Sunday

October 12

9:00 am

@  Grace Lutheran Church
736 Cayuga Drive
Niagara Falls, NY 14304
www.gracenf.org
(716) 283-1843

KARATE DEMONSTRATION:
Be amazed at board and brick breaking feats

MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGE:
Be inspired to achieve success in life.

GOSPEL PRESENTATION:
Hear the Good News of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Lasertron

YOUTH AND THEIR FRIENDS in grades 6-12 are invited to attend our March youth event at Lasertron on Saturday March 8 from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Cost is $18 per person and includes 30 minutes of play, 1 slice of pizza, unlimited pop, and 20 tokens. You may use your fundraising money for yourself, and if it’s okay with your parents, you may use your fundraising money to pay for friends or they may pay for themselves. Youth need to tell Christi by Monday March 3 if you want to play. If you decide not to come after the date of March 4, you still will have to pay the $18.

Just send Christi an e-mail back, speak with me at church, or call me at 773-2255 to reserve your spot and your friends’ spots. She also has updated fundraising account totals if you want to know how much money you have earned.

Camp Pioneer Work Weekend

The first weekend in May Camp Pioneer invites youth to come and help prepare the camp for the summer. Grace Youth have participated in this for several years. We need a parent volunteer to drive and be present for the weekend. Please talk to Pastor Gaertner if you are able to help our youth participate in this wonderful servant project.

Ideas?

We are interested in your ideas for summer activities for Grace Youth. Drama team for church, swimming parties, Bible studies, movie nights, video game tournaments, servant projects, photo scavenger hunts, or other possibilities. What sounds good to you? Share your ideas, figure out good dates and times and let’s make it happen.

Past Events

Souper Bowl of Caring

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Souper Bowl of Caring! We collected 41 non-perishables and $125.10. All the donations will stay right at Grace for our food pantry. The cash will be used to buy supermarket gift cards to help those in need buy perishables like milk and butter. Nationally, 2,813,131 dollars and 1,725,782 pounds of food were donated.

30 Hour Famine

8 kids went to the famine and also 2 others raised money but were sick and unable to attend the activities. In total Grace Youth raised $622.

A Jesus Painter slide show: www.firsttrinity.com.

Great story in the Gazette and Tonawanda News:

http://www.tonawanda-news.com/local/local_story_041014538.html

Jaime Christ’s photos of the event:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jaimechrist/Famine2008

Confirmation News

Wednesday, February 13 – March 12 Grace Lutheran Church will have a simple supper at 6pm and short Lenten Midweek Worship Service at 7pm. Confirmation students are expected to attend the worship services and then come to class which will meet until 8pm.The worship services during the season of Lent are a part of the confirmation program. At these worship services and also at the regular services during the weekend the Worship Outlines should be filled out and turned in to the box in the Sacristy.

Here are some links of pictures and a newspaper article.

Here are some nice links to our famine.
A Jesus Painter slide show:www.firsttrinity.com.

Great story in the Gazette and Tonawanda News:
http://www.tonawanda-news.com/local/local_story_041014538.html

Jaime Christ’s (wife of the Director of Student Ministries at First Trinity Lutheran) photos of the event:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jaimechrist/Famine2008

Caroling

December 23, 2007 our youth and congregation will go caroling to shut-ins and nursing home residents. Lunch will be provided after the worship service and we will return to Grace by 4pm.

30Hour Famine
A pre-Famine fire up event

7pm-8:30pm, January 21, at First Trinity Lutheran.

This event will be a good time for anyone who has participated in past famines to meet up with old friends. This fire up event will also be a great event for any one on the fence to help them make an informed decision about participating in the 2008 30 Hour Famine.

February 8-9, 2008

The 2008 30 Hour Famine will be a valuable time of personal growth and an opportunity to make a global impact for everyone that participates. High School students plan on asking for the Friday night and Saturday off of work so you can participate fully.

30 Hour Famine is an international youth movement to fight hunger. It will bring our group closer together and to God, feed hungry children, and change our world forever.

Past Events

A Day of Service

November 17, 2007 our congregation participated in a day of service. Through the back breaking work of Derrick, Karen , and Pastor the Thrivent Builds Habitat Humanity property on A Street was prepared for landscaping.

Confirmation News

Confirmation has begun on Wednesday nights at 7pm-8pm. During December the confirmation class attends the Advent Midweek worship service at 7pm and then has class until 8pm. Families are invited to enjoy the Simple Suppers at 6pm and stay with their children for the worship services at 7pm.

First Communion

First Communion Instruction will take place Tuesday evenings  7pm-8pm for six session beginning January 8. This class is open for any sixth grade students or older that are not yet participating in the Lord’s Supper.

Where? We’ll begin by meeting at Grace at 9:00 a.m. Then we will split up. Some people will go to:

• the Thrivent Builds site for Habitat for Humanity in downtown Niagara Falls. They are nearly done with the home so we will be working inside. At the site, only those 16 or older may do actual work. Those under 16 can serve as gophers.
• Five people will go to Community Mission in downtown Niagara Falls where they will do food prep, serve food, or bag food in the pantry.
• If we have many youth under 16, we may have some people stick around church and rake leaves. Maybe we’ll even get creative and drive to the homes of some of our shut-ins and rake their leaves!

Who is invited? The youth and all people of the congregation. Youth who attend must be mature and prepared to work.

When? Saturday November 17. Meet at church at 9:00 a.m. Those who stay around church will be done at noon. Those who go to Habitat or to Community Mission should be done at 2:00 p.m. Lunch is included for the downtown sites.

What to bring? Please bring a rake if you are under 16. You also might appreciate some work gloves. Please wear work clothes (clothes that can get dirty). Those who serve food will need to bring either a baseball cap or a hair net.

This is our chance to be Jesus with skin on!

We want to reach out to our community and

show them the love that Jesus has shown us.

If you have any questions, e-mail Christi Gaertner at christigaertner@gmail.com or call the church office 283-1843.

We covered so far an introduction to studying the Christian faith, the First Commandment and the Second Commandment. But even if you have not come to yet you are still invited. This is open for any 7th-12th grade youth.