Mission Work directs resources, establishes accountability and keeps outreach in missions in front of the congregation.
In our support partnership with Save the Family, Grace has assisted over 300 families out of homelessness. Read more by clicking here.
Through our partnership with Longfellow Elementary School, Grace helped outfit 100 children for class through supplying Backpacks stuffed with School Supplies.
Sidewalk Ministry changes lives! To read even more about Sidewalk Ministry click here.
We are called to know God with our head, love God with our Heart and serve God with our Hands. Each of us has unique gifts that we have been given to use in service. Figuring out what your gifts are is helpful as you seek to develop your relationship with God. A good place to start is to simply ask, what energizes you? What is a passion for you?
Is it assisting elderly, or children, or those in need? What peaks your interest? Are you happiest working behind the scenes or ‘upfront?’
Chances are Grace is involved in an area of mission that engages your passion
Chances are Grace is involved in an area of mission that engages your passion
Since 1964 Grace has understood faithful Discipleship, the methodical shaping of our lives in imitation of Jesus, includes reaching beyond ourselves.
September 11 was Outreach Mission Day
After worship everyone in the church was involved in an act of Mission.
280 pairs of socks and 70 towels were delivered to Justa Center
55 stuffed animals were collected for Center for Family Violence
17 loaves of bread were bakedto distribute to new visitors
4 large food boxes were delivered to neighborhood families.
12 senior adults were visited and given freshly baked cookies
100 lunches in bags decorated by children were packed for East Valley Men's Center. (When delivered, the men had just been told that there would not be any lunches.
Then we showed up.)
MISSIONS: CHANGING THE WORLD ONE LIFE AT A TIME
SERVING GOD:
Anyone seeking to know and love God will very quickly find themselves wanting to please God. How can we separate ourselves from our own needs and motives and distortions enough to perceive God's intentions?
Quick answer: We can't.
What we have to trust is God's ability to use and perfect what we offer for God's purposes.
We call this Sanctifying Grace.
As we get to know God, as we allow our lives to be shaped by God, we may come to believe we have achieved perfection. We would be wrong.
We are not capable of perfection in our intent or our action, even as we carry out the work of the church in the world. God alone sanctifies us, setting us apart from the world, even though we are still in the world.
Anyone seeking to know and love God will very quickly find themselves wanting to please God. How can we separate ourselves from our own needs and motives and distortions enough to perceive God's intentions?
Quick answer: We can't.
What we have to trust is God's ability to use and perfect what we offer for God's purposes.
We call this Sanctifying Grace.
As we get to know God, as we allow our lives to be shaped by God, we may come to believe we have achieved perfection. We would be wrong.
We are not capable of perfection in our intent or our action, even as we carry out the work of the church in the world. God alone sanctifies us, setting us apart from the world, even though we are still in the world.
