Welcome to Grace at Home. God's best to you in 2022! May God bless you and your family with the gifts of heaven and earth this year.

Due to icy conditions and severely low temperatures, in-person service will not take place today. Grace Community Christian Church will share in worship online only this morning.
Click on the pictures below to access the video content. Scriptures and prayers are located below the links.
"MLK Day: Remember"
(video for reflection)
"Open the Eyes of My Heart"
(Opening song)
"Jesus Turns Water Into Wine"
Children's moment
"I Need You to Survive"
(song of reflection)

"We are Disciples of Christ"
(Video about Disciples identity and community)
"Serving New Wine"
(Sermon by Pastor Yvonne Gilmore)
Gifts of generosity and grace
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. Thank you for making space for Grace to be shared between, among, and beyond our walls.

Your faithful tithes and offerings make a difference. We are grateful for your ministry.
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We are a part of something BIGGER...than ourselves, than time, than darkness. We are a part of God's movement for wholeness in this new time. Let us give in gratitude and commitment.

When we come to this moment in our worship, we often try rationally to encourage generous giving by each person.  

Looking to the story of Jesus and his Mom at a wedding feast, however, we see how this mother strongly urged Jesus into an act of generosity (even if it was to get his Mom off his back!).  A contemporary poet puts it this way:

What Makes You Think You Don’t Need It?
This Jewish mother knew the score;
She knew her son could do much more
Than just sit back, all uninvolved;
And so, this ponderer resolved
That she’d weigh in, and speak her mind,
E’en though, this son of hers, unkindly
Snapped!
          Sometimes you need a push
To get yourself up off your tush;
And if that’s true of even God,
Perhaps for you, it’s not so odd.

Scott L. Barton

Offering prayer

Giving God, thank you for challenging us to do all we can do to share our treasure. Please accept these gifts. Inspire each of us toward true generosity. Guide us to use what is provided to accomplish far more than what any one of us could, or would, do alone. We offer this prayer because of Jesus, who turned water into wine, and inspires us to turn our bottled-up natures into ever-flowing springs. Amen.
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Opening Prayer

Fountain of Light, in the midst of winter darkness, we turn to you, ready to offer you our praise.  As we worship, open our eyes to see the wonder of YOU, and your abundant grace.  

As Jesus made the Cana wedding feast a time of delight, so may this hour lift us up.  Fill us here and now, so we will be strengthened to face the challenges before us in the coming week. Amen.
Prayer of strength

God, our God, as you were with the wedding party in Cana of Galilee, be with us here today. Fill this place with the presence of Your Holy Spirit. Fill the water pots of our souls this day with new and fresh wine from your wine cellar. The wine of yesterday is gone; it is stale; it is old. Today, God, send your anointing power in this place and in the lives of your people that we may find strength to hold on and move forward.

God, we have not always known how to use the gifts you have given us. At times, we have misused and abused your gifts, not knowing how to use them in a world where homelessness, pain, disease, injustice, and death affect young and old. God, we don't want to be uninformed; so help us use the gifts you have given us in the Spirit in which they were given, to build your Kingdom and your people.

Help us to know that the best wine is yet to come, and we can taste and see your goodness. Show yourself to be powerful, empowering, and awesome this day and for all times to come. In the name of Jesus the Christ, we pray. Amen.
Scripture
John 2:1-11
2 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6 Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it. 9 When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Announcements
In service to the community, a pop up vaccination clinic sponsored by Alderman Edward Bugg, Ward 9, will be held at Grace on January 22 from 8:30am to 4:30pm.

Stay tuned for more information and the registration link. Appointments will likely fill up quickly.
The movie insight and discussion group will watch and discuss The Shack. Dates and times will be announced soon.
Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990