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Blooms & Blessings This Saturday | Grace is continuing our monthly intentional invite initiative with Blooms & Blessings this Saturday, March 21, starting at 10am. We'll be painting flower pots, planting houseplants for you to take home, and assembling Easter Baskets for Early Head Start families. Click here to view the invitation, and consider who it is God is calling you to invite this Saturday.

Who's Your One Discipleship Challenge  | With the launch of the final step of the Discipleship Pathway, "Sharing Christ" you are invited to demonstrate your faith as God's witness along with your brothers and sisters of Grace. The Who's Your One? challenge is 6 weeks, March 15 - April 26. Click here to learn more and check out the bulletin boards downstairs to participate.

Purchase Your Easter Lilies by This Sunday | The deadline for purchasing Easter lilies in memory or honor of loved ones is this Sunday, March 22. Each lily is $18. Please submit your name, dedication, and payment to the offertory plate during worship or to the church office by this Sunday. You can also call (919-682-6030) or email the church office to place your order.

Help us Prepare for Palm Sunday | We'll gather on Saturday, March 28 at 9am in the Fellowship Hall to make palm crosses for worship. They're very easy (and fun!) to make- we’ll show you how. All are welcome.

Easter Sunday Potluck Breakfast | Join us for Easter Breakfast following the 6am Sunrise Vigial and before the 10:10am Easter Worship on Sunday, April 5. Bring your favorite dish to share! Questions? Contact Kathy Pittman or Kathy Peterson.

Easter Egg Hunt

Click here or on the photo to RSVP by March 25.

Special Voters’ Assembly Meeting – March 29 | The Grace Advisory Board has scheduled a Special Voters’ Assembly meeting on Sunday, March 29, immediately following worship. The purpose of this meeting is to introduce proposed changes to Grace’s Constitution and ByLaws.

Click here to view the proposed amendments. Printed copies are also available in the Narthex.

• ByLaw changes may be approved by a simple majority vote of those present.
• Constitutional changes must be presented at two consecutive Voters’ Assembly meetings, with a two-thirds quorum of eligible voting members present at each meeting.

All voting members are encouraged to attend.

Pastor Brooks Goes to School! | As a part of his letter of call from Grace, Pastor Brooks is encouraged to sharpen his pastoral practice through continuing education. Pastor was in attendance at Concordia Theological Seminary-Fort Wayne's 2026 Symposia Series, held from January 20–23 on campus. This popular annual event consists of two symposia, one on exegetical theology (study of the Scriptures) and the other on the Lutheran Confessions. This year, the 41st Annual Symposium on Exegetical Theology focused on “Holiness, Sacrifice, and Worship: Leviticus for Today’s Royal Priesthood.” The 49th Annual Symposium on the Lutheran Confessions explored “Baptism: The Water That Unites and Divides.” While the biblical study symposium featured faculty of CTSFW, the Confessions Symposium featured a wide range of speakers from across the Christian academic world. 

Thrivent Choice Dollars Deadline March 31 | Thrivent Members- the deadline to direct 2025 Choice Dollars before they expire is March 31. Click here if you'd like to direct your Choice Dollars to Grace Lutheran Church. Your work strengthens communities, and we’re grateful for the impact you make every day.

-Small Groups-

Choir: Contact: Erin Hodge

Choir Camp is Saturday, March 28 at 10am

Family Pals

Contact: Donna Walston

Meets Sunday, April 19 at 9am

Farmers Market

Contact: Dan Heuser

Home-Centered Ministry

Contact: Barb Tippin

Next Meeting: Wed, April 15 at 12:45pm

Learn more about the H-C PALS Group here.

LWML Quilting

Contact: Kathy Pittman

Meets Wednesdays at 10am

Stephen Ministry

Contact: Barb Tippin or Joe Wethman

Learn more about Stephen Ministry here.

Young Adults

Contact Emma Pollard or Hunter Garrison

Sundays at 3pm

Zoom Book Club

Contact Donna Gesell for more information and for the Zoom link.

Next meeting: Monday, March 23 at 6:30pm

Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben

Upcoming Books:

April: Withering Heights by Emily Brontë

-Upcoming Events-

3/21 - 10am - March Intentional Invite: Blooms and Blessings

3/22 - See Sunday listing above

3/23 - Pastor's Brown Bag Bible Study (11:30am)

Zoom Book Club (6:30pm)

3/24 - 4pm - Growing Through Grief - St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1200 W. Cornwallis

6:30pm - English Second Language Class

3/25 - 10am - LWML Quilting

12pm - Lenten Noon Prayer Service

6:15pm - Simple Supper

7pm - Lenten Midweek Service

3/26 - 7pm - Witness Workshop (Zoom)

3/28 - 9am - Making of Palm Crosses

10am - Choir Camp

Holy Week (see schedule at top of email)

3/29 - 10:10am - Palm Sunday

11:30am - Special Voters' Meeting

4/4 - 1pm - Easter Egg Hunt

Click here for the church calendar.

Click on the image above for more information.

-From the Church Office-

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