Announcements
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November 2025 Schedule
Advent Fair 2025
Please join us for a time of crafts and fellowship on Sunday November 23 at 9 AM in the Nolt Auditorium
Crafts for all ages!
Please bring a breakfast item (bagels, baked oatmeal, etc) to share.
We are providing juice, coffee, and tea.
Sign-up in the Solarium
If you would like to volunteer or if you have any questions please contact Angie Rabbe
717-397-2748 or gracechurch517@gmail.com
Parish Nurse Tidings
Patty will be offering blood pressure screenings beginning Sun. Nov 2.
Time: after Sunday School and before the 2nd service.
Location: In the hallway outside of St. Peter’s Chapel
Please wear loose clothing, blood pressure taken over clothes is not accurate.
Communion Assistants
We need your help—we need a few more communion assistants for the 10:30 service . We would love to have at least three more folks sign up on a regular basis. If you have any questions please contact Angie Rabbe or Keith Miller.
Flowers and Candles
A reminder: If you would like to honor/remember your loved one(s) on significant dates, such as birthdays,
anniversaries, or date of passing, please contact: Donna Weidman @ dweidman52@gmail.com or
717-201-6180
A nominal fee of $20 for flowers and/or $5 for candles helps defray the cost of the altar flowers & candles in our budget.
If you receive the paper Grace News please read below…
Thank you to everyone who has responded so far. If you have not yet responded please do so as soon as possible. Any changes with the mailing of the newsletter will happen after the annual meeting.
As we prepare next year’s budget we are looking at an astronomical cost of $4,560 to mail the paper Grace News on a weekly basis. If postage increases which is likely to happen we will easily be over $5,000 in postage alone. We know many of you rely on the paper Grace News, we are not eliminating it, but we would like to run a cost analysis between our current bulk mail rate and what the budget could look like if we only sent the Grace News first class. We would like to keep the news letter to a weekly publication, while being good stewards of what God has given us. Please help us as we make a decision on the future of the paper Grace News. If you absolutely must receive the paper Grace News please call the office at 717-39-2748 and leave a message for Angie. If you are currently receiving the paper Grace News, but would like to switch to receiving it electronically please call of the office or email Angie (gracechurch517@gmail.com). A final decision will be made before the Annual Meeting on 12/7. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to Angie.
To reiterate, we are not eliminating the paper Grace News, just ascertaining the best way to get the paper Grace News to the folks who need it.
Outreach
Mission Trip
As some of you know I have been participating in Lutheran Disaster Response trips to help with hurricane relief. I have been to Puerto Rico, Florida, and now I’m heading to North Carolina on November 9th along with 41 other volunteers.
We are working in the Asheville area helping folks recover from hurricane Helene which caused major flooding and devastating damage to important infrastructure in many of the residential neighborhoods.
If you would like to support our group, you may do so by purchasing gift cards from Lowe’s and Home Depot to help offset the cost of materials. Gifts cards will also be accepted to help pay for gasoline as volunteers are driving to North Carolina and also to the various job sites during our week long stay.
Donations may be dropped off at the Church office or by the display in the Narthex.
Your support and your prayers for a safe and productive trip are greatly appreciated.
Please don’t hesitate to ask me about the trip when I return.
God’s Work Our Hands!
Your in Christ,
Vicki Mumma
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
Thanks to your purchases of shopping cards $500.00 donations have been made to the following organizations on behalf of Grace: Lutheran Camping Corporation (upkeep/renovation), Hand Up Partners, and Tenfold (TLC King Street renovation).
Hope For the Holidays
CARDS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE NOLT AUDITORIUM AND THE SOLARIUM
PLEASE RETURN ALL CARDS BY 11/2
DO NOT PUT CARDS IN ENVELOPES
If you have any questions please contact Angie Rabbe 717-397-2748 gracechurch517@gmail.com
Dear Friends, We are thrilled and grateful that you have chosen to participate in this year’s Hope for the Holiday program. Year after year, our amazing supporters across the country come together to share hope with those seeking safety in the United States. Our new neighbors have persevered through incredible challenges to find refuge in the United States—and while many are no longer in immediate danger, their journeys are far from over. They are now navigating the ever-changing policies that threaten their security in their new communities and the challenges of maintaining their immigration status. And unfortunately, many may never reunite with their families. By participating in Hope for the Holidays, you are extending a moment of hope and humanity to those who have been through the unimaginable. During a time of uncertainty, your generosity and kindness assure our newest neighbors that they are still welcome. Your messages of hope remind our friends that they are not forgotten. As we enter a season of friends, family, and celebration, let us share the gift of connection with those who may be feeling insecure or alone. Let us remember those who may be thousands of miles away from family and the homes they were forced to flee. Join us in sharing warmth, welcome, and hope for the holidays.
Blessings, Rev. Dan Beirne Director for Mobilization and Faith Relations
Christian Formation
Adult Christian Formation —Fall 2025
November 2: Compelled by the love of Christ, The Deaconess Community of the ELCA: Sister Dr.
Dottie Almoney, Directing Deaconess of the Deaconess Community of the ELCA
What is over 140 years old and is the oldest community of women in the Lutheran Church in the United States? Come and find out about the history, the bold women who started hospitals, orphanages and homes for the aged. Take a tour through history from the past to the present with Sister Dottie Almoney, the Directing Deaconess of the Deaconess Community of the ELCA.
November 9: Finding Your Anchor – an exercise in Resilience Led by Jane Horan, EdD
November 16: Adults: Contemplative Prayer Led by Tom Santosusso
Highschool Youth’s turn to experience “Finding Your Anchor” Led by Jane Horan, EdD
November 23: Advent Fair!!!!!! Fun and crafts for all ages
November 30: Traveling with the Deaconess Community: Sister Dr. Dottie Almoney, Directing
Deaconess of the Deaconess Community of the ELCA
December 7: Congregational Meeting!!!
December 14: Contemplative Prayer Led by Tom Santasusso
December 21: Please support the children by attending their Christmas Play “Wow!”
December 28: TBD
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