July’s Yellow Bag: Refugee Backpack Drive

July’s Yellow Bag: Refugee Backpack Drive

The Refugee team is excited to prepare for this year’s refugee backpack drive to be held at First Presbyterian Church on July 27, 2024, 10 am – 2 pm. The International Rescue Committee asked us to prepare 900 backpacks (we prepared 700 last year)! Our church is one of several faith-based organizations coming together to help purchase supplies.

Grace Presbyterian Church has committed to providing the following three items for 495 backpacks:

  • Crayola colored pencils
  • Crayola thin markers
  • wide-ruled filler paper

We are requesting cash ...

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Church Information

“Just Say Yes to Multiethnic Faith Communities”

“Just Say Yes to Multiethnic Faith Communities”

Series: “Jesus’ Message: You Are a Participant in the Dream”

“Just Say Yes to Multiethnic Faith Communities”

1 Samuel 17:57-18:5, 10-16

Mark 4:35-41

Jesus consistently challenged the disciples to put their beliefs into practice. In Mark 4:40, Jesus responds to the disciples’ plea for help in the storm. Jesus replied, “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?” Martin Luther King, Jr, in his April 16, 1963, Letter from a Brimingham Jail, writes,

Injustice anywhere is a threat. We are caught in an inescapable network ...

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Sermon Transcripts

A Word From Our Interim Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Steven M. Marsh

A Word From Our Interim Pastor: The Rev. Dr. Steven M. Marsh

As followers of Jesus, we are marked. These marks are meant to characterize our life as believers and as a church at Grace.

  • To preach the gospel marks us.
  • To properly administer the sacraments marks us.
  • To rightly exercise church discipline marks us.

As a church, living as marked followers of Jesus, we are marked to address culture and society that struggles in knowing its way and building a better humanity.

  • Followers of Jesus are to be leaven for individual and social change.
  • Followers of Jesus ...
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Steve's Word

06-16-2024 Steven Marsh – Just Say No To Economic Injustice

06-16-2024 Steven Marsh – Just Say No To Economic Injustice

Series: “Jesus’ Message: You Are A Participant In the Dream”

“Just Say No To Economic Injustice”

1 Samuel 15:34-16:13

Mark 4:26-34

The good news of Jesus is that no one should be oppressed by economic injustice.

What does economic injustice look like? According to author Anshu Siripurapu writing for the Council on Foreign Relations,

Income and wealth inequality is higher in the United States than in almost any other developed country, and it is rising. There are large wealth and income gaps across racial groups, which ...

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Sermon Transcripts

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