Blog moving to The City of Grace

Here is the link to the public side of our City of Grace. Our helps/needs going forward will be posted there.

The City is our new website for getting things done and people connected at Grace. While our current website (www.GraceToday.net) will continue to be a great source of information (especially guests), it will compliment the many tools that our new City site will bring.

One of those tools is the "Needs" blog. The City will pull all of our current blogs (like this one) into one website simplifying how we communicate with you.

The City: A Catalyst for Community. It's full of awesome!

Update on Painting the Container

Todd Kasson is taking the lead on this but others are stepping forward to help.

Todd has a compressor, generator and spray kit we can use. He has priced out the supplies and is ready to schedule when we could do this.

If you'd like to help, call Todd at 513-4671 or Darien at 830-2464.

Update on helping Brenda mover her parents Fri.

Update: Looks like the afternoon is best for Brenda and for us. Thanks to those who offered to help in the morning!

We'll plan to meet at Brenda's Friday at 2 pm. Terry is bringing his truck and Darien is bringing Todd's (no trailer needed, Todd).

Right now we have:

Martha Fletcher
Terry Fletcher (after 4)

Richard Berndt

Darien Gabriel
Anita Gabriel

How about you?

Call me at 830-2464

email me at info@gracetoday.net

Directions to Brenda Keene's: 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=137+Destin+St+Summerville,+SC+29483&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=137+Destin+St,+Summerville,+Dorchester,+South+Carolina+29483&gl=us&ei=vOrFS9TuHJD09QSQr4meDg&ved=0CAcQ8gEwAA&ll=33.025936,-80.268753&spn=0.009085,0.015428&z=16

Address:

137 Destin St Summerville, SC 29483

(Out Butternut Rd. behind Reminisce)

Moving Party!

Grace Family,

We have an opportunity to help out a single mom in our church family. Brenda Keene's parents have lived with her for quite some time. But they now how their own place! She and her daughters are thrilled!

Brenda wants to move them this week and welcomes any help we can offer. 

While you are welcome to call her and help out anytime this week, we are organizing a moving party on Fri. Right now it's tentatively in the morning but if there is more interest in helping that afternoon we might just do that (or do like 11-1). Anyway, if you're willing to help that day please let me know asap and which you prefer (before or after lunch) and then we'll resend this out with the firm times.

We'll not be moving a lot of heavy stuff but we will start with the furniture and some boxes. Todd has offered his truck and trailer for us to use but if you have a pick-up we'd appreciate you bringing it.

Feel free to email or call me.

Because of Christ, we're better together,

Darien

Brenda's # is 693-3932

Right now I have the following commitments:

Martha Fletcher (after lunch)
Terry Fletcher (late afternoon and has truck)

Richard Berndt (any time)

Tom Blount (before lunch)

Darien Gabriel (any time)

How about you?

Cool-seal small trailer

We need to cool-seal the top of our small trailer to protect the contents from leaking. If you are interested in organizing a team to take care of that, please see Darien. The church will handle the expenses.

Paint Shipping Container on property

Paint our 40 ft. storage container located on our property.

We want to be good neighbors. Our industrial shipping container is like a truck trailer. Can you say brown? It's sitting out on our property where all can see. I think it would look a lot nicer painted a forest green.

We're looking for someone to organize a team to paint it.

If you're interested, contact Darien or Terry.

How you can help on Easter Sunday

We're going to have a lot of guests with us on Sun. That's great! But to be even more hospitable than normal, I'd like to try a couple of things and I need some help making that happen.

First, I'd love to see us handout the newsletter & prayer sheet instead of putting it all in the chairs. It's more trouble but then it communicates a grace that is appropriate. (we might still choose to leave pens and green cards in the chairs but I'll leave that up to those who vol)

The need: I need people to volunteer to stand at the doors from 10:20-10:40 and hand them out as people arrive (and many will be late). 

How do you do this? Easy:

1. Smile and look them in the eye

2. Welcome them to Grace

3. Hand them whatever we have for them

Note: they are "Guests" not "Visitors". Guest sounds a little warmer.

Second, I'd love to see us help seat people (usher) once the service starts. To the regular, it's obvious where the empty chairs are. And if it isn't, we're not too embarrassed to go and search for an empty chair. 

But the guest feels very awkward before they even enter the room. Someone who has already scoped the situation can confidently lead a guest and their family to a row or chair making their most awkward part of the morning a little less so. 

The need: People (men, women or confident youth) who will usher people to chairs from 10:25-10:45.

We don't have people to coordinate this. But if several of you volunteer, I can connect you via email and you will at least be aware of who else is in. 

If you are going to volunteer for either of these, it's essential that you arrive early. If you could arrive by 10:15 that would be perfecto!

Please be careful not to volunteer if you already have other responsibilities Sun. morning. That way you're less likely to stress and leaves room for someone else to volunteer that is free to serve this way on Sun mornings.

Thanks in advance for even considering serving this way!