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.
Sundays and Seasons Year B Calendars!
If you would like a 2024 calendar please let Angie know by 9/25. The final cost will depend on the total number we order. They will either be $12 or $10.
Beethoven’s Ninth!
Our Director of Music, Dr. David McConnell, wears many other hats when he is not focused on plannng, preparing, and leading music for our worship. For over 10 years he has lead two groups in the Reading, PA area – Vox Philia and The Berks Sinfonietta. The two groups combine in just a few weeks for Ludwig von Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 – “Choral”. A number of Grace members and choristers are joining with “Vox” – over 70 singers together! – to give this “BIG” work its due!
The performance takes place Saturday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Immanuel United Church of Christ, located at 99 S. Waverly St., Shillington, PA 19607.
General admission for this concert is $18 when you buy online and $20 at the door. Student and children tickets are $5 each. We are encouraged to buy tickets online, as a full house is expected! You can do so here. A list of online ticket holders will be at the door – Simply tell us your name or show your receipt.
Grace Book Group
The Grace Book Group met last Tuesday and had a lively discussion about books published the year we were born. We read:
· Scary Stories 3 edited by Alvin Schwartz (1991)
· Dragon Seed by Pearl Buck (1941)
· The Quiet American Graham Greene (1955)
· The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1944)
· To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
· The Peral by John Steinbeck (1947)
· Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown—this book is a group favorite! (1947)
· The Princess Bride by William Goldman (1973)
· How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (1939)
· Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
· A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie (1965)
· Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout (1944)
· Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
· A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1944)
Our topic for October is Spooky Season—please read a ghost story, an occult book, or a book about a horror author! For November please read a book by an Indigenous author. For December please read a collection of short stories. Also think about your top two favorite books of the year (you can decided at the end of the year)—we will share a list of our favorites from 2023 at the beginning of January!
If you need book recommendations please ask Brenda Hayasaka (bkhayasaka@gmail.com) or Angie Rabbe (gracechurch517@gmail.com). If you are interested in joining our group please contact Brenda.
Outreach
Christian Formation
Fishbowl!
Jesus is the vine we are the branches bearing fruit. Our fishbowl time youth (shown) plus 2 playing preschoolers (not shown)
Our Grace Family
Happy Birthday!
Hello Grace family!
Mother’s 101st birthday on the 30th of this month. One of the few things she has retained with
Alzheimer’s is her ability to read and her love of music!
Her info is:
Helen Slaugh
Ware Presbyterian Village
Chapelwood, #112B
7 E. Locust St.
Oxford, PA 19363
Thank you and God Bless and Keep You!!
-Marylu
gracelutheranchurch.com 