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
Book study will not convene after church today in honor of Mother's Day. We will gather to study chapter 11 and 12 of Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words by Brian D. McLaren on ZOOM on Sunday, May 16, after church at 11:15am in person (for persons that are comfortable with being present, masked, and appropriately distanced).
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"For All Women:
A Mother's Day Blessing"
Inspiring video
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"I Will Call Upon the Lord"
(Opening song - sing along)
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"Children's Worship and Wonder"
(Children's moment)
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"Medley - Great is Thy Faithfulness/
Great is Your Mercy"
(Songs of reflection)
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"We are Disciples of Christ"
(Video about Disciples identity and community)
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"New Songs of Victory"
(Communion and brief reflection by
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore)
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You may give gifts, tithes, and offerings online below or mail in a check to Grace Community Christian Church. Thank you in advance.
---------------------------------------------------Our scripture this morning encourages us to hear Jesus’ proclamation of loving his followers.
He laid down his life for his friends, believing we would grasp abundant life. Jesus went on to appoint the disciples, and today, appoints us (his followers)
to bear fruit that will last. That fruit shows up in a variety of ways, including in our morning offering! The gifts we bring (gifts from our hearts) are translated into coins, bills and checks. We may physically handle them and place them in an offering basket or tray, or simply set up a regular withdrawal from our checking account. But behind the finances is our desire to express our love for our Creator, our Redeemer, our Sustainer, and for sisters and brothers both here in our own community and around the world. Hearing the proclamation of love from Jesus, let’s shout and proclaim to the Lord: we love you!
Offering prayer
Take our gifts, Composing God, and weave a song of healing for the broken, of nourishment for the hungry,
of hope for those who despair, and peace for those torn by violence. We sing our praises, as we offer our treasures, as well as our hearts, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Opening Prayer
Sing to the Lord a new song! We bring the songs which have echoed in our hearts all week long. We gather as the children of God, our joy unbroken in God's love, we who are young and young at heart, mothers, children, fathers, sons, daughters, siblings, given and chosen, tone deaf and perfect-pitched to lift the new, new songs of faith.
O Lord, move us to recognize this Good News: God’s victory is here, and now! Challenge and encourage our spirits to serve you. Inspire us in this hour, and grant us confidence, that we might live as beloved friends of Jesus, who calls us to abundant life continually. Amen
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Prayer for confidence and carefulness
God of songs and marvels, old and new,
your powerful love for this world
continues to astound us. We thank you for welcoming us into your household
and for trusting us with your marvelous work to draw all people into the spacious home of your love.
God of goodness and care, we pray in gratitude for mothers today, for the ways they keep watch over physical and spiritual needs, and demonstrate your love and your presence. Thank you for the songs of joy, wisdom, and sacrifice they live and sing on a daily basis. Bless and sustain with peace and comfort those that are grieving the loss of their mother today. Bless, support, and strengthen mothers and children that are estranged from one another as they search for a new song to sing with one another.
Jesus, friend and brother, you taught us to abide in your generous love, for it completes our lives and gives us joy;
you ask us to love others as you have loved us, for it brings your creation to fruition. We sometimes struggle to love the people in our lives as you have loved us. Forgive us, we pray,
and teach us your love again. Amen.
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5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
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Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990
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