Grace News August 12, 2025

Announcements

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August 2025 Schedule

Communion Assistants

From The Secretary

The Rabbes are on vacation from 8/20-8/25. Kim Neumar will be volunteering in the office on 8/21. Pastor and Kath will have returned from NH by then. The Gracee News will be going out on its usual schedule —Angie Rabbe

Outreach

PRC HOUSEWARE PANTRY

In 2021 and 2022, PRC helped to furnish new apartments for a number of households at the request of local social workers who routinely saw people moving out of homelessness, or into new living
situations, where they did not have the basic furnishings they needed or the resources to purchase them. The more we worked with people transitioning out of homelessness, the more we realized that this is a larger, ongoing need that requires an efficient, ongoing solution.

PRC has started a pilot program Housewares Pantry. Referrals for the Housewares Pantry come from social workers and healthcare providers. A live photo inventory is online so that social workers can work with clients to choose exactly which items will work best for them. 

You can take donations directly to the PRC or drop them off in our gathering area in the Nolt Auditorium. If you are dropping items off at church please label them PRC pantry.

Donations Accepted Include:

Grocery Cards

Lutheran World Relief In-gathering

Brenda Hayasaka and Donna Linton are in charge of School Kits and need your help. Take advantage of the school supply sales coming next month. These are the items they need to fill the bags they have on hand or will purchase.

• Four 70 sheet SPIRAL notebooks 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 plans to apply 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. Loose items are accepted.

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 Barbara will share the money as needed. Boxes for your donations will be 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
Donna Linton, 717-575-9388

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Adult Summer Sunday School 2025

August 17:Our Liberian Connection with Bishop Main
August 24: “Homelessness and Grace” led by  Perry Hazeltine, PHD
August 31: (Labor Day Weekend) TBD
September 7: (Rally Day) TBD

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