A Renaissance Community of Faith

Grace Lutheran Church

Responding, Reforming, Remembering

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This Week at Grace

Tuesday, 1/31
11:00 a.m. Bible Study and Lunch (Lounge)

Thursday, 2/2
7:30 p.m. Chancel Choir Rehearsal (Rehearsal Room)

Sunday 2/5
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
9:00 a.m. Chancel Choir Rehearsal (Chancel)
10:00 a.m. Formal Worship (Nave)

Contributing to the service:
Assisting Minister: Lynn Grusy
Lector & Communion Assistant: Jim Burghart
Communion Assistants: Sarah Berg, Judy Burghart, Rick Teagno, Connie Tittl, Barbara Walker, Greg Williams
Greeters & Ushers: Fred Jaros, Drinda Kiner, Archie McLennan, Jim Rase
Altar Guild: Marilyn Decker, Cherie Teagno

11:15 a.m. Cafe Fellowship (Fellowship Hall)
11:15 a.m. Food Choices Offering (Fellowship Hall)
11:30 a.m. Adult Education (Lounge)

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Looking Ahead

Monday, 2/6
7:30 p.m. Bell Choir Rehearsal (Nave)

Tuesday, 2/7
11:00 a.m. Bible Study and Lunch (Lounge)
6:00 p.m. Management Team/Council Meeting (Conference Room)

Thursday, 2/8
7:00 a.m. Grace Men's Group (Lounge)
7:30 p.m. Chancel Choir Rehearsal (Rehearsal Room)

Saturday, 2/11
10:00 a.m. Identity

Sunday 2/12
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
9:00 a.m. Lead Singers and Musicians' Rehearsal (Nave)
9:30 a.m. Grace Notes Rehearsal (Nave)
10:00 a.m. Informal Worship (Nave)

Assisting Minister: Erica Popp
Lector & Communion Assistant: Jean Homrighausen
Communion Assistants: Jim Burghart, Paul Eickmann, Lynn McClelland
Greeters & Ushers: Alexander Peter, Lynn McClelland, Laura Rowan
Altar Guild: Madge Kastner, Marion Urbon

11:15 a.m. Cafe Fellowship (Fellowship Hall)
11:15 a.m. Congregational Gathering (Fellowship Hall)

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Mission

Members of the Mission Team will be selling Fair Trade coffee and tea through Lutheran World Relief the first Sunday of every month during coffee hour. Check out the new products!

The Mission Team would appreciate any input on volunteer initiatives that you know of in our/your community that you believe Grace congregants would like to participate in. Either send this information - name of charity, contact person, and phone or email of contact - to Mark Brauer, Mission Team Leader: mbrauer@lmmyouth.org. This information will be added to our list and dispersed to the congregation.

Please remember that the need for dry/canned food for the Cleveland Heights Emergency Food Center is an on-going need through-out the year. If possible bring the food in paper bags, in support of the Church's green-efforts Thank-you for your past and future help.

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Identity

Adult forum will continue after the new year on Sundays at 11:30 a.m. in the lounge. Children of the faith of Abraham, come and learn about the second largest and fastest-growing of another religion that is one of the three great Abrahamic faiths. We will be study Islam as presented by Professor John L. Esposito at Georgetown University. The course will be 12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture on DVD with disscusion time afterward. The focus of this course will be to better understand Islam's role as a religion and as a way of life. In the 12 lectures, moving from Muhammad to the present, 7th to the 21st centuries, we will explore Muslin beliefs, practices and history in the context of its significance and impact on Muslin life and society through the ages, as well as world events today. There will be no Adult Forum on February 12 due to the Congregational Gathering!

Feb 4th The Contemporary Resurgence of Islam
Feb 19th Islam at the Crossroads
Feb 26th Women and Change in Islam
March 4th Islam in the West
March 11th The Future of Islam

Bible Study meets on most Tuesday mornings at 11:00 a.m. We study the book of Genesis. Contact Pastor David Ernat with your questions.

February 5th: All Grace education activity concerning our food choices and how our choices impact the creation: the earth, other people, and our own bodies! Please plan to attend.

For fun and mutual joy for all, with many thanks to Erika Popp (director) and David Sparkes (accompanist) everyone is invited to be part of a "pick-up" choir (The Grace Notes) to support our informal worship. A very singable piece of music will be rehearsed at 9 a.m., before the morning worship and then sung during the Offertory. If you have questions about the choir please contact Erika at ekpopp@gmail.com.

Happy Birthday!
Rudy Tittl, 02/01
Susan Demaski, 02/02
Carolyn Oyen, 02/04

Happy Anniversary!

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Administration

Congregational Gathering, February 12th!! Please plan to attend! Ministry teams will provide updates and small groups will check in.

To the community of Grace Lutheran. Hi, this is a thank you, reminder and an invitation. For those of you who have already pledged for 2012, thank you. For those of you who have pledged before, but have yet to do so this year, please pledge! For those of you who have never pledged, please consider pledging your financial support for Grace's 2012 church year's ministry. The strategic expectations and the budget to support these expectations are on the Administrative Bulletin Board across from the church office entrance. At this date, 42 of our 109 households have pledged! Thanks. Will the other households prayerfully pledge? We are @ $45,000 dollars behind last year's pledge level. Pledge forms can be found on the table next to our Grace community mailboxes. Please drop off the pledge form in the church office or mail it to the church office: C/O Parish Administrator, Sid Pryor, Grace Lutheran Church, 13001 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118. Thank you.

Financial information will not be printed in the weekly bulletin. The information tends to be late or inaccurate. Accurate and timely information is available on the Administration Bulletin Board across from the Church Office door. There you will find the most recent financial documents to include the Balance Sheet and Comparative Statement of Income. The S & I provides monthly expenses and income. Copies are available for you to take home. Please ask Gayle Klaber, the Office Manager, for a copy. Thanks.
The Administrative Team.

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Invitations

Converge: A New Kind of Worship Experience for this Generation. Converge is a modern worship service that meets monthly on the second Sunday of each month at 7 p.m. Converge is a collaborative effort of many churches in the Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, and surrounding areas. The monthly worship services are geared for teens with a full band (drums, electric guitar, keys) and a relevant message for our youth. The next Converge service is on February 12 at First Baptist Church in Shaker Heights (3630 Fairmount Blvd.) For more info, visit us at www.facebook.com/convergeworship

Please see the bulletin board outside the church office for more invitations.

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Grace Lutheran Church | 13001 Cedar Road | Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
phone: 216-321-2790 | fax: 216-321-2865 | email: churchoffice@graceheights.org
Rev. David J. Ernat, pastor | email: prernat@graceheights.org

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