Vacation Bible School 2025

Save the date! This year's Vacation Bible School will take place from Monday, July 28th through Thursday, July 31st from 9am-12pm each day, with an option for childcare until 3pm.Click here to register!

United Women in Faith Annual Picnic

It’s time for the annual women’s picnic, held at the home of Mary Becker. A fabulous evening is planned for Tuesday, June 10th beginning at 6pm. Please join us for an evening enjoying each other and Mary’s beautiful garden! This is not a potluck!  We need to have a count for this event so please sign up at https://forms.gle/pRgAVHk8T2zqVnFfA

Putting Your House in Order

On Sunday, June 22nd at 11:30am, Rev. Laura Murphy from the Missouri United Methodist Foundation will present Putting Your House in Order, a workshop that lays out how to get your house in order concerning:

• How to take care of your financial affairs and discern important documents.
• How to put together a will or trust that reflects your wishes.
• What you’d like your service of remembrance to include, as well as your burial or cremation wishes.
• The people, memories, and dates that have been significant in your life.
• And so much more!

Laura (who is also our guest preacher that Sunday!) will present this information with the heart of a pastor and with training from the Foundation that helps people discern their legacy. This workshop is ideal for people of all ages and stages of life. Having a will or other previous plans discerned is not necessary. This workshop is not soliciting any legal or financial services.

Please register at https://www.graceumc-stl.org/pyhio. Lunch will be provided.

Pastor’s Out Popsicles

On Sunday, July 6th at 11:30am, we’re celebrating FREEDOM — and not just the nation’s! Our beloved Pastor Katie is off on a well-deserved renewal leave, and we’re cooling off with free popsicles for everyone!

Adult Class: The Lives of Great Christians

Sundays | 9:30 am | May 25-August 24 | Parlor

The followers of Jesus, who came to be called Christians, have practiced and preached their beliefs for centuries. Their actions and achievements, their abilities and energies, have changed the course of history and the nature of belief. Many are well known, but many more are obscure or even nameless. The Lives of Great Christians video series will introduce you to some of Christianity's luminaries. The video lessons are outstanding, the discussion that follows is even better. This class meets in the Parlor. No previous participation is required. 

Adult Small Group Book Studies

Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People  by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Sundays | 9:30 am | June 15–July 13 | Wesley Room

Join Amanda Meer & Pastor Winter Hamilton for a 5-week small group, book study Sundays at 9:30am starting on June 15th. In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls “a religious but not-so-spiritual life.” Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously, resists the God she feels called to serve. But God keeps showing up in the least likely of people—a church-loving agnostic, a drag queen, a felonious Bishop and a gun-toting member of the NRA. This Small Group will meet in the Wesley Room. Please read the first three chapters in preparation for our first session.

Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Disciplines by Lauren Winner

Sundays | 9:30 am | July 20–August 10 | Wesley Room

After her conversion from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity, Lauren Winner found that her life was indelibly marked by the rich traditions and spiritual practices of Judaism. She set out to discover how she could incorporate some of these practices into her new faith. Winner presents eleven Jewish spiritual practices that can transform the way Christians view the world and God. Whether discussing attentive eating, marking the days while grieving, the community that supports a marriage, candle-lighting, or the differences between the Jewish Sabbath and a Sunday spent at the Mudhouse, her favorite coffee shop, Winner writes with appealing honesty and rare insight. This small group will meet in the Wesley Room. Please read introduction and first three chapters for our first session.

Lift Every Voice: Advocacy Scripts from the Social Justice Team

At least twice a month, Grace UMC's Social Justice Team will be sending out Lift Every Voice emails to make it easier to make your voice heard on important legislative issues. Each email will include a quick, concise explanation of one concerning issue, a link for more detailed information, a list of names and associated emails/phone numbers of appropriate elected officials, and a pre-written script to use or ignore at your discretion. Click here to sign up and access previous issues.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace Bed Build

On Saturday, June 14th at 9am, a group from Grace will meet in the gym at Arlington UMC (3770 McKelvey Road, Bridgeton, MO) to build beds for children in north St. Louis County and St. Louis City who do not have beds of their own. It is an assembly line process, and the leaders of the “Sleep in Heavenly Peace” organization (“SHP”) will teach volunteers everything they need to know (no skills are needed). The workday will end no later than 12pm. Volunteers should be at least 12 years old and, if under 18, accompanied by an adult who will be working with them. We need a minimum of 10 volunteers and not more than 25 for this event. Please click on this link https://forms.gle/PmtuqoKBbXQ86oLB6 to add your name to the Grace list of volunteers (so that we will know how many we have) or call the church office at 314-863-1992. To complete the Sleep in Heavenly Peace volunteer waiver form, please click on the following link: https://x.gldn.io/e/hFfewnxsTRb

Although Grace is donating $2,500 to fund SHP’s building materials and bedding for the ten beds we are building, if you would also like to donate bedding to SHP, they would be happy to receive donations of bedding from the congregation in kid-friendly designs: twin size (but not XL twin) sheet sets (fitted, flat, and pillowcase), comforters, complete sets of comforters and sheet sets (bed in a bag), and standard pillows. Please just drop your donations by the church office.

Arianna Chamber Music Festival

From June 6th-17th, young violinists, violists, and cellists will visit Grace UMC for the Arianna Chamber Music Festival. Don't be alarmed if you hear heavenly music coming through the halls! The festival includes two free performances in the Grace UMC sanctuary on Friday, June 6th and Tuesday, June 17th, both at 7pm.