Bulletin: 12.24.23

Offering Envelopes for 2024

Offering Envelopes for next year are ready to be picked up. You will find them in alphabetical order on the table in the portico. If you have questions about your envelopes or cannot find them, call Leah in the office at 724-452-7270 or email: officeadmin@gcoh.org. For ease and accuracy of recording giving at Grace Church, we ask that you use your envelopes or the donor# from the envelope to identify all donations.

Save the Date / Men’s Breakfast on January 13th

Army Chaplain Andrew Double will be our speaker. Please sign up online here or in the Welcome Center.  Breakfast is $10.

Blood Drive

A community blood drive will be held at Grace Church on Tuesday, January 2nd, from 12 to 5 p.m. in room B1. Please donate. Someone is waiting. Online registration only: www.redcrossblood.org. Call Ken Frederick at 724-321-1611 if you need help signing up.

In January, Ryan Wise will begin a new adult Sunday School class.

It will be a course in apologetics following the book, Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness by Joshua D. Chatraw and Mark D. Allen.

Adult Sunday School class

Tom Kristophel will continue to teach on selections from David Jeremiah.

End of Year Giving

Donations received in the offering during the service on Sunday, December 31, 2023 will show on your 2023 statement. If you mail your offerings, they must be postmarked by December 31st. Online giving done on/before December 31 st will show on your 2023 statement. Any checks found in the Office Administrator’s lobby mail slot on January 2, 2024 will be processed for 2024, regardless of the date on the check. If you have any questions, contact Leah in the church office.

Catechism Class

Will begin on Sunday, January 14 th and will meet during the Sunday School hour (9:30 -10:30 a.m.) in Room 104 for approximately 16 weeks. All 7 th , 8 th and 9 th graders are urged to join this class, as well as any older teens who are interested. The purpose of catechism class is to teach our teens the basics of the Christian Faith, preparing them for baptism and/or church membership.