Amazing Grace for Sunday, January 23, 2022

In This Issue: Sunday Worship and Sunday School Coffee Hour Host for Sunday and Signup Altar Flowers for Sunday and Signup GLS Celebrates Lutheran Schools Week Baby Bottle Fundraiser Prayer List Have Your Picture Taken for Our Picture Wall Red Letter Challenge Grace Lutheran Youth News SHARE Menu for February January Calendar of Events Prayer Wall - Ready for Use! Prison Ministry After Care Program Amazon Smile Donations Received Compassion Center Hours of Operation Online Donation Link

Children's Sunday School (one class/all ages) - meets in room #215 (GLS kindergarten room) Adult Sunday School meets in room #116 Pastor's New Members Class meets in the sanctuary

Would you, your family, Bible study or ministry group be willing to host a coffee hour? It is held each Sunday from 9-11am. Setup usually takes about an hour and you would need to provide food for 40-50 people (coffee, juice, water and paper products will be provided). If you are interested, please click the button for more details and to select a date. Coffee Hour will only be held if hosted. Coffee Hour Signup

Altar Flowers are given to the glory of God by Margaret Steffens in thankfulness for all her family's many, many blessings and in celebration of her birthday. Altar Flowers

To donate altar flowers, please click the button to select your date. If you are donating flowers in memory of someone or for a special occasion, please provide that information where indicated. Note: Due to increased prices, the cost of altar flowers will increase to $30 on 1/1/2022.

This Sunday we will celebrate Lutheran Schools Sunday as Grace Lutheran School begins their Lutheran Schools Week festivities which will run through the end of the week. GLS students will serve as readers and acolytes during both services this Sunday, and there will be a video from our 5th grade students. If you'll be attending worship on Sunday, please make sure to pick up one of the prayer rocks painted by our students. Special Offering: In keeping with their theme "Celebrating the Sanctity of Life from Cradle to Grave", GLS is seeking donations to provide an Amazon Fire tablet for 9 seniors who reside at the Genesis Care Facility here in La Plata. These 9 seniors are lacking the human interaction and comfort that families and friends usually give. Since the day they were moved into the facility, they have not had one visitor or phone call. The Lutheran Schools Week committee has been in contact with a representative from the Genesis and an Amazon Fire tablet was suggested. The therapeutic recreation staff would be able to facilitate participation and activities straight from their own desktops. Since most residents' interests differ, it's easy to download specific apps that accommodate each of their own preferences. Please consider a monetary donation specifically for the purpose of providing tablets. This special offering will be collected January 23rd and 30th. Checks should be made out to "Grace Lutheran School" with "Senior Tablet" in the memo section. Chapel offerings on Wednesday, January 26 will also go towards the purchase of these tablets. GLS chapel offerings for January have been designated for the Catherine Foundation. They are also filling a pack & play with baby items and will deliver this gift to the Catherine Foundation once it is full.

Baby Bottle Boomerang Supports Catherine Foundation Since 1984, the 3rd Sunday in January has been designated as Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Grace Lutheran will celebrate Sanctity Sunday by participating in the Baby Bottle Boomerang fundraiser for the Catherine Foundation. The Catherine Foundation is a non-profit, Christian based pregnancy resource center in Waldorf, and offers free and confidential testing, counseling, classes, information and resources. To participate - pick up a baby bottle located in the narthex outside the sanctuary and in the family life center. Take it home and fill it with change, cash and/or checks (checks should be made payable to the Catherine Foundation). Bottles are due back to Grace on or before Sunday, February 13 (leave the bottles in the church office or with an usher). Grace Lutheran School's January chapel offerings have also been designated for the Catherine Foundation.

To submit your prayer - or praise - request, please click HERE. Your request will then be forwarded to our Prayer Warriors. If you would be interested in praying for others, the list of current prayer requests can be downloaded by clicking the button below. GLC&S Prayer List

Beginning January 23, come prepared to have your picture taken. Dianne Shisler has volunteered to take pictures of members and friends who worship at Grace Lutheran Church. These photos will be posted on the wall outside the adult Sunday School room. Once pictures begin appearing, we encourage you to stop by and see the many faces of Grace - some may be familiar and some may not.

Grace Lutheran Youth News If you have any questions, please contact DCE Amanda Bell [email protected]

July 2022 is 6 months away and as we continue to look forward to the LCMS Youth Gathering in Houston, Texas, we are working hard to raise all the funds for the trip. The congregation has been SO supportive and we thank you for that!! Out newest fundraiser is the MAKING OUR WAY FUNDRAISER. The total cost for the youth and chaperones who will attending the Youth Gathering will be $16,800 (travel, food and accommodations for 8 people). The distance from here to Houston is 1,290 air miles which equates to $13 a mile. The fundraiser will last the next six months and anyone can support the trip by sponsoring a mile or more! For more information talk to DCE Amanda Bell.

January GRUVE Events

Sunday School and Confirmation

Confirmation Students: Click the image to sign up to acolyte.

Ongoing Fundraisers

Grace Lutheran Youth are are collecting aluminum cans and recycling them to earn money for youth trips. You can help by saving your cans and placing them in the designated area in the dumpster. At the back of the dumpster is an opening for you to deposit your cans. To better assist the youth with their project, please if at all possible, crush your cans or use the can crusher on the back of the dumpster. The recycling center pays more if the cans are already crushed. no bags allowed. Please empty aluminum cans only into the designated receptacle at the back of the dumpster.

Whether it's filling up your tank, doing your grocery shopping, getting your morning coffee, DIY projects around the house, family pizza night or a date night, purchasing gift cards for these everyday items will increase the amount our youth are able to raise for their trip to Houston, TX next year. Download the RaiseRight app on your phone or go to ShopwithScrip.com on your computer. Use enrollment code 7C2E77CE1268 and for every card you purchase our youth will earn the percentage indicated. It might not seem like much, but the more people who participate, the more our youth can earn.

Thank you for supporting the Grace Lutheran Youth!!

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