Save the date! Kids Lead Sunday is February 23 at 10 am in the Great Room.  Sunday School classes are working on their contributions to the worship service.  That means we need all of you to offer your ideas and input.  This year we plan on explaining “Why Church?” from the perspective of what we do in worship.  Worship can be really exciting for kids and adults, but it can also feel long and boring and pointless to kids.  At Grace, we want to make worship and Sunday School the best hour of your kids’ week.

Would you consider partnering with us to make Kids Lead Sunday a meaningful way our kids can give back to Grace?  The best way to do this is to talk with your child about what they like and what they are remembering about Sunday School.  Be excited about your own course of faith study.  And bring your kids on Sundays at 10 am from now until February 23.  The kids’ classrooms are thinking about and practicing ways they can participate in Kids Lead Sunday.  It’s always a fun service to witness.  Thanks for letting us know your amazing kids here at Grace,

~Jennifer Snook

Each month on the first Sunday you’re encouraged to take home a re-usable yellow grocery bag, put some non-perishable items in it, and bring it back the next week, or soon thereafter.  In February our contributions go to the food pantry at the Center Church.  This is the building that used to be Mt. Vernon Presbyterian.  The Center Church continues to operate the food pantry.  Consider bringing cereal and canned vegetables.

It’s time to bake and deliver cookies for our community.  This is the seventh year for our cookie initiative, and we’re excited to again offer a blessing to those who work in our city.

A bulletin board is up by the coffee bar.  You sign up to either bake two dozen cookies, or you sign up for a location to deliver them.  See the list of delivery locations on the bulletin board.

If you sign up to bake cookies, you bring them on Sunday, February 9.  Bring the cookies to the church kitchen and volunteers package them up for delivery.  On that same day, volunteers pick them up and deliver them during the week.  If you need to bring cookies early, drop them off in the kitchen, and be sure to label them.

This is a small and valuable way for us to show some love to our community!

Each month Grace distributes bus tickets to people in our community.  This happens on the 15^th of the month, or if the 15^th is on a weekend we meet the Friday before. Volunteers and those receiving tickets begin to gather around 6:30 am in the Grace Alcove. We offer a brief worship service at 7:30 am.  Guests are greeted with smiles, coffee, water, and a place to sit. Tickets are distributed at 7:45 am.

We can always use volunteers to help with set-up, clean-up, and ticket distribution. Want to help? Contact Kirk Anderson, kirk@mygpc.org or 684-5215.