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Join us in worship this Sunday, January 16th for a special prayer service then continue into a week devoted to prayer. A resource called “Devoted: Praying Our Way to a Rule of Life” will be available to you focusing on the need for arranging our days in a way that fosters spiritual growth, through prayer.

Please remember the high school students in prayer as they attend “CREW 2010” from October 29-31. CREW is a “mini-CHIC” youth gathering of connection, worship, service and renewal.

Please pray for the youth on their retreat from July 27 until July 30. Please pray that they will slow down, be still, serve others and be surprised at God’s work. They will be staying at the church and take short trips around the area each day for activities and service projects.

Please remember the Junior Highers as the attend Breakout 2010: a weekend of worship and service around the city of Chicago. They and hundreds of other Junior Highers from around the region will be together from June 4-6th staying on the campus of North Park University.

Please pray for the following: Sophia, Maddie F, Derek, Abigail, Kara, Perri, Pia, Ethan, Forrest, Tirzah, Jillian, Justin, Maddie Z, Lee and Becky.

Fasting makes us hungry, true enough, but you can’t beat it for focusing our attention on God. From now through June, we’d like to ask you to fast on Fridays for the future of Grace, in one way or another. Some may take only water for twenty-four hours. Some may just skip lunch. If you can’t fast from food (for health or other reasons),you may give something else up on Fridays, like TV, music, news, driving, or going out in the evening. Fasting can be like silence for our spiritual ears.

Joining the fast? Let the pastors know so we can pray for YOU during this time.

Hear something from God about Grace’s future? Please pass it along to the Council by emailing a note to future{at}gracechurchchicago{dot}org. (If you don’t do email, you can send a note to the church office.)

Click here to learn more about Grace’s Discernment Process

For more information on fasting, read Richard Foster’s “Fasting – 20th Century Style” .