Each year we receive the PCUSA Pentecost offering. This offering supports ministries with children at risk, youth, and young adults. We give 60% of the offering to the national church and designate 40% locally.
This year the Grace Mission Distribution Team designates our 40% to Young Lives. Young Lives is part of YoungLife and connects with teen moms.Teen moms are supported in practical ways and through life mentoring.
Sunday, June 2 is our Mission Trip Car Wash. The money raised goes to support 35 youth and guides on our Mission Trip to Denver, Colorado. We partner with the Door Network to serve their inner-city and underprivileged ministries.
Areas of service include: painting with Restoration Brotherhood, leading a week of Vacation Bible School, serving breakfast and lunches for the homeless, being part of the presence ministry at Network Café, along with other ministries.
All you have to do is park your car and register at the table by the coffee bar. We get your car, wash it, and return it to its parking space. We are most appreciative of any donation you can make! Please donate at the table with cash, check or card.
We continue with our Deep Roots facility updates, and we remain grateful for your faithfulness in giving. We have replaced and added high definition surveillance cameras. There are still a few to add, but this project is moving toward completion. The new cameras involve new wiring, so if you’ve been at Grace and seen a person with his head up in the ceiling tiles, that’s our tech man running cables.
You may have noticed new devices on the main doors as well as on doors in and around Jacob’s Learning Ladder. These are the controlled access panels. We are not using them exclusively, but we are getting closer to providing controlled access to the building.
This work is being ushered in by a faithful team of people. We give thanks for Jim Grannis, Ron Spangenberg, Laura Daniel, Kim Alexander, Bill Woolf, staff members Martin Burch and Kirk Anderson, and Grace friend Chuck Newman.
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 May, our offering is split between two places.
Grace youth, Audrey Farrell, and the youth group are collecting items for the Wichita Children’s Home. This is part of a project Audrey and another Maize High School student initiated. The goals are to gather resources for the Children’s Home and to raise awareness about children in emergency situations in our area. Consider donating deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, tampons, pads, lice ice, nail care items, travel size hygiene supplies, combs, and brushes.
In addition, the Chase Community Presbyterian Church (where Scott Randle preaches monthly) is starting a new community food pantry. Consider bringing non-perishables like canned fruits and meats for them.
We are in the process of replacing all of the Grace fluorescent light fixtures with LEDs. The Board of Trustees received a bid for $12,400 to purchase the LEDs and the kits to make the change. The Trustees approved using money from the Facilities Endowment for this purpose. The return on investment should be within 12 months. Our daytime custodian, Tim Frye, has worked diligently to make the updates.