The Grace Presbyterian Church Annual Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, February 5, 2023, immediately following worship at 10 am in the Great Room. The business of the meeting is to update the church bylaws and approve the terms of call for Pastor Catherine Neelly Burton. In addition, the budget will be presented, and staff will share. Annual reports are available at Grace starting on Sunday, January 29.
It’s that time of year again—for our per capita commitment to the PCUSA. This year, per capita is $40 per active Grace member. This money is part of the glue that holds Presbyterians together and enables us to work with other Presbyterian churches in our presbytery and across the country to further the mission of Jesus Christ. If you’d like to defray the cost of this budget item, make a check payable to Grace and mark it ‘per capita.’
The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of Jesus’ teachings found in Matthew 5-7. For three Sundays, we look at teachings from each chapter. I encourage you to read each chapter in preparation for worship. The volume of teachings is so great that we cannot cover it all in worship, and I think you will enjoy the fuller context.
– Catherine NB
Did you know that Grace supports two international mission households? We offer monthly financial support to Dr. Katie Rhoads and to Jerry and Breanna Hurd and family. These relationships span more than a decade.
Dr. Rhoads (yes, she’s Tom Rhoads’ sister) is a medical missionary and theologian in Northern Uganda and Sudan. She offers medical care, medical training, and she trains pastors.
The Hurds are part of the missionary flight community in east Africa. Jerry flies supplies and people throughout different countries. Since we’ve known them, they had a fourth child (2012), and in 2019 their oldest child got married.
The Mission Distribution team invites you to join us in praying for Katie and Jerry, Breanna, and family.
The new year brings us a time for renewal and resolutions. It also brings us another opportunity to assist our sister congregation with its food pantry program. This month’s recipient for Yellow Bag donations is Covenant Presbyterian Food Pantry. Food staples such as canned vegetables and fruits, canned meats, cereals, peanut butter, jelly, pasta, and pasta sauce are good items to donate. Please be sure the food being donated is within the “use by” date and packaging is not open. We also suggest, if possible, do not bring items in glass containers.
Another note, if you have yellow bags in your home or car, please return them to the Church, preferably full of food. We are once again running low on bags.