Grace

The Scripture reading for Sunday, July 6, will be II Samuel 6:12-23. Rev. Amanda Olson will be preaching with a sermon titled ‘Of Dogs and Dancing’.

This Sunday all children will remain in worship for the entire service as we look at joy. The service will be intentionally multi-generational with activities geared to all ages of children. We hope this will be an engaging time for the entire Grace community.

Offering envelopes for the Watchcare Fund are in the bulletin Sunday. They are for any gift you wish to give to help people in and around our church with emergency funds. If you want to designate your gift for a specific person and need, please note it on the envelope. Make your check out to: Grace Evangelical Covenant Church. Put Watchcare Fund on memo line. Thank you.

There will be a special business meeting of the church Sunday, in the sanctuary, beginning a few minutes after the conclusion of the morning worship service. The main item on the agenda will be the election of a new Church Secretary to serve out the balance of Alisa Bredensteiner’s term.

Join us next Sunday, July 13, to enjoy God’s creation, sit with scripture, and listen to the Lord. We’ll depart immediately following worship and car pool to the Botanic Gardens (www.chicago-botanic.org). Bring a sack lunch, your Bible (and a journal, if you’d like). We will meet at 12:15 in the picnic area between the parking lot and the garden entrance. At 1 p.m., we will enter the gardens for individual or small group prayer time. Guided helps will be available for those who need them. Admission is free. Parking is $15/car. We will return to the church around 4 p.m.

July 17 at 10am we will be joining the Senior Share Group. After that we will grab lunch, go bowling, and be done by 4pm. $5 per youth, suggested donation for the day.

All are invited to gather front and center on the lawn at Millennium Park, Saturday, July 19th. Bring a picnic dinner and join us at 6:30. The concert starts at 7:30. The music and the city ambience are free. Contact Jan Huber about carpooling.

To make attending North Park University more affordable for Covenant students, a new grant is announced. Covenant Transfer Incentive Grant: $1,000 per year for Covenant students who transfer into North Park University in August 2008.

Iglesia Del Pacto Grace is having a garage sale at the church on Saturday, July 12. If you would like to donate something to the sale, please bring your items to the church on Friday, July 11.

The Scripture readings for Sunday, June 29, will be I Kings 18:32-39 and John 15:9-17. Leonid Regheta will be preaching with a sermon titled ‘Mount Carmel, Trump Tower and St Basil’s Cathedral: Doing Things at God’s Command’.