Announcements

Happening this week at Garden of Grace:

Announcements

To improve everyone’s worship experience, we encourage worship leaders to use either the stationery or lapel microphones. When your time to participate in worship leadership nears, please be at a microphone.

The design and ongoing maintenance of the Garden of Grace UCC website is a donation of labor, time and talent by Richard Kiraly, member of Garden of Grace, and Frank Richards Beverage, a locally gay-owned and operated member of the SCGLBG and your community.

This week at Garden of Grace:

12:30 p.m. March 7, Pine Ridge Mission Team, led by Deacon Candidate Linda Renner, lgrenner@aol.com , gathers to plan fundraising.

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, Linda Renner and Loretta Cobb, lorettaacobb@aim.com , lead a Care Circle that explores “Bible Study for Amateurs.”

5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13, Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge, associate pastor, revcandace@gogucc.com , leads Jubilee! Circle in northeastern Columbia.

9:45 a.m. Sunday, March 14, Choir Practice, led by Andy Farmer, jandyfarmer@yahoo.com .

11 a.m. Sunday, March 14, Sunday Worship, series continues: “Things Followers of Jesus Should Never Say.”

“Thank-you” sheets are available in the entryway to help us be a more gracious people. When you see someone doing good for God and church, help us thank them by filling out a sheet and placing it in the offering basket.

Our Lord's Supper Drama will be a part of Sunday worship March 21. Our Good Friday observance will be at 7 p.m. April 2. Drama ministers are needed to help with these observances. Please see Pastor Andy, pastorandys@msn.com , for more details.

A spaghetti dinner will follow Sunday worship, March 21. This is a Pine Ridge Mission fundraiser. Cost is $7 for adults; $3 for children. Please see Linda Renner or Loretta Cobb for more information.

Linda Renner and Loretta Cobb's Care Circle will gather at 6:30 p.m. March 30, the fifth Tuesday, for a praise-dance class, led by BJ Brown. The gathering is open to all.

Two visually impaired men are in need of rides to church. Carl Preston lives off Farrow Road in northeast Columbia, 803-699-0340. Steve Waites lives in Gaston, 803-794-6211.

Aluminum cans are being collected each Sunday by in-care licensing student, Jennifer Spears, jennifervspears@aol.com , and Sexton Lois Spears, loistalk1948@aol.com , as part of a church fundraiser.

Patricia Grello, pgrello@sc.rr.com , leads a social-justice Care Circle in West Columbia that volunteers with Harvest Hope Food Bank and with sewing projects for infant clothing.

David Withers and Grant Lorick of Something Special in Irmo provide altar flowers in exchange for donations to our building fund. If you have a special person or occasion to honor or remember, please sign the calendar on our bulletin board.

Never miss another Sunday service! Garden of Grace UCC is now podcasting at our Web site: http://www.gogucc.com. Now you can hear every sermon and special music online. Subscribe via iTunes or stream audio from our Web site, gogucc.com.

Have you wanted to help on the Apron Angels (Hospitality Team) but did not like to greet people – just a little shy? Well, now you can help. In 2009, we are asking for help with donations, such as coffee cups, lids, snacks, and much more – and you don't have to be a member of this team! If interested, please see Richard Morris, richardm916@att.net .

Please see Kevin Dove, kdove@lander.edu , or Mike Grello, mgrello@sc.rr.com , to buy fairly traded Equal Exchange coffee, tea, and other items. This goes to help UCC's Justice and Witness Ministry to help small, independent farmers.

Trustee Cora Davis, archival minister, rbrducky@sc.rr.com , is gathering information about Care Circles and other ministries to maintain a record of our extraordinary history. Please see her to help. Assisting her with photography are Leta Horine, 12smokey@bellsouth.net , and Pat Seymour, seymourpat@bellsouth.net .

Photos are taken for use on our web site or my-space pages. Please let the photographer know if you object to your photo being used for this ministry.

Care Circles gather twice monthly to share in prayer, devotion and fellowship. These are great places to find friends and ministries. A variety of Care Circle devotions are offered.

Linda Renner, lgrenner@aol.com , and Loretta Cobb's Care Circle gathers at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays in Lexington County.

Patty Grello's Care Circle gathers to help with social-justice ministries, including Harvest Hope Food Bank and a clothing program for babies. She can be reached at pgrello@sc.rr.com .

Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge's Jubilee Care Circle gathers at 5:30 p.m. second and fourth Saturdays in northeastern Columbia at Spring of Life Lutheran Church at 7900 Nell St. Spring of Life is right off Two Notch Road at I-20. For more information, visit http://www.jubileecircleucc.com. Jubilee! Circle is a parish extension of Garden of Grace. For more information contact, Rev. Candace at revcandace@gogucc.com .

Church Night Out, led by Rickey Belton, rbelton4@sc.rr.com , and Brendon Jones, bjones51@sc.rr.com , dines out at 7 p.m. fourth Thursdays.

Women's Spiritual Group, led by Jan Hogan, janh244@yahoo.com , dines out at 7 p.m. third Wednesdays.



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