This year's Lenten series is everything [in] between: Meeting God in the midst of extremes from A Sanctified Art. This series allows the Gospel of Luke to guide us through Lent, beginning with Jesus setting his face toward Jerusalem (Luke 9:51) and flowing through several familiar stories—the Good Samaritan, Mary and Martha, the fruitless fig tree, the Lost Sheep, Zacchaeus, and more. Through this sermon series, devotionals, and small groups, we will navigate the polarities in our lives with more faith, intention, and openness to being transformed.
Maundy Thursday
At 6pm on Thursday, April 17th, Grace UMC will share a Maundy Thursday meal and worship service with our siblings at New Horizons UMC (4234 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108.). Attendees from Grace UMC are asked to bring bread or salad to share.
Good Friday
Join Grace UMC at 7pm on Friday, April 18th for a Good Friday service featuring scripture, meditation and Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of Christ” performed by the Arianna String Quartet.
Easter Sunday
Join Grace UMC on Sunday, April 20th for a full morning of fun and celebration! We'll start at 9am with a hot breakfast in Fellowship Hall, followed at 9:30am by a kids' egg hunt, crafts, and an Easter story. Families will meet in Fellowship Center at 9:20am. At 9:30am, kids will split into age groups for an egg hunt, after which they will return to Fellowship Center for crafts. The kids will then move to the parlor for an Easter story. Our Easter Sunday worship service featuring special music will be held at 10:30am.
Special Easter Offering: Welcome Neighbor STL
Welcome Neighbor STL has been designated as the recipient of this year’s special Easter offering. The mission of Welcome Neighbor STL is to partner with refugee and immigrant families, connecting them with the people and opportunities that will empower them to build and live their best life in their new country. Their programs provide housing, employment support, literacy training and essential services to newly arrived refugees who no longer have agency resettlement support. For the past couple of years, Catherine Winn and Pauline Kim have headed up a team at Grace that has partnered with a Welcome Neighbor refugee family from Afghanistan. Grace has also hosted Welcome Neighbor supper clubs. You may give by putting your offering in the special giving envelope on Easter Sunday, using the Special Offering Christmas/Easter envelope on Faith Teams, or writing Easter Offering or Welcome Neighbor STL in your check memo line.
