Upcoming at Garden of Grace:
You are invited to celebrate with us!
1020 Atlas Road, Columbia, SC 29209
803-695-9664, www.gogucc.com
How does our Garden grow?
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, Linda Renner, lgrenner@aol.com, and Loretta Cobb, lorettaacobb@aim.com, lead a Care Circle in Lexington, exploring "Bible Study for Amateurs."
5 p.m. Wednesday March 25, USC baseball concession stand fundraiser. Dozens of Garden of Grace people are operating the third-base stand at the baseball arena on Blossom Street to raise money for a mission trip in September to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Please contact Linda Renner, lgrenner@aol.com, or Loretta Cobb, lorettaacobb@aim.com, for more information.
7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, Our Men's Night Out gathers. The gather is at Queenstown Bistro on 1420 Colonial Blvd. Please e-mail Brendon Jones, bjones51@sc.rr.com, for more information. Twenty-two folks attended the February gathering!
7:34 p.m. Friday, March 27, Adventure Scouts, a youth troop for boys and girls ages 10 and older, gathers at the church. Leaders are Barbara Johnson, compmom1@yahoo.com, and John Faulkner, JFaul37010@aol.com. Like all Garden of Grace groups, Adventure Scouts is open to the community. The group gathers second and fourth Fridays of each month.
9:30 a.m. Sunday, March 29, Choir practice, led by Andy Farmer, jandyfarmer@yahoo.com. Our choir is growing. New members including Joanna Bentwood, Ben Brooks, and John McCarty.
11 a.m. Sunday, March 29, our pastor, Rev. Andy Sidden, pastorandys@msn.com, presents a "Stations of the Cross" observance as a part of our fifth Sunday celebration. A covered-dish luncheon and ministry fair follows worship. For more information, contact Pastor Andy or Apron Brigade leader, Joe Matthews, jmatthewssc@bellsouth.net. Our Bylaw Review Team, led by Trustee Clerk Jennifer Spears, JenniferVSpears@aol.com, also meets.
Also, How Our Garden Grows!
9 a.m. Saturday, April 4, Garden of Grace will host the UCC's Georgia/South Carolina Association annual meeting. This is a great ministry opportunity! Registration is $20 and forms are available at church. Keynote speaker is the Rev. Kathy Clark, UCC Southeast Conference associate minister, kclark@secucc.org. More lay delegates are needed for June conferences. Please see Pastor Andy or Joanna Crowder, trustee vice moderator, joannaec@live.com, for more information.
11 a.m. Passion/Palm Sunday, April 5, we celebrate with a dramatic re-creation of the Last Supper. Participants include Rebecca Causey, Jason Cobb, Loretta Cobb, Joanna Crowder, Tex Green, Jessica Grello, Mike Grello, Patricia Grello, Barbara Johnson, Richard Morris, Will Nunley, Linda Renner, Jennifer Spears, and Pastor
Andy. Our Wee Diggers Children's Sunday School will take part, too. Special music by our Celebration Choir includes "Thy Will Be Done" and "The Garden."
7 p.m. Monday, April 6, our associate pastor, Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge, revtheodyke@gmail.com, leads series of Care Circle lessons at church. At Garden of Grace we believe that God is still speaking. God can speak to us in many ways – through the Bible, nature, and even through song. We'll explore how God speaks to us through the songs of the Irish rock band U2. As a new album comes out from the group, we'll delve into past songs that reveal God as justice, lover, absent, and present. The circle gathers first and third Mondays at 7 p.m. to explore how God is still speaking through U2.
7 p.m. Good Friday, April 10, we worship with a dramatic remembrance of Christ's important living on the cross. Special Music is planned.
11 a.m. Easter Sunday, April 12, we celebrate the holiest day of the year. Special music by our Celebration Choir includes "See Now His Glory" and "He Lives." An Easter Egg Hunt for our Wee Diggers' Children's Ministry will follow worship.
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, Our Women's Group dines out. Jan Hogan, janh244@yahoo.com, is the leader. This is great fellowship!
Also, How Our Garden Grows!
"Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians" can be ordered at http://www.bulletproofbook.com. This exciting new book by our associate pastor, Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge, has received much acclaim.
Please feel free to phone or email any prayer requests during the week or please write the requests in our prayer book in our entryway on Sundays.
Our Outreach Team leads Garden of Grace in sponsoring the resettlement of two young Burmese couples who have lived in refugee camps for years before coming to Columbia. This project is a joint effort with Lutheran Family Services of the Carolinas. Joy and Carol Smith-Dailey, fotosetc@yahoo.com, coordinate this growing Outreach/Compassion Ministry.
Patricia Grello, pgrello@sc.rr.com, leads a social-justice Care Circle in West Columbia that volunteers with Harvest Hope Food Bank and with sewing projects for infant clothing. A barrel for Harvest Hope's food drive is at Garden of Grace.
Aluminum cans are collected each Sunday by Trustee Jennifer Spears, jennifervspears@aol.com, and Church Sexton Lois Spears, loistalk1948@aol.com, as an on-going fundraiser.
Plans are under way for a Labor Day week mission trip to help build homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Linda Renner, lgrenner@aol.com, and Loretta Cobb, lorettaacobb@aim.com, are organizing this trip.
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