CONFIRMATION CLASSES will be starting this Wednesday, January 5, 5:00-6:30 PM. All youth 6th grade and up who have not completed Confirmation instruction are encouraged to attend. Students may bring dinner. Please contact Erin (office@gracenf.org) to register, including returning students.
SOCIAL MINISTRIES: The committee meeting scheduled for January 9 has been postponed. Watch for further details.
JANUARY MISSION ENVELOPES are designated to assist our sister congregation, St. Paul Lutheran Church, in Beecher, Illinois. In September, while celebrating their Octoberfest in a tent set up on the church grounds, the congregation watched in disbelief as smoke began to pour from the steeple of the church. Despite the response of 31 fire companies to truck in water from the closest fire hydrant (over a mile away), their historic 150 year old wooden church burned to the ground. Only a cross and a chalice survived the fire. St. Paul plans to rebuild. All donations received will go directly to St. Paul to support their construction efforts.
NEXT SUNDAY is the last day to drop off your donations to our Advent Giving Tree. We will then deliver your gifts to Heart, Love & Soul, Lighthouse (Magdalene), and Niagara Gospel Rescue Mission. Thank you for helping our neighbors in need during the cold winter months ahead.
BEYOND THE SURFACE Christian education continues this Wednesday, December 15th at 10:00am. We will be looking at the following verses: Micah 5: 2-5a, Hebrews 10: 5-10, and Luke 1: 39-45.