Grace Lutheran Church

Announcements for the week of April 11, 2010

There will be a BP clinic after church today. Stop by the chapel and have your blood pressure checked for free!

Prayer Group meets today after church in the Ladies Lounge. Our topic this month is The Importance of Thanksgiving in Prayer. If you would like to join the prayer group, but are unable to attend the monthly meetings, please see Laura Lehning. All are welcome!

Chiavetta’s Chicken Dinner –Get your tickets now for your delicious chicken dinner being held here at Grace on Sunday, April 25, from 4-6:30 p.m. sponsored by the Youth. Advance tickets are $8.00 and at the door will be $8.50. You may eat in or take out. Donations of desserts are greatly appreciated- sign up at the Book Nook.

Youth RECYCLE fund raiser- Bring your bottles and cans to our recycle bins at the parking lot door any Sunday during April and May. There will be a Youth Group member there to assist you.

Niagara Zone LWML Spring Gathering is scheduled for April 24. This year’s theme is “Gifts from the Heart” for Lutheran World Relief. Each LWML Society in the Niagara Zone is encouraged to provide at least one complete Health Kit –individual church members are also encouraged to provide completed kits or donate new bars of wrapped bath soap (4-5 oz. size). There is a drop off box in the chapel with a list of things needed to complete a health kit.
Wednesday, April 21 is the deadline for the May Gleanings. Please let us know if you have any info you would like included.

On May 2 at 2:30, Trinity Lutheran Church (2027 Niagara Stone Road) Niagara-on-the-Lake will be hosting a seminar entitled, “Christ or Caricature?”. At a time when the broadcast media, books like The Da Vinci Code, and our newsmagazines offer caricatures of Christ, his genuine portrait becomes even clearer when history and archaeology provide fascinating additional details to the biblical record. The presenter is Dr. Paul L. Maier, professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University and widely-read author. The seminar will be followed by a BBQ dinner catered by Pig Out Spit Roasters. The cost for the seminar and dinner is only $10. Reservation forms are available in the chapel.

Through contributions in your monthly mission envelopes, we are able to reach out and support different missions on a local, national, and international level. Our mission envelopes for April will be donated to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod’s “Life Ministries”. This is a ministry actively involved in promoting the sanctity of human life through the funding of crisis pregnancy centers, providing education to promote teen abstinence, and working with other Christian pro-life groups to encourage life “in the image of God”. If your prayers move you to support “Life Ministries”, please place your mission envelope for April in the offering on any Sunday during the month.

THIS WEEK AT GRACE

TODAY
9:00 a.m. SS/Adult Bible Class
10:30 a.m. Worship Service
11:30 a.m. Blood Pressure Clinic
11:30 a.m. Prayer Group

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

WEDNESDAY
9:30 a.m. Bible Class
10:30 a.m. Craft Group
6:00 p.m. Social Ministries Meeting
7:00 p.m. Choir Practice

NEXT SUNDAY
9:00 a.m. SS/Adult Bible Class
10:30 a.m. Communion Worship
11:30 p.m. Sunday School Staff Meeting