THE GLEANINGS – Submission deadline for the next issue is Thursday, March 17th
PLEASE SIGN UP TODAY for Young Life’s Fundraising Banquet if you plan to attend so that we can reserve a table to sit together. The dinner is scheduled for Thursday, March 31, at 6:15 PM at Classics V Banquet Center on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Amherst. A sign-up sheet is located on the glass case. All are welcome to attend.
PLEASE NOTE–If you have signed up for Young Life’s dinner and your plans change, please let Dick Crawford know so that Young Life is not charged for a dinner that is not needed.
FREE Covid at-home test kits are available in the chapel and narthex, courtesy of Niagara County. Please feel free to take them home with you.
CHOIR WILL PRACTICE in the balcony after worship today, and again on Sunday, March 27, as we prepare to sing at our Good Friday and Easter services. New members are welcome!
MARCH MISSION ENVELOPES are designated to support LCMS Disaster Response. LERT team volunteers (Lutheran Emergency Response Teams) work in all areas of the country, aiding the victims of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, forest fires, and other disasters. These volunteers are trained to offer both material and spiritual support and often have “boots on the ground” within 24 hours of a disaster. If you would like to support our LCMS response to our brothers and sisters in Christ who are experiencing devastating events, please place your Mission Envelope in the offering plate or give online at www.gracenf.org to “Monthly Mission” during March.
THE SOCIAL MINISTRIES COMMITTEE will meet next Sunday after worship in the CHAPEL. Lunch will be served during the meeting. New members are welcome to attend.
THANK YOU for your generous support of our toilet tissue mission project. With your help and the assistance of a Thrivent Action Team grant, Heart, Love, and Soul will be distributing 630 rolls of toilet tissue to their clients over the coming weeks. Well done!
BEYOND THE SURFACE Christian education continues this Wednesday, March 16th at 10:00am. We will be looking at the following verses: Ezekiel 33:7-20, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, and Luke 13:1-9.
WEDNESDAY LENTEN SERVICE – March 16th @ 6:30PM “Behold the Man!”
| On Wednesday, we recall that the man Jesus was struck in the home of the high priest, although He was our great High Priest. He was struck according to God’s will; He was beaten for us! Through this series, it will become increasingly clear why God became man: He lived this physical life in order to be nailed to a cross. Thereby, we are truly preparing for the celebration of His real, bodily, flesh-and-blood resurrection. Behold the man, who has led the way for us through death to our own physical resurrection! |