Announcements
Advent Fair
Join us for the Advent Fair on Sunday December 3 at 9 a.m. in the Nolt Auditorium!
This year a breakfast of pastries, yogurt, granola, fruit, juice, coffee, and tea will be
provided! Crafts for all ages! Please see the display in the Solarium.
Sign up on the sign up sheet in the solarium, Nolt Auditorium, the narthex, email Angie (gracechurch517@gmail.com), or call the church office.
Pledge Forms/Giving Statements
Giving statements for January- September of 2023 have been mailed. If your statement is incorrect please call the church office. Please see the file below for the pledge form, a letter from our Stewardship Team, and Phil Supeck’s Temple Talk.
Outreach
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.
CARDS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Community Meal Donations
This year we are collecting men’s and women’s gloves, hats, socks, and travel size toiletries (especially hand sanitizer) for our community meal patrons. Items can be dropped off in the gathering area in the Nolt Auditorium and in the narthex. Please have your items in by 11/19. If you are interested in helping distribute these items during community meal please contact Karen Scheffy (dkschef@ptd.net). If you have any questions about what we are collecting please contact Angie at gracechurch517@gmail.com.
Hope For the Holidays
Please join ELCA Congregations across the United States and LIRS for Hope for the Holidays! This is the 9th year of this project and Grace has participated in 4 of those nine years. Christmas cards and a Spanish-English translation guide will be available in the narthex and in the gathering area in the Nolt Auditorium.
The cards, as well as gifts purchased with donations to LIRS, are delivered to families At detention centers at the US/Mexico border. With your help, last year LIRS sent over 1,750 gifts to the children in our care! Additionally, we were able to send 25,200 cards to asylum seekers in the U.S. and our friends in immigration detention. Cards must be back in the office by 11/26! If you would like more information please contact Angie (gracechurch517@gmail.com)
Christian Formation
Our Grace Family
Our Sympathy
Dear members of Grace, We give thanks for the life of Garry Todd, the son of Grace member Dot Polito. Please keep Garry’s family in your prayers.
The Saints of Grace 2022-2023
All Saints celebrates the baptized people of God, living and dead, who are the body of Christ.
Jean Smoker
August 23, 1926 ~ November 21, 2022
Earl Pickel
October 1, 1936 ~ December 19, 2022
Mary Bitts
November 27, 1928 ~ December 20, 2022
Susan Will
September 15 1952 ~ December 21, 2022
Harriet Good
February 24, 1933 ~ January 29, 2023
Yvonne Leach
August 10, 1941 ~ February 17, 2023
William Fergusson
November 4, 1946 ~ March 27, 2023
Carol Gilbert Main
April 14, 1945 ~ April 9, 2023
Rev. Paul Baranek
July 11, 1933 ~ May 9, 2023
Robert Hull
February 3, 1936 ~ May 21, 2023
Doris Altmanshofer
June 22, 1934 ~ September 1, 2023
Garry Todd
March 13, 1963~ October 26, 2023
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