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Parking Lot Repaving Next Week | A reminder that our parking lot will be repaved the week of October 20. The Green Street entrance will be closed because of sidewalk repair, but the Buchanan Street entrance will be open. However, please do not park around the center ring in the process! Thank you for your patience with this project. Questions? Contact resource@gracedurham.org.

October Wednesdays at One : Computers & Technology |

Join us for a Q&A session on Wednesday, October 29, with Grace’s own Dan & Becky Thomas. To make the most of our time together, please click here to RSVP and submit your questions ahead of time. This will give Dan and Becky time to prepare helpful demonstrations and resources tailored to what you’re most curious about. Lunch will be at 12:30pm with the Q&A session starting at 1pm.

Chili Cookoff | Grab your spoons and get ready for Grace’s first ever chili cookoff! We will gather at church at 5:30pm on November 15. Please sign up on the bulletin board above the water fountains or email Deaconess Anna if you plan to bring chili. All are welcome- we will need taste testers too! We will also work together that evening to assemble bags of food for Early Head Start Families. It’ll be a wonderful night of fellowship, food, and service.

Food Collection | Grace has been in partnership with Durham Early Head Start for many years and that partnership continues. We will be collecting non-perishable food for local Early Head Start families in time for the holiday season. Please bring your non-perishable donations to the area right as you enter the front doors (look for the sign). This is a wonderful opportunity to serve our community and show Christ’s love. Our goal is to collect enough food for 25 families.

Discipleship Pathway: Step 2 Coming Soon | At Grace, we believe discipleship is a lifelong journey. That’s why we’ve created a Discipleship Pathway: a simple way to help us grow together as followers of Jesus. Each step focuses on how we live out our faith — rooted in Christ, grounded in Scripture, and active in love and service.

You can find Step 1's Ignite Your Faith kids at the welcome center. Step 2 is coming soon, and we’re excited to share how it will help us grow even deeper in knowing Christ.

Last Farmers Market of the Season is in the Books | Thanks again to all of our volunteers and a big shout out of thanks to Barb, Karen, Gillian, Kathy, Tom, Becky and Dan! A big thank you as well to all of our shoppers and supporters from our congregation and surrounding community. As we come to the close of this season, we give thanks and praise through Jesus Christ that through the Holy Spirit we have been led to serve and live our mission and vision. Here are some facts about our ministry. Hope to see you on December 13 for our Christmas Market!

Ministry of the Month: What Stephen Ministers Are (and Are Not) |

• Stephen Ministry is a supervised ministry. Stephen Ministers engage in monthly supervision, led by our Stephen Leaders, to ensure that they are providing the best Christian care they can.

• Stephen Ministers are not counselors. They are trained to be lay Christian caregivers. Their role is to listen and care, not to counsel or advise.

• Stephen Ministry is a confidential ministry. What a care receiver tells a Stephen Minister stays between the two of them. Even in supervision, the names of care receivers and specific details are never discussed.

If you’d like to know more about Stephen Ministry—and are considering whether this ministry is a fit for you—please click here and contact our Stephen Leaders, Joe Wethman and Joyce Rea.

"Food for Faith" Lunch & Learn | We were delighted to join our interfaith community partners at Beth El last Thursday for their first "Food for Faith" where we learned about the last harvest holiday of the Jewish liturgical year 'Sukkot'. We are pictured here in the sukkah, a representation of huts in which Jews lived during the grape harvest in ancient Israel.

-Recurring News-

Zoom Book Club - Contact Donna Gesell for more information.

Future books:

November: Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto

Family PALS- Contact: Donna Walston

Next meeting: this Sunday, October 19 at 9am.

Home-Centered PALS - Contact: Barb Tippin

Learn more about the H-C PALS Group here.

Racial Reconciliation - Contact: Geoff Heintzelman

Stephen Ministry - Contact: Joyce Rea or Joe Wethman

Next meeting Monday, November 17 at 6 PM.

Learn more about Stephen Ministry here.

Young Adult PALS - Contact Deaconess Anna Voelker

Meets Tuesdays at 7pm

-Events 10-16 - 10/22-

10/19 - See Sunday listing above

10/20 - Parking Lot Repaving begins

10/20 - 11:30 AM - Pastor's Brown Bag Bible Study

10/21 - 4 PM - Growing Through Grief - St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1200 W. Cornwallis

7 PM - Young Adult PALS Group

10/22 - 10 AM - LWML Quilters

12 PM - Noon Prayer Service

6:30 PM - Choir Rehearsal

Click here for the church calendar.

-From the Church Office-

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