The Grace Blog

On Sunday, May 5, ninety-two of us spent two hours together over an amazing “Cinco de Mayo” themed lunch making observations, interpretations, asking questions, and creating playful interventions around the challenge of declining attendance at Grace.

The Session has identified five emerging ministry emphases: caring, connecting, learning, serving, and worshipping. This past Sunday’s Step 2 in Our Interim Pastor Journey Town Hall meetings further clarified the emerging ministry emphases and Grace’s identity profile as we move closer in acknowledging who we ...

Philippians 1:6 reads, “I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.” I’ll never forget responding to God’s love for me in Jesus Christ as an eighth grader in the Communicant’s class. I’ll never forget the Sunday School teachers in the front rows smiling with tears of joy when I shared my Statement of Faith in the worship service. I’ll never forget how ...

Over the years of my ministry, I often return to Philippians 1:6. And now, given our Interim Pastor journey, I find great encouragement for each one of us at this time in Grace’s history and ministry. Philippians 1:6 reads, “I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.” Grace is built on the foundation of Jesus Christ. Our individual lives are built on ...