Grace

After three years of faithful service to our church, our office manager Abby Jones has resigned to take a Pastoral Internship at Sauganash Community Church. We will miss Abby and are grateful for her work, but are excited for this phase of her seminary education. Please note the new office hours for the remainder of the summer. A job search has started to restaff this administrative position.

Please pray for this group of high school students and leaders as they are heading out to serve on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana this week, beginning Saturday, July 23.

Porter Abbey
Rosalie Abbey
Noah Chisman
Olivia Chisman
Nettie DeNeui
Abigail Hancock
Kara McCready
Perri Mueller
Forrest Reed
Lee & Becky Edwards

Next Sunday, July 31st worship will include a time to share our summer encounters with doing compassion, mercy and justice in Jesus’ name. Testimonies can be shared from the microphone or written out and read by the pastor. Questions to consider: How have you shared CMJ in Jesus’ name with someone this summer? How did that person respond? How was the experience for you? If you haven’t participated, what’s holding you back? How may God be equipping you to step out in faith and serve others? All are invited to participate. For God’s glory and neighbor’s good.

If you would like to encourage our youth in their discipleship and service of Jesus, last-minute sponsors for the high school missions trip are needed. The students are journeying this week to Montana to serve with YouthWorks in a rural, reservation town, by leading VBS and doing work projects. Three students still need assistance covering the $260 cost.If you can help, write a check to Grace ECC with “sponsor missions trip” in the memo line and put it in the offering plate, or contact pastormandy(at)gracechurchchicago.org. Thank you

If compassion pulls drowning people out of a river, justice goes up stream to deal with reasons people are being pushed or falling into the river in the first place.

Understand Biblical justice by reading the ECC’s Resource Paper on Compassion, Mercy and Justice and joining in a discussion on Sunday, July 31 following worship.

Then, learn about immigration reform and write Congress (PDF download).

See pictures from Satuday’s Block Party by visiting our Facebook link in our menu.

Join us for a block party! Saturday, July 16th 11a.m.-4p.m.
Bounce House 11a.m.-12:30p.m.

Pastor Mandy recently returned from the 126th Covenant Annual Meeting. Learn more about the exciting advancements of our church by reading her report.

Check out the recent article about Churches Helping Families Threatened with Deportation on the Covenant Homepage and Newswire. Pam Hubbard is featured.

This Sunday, in lieu of a sermon, we are going to be doing an “awareness walk” around the neighborhood. Dress for the weather.