When: Saturday, September 11th at 5:00pm
Where: The Watson’s home. Click here for directions.
What: A get together with meat and drinks provided. Please bring a side or a dessert.
Who: The College&Career and Departments 1&2. Your kids can come too!
Don’t miss this year’s rally on Saturday, September 15th, from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Enjoy a day packed with foxhole foosball, corn hole, basketball, an obstacle course, concessions, and preaching by Steve Pettit. Cost is $15 which includes lunch. See Mr. Kilcup to register.
September 1-November 17
Wednesdays
5:00 Supper (Fellowship Hall)
5:30 Visitation/Teen Visitation
Thursdays
7:00 Visitation
How long will it last?
Usually 1- 1½ hours. On Wednesdays, groups should try to be back to church by 7:00 for reporting and prayer meeting.
How will I eat supper on Wednesdays?
Sign-up will be weekly in Sunday School classes or at the Welcome Center. A discounted menu from Arby’s (including Market Fresh Sandwiches) will be posted and cost will vary ($2-3/person). Your selection along with free beverages and chips will be served in the Fellowship Hall at 5:00.
Who will I go with?
Groups of 2 or 3 will be determined when you arrive. Invite a friend ahead of time to be your partner. Having the same partner for the 12 week program would be ideal.
Who should come?
All who are interested in sharing the Gospel, growing the church, following the Great Commission and exercising your spiritual gifts should come and be a team player in this 12 week outreach.
What kind of visits?
Sunday School teachers can call on prospects and absentees. Bus workers can visit parents. ICA teachers can visit families. Others can visit Keenagers, shut-ins and visitors to church.
What about teens?
Teens from the youth group will go canvassing with Pastor Josh and Karie in a church van at 5:30 on Wednesdays. They are encouraged to sign up for the 5:00 meal as well.
Bring your friends to enjoy the great food, canoe rides, petting zoo, and softball at our annual picnic, held this Saturday, September 4th. Bring a side and a dessert to share.
This Sunday’s evening service begins early, at 5:00. Then at 6:00, members of our church family host other families in their homes for a time of icebreakers, food and Christian fellowship. Each family brings food to enjoy together and break bread just as the early church did in Acts 2:42 and 46. Please be courteous to your host family and excuse yourself by 8:30.
The final teen event of the summer, this Saturday from 5:00-8:30pm, will be held at the Watsons’. Dress in comfortable activity clothing. Bring a $2-3 for pizza as well as your favorite dessert. Don’t miss the fun!
Saturday the 31st from 6-8:30pm we are having the second GBC Cardboard Boat Build-off. Parents are invited to watch or participate. There will be two college and career teams and two teenager teams, and maybe a parents team. The goal is to build a boat using cardboard, duct tape, and saran wrap to get two people across our back pond. Bring whatever supplies you need and get ready to have a blast. There will be a big slip and slide as well so be prepared to get wet.
Afterward we will practice a special music song for the following Sunday for the Teen/College and Career Service in the evening. We are singing “Lord, I need you” out of the wilds songbooks.
There are so many events going on at Grace during the summer that it’s almost impossible to be at all of them. Many activities are specifically for different parts of the church family.
Yet we want the whole church family to be able to experience the fun and excitement of what God is doing in the lives of everyone from senior saints to bus kids, from the college & career group to the whole church.
Here are some video clips from recent activities at Grace this summer:
This Thursday at 11:00, our Moms4Moms group will meet at Shadyside Park on Broadway for a play date. Click here for a map.
M4M’s mission is to encourage young mothers of preschool through school age students and to equip them to grow their families for God’s glory. Click here for more information.
This Sunday Grace Baptist Church celebrated our nation’s independence with a dramatic presentation, special music and a cookout on the grounds.
After the morning service, members and visitors enjoyed a cookout on the grounds in the gym. In the 1:30 afternoon service, special guests Ben and Sarah Kilcup from South Carolina presented patriotic music and testimonies.
Ben graduated with honors with a degree in church music from Northland Baptist Bible College and completed a master’s degree in church music from Bob Jones. He did a music internship at Calvary Baptist Church in Watertown, WI and has served as a music assistant at Agnew Road Baptist Church in SC. Sarah graduated from Northland with a degree in missions and a minor in music.
Following their presentation, the church voted overwhelmingly (95% in favor) to call Ben as Assistant Pastor of Music and Youth.
