Announcements
July & August Schedules
Christian Formation
VBS 2023
Soul Food: How God Feeds Us
A time to unplug and gather around the table
June 28, July 12, July 26, August 2
6– 8 p.m.
If you are interested in volunteering please contact Kathryn Verkouw (verkouw@gmail.com) or Megan Supeck (pmsupeck@gmail.com) or call the church office at 717-397-2748.
We will begin each evening with dinner together! There will also be time for teens and adults to play some fun games together. Let the laughter begin! Of course we will also provide the great VBS activities for our Pre-K through 6th grade age groups. Babies, toddlers through high school are welcome for summer evenings of fun and learning together. Children younger than elementary age should have a parent planning to stay with them. Dinner will be served! Please RSVP with Kath!
Outreach
Donations Needed for the Food Hub
The Food Hub as put out a request to local congregations for the following items:
- NEW Socks (men, women, and children)
- NEW Underwear (men. women, and children)
- Laundry Detergent—32 oz. or smaller. (Please no bulk sized items)
- Feminine Hygiene Products — pads with wings and tampons with applicators (Please no scented products)
- Hygiene Products—shampoo/conditioner, body wash/soap, deodorant
- (Please no bulk sized items)
Items can be dropped off in the Narthex or in the collection area in the Nolt Auditorium. We will begin collecting items this Sunday. Our collection will end on Sunday July 16th. If you have any questions please contact Angie Rabbe at gracechurch517@gmail.
Lutheran World Relief In-Gathering
SEPTEMBER 30–OCTOBER 1, 2023
Brenda Hayasaka and Donna Linton have agreed to do School Kits again this year and need your help. These are the items they need to fill the bags they will be ordering:
- Four 70-80 sheet SPIRAL notebooks (280-300 sheets total) of wide or college-ruled paper approximately 8” x 10 ½ ”, no loose leaf paper
- One 30-centimeter ruler, or a ruler with centimeters on one side and inches on the other
- One pencil sharpener
- One pair of blunt scissors (safety scissors with embedded steel blades work well)
- Five unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers; secure together with a rubber band
- Five black or blue ballpoint pens (no gel ink); secure together with a rubber band
- One box of 16 or 24 crayons
- One 2 ½” eraser
Thank you to Janet Neumar who will again be requesting a $250 Visa Card from Thrivent to buy some supplies. We also need you to bring items.
We are also doing Personal Care Kits. I will ask for a $250 Visa Card from Thrivent Financial to buy the supplies in bulk. If you want to put your own kit together here are the directions.
- One light-weight bath size towel (between 20” x 40” and 52” x 27”), dark color
- Two or three bath-size bars of soap equaling 8 to 9 oz, any brand, in original wrapping
- One adult-size toothbrush in its original wrapping
- One metal nail clippers (attached file optional), remove packaging
We will add a comb to your kit as we can order in bulk.
Fold the towel in half widthwise. Place the rest of the items in the towel, fold and roll so nothing falls out, and secure with yarn, ribbon, string or rubber bands.
If you want to help with cash donations, please write on your check “LWR Kits.” Brenda and I will share the money as needed. We use it to buy backpacks and towels to get us started. We did not receive as many donations last year and found that the prices had risen, even for the bulk items. So, we need everyone’s help. We are requesting this now, because school sales begin in July before the August “Grace News” is published. Please leave your items in the collection bins in the solarium and near the St. Peter Chapel.
Barbara Slotter, 717-342-2654
Brenda Hayasaka, 410-236-1063
Donna Linton, 717-575-9388
Weekly Reflection
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power as its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice as its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
-Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
(from Kaur, Valarie. See No Stranger. One World, 2020. pg. 65.)
Our Grace Family
New Address
Bill Bair
504 Millersville Road
Lancaster PA 17603
Happy Birthday
Grace member Dorie Altmanshofer turns 89 on June 22nd!
You can send her cards at the following address:
Dorie Altmanshofer
Springfield Room 410
437 Givler Drive
Martinsburg PA 16662
Happy Birthday, Dorie!!!!
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