Session Minute Summaries: April 17 and May 7

Session Minute Summaries: April 17 and May 7

April 17, 2023 – Stated Meeting

  • The Grace Session met on April 17, 2023, at 6:00 pm in the church parlor. Steve Hooper (clerk) shared a devotional.
  • A motion was approved to remove Covid messaging from the church website and weekly emails.
  • Catherine led a discussion about JLL staffing related to finances.
  • Financial reports were given and received. Other reports were provided.  An update was given on the updated cook/food ministry position. In its new iteration, the cook’s responsibilities have been modified and do ...
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Session Minute Summaries

Jacob’s Learning Ladder Updates

Jacob’s Learning Ladder Updates

The children and staff at Jacob’s Learning Ladder (JLL) have had a busy spring. We had Ms. Amy Woolf share The Very Hungry Caterpillar story with each classroom. We had parent/teacher conferences and a successful Scholastic Book Fair. The children have been enjoying the nice weather and playing outside a lot, searching for bugs and planting our garden. We even squeezed in a couple of bike days before the rain!

Children and staff enjoyed our annual field trip to the Sedgwick ...

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Jacob's Learning Ladder

Vacation Bible School is Coming

Vacation Bible School is coming! This year we’re doing something new.  We’re joining three neighborhood churches (St. James Episcopal, College Hill UMC, and Plymouth Congregational) for an evening Bible School the week of July 17.

VBS is Monday – Thursday evenings, with a family celebration on Friday.  The evenings begin with dinner from 5:30-6:00, and then the VBS ...

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Church Information

Good Neighbor Team Update

Good Neighbor Team Update

Our Good Neighbor Team completed their first project of the year, albeit a month later than planned. This is the property of a woman named Doris, who lives about a mile north of Koch Arena. Doris’ granddaughter came up for the weekend from Dallas to be on hand to assist and field questions for the Good Neighbor Team.

The project was a yard clean-up with many shrubs, saplings, and one good-sized tree that needed to be removed. Luckily, we had the ...

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Church Information

Pentecost Offering: May 28

Pentecost

Pentecost is Sunday, May 28.  Each year we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and as part of our celebration we receive the Pentecost Offering.  The Pentecost Offering supports ministries with children and youth.  Sixty percent of the offering goes to the national PCUSA, and 40% stays in our community.  This year our local ...

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