The Grace Lutheran Youth are raising money by selling live Christmas wreaths! The wreaths will be created and shipped from Minnesota beginning Thanksgiving week.
They are the perfect gift for anyone who loves the smell of real pine, a hard-to-buy-for person, or simply to decorate your own home.
No trees are harmed and a new tree is planted with every purchase.
In addition to wreaths, there are also sprays, small real trees, and centerpieces available. Every item is treated with Greenzit to ensure maximum life and your purchase can be mailed to the recipient of your choice with your custom greeting. The Grace Youth program will receive $8 for each purchase.
We will have an example wreath and catalogs available in the narthex after each service in November. We will also be selling beautiful 2021 wall calendars after each service for $7 each.
To make a purchase, go to giftitforward.com and type in the fundraising code GRACELSC001. (You can leave the ‘referring member’ field blank).
Please share this on your Facebook page to help to spread the word and support our youth!
Download a printable PDF of the flyer pictured above.
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November 1, 2020All Saints Day |
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
Matthew 5:10-12
PLEASE BE ADVISED:
Due to a technical issue, we were unable to record the Friday service.
You will find a link to the sermon audio below.
We plan to livestream the 8 a.m. Sunday service and that service will be made available online later in the day. If you are able, please watch for our livestream on our YouTube page or Facebook page.
Thank you for your understanding.
All Saints Day Bulletin 11-01-20
Announcements 11-01-20
In-person worship services and Sunday School classes have resumed with social distancing precautions. Services begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible classes are meeting in Grace Hall at 9:30 a.m.
For those who would prefer not to attend in-person yet, we offer the following adult Bible Study and children’s Sunday School lessons to help you to continue learning.
All Saints Day – Sunday School Lesson
All Saints Day – Adult Bible Study
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October 25, 2020Reformation Sunday |
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
John 8:34-36
Reformation Sunday Bulletin 10-25-20
Announcements 10-25-20
Video of service
This service was pre-recorded on Friday.
In-person worship services and Sunday School classes have resumed with social distancing precautions. Services begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible classes are meeting in Grace Hall at 9:30 a.m.
For those who would prefer not to attend in-person yet, we offer the following adult Bible Study and children’s Sunday School lessons to help you to continue learning.
Reformation – Sunday School Lesson
Reformation Day – Adult Bible Study
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October 18, 2020Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost |
The Readings today urge us, in various ways, to live by faith in our confession and conviction. In Isaiah, He with great conviction reminds through the prophet, “I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides Me there is no God.” In the Epistle, Paul assures the Thessalonians, “He has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.” Finally, in today’s Gospel, Christ urges us to live by faith and as stewards of all He has provided, to “render . . . to God the things that are God’s.” Moved by His Spirit out of gratefulness for the salvation earned for us by Christ Jesus, we then give God our willing obedience, dedicated service, and the glory due His name as we in confession and conviction live by faith in and through Him.
As We Gather
Pentecost 20 Bulletin 10-18-20
Announcements 10-18-20
Video of the service
This service was pre-recorded on Friday.
In-person worship services and Sunday School classes have resumed with social distancing precautions. Services begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible classes are meeting in Grace Hall at 9:30 a.m.
For those who would prefer not to attend in-person yet, we offer the following adult Bible Study and children’s Sunday School lessons to help you to continue learning.
Pentecost 20 – Adult Bible Study
Pentecost 20 – Sunday School
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October 11, 2020Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost |
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”‘ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”
As We Gather
Pentecost 19 Bulletin 10-11-20
Announcements 10-11-20
Video of the service
This service was pre-recorded on Friday.
In-person worship services and Sunday School classes have resumed with social distancing precautions. Services begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible classes are meeting in Grace Hall at 9:30 a.m.
For those who would prefer not to attend in-person yet, we offer the following adult Bible Study and children’s Sunday School lessons to help you to continue learning.
Pentecost 19 – Adult Bible Study
Pentecost 19 – Sunday School
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October 4, 2020Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost |
The vineyard is frequently used in Scripture to denote a special place in God’s creation. To have a vineyard and enjoy its fruit is a blessing. When the prophet Isaiah speaks of the goodness of the Lord, he says that God’s favored people “shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit” (Isaiah 65:21). Vineyards were planted with a fruitful harvest in mind. We are the Lord’s planting, and we eagerly await our harvest home.
As We Gather
Pentecost 18 Bulletin 10-04-20
Announcements 10-04-20
Video of the service
This service was pre-recorded on Friday.
In-person worship services and Sunday School classes have resumed with social distancing precautions. Services begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible classes are meeting in Grace Hall at 9:30 a.m.
For those who would prefer not to attend in-person yet, we offer the following adult Bible Study and children’s Sunday School lessons to help you to continue learning.
Pentecost 18 – Adult Bible Study
Pentecost 18 – Sunday School
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September 27, 2020Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost |
“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”
Ezekiel 18:30-32
Pentecost 17 Bulletin 09-27-20
Announcements 09-27-20
Video of the service
This service was pre-recorded on Friday.
In-person worship services and Sunday School classes have resumed with social distancing precautions. Services begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible classes are meeting in Grace Hall at 9:30 a.m.
For those who would prefer not to attend in-person yet, we offer the following adult Bible Study and children’s Sunday School lessons to help you to continue learning.
Pentecost 17 – Adult Bible Study
Pentecost 17 – Sunday School
Sunday School, Adult Bible Study and Worship Services Now In-person and Onsite
Our weekly Worship Schedule is as follows:
Friday Service at 10:00 AM – This service is designated for those members who are over 65 years old and/or have an illness that could compromise their health. We wish to keep this service closed to those who are not in this category to ensure a protected environment for those who need it.
Sunday Services at 8:00, 9:30 & 11:00 AM – The Sunday morning services are open to all. We do practice social distancing <<and recommend face coverings>>.
Be sure to visit our YouTube and Facebook pages for both new and old content.
SAFETY GUIDELINES FOR OUR RE-OPENING
The following are guidelines that the church Elders have compiled in order to keep everyone safe and healthy during our transition back to live services. The plan is to provide the safest environment we can for holding a service with a controlled number of people in the sanctuary. We are asking that our members do their part in helping by adhering to these procedures.
Upon entering the church, we request that everyone wear a mask of some type. We will have some masks available as needed, made by our craft ladies. Please bring your own if you have one.
An Elder or Usher will open the door to reduce the number of people touching the doors.
We ask that people maintain their social distancing as they enter.
Some chairs have been removed to allow for distancing in the sanctuary. We do not want all chairs to be filled. Families may sit together but everyone else needs to distance at least one empty chair away from others.
We have removed all hymnals and the full service will be in the bulletin and in the PowerPoint presentation. Please take your bulletin home or throw it away after the service.
The church will be cleaned and sanitized once a week.
Communion will be done on a walk-by procedure. People will be ushered up the middle aisle. Pastor will supply the bread and then they will walk left or right to an Elder holding the individual cup trays. Members will dispose of their cups and return to their seats. We remind everyone to self -distance as they process.
Offerings will be taken on your way out of the sanctuary.
When service is over, we request that members depart immediately to the portico or parking lot. If they choose to get together and talk in the parking lot that is up to them but we remind them to self- distance remembering that just because you want to talk does not mean the person you are talking to wants to talk. So, please respect everyone’s space and wishes.
We will not be offering coffee and snacks between services.
We will continue to offer the online services.
Please, no hugging, hand shaking or passing the peace.
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September 20, 2020Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost |
A part of us expects justice from God. We think that fairness ought to reign—that each of us should get what we deserve. But this is a dead end. God does not give us what we deserve but acts with mercy and grace beyond belief. He is scandalously generous and lavish with us—giving us what we do not deserve and have not earned. We are tempted to ask God for equity and what we deserve, but God is determined to give us so much more in Christ. Only in faith can we learn to let God be God, to honor His generosity with the only response He desires: faith and thanksgiving. Today we pray the Lord to break through to our hearts and minds with His abundant grace and to rejoice that He is more than fair—He is merciful!
As We Gather
Pentecost 16 Bulletin 09-20-20
Announcements 09-20-20
Video of the service
This service was pre-recorded on Friday.
GREAT NEWS: In-person worship services and Sunday School classes have resumed with social distancing precautions. Services begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible classes are meeting in Grace Hall at 9:30 a.m.
Though we have resumed onsite worship services and, as of Sept. 20, Sunday School and adult Bible classes, for those who would prefer not to attend in-person yet, we offer the following lessons to help you to continue learning.
Pentecost 16 – Adult Bible Study
Pentecost 16 – Sunday School
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September 13, 2020Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost |
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.”
Matthew 18:21-22
Pentecost 15 Bulletin 09-13-20
Announcements 09-13-20
Video of the service
This service was pre-recorded on Friday.
REMEMBER: In-person worship services have resumed with social distancing precautions. Services begin at 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. There is currently no Sunday School or adult Bible class, but Sunday School and Adult Bible Classes, including Dare to Read, will resume on September 20.
We offer you the following adult Bible Study and children’s Sunday School lessons to help you to continue learning for adults and children.
Pentecost 15 – Sunday School
Pentecost 15 – Adult Bible Study