Grace Lutheran Church

Announcements for the week of September 13, 2009

Please join us for our Rally Day Chiavetta’s Chicken BBQ after the worship service today. Tickets are $9.00 and include beverage, salad and dessert. Help us make this a successful fundraiser for Grace!

We are going to order magnetic nametags to help us get to know each other better. The cost is $4 each, (donations gratefully accepted). Let us know how you would prefer your name tag to read on the sheet located at each exit. Note: magnetic nametags are not recommended for those with pacemakers. We can also get a clip style, so be sure to let us know if you would prefer the clip style nametag. Please call (283-1843) or email secretary@gracenf.org the church office with any questions.

Concordia Publishing House is offering special pricing on the new Lutheran Study Bible to be released on Reformation Day. There is a sampler with pricing information on the chapel.

Save Your Fleas! The Grace Ladies Annual Flea Market is coming up Saturday, October 3. This is their biggest fundraiser for the year. Good, sellable “fleas” can be dropped off at the church starting next week. (No clothes please).

Save the Date Ladies! The Niagara Zone Lutheran Women’s Missionary League Fall Rally will be held on Saturday, October 10th from 10:00-2:00 at Holy Ghost Lutheran Church/Bergholz. Teresa Martinez, Director of the YWCA Carolyn’s House, will be the featured speaker. There will be an ingathering of items for Carolyn’s House which provides support and housing for homeless women and children. Items requested are new twin-size sheets and pillowcases, new towels, wash cloths, hand towels; toiletries, cleaning supplies, school supplies (colored pencils, pocket folders, spiral notebooks, safety scissors), boxes of tissues, small bottles of hand sanitizers, disposable diapers (sizes 4 and 5). Cash donations will also be cheerfully accepted at the Rally (any checks to be made payable to YWCA of Niagara).

Attn. Youth: Jr. & Sr. High Retreat at Pioneer Camp!! October 23-25, 2009
$75 per youth / $25 per chaperone
MUST PRE REGISTER by October 12th
Theme is “Get out of the Boat”
Matthew 14:26-27 Call Pioneer’s office to register at 716-549-1420

Through you contributions to the mission fund at Grace, we reach out and support different missions locally, nationally, and internationally. Lutheran Campus Ministries is the special mission for the month of September.

Be sure to check the “This Week at Grace” schedule. Fall church activities are starting back up!

The deadline for the October Gleanings is next week, September 22. If you have any information to be included, please see Bev Mills or you can email the church office at secretary@gracenf.org

THIS WEEK AT GRACE

TODAY
9:00 a.m. SS/Adult Bible Class
10:30 a.m. Worship Service
11:45 a.m. Chicken BBQ

MONDAY
6:30 p.m. Community AA Meeting
7:00 p.m. Confirmation Class

TUESDAY
12-9:00 p.m. Polls Open

WEDNESDAY
9:30 a.m. Bible Class
10:30 a.m. Craft Group
7:00 p.m. Choir Practice

THURSDAY
6:30 p.m. New Member Class

NEXT SUNDAY
9:00 a.m. SS/Adult Bible Class
10:30 a.m. Communion Worship Service
11:30 a.m. Christmas Play Plan Meeting