Grace Weekly

YOUR STEP MATTERS As you pray over your gifts of your time, talent, treasure, relationships and truth this coming year, reflect on the goodness of God and all that we have been able to accomplish for the Kingdom at Grace, and will continue to pursue in the coming year. We are so grateful for all of the ways you have responded, and we thank you in advance for your generosity. Our hope is that everyone who is able will increase their pledge from last year by 5% to help us continue the transformative ministry here at Grace and around the world. If you would like to make your pledge for the 2026 year, click HERE to share your gifts with Grace. We are grateful for your contribution to our mission of equipping every generation to share the Good News and their everyday lives. We hope you will join us for worship on Sunday as we dedicate our gifts to the Lord.

CHRISTMAS FOR THE CITY 2025 On Sunday, December 14, join us for our 11th Annual Christmas for the City, as we bring the Grace family together for this special day of serving. This is always a special, intergenerational gathering to serve and love the city of Houston. Here are this year’s projects: • Sleep in Heavenly Peace: Help build and/or deliver a bed for a child in our community who is currently sleeping on the floor or sharing with siblings. Our goal is to build over 55 beds! • Kids’ Meals Lunch Assembly: Join us as we assemble 8000 lunches for food-insecure children across Houston. • Kids’ Meals Sandwich Making: Help prepare 2500 meat and cheese sandwiches to go along with the assembled lunches. • Build-a-Bear for Bed Recipients: A perfect project for younger kids! Help stuff bears, pray over them, and send them along with the beds being delivered. Once you finish, feel free to jump in and help with Kids’ Meals! After worship, we’ll enjoy our traditional BBQ lunch before heading out to serve. Be sure to register in advance HERE! Let’s come together this Christmas to bring hope, joy, and love to children and families in our community! All volunteers building or delivering beds also need to register on the Sleep in Heavenly Peace website. The link for those building beds is HERE. For delivering beds HERE.

GINGERBREAD HOUSE DECORATING Register your family and friends to join us for Gingerbread House Decorating Day, December 6, from 10 a.m. - noon in Massey-Tucker Hall! The houses will be pre-built for you to adorn with all the icing and candy you need to make a fun decoration to enjoy during the Christmas season. Purchase one house to decorate together or one for each person in your group and make it a fun competition. You can even take one to-go if you don’t have time to stay and decorate it that day. We’ll have other fun activities to enjoy as well… and we’ll do all the messy clean-up for you! Each house costs $25. Register HERE to reserve your spot now!

GOOD NEWS OF THE WEEK We celebrate the things that we have offered to God that are bearing fruit-- We celebrate what God is doing! On November 9, the worship serviced finished with a celebration as we welcomed Caroline Kirchner & Mike Kirchner (pictured), Nic Muller & Lorraine Muller, and Adele Amah into our covenant partnership. It is always a joy to have new friends join Grace! Let's grow together in faith and community! If you are interested in becoming a covenant partner with Grace, you may find out more HERE.

THE BIBLE IN A YEAR UPDATES On Sunday mornings during the Equipping Hour at 11 a.m., the EPIC class has been looking in depth at the readings from the Bible in a Year plan we have been following. These classes, led by Grace pastors and staff, are available to watch online at your leisure HERE. This is a great resource to learn a little more, hear what others are saying about the passages, or to catch up on what you may have missed. You are welcome to join the class in person any Sunday at 11 a.m. in MTH-A. HERE you will find a multitude of other resources to help you with the reading plan, including videos, podcasts, and articles to bring greater insight to what you have read. You will also find recaps and summaries of sections for times when you may fall behind. Keep up the good work!

WORSHIP THIS SUNDAY If you are out of town or unable to be here to worship in-person this week, please join us online via livestream HERE. The Bible in a Year continues this Sunday. We are basing the sermon series on the passages we are currently reading, this week looking into Judges 6:11-24. Also on on Sunday, we will have a Children at the Chancel time and a Story of Grace, and will be encouraged again for our annual season of gratitude and giving. We will see you at 9:30!

FINANCIAL UPDATE

As stewards of His gifts, it's important to know where we stand financially as a church. As always, your faithfulness to your pledge and the ministry of Grace and His Kingdom is greatly appreciated. You may present your gifts or set up a pledge online HERE. This is also the link to revise your pledge if you have been prayerfully reviewing The 5:10:5 Plan.

2025 Collections Goal $2,800,000

Actual 2025 collections to date $2,374,158 (as of 11/12/25)

Amount needed prior to year end $425,842

MATCH GIFT UPDATE

Though we are currently looking ahead to our 2026 budget, we are also striving to finish 2025 in a strong financial position. As you may know, a few families felt a specific calling from the Lord, and discerned a desire not only to give generously to the work God is doing here at Grace, but also to invite others to join them in this effort. These families have pledged to provide a match up to $300,000 for all operating fund gifts given to Grace in excess of our current 2025 target of $2,800,000.

• 2025 Target Goal is $2,800,000
• Remaining to Target Goal is $425,842
• Match Goal is $3,100,000
• Remaining to Match Goal is $725,842 (23%)

Once the actual collected 2025 revenue reaches this goal of $2,800,000, any additional giving beyond that amount will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $300,000.

We encourage you to take advantage of this unique opportunity to make what you share even more transformative by giving generously to reach this matching gift.

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BEREAVEMENT

To view the latest Bereavement Report, please click here.

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