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.

"The Serenity Prayer"
Inspiring video (Skit Guys)
"All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name"
(sing along)
"Children, Worship, and Wonder"
(Children's moment)
"I Love You Lord and I Lift My Voice"
(Song of reflection )


"We are Disciples of Christ"
(Video about Disciples identity and community)

"Better Answers"
(Communion and brief reflection by
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore)
You may give gifts, tithes, and offerings online below or mail in a check to Grace Community Christian Church.

Thank you for your heartfelt gifts and generous support through the shifts of the past year. Your steadfast giving makes a difference. We are grateful for your ministry.

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In the life of every congregation, the recognition comes of the variety of gifts which have been given to different individuals. Some gifts might be over-looked until they become necessities. Knowing how to use a wet vac may seem superfluous until the basement floods! Aptitude with a tow truck may seem an unlikely gift until the church van breaks down with five youth and their sponsors on board. And who knew how important You Tube and Facebook would be for a functioning congregation until COVID closed down our “normal” means of communicating and sharing worship!
Every individual has received gifts for the purpose of equipping the saints for the work of ministry!

As we receive our morning offering, consider how your gift/s will build up the body of Christ. Without you and your gift/s, we cannot come to maturity, Paul writes. It takes ALL of us, working and sharing together, to help reach the full stature of Christ!

Offering prayer

Holy Giver of every good and perfect gift, thank you for this opportunity to claim the gifts we’ve been given. Challenge each one of us to recognize what we have received and how we can best use these gifts to proclaim our love for you. Thank you for this time to offer our gifts to build up of the body of Christ. In the name of Jesus, amen.
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Opening Prayer

Holy God, Merciful, Creator, Judge, 
We are your people. Today we give you thanks for your mercy, your steadfast presence and the gift of your forgiveness for our sins. Receive our gratitude as we worship you this hour. May we be strengthened to live today and every day in loving relationship with you. May the words of our mouths, the meditations of our hearts and the actions of our hands declare that desire not only to you
but to all with whom we share this life.  Amen
Prayer of
Hunger for Maturity

God of forgiveness and new beginnings,
you feed our hearts with compassion,
and nourish our souls with the bread of heaven. As Jesus fed the hungry crowds,
knowing that they needed both physical bread
and the bread of heaven, fill us with your generous spirit, mature our hearts and minds,
and make us one with Christ.

At times, like David, we can be greedy, and grasp for what is not ours even though we have enough. Remind us of your promise: that you will fill us with the bread of life. At times, we can be like the crowd that followed Jesus to Capernaum, yet did not understand what he had given them.

Gracious God, thank you for opening our hearts and minds to the gift of your word, the bread of heaven. Help us hunger for your peace and righteousness over the things of this world. Amen.
Scripture
John 6: 24-38
The Message version
22-24 The next day the crowd that was left behind realized that there had been only one boat, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with his disciples. They had seen them go off without him. By now boats from Tiberias had pulled up near where they had eaten the bread blessed by the Master. So when the crowd realized he was gone and wasn’t coming back, they piled into the Tiberias boats and headed for Capernaum, looking for Jesus.
25 When they found him back across the sea, they said, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “You’ve come looking for me not because you saw God in my actions but because I fed you, filled your stomachs—and for free.

27 “Don’t waste your energy striving for perishable food like that. Work for the food that sticks with you, food that nourishes your lasting life, food the Son of Man provides. He and what he does are guaranteed by God the Father to last.” 28 To that they said, “Well, what do we do then to get in on God’s works?”
29 Jesus said, “Sign on with the One that God has sent. That kind of a commitment gets you in on God’s works.” 30-31 They waffled: “Why don’t you give us a clue about who you are, just a hint of what’s going on? When we see what’s up, we’ll commit ourselves. Show us what you can do. Moses fed our ancestors with bread in the desert. It says so in the Scriptures: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32-33 Jesus responded, “The real significance of that Scripture is not that Moses gave you bread from heaven but that my Father is right now offering you bread from heaven, the real bread. The Bread of God came down out of heaven and is giving life to the world.” 34 They jumped at that: “Master, give us this bread, now and forever!”
35-38 Jesus said, “I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever. I have told you this explicitly because even though you have seen me in action, you don’t really believe me. Every person the Father gives me eventually comes running to me. And once that person is with me, I hold on and don’t let go. I came down from heaven not to follow my own agenda but to accomplish the will of the One who sent me.
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Aurora, IL 60504
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