Bring friends, dress warmly.
Caroling is open to anyone willing to share the joy of Christmastime in song.
We’ll meet at Grace Sunday, December 13th and travel by bus to visit our shut-ins.
The bus leaves *promptly* at 6:00 p.m. so come a little early.
After caroling, we’ll warm up with some hot cider and Christmas treats…
A sampling of the many varieties from previous cookie walks
We will have a wonderful variety of home-baked goodies available for purchase. You choose which treats you want in your container and you go home with your Christmas baking complete! Can’t wait to try your purchase? Seating and cider will be available. This event is open to the public.
Saturday, December 12
3-5 pm or until the cookies are all gone!
Grace Fellowship Hall
Please join us during this Advent season on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. for our mid-week services.
The theme this year is: Savior of the Nations, Come. We will concentrate on preparing for His return and how to help those who have yet to know Christ before His return.
It is not so much that we need to be ready for Christmas as it is to be ready for Christ.
On Saturday December 5, from 1-3 pm, you are invited to attend a Saint Nicholas Festival! Jolly ol’ Saint Nick has penciled in Grace Lutheran Church on his calendar and will be on site to greet young children and share the story about the Saint Nicholas of long ago. Children will enjoy participating in activities, watching short holiday movies, and taking delight in special treats and trinkets! Be sure to bring a camera to snap a picture of your children with St. Nick! This free event is targeted towards pre-school and early elementary school age children. Come enjoy the festivities and fellowship during this season of Advent.
We invite you to make worship part of your Thanksgiving with special services on Thanksgiving Eve at 6:30 pm and Thanksgiving morning at 9:00 am. This is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the blessings you have given and received this year.
Join us this Sunday to celebrate All Saint’s Day and to hear Rev. Tim Kinne, assistant to the LCMS Minnesota South District President. Afterwards, stay for our annual German Meal! The Amazing Grace Polka band will be present to play a selection of fun, lively music to entertain you while you dine. A Free Will offering will taken to offset the cost of the meal and support ongoing mission work at Grace.
Rev. Timothy Kinne
Timothy accepted the call to join the MNS District staff in the fall of 2007. He serves as a resource to congregations in meeting their programmatic needs (i.e., Stewardship, Evangelism, Youth, Human Care, Parish Education, Children’s Ministry, Family Ministry, and Worship). Before moving to Minnesota, he served first as a Lutheran High School Teacher in Detroit and Fort Wayne, then as a parish pastor to congregations in central and northeastern Wisconsin. He and his wife Debra have been blessed with five children.
As summer draws to a close, we turn our mission focus from projects in Rochester to global outreach with the Ablaze program and the special visit of Matt Heise, missionary to Russia. Matt will be in Rochester on Wednesday, September 23. There will be a special program and of course as is typical of Grace Hospitality, a special meal, “Grace will go Blini for Heise”. The menu will include Russian vegetable pie, salad, bread and Blini’s for desert. What is a blini? Why, it is a thin crepe filled with treats! Yum! Monies collected at the meal will go to support Matt’s ministry to areas of Georgia and Mongolia. Matt develops programs to train local ministers especially those of Muslim ethnicity. Many of these men identify themselves as Muslim but have no faith. They learn of Jesus and become his ministers. Their faith is contagious and their numbers are growing. Learn more of this ministry by planning to attend the program and dinner.
Dinner 5:30-6:30pm
Presentation and Q&A 6:30pm
Free-will offering will be received.
Rome & the Underground Church June 22-26, 2009 at RCLS, 9am-11:30am
The kids will be spending a little time in Rome with the apostle Paul during the week of June 22-26. Our trip to Rome begins each morning at 9am in the gymnasium at RCLS. Children ages 3 through entering 5th grade are invited on the trip. We will interact with other groups traveling to Rome, including those attending Camp RCLS and any guests we bring. This is a trip you don’t want to miss! Invite your friends and neighbors, too, opportunities like these can’t be passed up!
Please stop by the VBS table in the narthex to register for this summer’s program.
Still needed for the “trip” are adult & youth leaders and various supplies.
Sunday School Carnival
We will be celebrating the completion of another successful year of Sunday School on May 17, from 9:15- 10:30 AM with a carnival for all ages. This event is open to everyone! Information was distributed to community children who attended the Easter Egg hunt. Please invite friends, neighbors, and family to join in on the fun! Junior and Senior youth are invited to help with the games. A signup sheet is located on the Youth bulletin board.
THE LAST DAY OF SUNDAY SCHOOL IS MAY 17!
Summer Worship Services Updates
Starting May 27 we begin our Wednesday 6:30pm worship services. The Wednesday services offer an expanded explanation of the biblical passages in a more casual setting than our traditional worship services. These are offered for members who will be out of town the following weekend or just prefer the casual setting. Our Saturday 6:00pm worship services continue in their traditional format throughout the summer months. The Sunday service switches to a single 9:00am service starting the first Sunday in June (June 7).
Last year Grace increased the fellowship opportunities for our members by offering ice cream dessert after the Wednesday and Saturday worship services. We had a great turnout and received many positive comments so we will again be offering ice cream after the Wednesday and Saturday worship services. This summer we will be adding three summer barbeques. The trustees will be grilling hot dogs and we will be serving chips and ice cream immediately following the worship services on the first Wednesday of the month (June 3, July 1 and August 5). We hope everyone will be able to attend one or more of these events this summer.
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