Grace News March 28, 2023

Worship at 8 & 10:30. The 10:30 service will include a parade with our children!

7 a.m.Stations of the Cross – we walk, pray and sing our way around the Grace Campus marking the traditional 14 “stations” of Jesus’ Passion. A beautiful and solemn way to begin this Holy Day.

Noon – Good Friday Community Service, hosted by Otterbein United Methodist (corner of N. Queen and Clay Sts). Pastor V will be preaching one of the 7 meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ.

7 p.m – The reading of the Passion of St. John and Adoration of the Cross, choral music, and prayer.

Worship at 8 & 10:30

At both the 8:00 & 10:30 a.m. services, our choirs and brass adorn this festive celebration of the heart of Christian hope and faith!

An Easter breakfast will be offered between services in the Nolt Auditorium. We are providing beverages. Please bring fruit, breakfast pastries, or a breakfast casserole to share. If you have any questions please contact Molly Rowen at yoohoomollysue@yahoo.com

If you are interested in decorating the fountain during Eastertide please contact Angie. Opportunities to share plants and flowers for the fountain will be available beginning Sunday, April 23 and continuing through May 28.

Families may buy plants and flowers to decorate the Fountain on the Sunday they choose, delivering them to church on Saturday and following Sunday services, take their plants home. 

Please contact Angie with questions or to sign up.

By now you should have received your March envelopes. A number of you have asked to be removed from the envelope list…if you would like to be removed please email Angie at gracechurch517@gmail.com. If you asked to be removed you will likely still receive envelopes through May because we had to submit the May list to the company at the beginning of March. You can also give online https://gracelutheranchurch.com/give/

If you have offering envelopes please keep using them!

If you are not picking your Easter flowers up after the second service on Easter Sunday please contact Angie to make alternative arrangements for pick up. The church office will be closed Easter Monday. Angie is in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-4.

We need books for our Little Free Library! If you have books to donate please leave them at the collection area in the Nolt Auditorium or drop them off at the church office on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9-4.  You can also leave them in the Little Free Library!

A High School/Young Adult Sunday School class will begin on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 9:15 AM. If you are high school or college aged, grab a snack in the Nolt Auditorium before heading to the Stafford Room, below the church office, as we gather to discuss the things that matter most. Students currently attending confirmation class are welcome to join this class once they have been confirmed. We look forward to seeing you there!

Have you been reading the weekly reflection in the Grace News? Would you like to write a reflection? We are looking for folks who are interested in writing reflections throughout the church year with the exception of July because there is no Grace News in July. If you are submitting something written by someone else please include the citation information (page number, publisher, author etc). If you would like to participate in this project please contact Angie at graceelcaapd@gmail.com or call the church office. If you would like a liturgical calendar please let Angie know and she will get one to you.