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 12 and 13 of Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words by Brian D. McLaren on ZOOM on Sunday, May 23, after church at 11:15am in person (for persons that are comfortable with being present, masked or unmasked, and appropriately distanced).
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"A Graduation Blessing"
Inspiring video
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"Start A Fire"
(Opening song - sing along)
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"The Story of Pentecost"
(Children's moment)
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"Great Are You Lord"
(Song of reflection)
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"We are Disciples of Christ"
(Video about Disciples identity and community)
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"Pentecost 2021: Reckless Love"
(Communion and brief reflection by
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore)
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Congratulations 2021 graduates!!! |
Middle School graduate
Nate Calvo
High school graduates
Joseph Anderson
Gianna DiCristofano
Lily Thomas
College graduates
Alexis Byrd
Assata Gilmore
Ricia White
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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.
(Click the image to watch the New Church ministry special offering video)
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Be the New Church
For the past thirteen months, many of us have stayed away from our places of worship to keep ourselves and our faith communities safe, while others have changed the way they practice presence in worship.
How have new church leaders responded? By spreading the word about Disciples through DoorDash, meeting with folks struggling with anxiety on Zoom, and addressing returning citizens’ needs.
Chaplains, pastors, and others have answered the call to be the new church.
To support them, you are invited to make a gift to the Pentecost offering over and above your regular tithe or contribution on May 23. Half of the gifts go to regions to support new church development. The other half goes to New Church Ministry, which trains, equips, assists, and multiplies new church leaders. Let’s all be the new church, together.
Offering prayer
Holy God, thank you for the gift of your Spirit, blowing fresh into our lives. Thank you for these offerings; responses from people who have been moved by your spirit as we learn to claim your gifts in our ministry. Help us use them, and continue to offer our own lives to share the Good News of your love with a world still in need of your revival and the outpouring of your spirit. Amen.
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Opening Prayer
Holy Spirit, on this day of Pentecost, we rejoice in your presence! Pour out your power once more on each and on all.
Call to the depths of our lives, luring us into a season of dreaming dreams,
and seeing the vision of all you desire for this congregation. Breathe into us the abundance of resurrection life,
so we might call on the name of the Lord and be saved! Amen
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Pentecost Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, the one who sang a new melody as God’s Creation rose from Chaos, who wept at the dark shadow of a cross, and who danced early in the morning, at the opening of an empty tomb.
Come, Holy Spirit, the one who could not be contained by wind, or flame, or breath, the one who blesses the Church with courage, peace, and love.
Come, Holy Spirit, to us, who gather this day with trembling hands and uncertain hearts. Teach us to sing a new song and to dance with reckless abandon.
Here in this time, as you did with those so long ago, breathe on us now.
Help us to join with your comforting of the sad, healing of the sick, welcoming of strangers, and forgiving of sins. Send your spirit so that this world should not perish but live. Fill me with life anew.
Breathe on us, for we need peace, peace that only you can give. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” 12 All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”
14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. 15 Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16 No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: 17 ‘In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. 18 Even upon my slaves, both men and women,
in those days I will pour out my Spirit;
and they shall prophesy. 19 And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. 20 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. 21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
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Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990
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