Red Cross Blood Drive: June 5
On June 5, we host a Red Cross Blood drive at Grace from 8 am – 2 pm. All donors receive an Honor Your Heroes Red Cross ...
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Grace Presbyterian Church,
On behalf of the staff and clients of the IRC in Wichita, we would like to extend our most heartfelt thank you to you for donating the household boxes. Each of the items in the boxes will be put into our clients’ apartments prior to their arrival. We can’t thank you enough for your thoughtfulness and we appreciate it so greatly.
-The IRC, April 26, 2016
The refugee support team also thanks you for your enthusiasm for this outreach. ...
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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 7 am in the Grace alcove. Guests are greeted with smiles, coffee, water, and a place to sit.Tickets are distributed at 8 am, and a brief worship service with communion follows. Everyone is invited to stay for worship. The worship service ...
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Dear Grace Community,
For this edition of ‘From the Pastor’s Desk,’ I’m sharing a letter from another pastor. Last month a friend of mine from seminary asked her colleagues to send to her the addresses of our churches. Her congregation was studying some of Paul’s letters, and she asked them to write letters to other congregations. We received a letter from her church, actually from the pastor, and you’ll find it below. Please join me in praying for the First Presbyterian ...
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In 2015, the Grace Session spent time looking at how to create a better culture of hospitality at our church. One thing we did was establish a sub-group to look at the signage in our building. Martin Burch, our executive pastor, worked closely with this group.
The interior signage at Grace was put in place when the Great Room addition was made nearly 20 years ago. While attractive, this sub group realized that some of the signage was not entirely accurate. ...
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