Advent services will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays until Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve Services
5:30 & 7:00 p.m.
Christmas Day Service
9:30 a.m.
New Year’s Eve Service
6:30 p.m.
New Year’s Day Service
9:30 a.m.
December 2, 2008
Schedule of Special Services
6th Annual Cookie Walk
We will have a wonderful variety of home-baked goodies available for purchase. You can pick and choose which treats you want in your container and you go home with your Christmas baking complete! Enjoy a cup of hot cider while you shop. This event is open to the public.
Saturday, December 13
3-5 pm or until the cookies are all gone!
Grace Fellowship Hall
Sunday School Christmas Program
Away In a Manger
December 14, 10:30 a.m.
The beloved Christmas carol, Away in a Manger, serves as the framework for helping the children and congregation discover the gifts that flow from the manger; the gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation from our heavenly Father.
Please Come!
December Sunday School News
For the months of November and December the Sunday School Children will be collecting gifts for the Salvation Army’s Sharing Tree. Unwrapped gifts for children of all ages may be placed in a box by the Sunday School office. Offering collected for these months will be used to purchase additional gifts which will be placed under the Sharing Tree at Apache Mall prior to Christmas.
There will be no Sunday School on December 28, however there will be class on December 21 and January 4.
Saint Nicholas Day Event
New for Grace Lutheran Church this Christmas Season!
Grace Lutheran Church will host its first (of what we hope to be an annual) Saint Nicholas party for children of all ages throughout the community. On December 6, from 1-3 pm, there will be a party with Saint Nicholas in the Fellowship Hall. This party aimed at children up to age eight, but all are invited to attend!
Mission Focus for December
The mission theme for December is New Life Family Services of Rochester. The mission of this organization is to honor the sanctity of human life by assisting clients in life-affirming decisions with the love and compassion of Christ. Their goal is “birth for little one, rebirth for their mothers and fathers.” In addition to adoption services, New Life offers three other branded services: First Care pregnancy center which offers confidential pregnancy testing, ultrasound, and decision making counseling; Conquerors provides post-abortion healing through Christian counseling to help those who had an abortion heal through Christ’s forgiveness; and the Ab.stin.ence resource center sex education materials. The addition of ultrasound services, which cost about $500 per client, allows women to see the new life inside of them and helps to reduce abortion. The mission for December will be both an ingathering of diapers (sizes 3-5), office supplies such as paper towels, manila folders, toilet paper or gift cards for Target or Office Max, baby wipes, and infant clothing. Monies will go to support the ultrasound services. But, the #1 need is prayer.
To learn more about New Life and the services they provide go to www.nlfs.org
Want to make a special end of year Mission Offering? You can designate a special offering to one of the following mission projects for Grace:
Reach out to Rochester
Lutheran Hour Ministry “Reaching Out Russia”
Lutheran Counseling Services
Bethesda Lutheran Home
LCMS Ministry to the Armed Services
Camp Coyote (outreach to children of prisoners)
New Life Family Services