Grace News June 2, 2026

Announcements

CLICK HERE FOR THE CHURCH CALENDAR

JUNE 2026 Schedule–Worship Volunteers, Birthdays, & Anniversaries

ANNUAL REPORT 2026

Please read the annual report before our meeting this Sunday at 9 AM in the Nolt Auditorium

Lancaster County Congregations 250th Anniversary Celebration

First Friday At Holy Trinity Lutheran

Holy Trinity’s next First Friday event on June 5, at 5:00pm. Church bells will be rung followed by a brief organ demonstration, and then at 5:30 Jim Gerhart, Local History Researcher, will be speaking on “New Insights into the Development of Lancaster in the 18th Century.”

Flowers and Candles

Christian Formation

• If you are interested in volunteering please contact Kath ASAP (verkouw@gmail.com).
• We have partnered with Musser’s Street Ministry for our VBS collection! Musser’s Street Ministry works directly with our homeless neighbors, providing them with food, personal care items, and transitional support. Beginning this Sunday we will be collecting the following items (Please leave items in the collection basket in the solarium):
  • New hats (adults)
  • New socks (adults)
  • New gloves (adults)
  • Full sized toothpaste
  • Disposable Razors
  • Cup-O-Noodles (please make sure it’s the cup that you simply add hot water to–NOT the kind that need to be microwaved.)

Outreach

LWR Health & School Kits

Lutheran World Relief Ingathering is not until the fall, but we will soon tell you what is needed for School Kits, so you can purchase items when they go on sale. Brenda Hayasaka is in charge of this. In regard to Personal Care Kits, I would like to have someone else take over next year and help me this year to learn what is involved. Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to volunteer for this.

Barbara Slotter 717-300-0710 cell or my home phone 717-342-2654

Wednesday Night Community Meals

As Pastor Verkouw has mentioned before, our main cook, Karen Scheffey, is retiring at
the end of May after many years of dedicated service. We are extremely grateful for all
that she has done for this mission, but she definitely leaves big shoes to fill, so…………
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED:
Cook(s) to plan and prepare the main course for our community meals on one or more
of the 4th Wednesdays of each month beginning in June. ( Aug.26 th , Sept. 23 rd , Nov. 25 th , Dec. 23 rd , etc., continuing into 2027) Numbers vary, but we generally serve between 75 to 120 people.
   
NOTE: We have a very dedicated team of volunteers who help set up, clean-up, do
dishes, chop up veggies for salads, or assist in any way needed, so you would not be
alone! Also note, that cooking could be done in our kitchen ahead of time for our
regular Wed. night volunteers to reheat. We have meal/recipe ideas, as well, or come
up with your own!
Our Grace budgeted money & donations help cover the meal expenses, although
whatever free food we can get from the Food Hub, foods/supplies from Costco, and
foods on sale elsewhere also help keep our expenses down.
Who do you know that would like to participate in this very rewarding, worthwhile
community mission? Who would like to try this as a gratifying, bonding, service
project experience?

• You and your immediate and/or extended family?
• You and a group of friends and/or neighbors?
          * A church group (choir, youth group, book group, small group, etc.)?
          * A community group in which you participate? 
          * You and a group of your work colleagues? 
  Desserts: If cooking a main course sounds too daunting to you, would you or a group of
  people like to provide a dessert for one of our monthly meals?

PLEASE take some time for prayerful consideration of how you might want to become
involved in this amazing mission of ours here at Grace. Let us know if you have any
questions, need more information, or if you already know that you’re ready to help!
Looking forward to working with you!
Call or email the church office or our meal volunteer coordinator:
Donna Weidman: 717-201-6180, dweidman52@gmail.com

This past Wednesday we celebrated Karen Scheffey and her years of dedication to our Community Meal. Thank you Karen!

Our Grace Family

ELDA 2026

The Evangelical Lutheran Deaf Association (ELDA, a ministry of the ELCA) will be holding their biannual conference June 11-13 in Winter Haven, FL (a suburb of Orlando). Chuck Romberger will be accompanying Word of Life Deaf Lutheran Church’s (in Lititz) delegation as an observer.

In addition to business, fellowship, learning, and worship, we will have two special events:

• Screening of the Deaf Missions Jesus movie in ASL
• Magic Morgan & Liliana’s magic performance for the community.

Please pray for our brothers and sisters at WOLD and in the ELDA and for all deaf and hearing people.

Also, Chuck is still learning American Sign Language and will be without an interpreter. Please pray for understaning and to be understood.