Welcome to Grace at Home. Below are worship resources to sustain and strengthen our faith. Click on the pictures below to access the video content. Scriptures and prayers are located below the links. Due to COVID-19 positivity rates, Grace Community Christian Church will continue to share in worship online.

The building is open for in person worship this morning. As guidelines change and vaccine is made available, we look forward to gathering safely again in person with COVID mitigation measures in place.

"A Fourth of July Prayer"
Inspiring video (Skit Guys)
"Revelation 19:1"
(sing along)
"Jesus Chooses His 12 Disciples"
(Children's moment)
"I Love You, Lord"
(Song of reflection)

"We are Disciples of Christ"
(Video about Disciples identity and community)
"Deeds of Power"
(Communion and brief reflection by
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore)
You may give gifts, tithes, and offerings online below or mail in a check to Grace Community Christian Church.

Thank you for your heartfelt gifts and generous support through the shifts of the past year. Your steadfast giving makes a difference. We are grateful for your ministry.

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Mark tells of the time Jesus came back to Nazareth, his hometown.  Rather than being welcomed by crowds, however, people took offense at him! Can’t you just hear them?  “Who does he think he is?  We know his whole family!  What makes him so special?  I remember changing his diapers!”
Jesus recognized he could do no deed of power there, except “he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them.”

Even when he faced the derision of his home-town people, Jesus offered what he could!
What about you?  Are you sometimes tempted to just stay quiet with your family or friends about being a follower of Jesus?  Have you ever had people mock you for your faith, or your engagement in the church?  

In a world in which it’s no longer expected that everyone will go to church, making the decision follow Jesus — to participate with your time and talents and share your financial resources — is an important way to offer what YOU can. Your active engagement helps show others you’re offering what you can as a follower/disciple of Jesus, the Christ.  So let’s joyfully bring our tithes, our gifts and our offerings to help Grace witness to the power of Jesus.


Offering prayer

Mighty God, thank you for the history which we learn from scripture, from study, from times with other people of faith. Thank you that what we bring as our offering becomes a sign/symbol of our desire to follow Jesus through every season of life. So receive these gifts. Help them be used to share Good News with a struggling world, that your will might be done on earth, even as it is in heaven. In your holy name we pray, amen.
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Opening Prayer

God of action, we give you thanks and praise your holy name for the ways you act in love through all generations. Accept our worship. 
Continue to guide us into community, despite the ways we’re separated by time, space, and so many differences. Let your Spirit blow through this congregation, infusing us with power, that we might act to build up your Realm in all we say and all we do. Amen
Prayer of Trust

Lord of mystery and community, you have called us here this day to remind us of the mission journey you set before us. Help us to pay attention to the words of Jesus as he sent out his disciples on a mission of healing and compassion. Remind us that success is not measured only in the cures, but in the striving. Help us to place our trust in your call and guidance.

Gracious God, we hear in the Gospel Message that Jesus was questioned and rejected by his own hometown, friends, and relatives, and we wonder how he was able to continue in ministry with such a lack of support. We want to enter our endeavors with full support and acclamation. We are afraid to begin a task if even our families, friends, and hometown folk belittle it and also us. So rather than face degradation, we back down. Forgive our lack of faith and vision. Empower us to be in service to you, even when we do not feel the support of our family. Let us trust in your power and presence with us. Heal us. Guide our lives and our journeys all our days. In Jesus’ Name, we pray, amen.
Scripture
Mark 6:1-13
1 He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.
2 On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, "Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands!
3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.
4 Then Jesus said to them, "Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house."
5 And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them.
6 And he was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went about among the villages teaching.
7 He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
8 He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts;
9 but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics.
10 He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place.
11 If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them."
12 So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent.
13 They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
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