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. Some worship online at home, some on campus, some at work, and some of us gather in the building at 10am. We continue in a spirit of compassion and unity as we worship today.
"Invitation and gratitude for worship"
Inspiring Skit Guys video
"Let It Rise"
worship song
Reconciliation Special Offering video
Children's song and lesson
Video reflection on transformation
"Faith Seeking Understanding"
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore
"The world of the generous gets larger and larger" Proverbs 11:24 (The Message) 
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Offering prayer

Living God, you have promised to be our God and we have promised to be your people. Thank you for keeping your promise so faithfully. Help us to do the same as we offer these gifts to your service. Thank you for calling us to be your hands and feet in this world. Amen.
Reconciliation Special offering invitation

The Reconciliation Ministry Special Offering is used to fund our Church’s mission imperative to become a pro-reconciling and anti-racist church utilizing experiential education, inclusive worship, and intentional dialogue. Our efforts to promote healing, relationship, and restoration in the whole family of God are enlivened by funds from this offering. Through it we are able to provide programs for leadership development, curriculum for dialogue and learning, and partnerships within the Church and our communities.
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Opening Prayer

Majestic God, you have done great things for those who have come before us, and we know you have great things planned for us. We come before you to offer our gratitude and open our hearts to your word for us today. Show us, Lord, who you have called us to be. Amen.

Prayer of Community

Because all hope is yours,
Sharing Spirit,
stretch our shriveled hearts
  with compassion that does not break;
tickle our serious natures
  with lap-climbing kids who tell silly jokes; humble our arrogance 
  with the willingness to stand
  in the muck cleaning flooded homes.

Because all lives are yours,
Mercy Rememberer,
grace is offered
  in softened hearts
  and children wandering corn mazes;
hope is heard
  from grandparents' stories
  and parables lived out by neighbors;
wonder is found
  in scientific minds
  and builders of sandcastles.

Because all is yours, even us,
God in Community, Holy in One,
we pray as we are taught, saying,
(The Lord's Prayer)
Scripture - Matthew 21:23-32
23 Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?” 24 Jesus replied, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 25 John’s baptism—where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?” They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘Of human origin’—we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet.” 27 So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 28 “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
29 “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. 30 “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. 31 “Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. 32 For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990