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 fun ...
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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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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 portion goes ...
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Yellow Bag Collection for May
During the month of May, our congregation is helping Giving the Basics Wichita. We have assisted this organization in the past, but did you know that this year Giving the Basics is helping serve 146 schools, 48 community organizations, and two police departments, providing personal hygiene items to those in need?
One of the organizations that Giving the Basics serves is The Salvation Army. Personal hygiene items such as soap, shampoo, toilet paper, toothpaste, and toothbrushes are ...
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We had major power issues on Sunday morning, April 23. At about 6:20 am, power fluctuations started at Grace that triggered alarms. Kirk Anderson and Martin Burch arrived to discover flickering lights and partial power. Evergy was notified, and we called P1, the company that handles our HVAC maintenance.
A P1 technician arrived to shut ...
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