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.

Additional opportunities for connection and reflection
We will gather to study chapter 8 and 9 of Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words by Brian D. McLaren on ZOOM on Sunday, April 25, after church at 11:15am in person (for persons that are comfortable with being present, masked, and appropriately distanced).
"Welcome to Our Church"
Inspiring video
"I Could Sing of Your Love Forever"
(Opening song - sing along)

"Psalm 23, Scripture read and
interpreted by young children"
"Good Good Father"
(Song of reflection)
"Disciples of Christ"
(Video about identity and community)
"The Loving Shepherd"
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore
(sermon)
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The Shepherd cares for us, providing all that we need in abundance. The Shepherd calls us to love one another in truth and action. We know love by this, that (Jesus) laid down his life for us – and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.  How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet is not open to helping? May our gifts reflect our trust in the 
Shepherd’s care. May our offerings show our willingness to love one another.

Offering prayer
Holy God, you opened your heart to the world by sending Jesus, the Good Shepherd. Thank you for this opportunity to claim our identity as followers of the One who laid down his life for us. Let us love, not just in word, but in truth and action!  Receive these gifts as our acts of love, to respond to the needs of sisters and brothers. Amen.
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Opening Prayer

God, you recognize we are so often like sheep without a shepherd. Today we thank you for sending Jesus as a good shepherd, and for providing your Spirit, 
continuing to work in all times and in all places. We rejoice in the ways in which our lives are guided and guarded not by those who run away in the face of danger, but by the One willing to lay down life itself for the flock. Continue to fill us with your love, and renew us in this hour of worship, caring for us as one part of your beloved creation. Amen.
Prayer to the
Good Shepherd

Oh God, you know the sum of the hairs on the very heads that you have anointed. You know our days, our challenges, our successes and our needs. Today, we confess that our greatest need is for a shepherd. And the lesson we have yet to learn is how to be your sheep.

Loving Shepherd, you know our names;
you care for us. When we face darkness and death, walk beside us. When we hunger for your love, fill us with your presence. When we are fearful, feed us at your table.

Call us back into your care and help us trust your caring presence, that our actions may proclaim your truth. May we dwell in the house of goodness and mercy all the days of our lives. Amen.
Scripture
John 10: 11-18
(The Message version)
11-13 “I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd puts the sheep before himself, sacrifices himself if necessary. A hired man is not a real shepherd. The sheep mean nothing to him. He sees a wolf come and runs for it, leaving the sheep to be ravaged and scattered by the wolf. He’s only in it for the money. The sheep don’t matter to him. 14-18 “I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep and my own sheep know me. In the same way, the Father knows me and I know the Father. I put the sheep before myself, sacrificing myself if necessary. You need to know that I have other sheep in addition to those in this pen. I need to gather and bring them, too. They’ll also recognize my voice. Then it will be one flock, one Shepherd. This is why the Father loves me: because I freely lay down my life. And so I am free to take it up again. No one takes it from me. I lay it down of my own free will. I have the right to lay it down; I also have the right to take it up again. I received this authority personally from my Father.”


Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990