UPDATE FROM PASTOR EDDIE - Friday, November 29, 2013
Published: Fri, 11/29/13
Grace House Update from Pastor Eddie
Upcoming Holiday Service Schedule
Sunday, Dec. 15th - The Children will share during part of the worship service.
Wednesday, Dec. 25 - No mid-week service
Wednesday, Jan. 1 - No mid-week service
Special Christmas Missions Project - Ukraine Orphanges
During this Christmas season we are asking our Grace House family to come together around a purpose to bless many orphaned children in the Ukraine by giving to provide them with Christmas presents wrapped with the love of Jesus.
We are excited to partner with our dear sister in Christ, Jean McCrosky who will be leading a team to the Ukraine in the month of January (when they celebrate Christmas there). She will be supplying us with a list of small items we can give plus we want to receive an offering to help her buy most of the needed items once she arrives in the Ukraine. Shipping larger parcels is extremely expensive and she can better steward what is given by purchasing certain items there upon arrival.
We will get more info out to you really soon. Let's all begin to save our coins and bring them together on Sunday, December 15th (of course paper money and checks will be gladly accepted as well). The coins are a great way to involve our children in the process too. We will have a container for you place your coins in during the service.
Women of Grace Events
On December 3, we will meet at Grace House at 6:30 p.m. We will eat together and I will share a devotion. Please bring a favorite dish and a Christmas gift for a single mother. We plan to share these gifts with single mothers in our fellowship.
Baby & Child Dedication Service - Sunday, Dec. 8th
Please let Mikki know if you have a baby or child you would like to dedicate to the Lord during a special time of prayer in our worship service on Sunday morning, Dec. 8th. You can email Mikki at mikki@gracehouse.info and let her know you want to participate and give her the full name of your child(children) and their ages so we can prepare your a certificate to remember the event.
There will be a time in the service when we invite all the parent(s) and children to the front and we (Pastors and Elders) will present you with a certificate and pray over the parents and children. It will be a very special time of saying and praying that our children will be raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord to love Him and serve Him.
Share Your Story with Us!
We invite you to share with us any testimonies or stories of how God is working in your life. These will be used in different ways such as posting them here in my weekly update or sharing them in a Sunday service, Please state as briefly as you can but with enough information to help people understand just what the Lord has done for you. Send your story or testimony to Mikki and me at a new email address we have created just for these testimonies which is connect@gracehouse.info . We will be blessed and others will too! Be sure to include your name.
Remember to Find A Life Group and Jump on Board!
We are so grateful for the togetherness that our life groups are enjoying.
Our Life Groups Ministry is touching lives. I rejoice to hear about how our groups are praying for one another, ministering the Word to one another, going places together, building deep relationships. This is an important part of the family life of belonging to a local congregation.
If you have questions about being in a group or leading a group, just get with Hillard and Charlotte Matthews who lead our Life Groups ministry.
You are now able to view all the options on our new Life Groups website at LIFEGROUPS.INFO
Please check it out!
Life Group Study on Marriage Oneness
Bryan and Melissa Gregg who lead our Couples In Christ Life Group are leading a new series each Weds. night at 6:30 pm. This is a very practical series called MARRIAGE ONENESS and is for all couples or those about to be a couple. Our Couples in Christ class have a lot of fun together but also go deeper together by equipping couples in dealing with real life "stuff" by applying God's Word. This class is conversational and interactive and will be a blessing to you. Come and dive in with this incredible group of couples. Here is more info about the group.
Our Next Grace House Mission Trip -- Looks like late January.
Please be praying for the development of our next mission trip. This team will purposely be a very small team due to the travel schedule and arrangements and assignment.
About nine years ago the Lord really touched me deeply concerning the island nations. Since that time, I have had the opportunity to see the Lord do some amazing things in the Caribbean. We had an awesome time in Trinidad last year and this past April we saw God do a mighty work in Carriacou and Petite Martinque. It looks as if our next trip will be to Barbados with the possibility of island jumping to revisit Trinidad and Carriacou.
There is no doubt that developing a missions heart is one of the greatest things a congregation can do.
hile working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs.
One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"
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