visual Hunt / CC BY

 

 

 

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Sunday Morning Schedule: January 2016

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.

There is NO Sunday School on January 3. Instead we gather at 10 am in the Great Room for breakfast. Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children 11 and under, with a family cap of $20.

Here’s where you will find education and fellowship opportunities at 10 am for the final four Sundays of January.

Children ages 0-Pre-K

A nursery is available all morning from 8:50am – 12:15 pm. From 10 – 10:45 Colissa Fry leads a Sunday School lesson for these children. They use the Feasting on the Word curriculum.

Kindergarten – 2nd grade

Meet in room B10 (in the basement). Merodee Grannis and Kendall Drake teach using the Feasting on the Word curriculum.

3rd grade – 5th grade

Meet in the Tower Room (on the 2nd floor). Geoff Snook and Sherry Camargo teach using the Feasting on the Word curriculum.

Youth

  • 6-8th graders meet in the Youth Center (downstairs)
  • 9-12th graders meet in the Youth Center (downstairs)

 Adults

All adults are invited to Sunday School in the Great Room on Sundays, January 10, 17, 24, and 31. Our teacher for these weeks is Matthew Umbarger. Matthew is a theology professor at Newman University. His topic for our class is, “Jewish Origins of Christianity.”.

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Sunday Morning Preaching Schedule for January 2016

January 3 

On this first Sunday of January, we welcome the Wise Men to the stable. Catherine Neelly Burton preaches from Matthew 2:1-12, and we celebrate the Lord’s Supper at both services.

January 10   

This is Baptism of the Lord Sunday, and we ordain and install new officers at both services. Catherine Neelly Burton preaches from Luke 3.

January 17  

Catherine Neelly Burton preaches from John 2:1-11.

January 24 

Catherine Neelly Burton preaches from Nehemiah 8.

January 31   

Catherine Neelly Burton preaches from Luke 4.

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Children’s Ministry Updates: December 10

By Jennifer Snook

Tis the season for everything it seems. Our calendars are full because our lives are full, and we celebrate with school concerts, parties, ballgames and let us not forget, food.

This is a season of giving, and one of my favorite stories about giving is a reflection from a teaching missionary who had a student give her a giant sea shell. The shell was gathered from a beach many miles away from the village and school. When the teacher told her student that he did not need to go to so much trouble for her gift, his reply was profound. He said, “long walk, part of gift.” The long walk was as much a gift as the shell itself.

As adults this Christmas, we may open imperfectly wrapped gifts that were made by little hands with big hearts, and we will know that it is the effort that matters. Our effort matters as well.

Though often unnoticed, our efforts to go to work, put gas in the car and food on the table matters. The spontaneous note in a lunch box or a special breakfast in bed matters. The gifts of Christmas, big or small, all point to a God who loves us and entered our fallen and broken world to bring about a new thing: a redeemed life in us all.

Remember that our children will be filmed this coming Sunday, December 13, at 9 am in the Chapel. They are saying their Luke 2 passages, and they may wear whatever you decide works well for them. Filming could go long so if you plan on attending the 11 am worship service, please let us know, and we will try to film your child early.

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Bus Tickets and Morning Worship: December 15

Each month Grace distributes bus tickets to people in our community. This happens on the 15th of the month (or the Friday before the 15th if it falls on a weekend.) Volunteers and those receiving tickets begin to gather around 7 am in the Grace alcove. Guests are greeted with smiles, coffee, water, and a place to sit. Tickets are distributed at 8:30 am, and a brief worship service follows. Everyone is invited to stay for worship, which includes communion. The worship service lasts about 15 minutes.

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

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