Grace News June 27, 2023

Announcements

Grocery Cards

Grocery cards are available at both services on Sunday mornings. You may order cards by calling Duane and Kitty Weiss. Remember all purchases of cards realizes 5% in cash back to Grace. These funds are used to support our many ministries.

Grace has been able to make a $500.00 donation to the ELCA Funds for
Leaders Endowment Fund thanks to your continued purchase of shopping cards.

Summer Sunday Fellowship

We are hoping that people will be willing, maybe with a partner, to take charge of putting out snacks, plates, napkins and drinks for each Sunday morning, 9 am, for adult summer Sunday school during July and August. Afterwards, either at 10:30 am or after the 10:30 worship they would clean up what is left. If you are willing call the office (717-397-2748)  or Kath (Verkouw@gmail.com) to sign up. Thanks!

A Note From Our Secretary

I will be out of the office from Monday 7/3-Monday 7/17. The office will be closed 7/4.

Volunteers will be in on 7/5, 7/6, 7/11, and 7/13.

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!

Confirmation Camp 2023

Thank you Meghan and Vicki for spending the week at camp with our kids!

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

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

-Dorothy Day
 
(from Kaur, Valarie. See No Stranger. One World, 2020. pg. 209.)
 

Our Grace Family