Announcements
Join Us This Sunday
Please join us this Sunday as we welcome Rev. Tim Krick, Senior Advisor for Congregational Engagement for Lutheran World Relief. Pastor Tim will be preaching at both of our services and leading adult Sunday School.
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September 2026 Schedule–Worship Volunteers, Birthdays, & Anniversaries
Volunteers Needed
We are in need of volunteers for the following:
- Organzing the Sunday flowers and candles. If you are interested please contact Donna Weidman.
- Communion Assistants for all of our services. If you are intertested please contact Angie Rabbe. We will train you!
- Lectors and Communion Care folks for our Saturday evening servive. Please contact Angie if you are interested. We will train you!
Christian Formation
Exploring Our Prayer Life
Here are the ways your faith family is helping us do just that:
- Prayer Partner Swap: Last Sunday during Sunday School, Sister Dottie led a multigenerational conversation on “Why We Pray.” A five-year-old attendee led the group in a short prayer, and participants exchanged contact information to pair up with prayer partners for the school year. After the children went to their classes, the high school youth helped Brenda Hayasaka with Lutheran World Relief school kits, while the adults stayed to discuss their prayer victories, struggles, and frustrations.
- “Faith at Home” Prayer Papers: This new resource, created by a Grace member, is designed to encourage prayer and faith conversations. Weekly copies will be accessible via the Pastor’s email, Grace News, and in the Solarium entrance.
- Upcoming Prayer Conversation: Sister Dottie will continue the conversation on prayer during the Sunday School hour on October 18th.
A big thank you to everyone who made this Rally Day a success!
Thanks,
Kathryn Verkouw
“Faith at Home” cards!
How can families become more comfortable talking about their faith and praying together? This question inspired Grace member Colin Kerr, a father of two young children himself, to create weekly “Faith at Home” cards.
These weekly cards give a structure for people of all ages to explore scripture and prayer together. “Faith at Home” follows the 3-year lectionary so it will be the same scripture addressed that Sunday in worship both in preaching and in Fishbowl time!
Help Us Fill the Nolt Auditorium with Prayer
Do you have a favorite prayer? Maybe one that you pray daily? Maybe one you pray when you are thankful? Maybe one you pray when you are sad? We want to fill the Nolt Auditorium with our prayers during this season. You can submit your prayers in a few ways: Email it to Angie, drop it in the offering plate, or mail it to the office.
Outreach
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INGATHERING
October 3-4, 2026
There have been some changes this year. The New Windsor center where we dropped off kits is no longer available. A new year-round location for donations has opened in Mechanicsburg. In regard to boxes we have to use boxes with lids.
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
Our Grace Family
Our Sympathy
We give thanks for the life and witness of Chris Payonk, husband of Grace member Karen Payonk. Please keep Chris’s family and friends in your prayers.
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