Announcements
CLICK HERE FOR THE CHURCH CALENDAR
May 2025 Schedule
Announcements
Fountain Flowers
Opportunities to share plants and flowers for the fountain are available beginning May 11 and ending June 8.
Families may buy plants and flowers to decorate the Fountain on the Sunday they choose, delivering them to church on Saturday and following Sunday services, take their plants home.
Please contact Angie with questions or to sign up.
Grace’s In-person Book Group meets next Monday!
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.
Grace’s Books, Coffee, and Conversation—May Meeting
Our BCC Group will be meeting on 5/13 to discuss books we judged by their covers! We will meet at 7 pm on Zoom. If you are interested in joining our group please contact Brenda
Hayasaka at bkhayasaka@gmail.com or Angie Rabbe at gracechurch517@gmail.
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. Grocery
Christian Formation
Upcoming Adult Formation
The Adult Formation class is about to begin a six-week study, titled Christianity & Culture. New Grace member John Sibole will chair the discussion, as we examine five ways in which the Christian church has related to society over two millennia. Then in our last session, we’ll contemplate the future of church and culture––and share our thoughts on how Christians, individually and as the church, should relate to our world as faithful disciples. Please join us on Sunday, April 27th, at 9:00 am, in Nolt Auditorium!
Lenten Prayer Reflection
If you participated in our Lenten practice of praying for a member of the congregation our Program Staff would love to hear about your experience!
· Did you pray for your person everyday?
· Does your person know you prayed for them?
· What did you gain, if anything, from participating in this practice? A new friend? A deeper relationship with a member of Grace? A deeper relationship with God?
We would love you include your responses in future Grace Newses. Please email your responses to Kath (verkouw@gmail.com or Angie (gracechurch517@gmail.com).
Thank you!!!
Peace,
Angie & Kath
Our Grace Family
HAPPY EASTER!
Thank you to everyone who took photos during Holy Week.
Easter Vigil—Welcome New Members!
Joined by transfer and affirmation of faith: Dottie & Joe Almoney, Patty Campbell, Gary
DuBois, Jillian Howard, Thais Magill, Mark & Denise Russell, John Sibole
Baptism of Leonidas Frederick Mandros
gracelutheranchurch.com 