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).

"Ascension"
Inspiring video
"Lord I Lift Your Name on High"
(Opening song - sing along)

"Jesus' Ascension"
(Children's moment)
"Grace"
(Song of reflection)

"We are Disciples of Christ"
(Video about Disciples identity and community)
"Clothed with Power"
(Communion and brief reflection by
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore)
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---------------------------------------------------An outstanding player at Michigan, he not only brings physical power, but witnesses every day to his life-passion: caring for his family.  Refugees from Liberia, escaping from a civil war in which his grandfather was brutally murdered, living in the US with a single mom and several younger siblings, Kwity focused on education and football as his ladders out of poverty.  

He has physical power, a place on the Colts’ roster, and soon will be making enough money to provide abundantly for his Mom and siblings. What if each of us decided today we would accept the power promised to us by the resurrected Jesus, and witness to God’s abundance through our offering?  How would your life, and mine, change if we focused on becoming witnesses with our time, our talents and our treasure?

We rejoice when we see stories of people who live out their power and make a witness to LIFE. How much more will we rejoice when it is YOU, and me, who let the words of our mouths and the actions of our hearts and hands proclaim God’s love to a burdened and broken world?


Offering prayer
Giving God, you pour out gifts in abundance! We celebrate, opening our eyes and our hands to receive and now share what you’ve provided. Use us now to witness to your abundant love through these gifts and through the ways we use our time this week, even as we join disciples of the resurrected Jesus throughout time and space. Amen
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Opening Prayer

Lord of amazing visions, prepare our hearts and our spirits this day to receive your glad tidings of an Advocate. Help make us ready to be your disciples in all that we do, say, and think. May we experience during this time of worship the searching of your Spirit and the healing touch of your compassion.
Prayer of Faith

Go back to Jerusalem and wait, Jesus said to his disciples. Lord, we have been waiting for many things over the last year, and seek your reassuring presence as we await the power of your spirit. We are called to be people of faith, not of absolute proof, as we understand it. Help us place our trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

Take our spirits and release the need for control. Help us place our total trust in your abiding love and presence. Give us patience and persistence in our ministries and mission. As we bring to you the names of dear ones whose lives are in need of your healing mercy and comfort...remind us that we also stand in need of those same mercies.

Give us courage to accept your love and strength to witness to your love in all that we do. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
Scripture
Luke 24:44-53
44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: 
Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, 
the Prophets and the Psalms.” 45 Then
he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

50 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. 52 Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. 53 And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.

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