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Grace Avenue United Methodist Church
3521 Main Street | Frisco, TX 75034 | 972-335-2882
Sat, May 2nd
8:00am-1:00pm
It's that time of year again!
We are in need of items & volunteers!
Volunteers are needed to assist the day of the sale as well as with set up and pricing on Thursday night and Friday throughout the day. If you would like to volunteer, CLICK HERE or email Rebekah Beavers at [email protected].
To donate items, drop them off in the Worship Center on Thurs, April 30th from 5-8pm or Fri, May 1st from 9am-7pm. (Please, no large appliances or TVs more than 5 years old) All proceeds benefit GAMMA and we hope to see everyone there!
All proceeds from the Rummage Sale benefit Grace Avenue Missions, Ministry & Assistance.
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Prairie Estates Mother's Day Tea
Saturday, May 2nd | 10:00am
You can help the ladies at Prairie Estates celebrate motherhood by helping provide food and/or helping to serve. This is a great mission opportunity for children and families. Servers will help set up, clean up, and serve the food and are needed from 9:40-11:30am. If you would like to donate food, we need sweet and savory snacks ( cookies, brownies, tea cakes, pimiento cheese sandwiches, sausage balls, cucumber sandwiches etc). Please contact Mary Martin at [email protected] to volunteer or for more information.
Respite on Grace Avenue
2nd & 4th Mondays | 10am-2:30pm (MORE INFORMATION)
Grace Avenue is offering a new respite care program for those in the early to moderate stages of Alzheimer's disease or related dementia. The program provides a much-needed break to care-givers while participants have a time of social interaction, fun and friendship. If you know someone who might benefit from this program or would like to volunteer, please contact Joyce Cravens at [email protected].
Frisco Helpers
Frisco Helpers is an organization of volunteers who help seniors 55+ or those with other special needs with minor home repairs. Volunteers come from Grace Avenue and other local churches. If you know of someone who could use these services or you would like to volunteer visit www.FriscoHelpers.org or call 214-973-1490. (All work takes place on Thursdays.)
Change the World Supply Board
In order to Change the World, we are going to need SUPPLIES! Stop by the Missions Board by the world map to see what we need and to drop off your donations. We need everything from health kit supplies and school supplies to plastic grocery bags and coupons...Or you can make a financial donation. Help us get ready for a successful weekend! Bring your donations today! Contact Sue Walters at [email protected] with any questions!
Change the World Weekend
May 16-17, 2015
Mission and Registration Information is now available. CLICK HERE for all the details!
Change the World Weekend is a global initiative of the United Methodist Church. Churches all around the world will be going out into their communities and participating in hands-on missions on these two days with one goal in mind: To Change the World. This year Grace Avenue is doing our part.
Change the World T-shirts
Shirts are $15 each
ORDER HERE
Order yours today! Pre-Orders only through April 26th. Make sure you get your!
Relay for Life
Friday, May 29th | 6:00pm-1:00am
Wakeland High School
Relay for Life is a fund raiser for the American Cancer Society. Team members raise money to help find a cure for cancer. It is a great community and family event. Contact our team captains Kristen McDonald at [email protected] or Shannon Bennefeld at [email protected] about joining the Grace Avenue team or log on to CLICK HERE.
Habitat for Humanity Orientation
Tues, April 28th or Thurs, May 7th at 7:00pm
North Collin County Habitat for Humanity office at 2060 Couch Dr., McKinney
If you are interested in working with Habitat for Humanity on May 16th (Change the World Weekend) or any other time, you must have completed orientation. Please send a message to [email protected] to register for orientation or contact Mary Martin at [email protected] with questions.
Vacation Bible Camp Team Members Needed!
Are you ready to Dream Big? Grace Avenue VBC needs your help as we Dream Big this summer. Volunteers are needed as Small Group Leaders, Storytellers, Craft leaders, youth helpers, snack servers, and decorators. Volunteer training and dinner will be held Thursday, May 28.
Vaction Bible Camp is taking place June 15-19 and June 22- 26 from 9:00- 12:00.
Come and be a part of one or both of the weeks of VBC. CLICK HERE to complete a volunteer form!
If you have any questions you can talk to the VBC Leadership Team:
Week 1 Leaders: Megan Pilkinton and Courtney Reed
Week 2 Leaders: Becky Rockwell, Whitney Watkins, and Kate Connor
Decorations: Meghan Randall
You can also contact Kristen Lane at [email protected] at anytime! Come and join us as we share the Dreams that God has for the World and each one of us!
Czech Mission Team
Follow the BLOG
Grace Avenue UMC is sending a team to The Czech Republic May 8-18 to work with our partnership church, Maranatha UMC in Plzen. Please pray for the team and watch for pictures and updates on their work projects. The team includes Tom and Dar Carlson, Scott Beadle, Doug Bradt, Joyce Sutherland, Cara Everett Wright, Becky Garza, and Charles and Lisa Hampshire.
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I learned a long time ago the best way to make something more frightening is to avoid talking about it. When we don't confront our fears, they simply get bigger and bigger. This is especially true when it comes to the topic of death. It is certainly not healthy to be preoccupied with death, however our culture lives in such a denial of it that death has a ruling power over us that causes us to miss the "abundant life" that Jesus came to offer.
This weekend at Grace Avenue we are beginning a very important two week series entitled: "Let's Face It: Resurrection People Dealing with Death". It is based on the 10th chapter of the Gospel of John. The messages will not be morbid or inappropriate for some audiences like children. Instead our purpose is to proclaim our resurrection faith as Easter people and confront the issue so that it no longer has ultimate power over us.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross gave us some of the most profound understanding of death and the grief process about 40 years ago. Speaking on these subjects she once said: "It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."
The apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 expresses it this way:
"Where is your victory, Death? Where is your sting, Death?
Thanks be to God, who gives us this victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!"
1 Corinthians 15:55, 57 CEB
I hope you will join us in this important time of proclaiming our Easter faith.
With you on Grace Avenue,
Billy Echols-Richter
Pastor
Sermons available on-line. CLICK HERE to view or listen.
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We are truly blessed to have the staff at Grace Avenue; they make our church a special place. They are well-educated, extremely dedicated and deeply committed. As a small token of appreciation, we are collecting Gift Cards from the congregation in May to distribute to the staff members. Pick up a Gift Card the next time you are running around town at your favorite retail store, restaurant, coffee shop, or grocery store. Any Gift Card for any amount will be appreciated. Please bring the Gift Cards to church during the month of May and deposit them in the boxes located at the back of the Worship Center, Sanctuary or in the church office. If you would prefer to make a financial contribution and let SPRC do the shopping for you, CLICK HERE to make an on-line donation. To our church staff it is more than a job; it is their passion to serve. Thank you in advance for your donation to reward them for a job well done. If you have any questions, please contact Travis Taylor at [email protected]. Staff Parish Relations Committee (SPRC) |
ATTENDANCE: 4/19 & 4/20
| Learning Hour |
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| 8:30 |
21 |
| 9:30 |
285 |
| 11:00 |
134 |
| Women's Retreat |
49 |
| Total Learning Hour |
489 |
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| Worship |
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| Saturday 5:30pm (Sabbath) |
81 |
| Sanctuary 8:30 (Communion) |
64 |
| Worship Center 9:30 (Celebration) |
148 |
| Sanctuary 9:30 (Foundation) |
133 |
| Worship Center 11:00 (Threshold) |
114 |
| Sanctuary 11:00 (Covenant) |
293 |
| Women's Retreat |
46 |
| Total Worship |
879 |
Financials - April
| Week |
Budgeted Contributions
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Amount Given
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Difference
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| 5 |
$54,844 |
$71,692
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$16,848
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| 12 |
$54,843 |
$18,925
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$(35,918)
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| 19 |
$54,844 |
$47,271
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$(7,573)
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| 26 |
$54,843 |
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| Monthly Budget |
$219,374 |
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| Total Given for Month |
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$137,888 |
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| Month to Date Net |
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-$26,643 |
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| Year to Date Contributions |
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$579,824 |
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| Year to Date Budgeted Contributions |
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$595,699 |
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| Year to Date Difference |
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-$15,875 |
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| Capital Revenue |
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| April |
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| Week |
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| 5 |
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$14,692 |
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| 12 |
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$53,785 |
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| 19 |
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$805 |
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| 26 |
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| Year to Date Total |
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$137,394 |
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March Children's Offering (JUG) was $417 to for Stop Hunger Now.
If you have any questions, please contact our Financial Controller, Traci Hughes at
[email protected]
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We offer credit/debit recurring payment setup.
We lift up prayers as a church family for....
Prayers
Prayers for God's Comfort & Peace:
For Bonnie Miller and her family upon the death of her father this past week.
For Allison Mulkey and her family upon the death of her great-grandmother.
Prayers for God's Strength & Healing:
For Esta Ann Geron who is having surgery on Friday, April 24.
For Earnest Godfrey who is recovering from surgery and is now at Legacy at Willowbend for rehab.
For Harv Kitchens who is now home continuing his recovery.
For Donnie Harris who is now home from the hospital after battling an infection.
For Amanda Knox who is recovering from surgery after breaking her leg this week.
For those who continue their battle with cancer.
For God's Blessings on the Ministry of Grace Avenue:
For Women's Retreat this past weekend.
For the "Say Yes" Campaign.
For Hill Family:
A community family's home burned in The Trails on Easter evening.
They have a freshman son at Wakeland. They were renting the home and did not have insurance. They lost everything but celebrate that their family is safe. If you would like to help this family, we are working through a counselor at Wakeland to collect gift cards that they can begin to use to replenish what they lost. Since they are staying at a hotel currently, they do not have a place to store a lot of donated items. Please drop gift cards off this weekend before and after worship in
the office area. There will be a basket designated. Thank you so much.
*If you are willing to help provide meals or transportation for persons and families in need, please contact [email protected].
Do you have a prayer you would like to share with the Ministers at Grace Avenue? You can let us know by CLICKING HERE.
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| CHILDREN Praise Kids! Join us anytime! Sundays | 3:30-5:00pm Children are divided by age level and spend time sharing in music, musical enrichment and fellowship. Children who are 3 years old as of September 1st- 5th grade can participate in Praise Kids! If you have questions, contact Laurie Hanson Roberts at [email protected] or Kristen Lane at [email protected]. 2015 Summer Camps! Registration is now available! (CLICK HERE) Contact [email protected] with questions. VBC Week 1: June 15- 19 VBC Week 2: June 22- 26 Music & Drama Camp: June 29- July 3 Science Camp Week 1: July 6- 10 Science Camp Week 2: July 13-17 Art Camp: July 20- 24 Mission Camp: July 27-30 Camp Grace: August 3-6 YOUTH Youth Schedule this Week: Sun: 5:00-8:30, SPARK (Snack supper, games and then Godspell) Weds: SH Homework & Hangout 6-8pm Thurs: JH TNT from 4-7pm
Junior High Mission Trip 2015 (REGISTER)
July 27-31, 2015 | Cost is $275
This summer, we will be taking the junior high youth to Tyler, Tx for our mission trip. We will be leaving on July 27th, in the early afternoon, and returning late on July 31st. We will be painting a home, going to soup kitchens, sorting goods, putting on programs for at risk youth and doing other local work in Tyler.
Senior High Mission Trip 2015 (REGISTER)
July 12-18, 2015 | Cost is $300
This summer, the Senior High youth will once again be going to UMARMY and joining other youth across Texas to help revitalize a poor community. This year we will be going to Wichita Falls and painting, building porches, building wheel chair ramps, fixing roofs, and many other hands on projects. Senior High Guy's Retreat (REGISTER)
May 8, 9, and 10th! | Cost: $120
A brand new retreat at Grace Avenue for Senior High guys in 9th-12th grade!
We will meet Friday at the church at 6pm to begin the retreat. We will spend the night Friday at the church and leave Saturday morning for Ennis, Tx where we will be camping! We will return to the church by noon on Sunday morning just in time for Mothers Day lunch. This is a great opportunity for your student to get away and learn more what it means to be a Christian man.
For information about Youth Programs, please contact Christopher Vaughan at [email protected].
Undaunted: Daring to Do What God Calls You to Do Led By Laura Echols-Richter
Mondays 9:15-10:30am or 7:00-8:15pm 3 Weeks Beginning on May 4 Come share in this study based on the book/DVD by Christine Caine who talks about how God called her from a life where she felt unnamed, unwanted and unqualified into a God-filled and faith-fueled journey. We are called to Be the Love, Be the Hope and Be the Change!
Methodism Class (REGISTER)
Sundays, 3:30-5:00pm | Beginning April 26th This 3-week study, led by Bill D. Ball, Jr., will explore the history, beliefs, and doctrine of the United Methodist Church. Email [email protected]. Childcare is available upon request.
MUSIC & ART
Instrumental Music Ensemble
This instrumental music ensemble is open to all youth (who have completed sixth grade) and adults who play band or orchestral instruments. Did you used to be in band or orchestra? Now is the time to pull your instrument out of the case, dust it off and come and play! You will be shocked (if you haven't played in a while) how quickly everything will come back to you! Please email Joe Stobaugh at [email protected] to for more information.
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| Frisco Family Services Pantry Supplies Grace Avenue has been passionately supporting the FFS Pantry ministry for many years. The FFS pantry supplies over 30,000 pounds of food and needed items to more than 350 families a month and the number continues to increase weekly. You can find a complete list of needed items at www.FriscoFamilyServices.org Please drop off items at Grace Avenue Learning Center lobby (tall gray basket by the Elevator). Urgent needs right now are: Size 3, Size 4, Size 5 diapers and pull up diapers of all sizes. For more information contact: Betty Pfahler: [email protected]. Prayer Shawl Ministry Meets 2nd Tuesdays at 1:00pm The Prayer Shawl ministry shares God's love by creating and blessing hand made items such as shawls, lap blankets, chemo caps, and scarves for people in the community and within the Church. The group prays, knits, crochets, and shares in a time of fellowship. New members are warmly welcomed. Free lessons, as well as hooks, needles and yarn are always available. Contact Linda Vanek at [email protected] or 214-705-0646 for more information. Frisco Helpers
Frisco Helpers is an organization of volunteers who help seniors 55+ or those with other special needs with minor home repairs. Volunteers come from Grace Avenue and other local churches. If you know of someone who could use these services or you would like to volunteer visit www.FriscoHelpers.org or call 214-973-1490. (All work takes place on Thursdays.) Frisco FASTPacs Help Feed the Children of Frisco Many children who receive the free or reduced lunch during the school week, do not have enough food on the weekends. Help by donating needed food items. The list of needed items and the collection container is across from the world map, near in the Learning Center Lobby. Contact Marian Schulze at [email protected] for information or visit www.friscofastpacs.com. Bingo at Prairie Estates
* Bingo Volunteers Needed
Volunteers are needed to call Bingo and hand out prizes for the residents of Prairie Estates. This is a great opportunity for individuals, families, and groups. Children of all ages are welcome, with an adult, and really brighten the day of some folks who aren't able to get out and about. The time commitment is Saturday from around 8:45-10:15 am at Prairie Estates located at 1350 W Main Street in Frisco.
* Prizes Needed
Bingo prizes make the game more exciting for the residents! They especially enjoy fun sized candy bars and individually wrapped sugar free candy. Items such as large print sudoku books, word finds, small stuffed animals, figurines, etc. are also appreciated. You can leave donated prizes in the area near the elevator in the Learning Center lobby. For more information about Bingo at Prairie Estates, contact Kari Hardwick at [email protected] . |
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