Below are worship resources to sustain and strengthen our faith during this time when our care for all of God's people calls us to practice social distance and to connect in new ways. Click on the pictures below to access the video content. Scriptures and prayers are located below the links.
We are one church with people in many places. "Grace at Home" will continue to be sent out indefinitely. We continue in a spirit of unity as we worship today.
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"With You (I Feel Again)"
Inspiring video
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"I Will Call Upon the Lord"
worship song
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"Invitation to Communion"
Elder Chris Bowers
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Children's song and lesson |
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Shenandoah National Park
(travel virtually with
America's Holy Ground)
"Shenandoah National Park was created partly in response to the majority of early national parks being located out west. Maine’s Acadia and Great Smoky Mountains spanning the Tennessee-North Carolina border—partially filled that void, but the long ridgeline through north-central Virginia became a project for Virginia leaders in the years leading up to the Great Depression..>
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"For All Generations"
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore
The challenge was that the land had been occupied for generations by subsistence farmers and tradesmen living in small communities or in their own isolation. Despite their hard way of life and an exhausted landscape, convincing them to leave their homes was not an easy task. Thinking creatively, park supporters crafted a compromise: residents could remain on their land the rest of their lives."
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"The world of the generous gets larger and larger"
Proverbs 11:24
(The Message)
Thank you in advance for sharing your gifts, tithes, and offerings with Grace Community Christian Church. You may give online below, mail in a check, or drop off your offering to the church.
Offering prayer
Gracious God, you have given us so much and called us to share it with others. May we use our gifts, including our resources, to transform ourselves and this world to look more like your kingdom. May this sacrifice be pleasing to you. May it be good and acceptable and perfect in your sight. Amen.
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GCCC Special offering invitation
Help us bring light into darkness in the parking lot
Hospitality and beauty abound around the church thanks to generous volunteers that plant flowers, cut grass, and trim trees around our property. At night, the majority of the lights in the parking lot no longer light up, and the atmosphere is less welcoming. Please consider making a gift to help repair the lights if you are in a position to give over and above your regular tithe or offering. Please convey your intention to support this effort by writing "lights" on the memo line of your check or online.
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Click here to give online at the Grace website or
give using Paypal or your credit card here
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Opening Prayer
Lord of summer sunshine and autumn harvest, be with us this day as we gather to encounter your word and your way for us. Remind us that we can place our trust in your eternal love. Enable us to be more effective in our witness to that love by word and deed. These things we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Prayer of Hope
Lord of hope, we come to you this day. We have followed many paths and the one of hope leads to this doorway. Enter our hearts, hear our joys and concerns in prayer, and in the actions and service that follows. We lift before you situations and people who are in need of your healing mercies and your peace - (lift up situations and the names of family, friends, and neighbors)
Help us to be those who would bring this peace to them. Remind us that we are called to be strong voices of hope for those who feel alienated and lost; we are called to be a home to strangers; to quench thirst and to give nourishment; to welcome and bring words of hope. Forgive us when we have forgotten these things. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
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Scripture - Exodus 3:1 -15 |
3 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” 5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[a] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you[b] will worship God on this mountain.” 13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.[c] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,[d] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ “This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.
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Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990
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