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Living Grace's Famous Chili for 2019
Getting booth ready at the Tucker Chili Cook-off
Getting the booth ready for Tucker Chili Cook-off
Dishing out chili on Main Street, Tucker
Having fun at the Tucker Chili Cook-off
Getting ready for the Tucker Chili Cook-off
Getting ready for the Tucker Chili Cook-off
Getting ready for the Tucker Chili Cook-off
Getting ready for the Tucker Chili Cook-off
Getting ready for the Tucker Chili Cook-off
Holy Jalapenos ready for the Tucker Chili Cook-off, 9 March
Drive-thru Imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday
Annual Christmas Tea at Living Grace
Annual Christmas Tea at Living Grace
Annual Christmas Tea at Living Grace
Women of the ELCA making gingerbread houses to take to the Senior homes
Women of the ELCA making gingerbread houses to take to Senior homes
Women of the ELCA making gingerbread houses to take to Senior homes
Finished Gingerbread Houses to take to the Senior homes
Outreach Ministry - Living Grace supports Rebecca's Tent Women's Shelter by manning it two weeks while open
Outreach Ministry - Living Grace supports Rebecca's Tent Women's Shelter by manning it two weeks while they are open
Martin Luther, aka The Rev. Charles Beckler preached to the "Wittenburg" congregation, aka Living Grace on Reformation Sunday
Front of Living Grace
Back of Living Grace
Inside Living Grace's worship space (nave)
God's Work, Our Hands Sunday - making fleece blankets for disaster relief to be given to Lutheran Services of GA
God's Work, Our Hands Sunday - making fleece blankets for disaster relief to be given to Lutheran Services of GA
Finished product!
Finished product
Living Grace welcomes the Mara Evangelical Church 2018 Conference - Members from around the country
Pastor Koli of Resurrection Mission being received and installed as mission developer in the ELCA/Saturday, 18 August 2018
Pastor Koli with some of her congregation of Resurrection Mission
Pastor Koli with the Bishop of the ELCA Southeastern Synod and pastors from sister churches
Living Grace young adutls offering their musical talents for the worship service
Quilting Group diligently working to complete their goal of 150 quilts for LWR
Quilting Group diligently working to complete their goal of 150 quilts for LWR
Quilting Group working diligently to complete their goal of 150 quilts to be sent to LWR by the end of August
Completed quilts in the church to be blessed prior to shipment
Congregation in worship on the day of the blessing of the quilts
Potluck lunch after a Sunday worship
Pastor Hardy holding up one of the blankets the LSG Children at the summer camp made to go to LWR
Even the "littlest" in the congregation love to hear the organ play a hymn
Sculpture made by LSG Children at Summer Camp - made with recycled bottles
Sculpture made by LSG Children at Summer Camp - made with recycled bottles
Sculpture made by the LSG Children at Summer Camp - Made from recycled bottles
Living Grace participating in the Tucker Chili Cook off held Saturday, March 10
Team relaxing after the chili was all gone
Team Living Grace, set and ready to walk - Hunger Walk/Run 2018
Kate Herndon presenting Living Grace with a plaque representing our 5th Ark donated to Heifer International since 2006
Living Grace Volunteers at MedShare
WELCOMES YOU!!
Third Sunday in Lent
24 March 2019
The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Lent is a season of repentance. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God's invitation to attentiveness: "Incline your ear, and come to me, listen, so that you may live." The landowner's ultimatum is forestalled by the gardener's readiness to till the ground one more year. That is good news for all of us. Thanks be to God.
(from Sundays and Seasons, 2019)
Isaiah 55:1-9
To those who have experienced long years in exile, the return to their homeland is a celebration of abundant life. God calls them into an everlasting covenant of love. Those who return o the Lord will enjoy new life and forgiveness, because God's ways are not our ways.
Psalm 63:1-8
O God, eagerly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you.
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Paul uses images from Hebrew story and prophecy to speak the truth of Jesus Christ: He is our rock, our water, our food, and our drink. Christ is the living sign of God's faithfulness.
Luke 13:1-9
Asked about current tragic events, Jesus turns a lesson about whether suffering is deserved into a hard call to obedience. He then tells a parable that holds out hope that the timeline for ultimate judgment will be tempered by patience.
Commemeration of Patrick, bishop, missionary to Ireland
17 March 2019
c. 389 - born in Britain
c. 405 - began six years as a slave in Ireland
417 - ordained a priest
432 - sent to Ireland as a bishop to continue evangelization of its pagan population
c. 461 - died in Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland
Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is remembered as having Christianized Ireland. He baptized hundreds of people and established monasteries. The story is told that in 433 on the Hill of Slane he inaugurated the lighting of a bonfire at the beginning of the Easter services. The legend of his expelling snakes from Ireland can be seen as symbolic of his expelling evil from the land. Often in art Patrick is shown holding a shamrock, which it issaid he used to teach the Irish about the Trinity.
Against all Satan's spells and wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart's idolatry,
Against the wizard's evil craft,
Against the death wound and the burning,
The choking wave and the poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till thy returning.
---from Patrick's hymn, or lorica
COME JOIN US
WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU
- Worship Service - Holy Communion– 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM
- Adult Bible Class– 9:30 AM to 10:20 AM
- Worship Service - Holy Communion– 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Please click on Community Outreach for information on our Community Garden here at Living Grace.
Come join the Sew 'N' Sews on the second Mondays of each month, at 9:30 a.m. This group sews layettes for DeKalb Family Services. Come join the fellowship and fun while sewing.
The Quilting Group meets every month on Thursdays. If you would like to join them, you are more than welcome. They will meet on these following days:
Thursdays, 21 and 28 March - 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
