A L A M P E T O G U I D E Y O U R P A T H Birthdays

1/05-Jodi Wright

1/25-Peggy

Lillienkamp

1/30-Charlie

Chambers

Anniversaries

1/08-Joe &

Debbie Lynn

1/16-Bill &

Joanne Michel

1/28-Harold &

Vonnie Suelter

G r a c e L u t h e r a n C h u r c h

NEWSLETTER January 2020 Volume 7, Issue 1

Church E-mail Address: info@gracelutheranaurora.com

Dear members and friends of Grace, I pray that each of you had a Joyous Christmas and wish you God’s bless-ings in the New Year. I want to update you on some things we are doing at Grace. Happy Half Hour: Happy Half Hour will re-sume with Stuff They Did-n’t Teach Me in Sunday School on January 5

th. We

are currently studying the Judges. Each Sunday is a separate lesson, so if you can’t come every Sunday, come when you can. Hap-py Half Hour meets each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday Night Bi-ble Study: On Wednes-day, January 8, from 7-8 p.m., we will resume our study on Angels beginning with Lesson 8 “Evil Angels Today.” We will meet for 7 sessions, take a break dur-ing Lent which begins Feb-ruary 26 and then resume our study after Easter. Everyone is invited to at-tend whether you have never attended a Bible

Study before or whether you are a longtime student. If you have any questions about the class, please contact me. Game Night: We will resume our monthly game night on January 18

th at

6:30 p.m. at the church. We had one in October and everyone had a good time. Bring some snack food to share, a favorite game and come have a relaxing evening. Better still bring a friend with you. Visions and Logo: Grace’s Vision statements says: It is our desire to share our Lord’s grace by showing unconditional love and acceptance to families and that we will reach out to two or three families in our community per year. Our logo says we are: “Founded on Christ & Fo-cused on Community”. As we enter this New Year, I encourage each of us to pray, think and talk about how we can better carry out this mission that God has given to all of us dur-ing the next twelve months. And as we do, let’s keep in mind two things. First of all, we need to share Christ’s love clearly. So, many people think it really doesn’t make any difference what you be-lieve. They will tell you, “We’re all trying to get to

the same place. It doesn’t make any difference which road you take”. Jesus Himself said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Fa-ther except through me.” (John 14:6) So, let’s be sure that we share the message of Jesus Christ, clearly. Secondly, we need a sense of urgency about sharing Christ’s love. Some of us are great pro-crastinators. Congrega-tions can get into the same pattern. We become com-fortable with the way things are and lose our sense of urgency. I pray that in 2020 God will give each of us a sense of urgency about our task, that we will proclaim God’s message of salvation through faith in Christ clearly, and that we will have the great joy of seeing people’s lives changed through the pow-er of the Gospel. It is a blessing and a privilege to serve as pastor for Grace. I want to thank the congregation for the generous Christmas gift and pray that God will give us wisdom and courage as we work together to serve Him and our community in this New Year. Yours in Christ, Pastor Ken Lampe

Church Directory

It’s time once again

to update the Church

Directory. Starting in

January you will be

asked to review and

update your contact

information, which

includes address,

phone numbers and

e-mail. Look for ad-

ditional information in

the bulletins.

H A P P E N I N G S A T G R A C E

P a g e 2 N E W S L E T T E R

Christmas Program and Dinner

The annual Christmas program was held on De-cember 22nd. The choir and readers did an excellent job.

After the program a pot-luck lunch was en-joyed by

all who at-tended. As always the food was deli-cious.

CHRISTMAS PARADE

The parade was held on Sat., Dec. 14th. The weather didn’t cooperate. Once again our float won Best Church Float. Thank you to all who helped make this possible.

ANGEL TREE

Gifts donated by members of Grace were deliv-

ered to the family on December 23rd. In addition

to the gifts shown here, there were also funds

available to purchase some food and other house-

hold items for the family. A HUGE thank you to

everyone who helped make this a joyous Christ-

mas for the four boys and their mother this year.