The book club meets the final Monday of the month on October 30 at 6:30 pm. The book is One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. The October meeting is at Penny Hilton’s. Penny lives at Country Park Residences, and the group meets in the complex Club House. Contact Penny for more information, 316-621-0390, or Capri Zimmerman at prizslp@gmail.com.
Each month Grace distributes bus tickets to people in our community. This happens on the 15th of the month, or if the 15th is a weekend we meet the Friday before. Volunteers and those receiving tickets begin to gather around 6:30 am in the Grace Alcove. Guests are greeted with smiles, coffee, water, and a place to sit. Tickets are distributed at 7:50 am.
We invite all guests to a brief worship service with communion in the Great Room at 7:35 ...
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Dear Grace Community,
Each Sunday in worship we share joys and concerns together. While we often give voice to concerns about upcoming knee surgeries and cancer diagnoses, we don’t often name issues of mental health. We do on occasion, but this kind of sharing requires a different level of vulnerability.
People in our church community are impacted by mental illness, either directly in their homes or indirectly with extended family and friends. Still, we don’t often talk about it. This October we ...
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In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells us, “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your father in heaven.” This October and November we explore the theme Let It Shine together as a congregation. As a church we are to shine the light of Jesus in the world.
Whether it’s our money, our time, or our talents, everything we have is from God, and how we use these gifts is ...
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On Sunday, October 1, we receive the PCUSA Peace and Global Witness offering.
Twenty-five percent of this offering stays in Wichita for the International Rescue Committee. Twenty-five percent goes to our presbytery for peace and global witness efforts, and 50% goes to the national church.
National PCUSA peace and global witness initiatives include big projects such as supporting missionaries in South Sudan and smaller projects like providing bicycles for pastors in rural African countries so that they may commute to their churches ...
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