Announcements
July Schedule
Please download the file for the July Worship Assistant Schedule and the July Birthdays and Anniversaries
Join us for Saturday Evening Service this Saturday 6/29
at 6 pm in the St. Peter Chapel
Special Congregational Meeting –July 21
Please join us in the Nolt Auditorium at 9 am on July 21 for a special congregational meeting to
consider an important repair to the main art glass window above the altar. We have requested and received a proposal from the Lamb Studios in NJ and the Council has recommended that we proceed which will require approval of non-budgeted funds. Happily, most of the cost has already been covered by our decade-long savings program – thanks to everyone who has made gifts to the Grace Windows Fund! More information to come – for now, hold the date.
In-Person Book Group
Monday, July 22nd at 1 PM at Loxley’s
In July the group is reading Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom. This covers a remarkable 8 year journey between two worlds, two men, two faiths and communities and a request from an 80 year old rabbi from the author’s hometown. He also has interactions with another person who is a pastor from Detroit with a troubled past who is in the midst of making life changing decisions for the betterment of himself.
Monday, August 26th at 1:30 PM in Nolt Auditorium
August’s book for the afternoon in -person group is: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver The author grew up in Kentucky and has a degree inbiology. She has written about her family’s experience spending an entire year growing and preserving organic food and living independent of grocery stores. Other books are evidence of her second home in Arizona and her love of native peoples. Bean Trees, and Animal Dreams are among my favorites.
Prodigal Summer delves into the struggles of living and farming as nature has her way. Kingsolver is not afraid to write the world as it truly is and to weave into the story the strength of the human spirit.
Grace Book Group—Books, Coffee, & Conversation
The BCC group met on June 11th to discuss books whose authors share our initials—it was a fun
challenge!
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Anna Vanderhoof
The Woman on the Stairs by Bernard Schlink
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
What Goes Around by Courtney Summers
Fatal Remedies by Donna Leon
You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen
I’ll Give You the Sun by Handy Nelson
Know Your Power by Nancy Pelosi
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
In July we are readings boos set somewhere we want to visit or return to. In August we are reading biographies/memoirs/autobiographies, In September we are reading books set in academic settings. Our group meets the second Tuesday of the month at 7 pm on Zoom. If you have any questions please contact Branda Hayasaka.
Christian Formation
Join Us For Adult Summer Sunday School!
Join us on Sunday mornings at 9 am in the Nolt Auditorium
June 30: Something Musical— Led by Dr. David McConnell
July 7 and July 14:Insider and Outsider: A look at St. Peter and St. Paul — Led by Pastor Peter Rustico
July 21: Congregational Meeting For Altar Window
July 28: So You Want to Go On a Pilgrimage? Reflections on my journey on the Camino de Santiago— Led by Anne Stachura
August 4: TBD
August 11: TBD
August 18 and August 25: A discussion on the book: Dear Church: A Love Letter From a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. by Lenny Duncan — Led by Susan Mull
Also incorporating Sunday Matters:52 Devotionals to Prepare Your Heart For Church by Paul David Tripp. Some copies of these books will be available.
September 1: (Labor Day Weekend) TBD
If you have any ideas for summer Sunday School please talk to Pastor or Kath!
Outreach
Cap Collection Has Come To An End-Please Do Not Bring Caps to the Office!
Lutheran World Relief Ingathering October 5-6, 2024
Brenda Hayasaka and Donna Linton are in charge of School Kits and need your help. These are the items they need to fill the bags they have on hand or will purchase. SCHOOL SALES WILL BE ON IN JULY!! – THAT’S WHY WE ARE ASKING EARLY.
- 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 be applying for a Thrivent Visa card for $250 to buy items. We need more items from you to fill the bags.
We are also doing Personal Care Kits. We will purchase bulk items from a Thrivent card and also from your monetary donations. 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 ordered 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, or string or just put your items, including the towel, in a plastic bag.
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 are starting with a $19 balance in our account, so your donations would be appreciated to buy towels and bags in particular at this time. Boxes are in the Narthex and at the entrance as you come in the door to church.
Barbara Slotter, 717-342-2654
Brenda Hayasaka, 410-236-1063
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.
A $500.00 donation has been made to the Lutheran Camping Corporation from Grace Lutheran Church. Your purchases of shopping cards made this possible. Thank You!
Our Grace Family
The Part-Time Seminarian
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Good evening from Camp Kirchenwald. Many things have shifted since my first submission as the Part-Time Seminarian.
I am now working at Camp Kirchenwald helping to lead the dining services team this summer. I
recently met with Synod leaders, the Call Committee, and Church Councils of Brickerville United and Jerusalem Lutheran Churches. After a period of discernment, and with approval from Bishop James Dunlop and the Church Councils, I will begin serving as Vicar, presiding at worship and administering communion at both congregations on Sunday, August 25, 2024.
I spent the past week with seventeen students attending classes at United Lutheran Seminary – Gettysburg Campus. Each day was spent learning about the New Testament, Christian Formation, and Homiletics. It was a good week of learning with seminarians of all ages from Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
I am grateful for your continued support through words of encouragement, helpful advice, financial gifts to Grace Lutheran’s Seminarian fund, and most importantly through prayer. I continue to feel the
overwhelming love and support from so many within our congregation. You truly are the greatest and I cannot wait to share more updates from my journey to ordination. Thanks be to God!
Love, grace, mercy, and peace be with you!
Vicar Philip J. Supeck
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