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SPONSOR A STUDENT



Help us send our HISD students back to school ready to thrive!
Let's send our students in our partner schools prepared for a great new year of school! In recent years, our school partners have shared a growing need for basic essentials, and we hope you will consider sponsoring a student this year. Sponsorship opportunities include:

$35 - Provides a school uniform, socks, and underwear

$50- Provides a school uniform, socks, underwear, and a backpack

$100 - Provides two school uniforms, socks, underwear, a backpack, and deodorant

Every sponsorship is an opportunity to share Jesus' love and provision and helps ensure a student walks into school feeling prepared, confident, and cared for. Stop by the table in the Welcome Center this Sunday, July 19 through August 2 to sponsor, sponsor a student online HERE, or reach out to Kristy Elmore at kelmore@gpch.org for more information.




HAPPY 150TH TO GRACE--BRING A FRIEND! Grace's 150th Birthday Celebration is set for Sunday, August 23! For 150 years, Grace Presbyterian has been a fixture of faith in Houston, and we are going to celebrate. From humble beginnings downtown through today, it's incredible to see how God has moved through this church. We mark every milestone and every life changed as we celebrate God's faithfulness, but we're even more excited about what's next. We step into the future with hope and anticipation, ready to see how God will continue to use us in the years to come. Grace Family, this is your birthday, and you can invite whomever you would like! This is a perfect opportunity to invite friends and neighbors, so start thinking about who you would want to step out and share the day with. We will have a look back at our history, special worship moments, games, serve opportunities, the yearly Ministry Fair, and delicious food all during our normal Sunday 9:30 a.m. worship and Equipping Hour time.  CAKE MIX It's a birthday party, so bring a gift! We would love you to bring funfetti icing or boxed cake mix for us to give to neighborhood schools and serve partners so everyone can make a cake and celebrate a birthday! You can bring the mixes to Grace and put them in the baskets in the Narthex, or click HERE and have it shipped right to us! Easy as pie... or cake. POTLUCK LUNCH CLELEBRATION Join us for lunch in Massey-Tucker Hall and, if you wish, bring a favorite dish to share with the church family. Sign-up is required to bring food, and the cutoff date to register is Sunday, August 16. Sign up to share a dish HERE. GRACE COOKBOOK Food has always been a meaningful way we connect, celebrate, and care for one another. To honor our rich history and the many memories made around the table, we are creating a commemorative church cookbook filled with treasured recipes from our congregation and community. Sign up HERE to submit your recipe!  IMMUNIZATION FAIR Each year, on a Sunday morning around fall kick-off, Grace offers a variety of immunizations offered to the congregation. That event will coincide with the Birthday Party on August 23. Time is 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. in the McKechnie Dining Room (MT104)--note the event in your calendars.

TRAIL LIFE IS COMING Grace is excited to announce that Trail Life, a new ministry for fathers and boys, sponsored by Grace, is kicking off in August. Trail Life is a rapidly growing, nationwide program that is Christ-centered with outdoor adventure, Godly character building, and leadership development for boys ages 5 to 17. Attendance at meetings and events is as much, or as little, as your family’s schedule allows.  There is a kick off event on Sunday, August 15, at 5 p.m. at Bear Creek Park Pioneers Park, 3535 War Memorial St, Houston, TX 77084. We would love it if you would register ahead of time HERE. Our first official troop meeting will be August 23, at 5:30 p.m. here at Grace. Parents should plan to attend--leaders will take the boys to the gym for games while parents stay for a presentation on Trail Life and our plans for the year. RSVP for this meeting HERE. See the full calendar of adventures starting this fall, and read the full details about Grace Troop TX-0139 on the troop website.

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! This week, the middle school students have been serving across Houston, worshiping, eating, and squeezing in a little fun, too. Using Grace as their home base, the students have been to Paul Revere Middle School for a little landscape improvement, to the Houston Food Bank, to Kid's Meals, to BEAR (BE A Resource) to help fill backpacks for kids, and to spend time at "Hardie's Workshop" building picnic tables. Dinner each night has been followed by awesome worship time, diving into Psalm 34, the theme verse for the week. Of course, there is a little game and snack time before calling it a night! Please continue to pray that they serve the city well and these students feel the Holy Spirit at work in and around them!

THE BIBLE IN A YEAR UPDATES Grace's podcast--Grace Cast--is available once a month! Grace Cast includes discussions from our pastors, ministry leaders and all generations of our congregation coming together to share their thoughts, insights, tough questions and summaries on our scripture readings. The format is light and conversational. It is available HERE, and on our YouTube channel. For July, a new Grace Cast has dropped: Inviting someone to church can feel intimidating, but it doesn't have to be complicated. In this episode of The Grace Cast, Jamie and Daniel talk about why a simple invitation can make an eternal difference, practical ways to invite friends, neighbors, and coworkers, and how God can work through ordinary conversations. Whether you've invited dozens of people or you've never invited anyone before, this conversation will encourage and equip you to take the next step. 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 the "Watch Online" link found HERE.

This Sunday we continue through the New Testament with the The Bible in a Year study, this week looking into 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. There will also be a Children at the Chancel time. See you at 9:30 a.m.! 

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