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Easter Flowers Orders
Easter flower order forms are available in the narthex or you can download the PDF below. Cost is $12 per plant. Orders must be received by Friday April 11, 2025. Please contact Angie to arrange picking up your plant if you will not be picking it up after second service Easter Sunday.
Calling All Green Thumbs (and Aspiring Ones) – Help Our Gardens Grow!
Spring is here (hopefully), and our church gardens are waking up! We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join our crew and help us cultivate these beautiful spaces and ensure they flourish throughout the season. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or simply enjoy spending time outdoors, your assistance would be greatly appreciated.
We need help with:
Weeding and mulching: Keeping our flowerbeds tidy.
Watering: Ensuring our gardens stay hydrated during the warmer months.
General tidying: Keeping the gardens looking their best.
No experience is necessary, just a willingness to lend a hand. Instruction and most tools are provided. You can work alone or help others who are already working. (This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow Grace members!) You’ll contribute to our church’s beauty, and enjoy the fruits (or flowers!) of your labor. Grace’s gardens are planted specifically to be pollinator-friendly, so you’ll also be
lending a hand to Grace’s own honeybees, as well as other pollinators.
Even if you can only spare a few hours a month, your contribution will make a difference.
Contact Patti Hartman for more information — email: peaheart115@gmail.com;
text: 717-917-9059; or catch her after the 10:30 service on Sunday.
Let’s work together to make our church gardens a vibrant and welcoming space for everyone!
In-person Book Group
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his
profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease
from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals
of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitations, arguing
that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Full of eye-opening research
and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our
experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.
All are invited to join us to discuss this important book. We will meet in the Nolt Auditorium
below the main worship area Monday, April 28 at 1:30 pm. The discussion will be led by
Arlene Volk.
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.
LENT 2025
You can view all of our Lent 2025 opportunities here
If you have any questions please contact Pastor Verkouw, Kath, or Angie.
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