October 27, 2024
Reformation Sunday
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Readings and Psalm
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Psalm 46
Romans 3:19-28
John 8:31-36
Rooted in the past and growing into the future, the church must always be reformed in order to live out the love of Christ in an ever-changing world. We celebrate the good news of God’s grace, that Jesus Christ sets us free every day to do this life-transforming work. Trusting in the freedom given to us in baptism, we pray for the church, that Christians will unite more fully in worship and mission.
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Worship Support
Presiding Minister: Pastor Chris Repp
Assisting Minister: Helen Repp
Reader: Dave Larson
Deacon: Dan Lepp
Cantor: Helen Repp
Ushers: Joe Meyer & Erika Bilger & Family
Greeters: Jim Fleming
Livestreamer: Dave Brown
Sound: Kevin Vail
Music Director: Nicholas Pierle
Organist: Dana Robinson
Flowers: Bob Pearson, in memory of Ellen Pearson
For the upcoming Worship Support schedule, see the spreadsheet found here on Google Drive.
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WORSHIP VOLUNTEERS
Worship volunteers are always welcome. Here is a list of some worship activities and the name of the person who schedules them. Feel free to email that person for more detailed information.
Music opportunities: Nick Pierle (music@glccu.org)
Ushers: Dave Larson (dlarson907@aol.com)
Readers: Carolyn Pater (pater@illinois.edu)
Greeters: Julie Johnson (jgj83056@aol.com)
Deacons: Karen Maher (office@glccu.org)
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Usher Request for Upcoming Sunday Services
Over the past few months, the group of people who hand out bulletins for the worship service has become a little smaller. Having ushers who do this adds a personal touch for those attending worship. If you would like to participate in this ministry, please contact Dave Larson or visit with him on Sunday morning.
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Stitch & Craft
Please join us *tonight* Friday, October 25th at 7 p.m. for Stitch & Craft in the Narthex at Grace Lutheran Church! Bring whatever project you would like to work on. We look forward to seeing you there!
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This Sunday, October 27th
Hops ‘n Hymns!
Hops n’ Hymns October gathering! Please join members of Grace Lutheran Church, Good Shepherd and St. Matthew’s for an evening of singing and fellowship.
We will meet at Riggs Brewery on Sunday, October 27th, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Bring the whole family and a friend!
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Adult Sunday School
Join us at 11:55 am in the Hoffmeister Room for a screening of Luther and the Reformation, hosted by Rick Steves. The video is 55 minutes long, so we’ll start right at 11:55 to allow a little time at the end for discussion.
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Chancel Flower Sign-up for 2025
You are invited to help beautify the sanctuary with flowers for Sunday services in 2025. Remember a special date in your life or a special person with a personal dedication. You may dedicate flowers for more than one Sunday.
The cost of flowers for one Sunday is $50 and the florist supplying and delivering your arrangement to church is Fleurish on Walnut Street in downtown Champaign. After the service on the Sunday you dedicate flowers, you may take the floral arrangement home.
The sign-up will be in the narthex on the Sundays of October 27 and November 3 following the church service. Listed below are the dates which are available for you to sponsor flowers. We do not use flowers during Lent and not during a few additional Sundays during the year. If you are unable to sign up at church, you may call Gloria Rainer and leave a message about the date you would like to sponsor flowers. Gloria will return your call and verify. If you reserve a date for flowers via a telephone call to Gloria, please send your check to her or place your check in the “Flower mailbox” labeled with Shirley Traugott’s and Gloria’s names.
At the time you sign-up, please pay for the flowers using cash or a check. Make checks payable to Grace Lutheran Church, Memo – Chancel Flowers. Thank you very much for your support and participation.
If you have any questions, please contact Gloria.
The 2025 Dates Available are as follows:
January: 12, 19, 26
February: 2, 9, 16, 23
March: 2
Lent (March 9 - April 6): No flowers are used during Lent.
April: 13 (Palm Sunday, Palms)
April: 20 (Easter, Easter Flowers)
April: 27
May: 4, 11, 18, 25
June: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
July: 6, 13, 20, 27
August: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
September: 7, 14, 21, 28
October: 5, 12, 19, 26
November: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
December: 7, 14, 21
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Mark Your Calendars: November 9, 2024, 9am - noon
Fall Outside Cleanup Day at Grace Lutheran Church
Please come help get the outside of Grace tidied up for the winter. We will be mainly raking leaves, trimming some bushes, cutting down flowers, pulling weeds and various other outside tasks.
We will assemble in the Fellowship Hall where coffee and donuts will be provided. Please bring extra gloves, rakes, pruners and trimmers. Paper Yard waste bags will be provided. All yard bags will need to be moved to the Union Street curb for pick-up on Thursday, November 14th.
ALL help is really appreciated and needed!
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LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE
for Hurricane Relief
ELCA.org/hurricanes
In late September, Hurricane Helene hit the coast of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, ravaging communities in the southeast, from Florida to Virginia. As the floodwaters have started to recede, the extreme devastation — especially in North Carolina and Tennessee — has become clearer. Entire towns, roads and bridges have been washed away, and millions are without power and cell service.
Whatever unfolds because of this storm, Lutheran Disaster Response will be there. Lutheran Disaster Response has strong relationships in the region and is already at work on the ground. Working alongside synods and other partners, Lutheran Disaster Response is prepared to provide support throughout the impacted region. We anticipate that our greatest impact will be reaching those in underserved and rural areas.
Gifts to Lutheran Disaster Response equip us to respond to those affected by hurricanes and related disasters, such as mudslides, severe storms and flooding. These gifts also empower us to respond to disasters whenever and wherever they strike. Gifts to “Hurricane Response” will be used in full (100%) to assist those affected by hurricanes, until the response is complete.
Give through your congregation or make your check out to
Lutheran Disaster Response and send to:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
ELCA Gift Processing Center, P.O. Box 1809, Merrifield, VA 22116-8009
and write “Where needed most” or “Hurricane Response” on your check’s memo line.
The following QR code will also connect you to the information and donation page:
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Upcoming BACH Concert at Grace Lutheran
Come for an afternoon of music by composers who turned limitation into inspiration, performed by the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH) choir at Grace Lutheran Church on Sunday, November 3, at 4 pm.
First, feel the fiery mood of Handel’s Dixit Dominus, with strings and soloists. Faced with the church’s ban on opera, young Handel smartly pivoted, putting the same passion into sacred works like this one. Next, listen for echoes of the convent in a double-choir version by Benedictine nun Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, who also fought efforts by the church to limit her talents.
Doors open 30 minutes early. Tickets available at the door or at baroqueartists.org/events
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Online Event: Toward Truth and Healing:
How Churches Face Accountability for their Indian Boarding Schools
Sunday, November 10, 7-8:30pm CT
Friends Peace Teams
Many Christian church denominations operated Indian boarding schools during the 19th and early 20th centuries, in collaboration with the federal government’s policy of forced assimilation. Now they are re-examining the roles they played, the harms that were done to Native American families and nations, and the ongoing impacts in Native communities today. Representatives of Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Quaker faith communities will share how they are conducting research and approaching questions of accountability, apology, reparations, and healing.
Sunday, November 10, 8-9:30pm ET; 7-8:30pm CT; 6-7:30pm MT; 5-6:30pm PT
REGISTER HERE:
https://friendspeaceteams.org/accountability-boarding-schools-2024/
Vance Blackfox and Liz Andress, Co-leads of our ELCA Initiative, will be two of several speakers at this event. We hope you can attend and we encourage you to invite others.
-Liz Andress
(Image is Wounded Yellow Robe, Henry Standing Bear and Chauncy Yellow Robe: Lakota boys before and after they entered school in 1883 and three years later.)
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Brown Bag Bible Study
Join us in the narthex for the next Brown Bag Bible Study on Thursday, October 31st, from 12:30-1:30 for a discussion of chapter 3. We’re reading Paul’s letter to the Galatians. There is no preparation necessary, but if you want an introduction and overview of Galatians, have a look at this video. The remainder of the fall schedule looks like this:
-October: 31
-November: 14
-December: 12
Bring your own lunch. (There is a microwave in the kitchenette if you need to heat anything up.)
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On The Way
On The Way will not meet this Thursday, October 31st, due to Halloween.
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Online Book Discussion
This Sunday, October 27, 7:00-8:15pm (CDT): Online book discussion
You are invited to join people across the ELCA's Truth & Healing Movement in reading Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, by Vine Deloria Jr., an Indigenous author, scholar, leader, and theologian. A Discussion Guide is available for you to use in your own reading. You will be struck often by Deloria's ironic sense of humor as he calls out
how white people have stereotyped and treated Native people in this country.
The Zoom link will be https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4756726153?pwd=N0dtMmlrcVBjc1JYU1hPZjh3aXI4Zz09.
Notification of your interest can be made by emailing lizandress312@gmail.com.
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ELCA Truth & Healing Movement Webinars
See https://elca.org/truthandhealing for more details and to join sessions (no registration required). Attend live sessions or watch recordings later.
Nov. 10 - Webinar: Toward Truth and Healing: How Churches Face Accountability for their
Indian Boarding Schools - hear from representatives of several Christian denominations about what each is doing
Nov. 18-19 - Vine Deloria Jr. Theological Symposium - focus will be on the book "Custer Died for Your Sins", a great follow-on to our Oct. 27 discussion
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Lutheran Summer Music High School Program
Enrollment for LSM 2025 is open now! Lutheran Summer Music (LSM) is a faith-based residential music academy for high school students who come together to immerse themselves in musical excellence and build a supportive and fun community. Musical experiences include large ensembles (band, choir, orchestra), chamber music, private lessons, and electives like handbells, jazz, musical theatre, composition, conducting, church music and more.
Priority enrollment deadline: December 1. Standard enrollment deadline: March 1.
Learn more at LSMacademy.org.
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Reminder - Meal Train for St. Andrew's Campus Ministry
“No matter how you support St. Andrew's, I am grateful for your support as we care for students and young adults at the University of Illinois!”
-Grace + Peace, Pastor Jon Fry
You can view the Meal Train page at https://mealtrain.com/4wmkg5 or by clicking here.
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World Hunger Sunday
9:30 a.m.: Worship Service (in-person/livestream)
11 a.m.: Adult Sunday School (Hoffmeister Room)
12 p.m.: Women's AA (Hoffmeister Room)
1 p.m.: Mark Woolwine Piano Recital (Sanctuary)
5 p.m.: Hops n' Hymns (Riggs Brewing Company)
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10 a.m.: Food for Seniors (Fellowship Hall)
6:30 p.m.: Wood Carving Group (Kitchenette)
7 p.m.: Bell Choir Rehearsal (Choir Room)
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6 p.m.: Adult Children of Alcoholics (Chapel)
6:30 p.m.: Sweet Adelines (Fellowship Hall)
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7 p.m.: Choir Rehearsal (Choir Room) | |
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10 a.m.: Food Pantry (Fellowship Hall)
12:30 p.m.: Brown Bag Bible Study (Narthex)
4 p.m.: Mutual Ministry (Hoffmeister Room)
7 p.m.: On the Way (Chapel)
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9:30 a.m.: Worship Service (in-person/livestream)
10:45 a.m: Property Committee Meeting (Chapel)
11 a.m.: Adult Sunday School (Hoffmeister Room)
12 p.m.: Women's AA (Hoffmeister Room)
4 p.m: BACH (Baroque Artists of Champaign Urbana) Concert (Sanctuary)
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Prayer Requests
We have two formal ways of praying for one another at Grace. One is in the Sunday morning worship service, where we pray for people by name in the Prayers of Intercession. They will also be listed in the emailed and printed versions of GraceNotes, but not in the web version. Please send prayer requests for the Sunday-morning prayers to office@glccu.org. You may also submit prayer requests on our website at https://glccu.org/prayer-requests/.
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Using GLC Facilities
Our facilities are available for use by members and by outside groups. If you would like to use any part of the facility, please fill out a Facilities Use Request, found on the web site, and contact Karen in the office to ensure that it is on the calendar, so that the space is ready for you and that you are aware of how to adjust the appropriate thermostat.
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Pastor's Discretionary Fund
The Pastor's Discretionary Fund allows the church to offer financial assistance to people in our community. The office receives requests for help with rent, utilities, and other needs, and your donations make this important work possible!
To donate to this fund, you can give online at https://glccu.org/donate/ or by mailing a check to the church office with "Pastor's Discretionary Fund" in the memo line.
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