Laundry Love: December 11

It’s time for our monthly Laundry Love! This is when we go to College Town Laundry at 3223 E 17th St, by the WSU Campus, and pay for laundry for people. This is a mission of our evangelism team, and we’d love for you to join us. We’ll be there from 2:30 – 5:30 pm on Sunday, December  11. Want to know more? Contact Catherine Neelly Burton in the church office, 684-5215.

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Bus Tickets and Morning Worship: December 15

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.

We invite all guests to a brief worship service with communion in the Great Room at 7:30.

We ...

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Yellow Bags December 2016

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 December, our contributions go to Operation Holiday. Operation Holiday is a mission of Interfaith Ministries. Last year over 13,000 people were served through this outreach.

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Operation Holiday: Sharing Warm Blankets, Coats & More

Gifts are given to our neighbors who need them to be warm this winter and help Operation Holiday serve between 11,000 and 15,000 low income adults and children in our community. Most are working poor. We are collecting gifts of new or like-new:

  • Blankets
  • Gently-used coats of all sizes
  • New winter wear such as scarves, hats, mittens/gloves for children and adults

Place your gifts in the boxes at the church entrances now through December 11. There are also many volunteer opportunities directly with Operation Holiday:

  • Warehouse ...
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Planned Giving Celebration

Doris McEachern and her husband, Arnold, found a home at Grace Presbyterian Church and an extended family in the Cruisers.

Doris, who died in April at 94, grew up in a series of Kansas towns as her father, a railroad man, moved around. After high school, she went to business school in Wichita and met an “industrious young man” that she soon married: Arnold McEachern.

Soon after, with World War II under way and husband Arnold off to the Army, Doris joined ...

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