UPCOMING EVENTS
Prayer and Practices Financial Well-being(Luke 14:28-33)
In John 10:10, Jesus tells his followers, “I came that you might have life, and have it abundantly.” Living well is a personal journey that presents each of us with unique opportunities to steward all dimensions of our lives. On Wednesdays at 6:35 pm, starting May 14, you are invited to "Prayer and Practices" with Grace as we worship with Holden Evening Prayer and learn about the seven dimensions of well-being. Through the study, "Christ Calls Us to Wholeness," we will consider the ways God has created and blessed us. The Wholeness Wheel reminds us that as baptized believers, every aspect of our being belongs to God. When we pay attention to all aspects of our humanity — our bodies, our relationships, our money, our minds, our feelings, our work, our faith — we more fully experience that abundant life in Christ and radiate God’s love to others.
Read with Grace
Join us for the "Read with Grace" book club! We will be meeting at the church at 7 pm on June 8, instead of over Zoom!
Do you love to read? Are you interested in discovering new books and genres? This is a lively group where each month's discussion stands alone, so you can participate for just one month or for many!
If you would like to join, please email Margo Swanson at swansonmes@aol.com to be added to our notification list.
For more information and a complete list of books for 2025, please visit https://www.gracelutheranadel.org/read-with-grace.
Prayer and Practices Vocational Well-being(Ephesians 4:1-16)
In John 10:10, Jesus tells his followers, “I came that you might have life, and have it abundantly.” Living well is a personal journey that presents each of us with unique opportunities to steward all dimensions of our lives. On Wednesdays at 6:35 pm, starting May 14, you are invited to "Prayer and Practices" with Grace as we worship with Holden Evening Prayer and learn about the seven dimensions of well-being. Through the study, "Christ Calls Us to Wholeness," we will consider the ways God has created and blessed us. The Wholeness Wheel reminds us that as baptized believers, every aspect of our being belongs to God. When we pay attention to all aspects of our humanity — our bodies, our relationships, our money, our minds, our feelings, our work, our faith — we more fully experience that abundant life in Christ and radiate God’s love to others.
Prayer and Practices Intellectual Well-being(Matthew 19:16-26)
In John 10:10, Jesus tells his followers, “I came that you might have life, and have it abundantly.” Living well is a personal journey that presents each of us with unique opportunities to steward all dimensions of our lives. On Wednesdays at 6:35 pm, starting May 14, you are invited to "Prayer and Practices" with Grace as we worship with Holden Evening Prayer and learn about the seven dimensions of well-being. Through the study, "Christ Calls Us to Wholeness," we will consider the ways God has created and blessed us. The Wholeness Wheel reminds us that as baptized believers, every aspect of our being belongs to God. When we pay attention to all aspects of our humanity — our bodies, our relationships, our money, our minds, our feelings, our work, our faith — we more fully experience that abundant life in Christ and radiate God’s love to others.
Vacation Bible School (VBS)
A meal will be provided to all attendees every evening from 5:30-6:00. We’ll be providing walking tacos for the VBS meal on Tuesday, June 24th. Both volunteers and food donations are needed! Sign up here: volunteersignup.org/H8AMH
VBS Mission: Support of Adel Good Samaritan Food Pantry.
Please allow your child to support this mission by bringing non-perishable food items.
You will need to fill out a new form for each child. If you have any questions, please contact Abby Carlson at christianedglc@gmail.com or call the church office at (515) 993-4766. Thank you!
Vacation Bible School will be held at Grace June 23rd-26th! Ready to sign up? Follow this link to register!
Interested in volunteering at any point in the week? Click here to sign up to volunteer. You're welcome to join us as many days as you're available!
Want to help out, but can't be there in person? Use this link to see the list of supplies needed and sign up to donate!
Giggles and Grace
Join us every other week after worship, starting June 15th, for Bible story time, songs, and activities! This program is intended for children ages 0-5 with a caregiver. Dates are 6/15, 6/29, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, and 8/24 from 10:30 am to 11 am. We would love for you to join us for laughter and learning!
Giggles and Grace
Join us every other week after worship, starting June 15th, for Bible story time, songs, and activities! This program is intended for children ages 0-5 with a caregiver. Dates are 6/15, 6/29, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, and 8/24 from 10:30 am to 11 am. We would love for you to join us for laughter and learning!
Giggles and Grace
Join us every other week after worship, starting June 15th, for Bible story time, songs, and activities! This program is intended for children ages 0-5 with a caregiver. Dates are 6/15, 6/29, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, and 8/24 from 10:30 am to 11 am. We would love for you to join us for laughter and learning!
Giggles and Grace
Join us every other week after worship, starting June 15th, for Bible story time, songs, and activities! This program is intended for children ages 0-5 with a caregiver. Dates are 6/15, 6/29, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, and 8/24 from 10:30 am to 11 am. We would love for you to join us for laughter and learning!
Giggles and Grace
Join us every other week after worship, starting June 15th, for Bible story time, songs, and activities! This program is intended for children ages 0-5 with a caregiver. Dates are 6/15, 6/29, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, and 8/24 from 10:30 am to 11 am. We would love for you to join us for laughter and learning!
Giggles and Grace
Join us every other week after worship, starting June 15th, for Bible story time, songs, and activities! This program is intended for children ages 0-5 with a caregiver. Dates are 6/15, 6/29, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, and 8/24 from 10:30 am to 11 am. We would love for you to join us for laughter and learning!
Dine with Grace
Dine with Grace will be at 9th St Smash & Tap (112 S 9th St, Adel, IA 50003) on Tuesday, June 10th, at 6:00 pm. Please RSVP to Lori Tabbert via email tabrph@yahoo.com.
Confirmation Prayer Partner Meet & Greet
Meet your prayer partner. Confirmation students will provide desserts!
Christian Education End-of-Year Party
Christian education End-of-Year Party with cookout, games, campfire worship. Join us to celebelate another wondeful year!
Easter Festival
Readings: Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Acts 10:34-43; Luke 24:1-12
Today Christ is risen! We gather together with astonishment and joy. Christ is risen, and we have been set free from the bonds of death. Christ is risen, and we are forgiven. Christ is risen, and with the women at the tomb and Peter, we are amazed. Let us rejoice: Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Join us for fellowship with cinnamon rolls and coffee between services!
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/468805568?pwd=MWVCM0FEdjhCZDVPN0I1RmtMZ01mQT09
Meeting ID: 468 805 568
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Easter Sunrise Service
Readings: Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Acts 10:34-43; Luke 24:1-12
Today Christ is risen! We gather together with astonishment and joy. Christ is risen, and we have been set free from the bonds of death. Christ is risen, and we are forgiven. Christ is risen, and with the women at the tomb and Peter, we are amazed. Let us rejoice: Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Sunrise worship will be outside, weather permitting, so please dress accordingly. Online worship will not be available.
Join us for fellowship with cinnamon rolls and coffee between services!
Good Friday
“Good Enough: Embracing the Imperfections of Life and Faith”
Readings: Hebrews 10:16-25; John 18:1-19:42
Life and death stand side by side as we enter into Good Friday. In John’s passion account, Jesus reveals the power and glory of God, even as he is put on trial and sentenced to death. Standing with the disciples at the foot of the cross, we pray for the whole world in the ancient bidding prayer, as Christ’s death offers life to all. We gather in solemn devotion, but always with the promise that the tree around which we assemble is indeed a tree of life. We depart silently, and we anticipate the culmination of the Three Days in the Easter Vigil.
We’ll be joining in worship with Peace Lutheran Church at 34128 L Ave., Adel 50003.
Livestream will be available on the Peace Lutheran Facebook page
Maundy Thursday
This evening our Lenten observance comes to an end, and we gather with Christians around the world to celebrate the Three Days of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Tonight we remember Christ’s last meal with his disciples, but the central focus is his commandment that we live out the promise embodied in this meal. As Jesus washed his disciples’ feet, so we are called to give and receive love in humble service to one another. Formed into a new body in Christ through this holy meal, we are transformed by the mercy we have received and carry it into the world. Departing worship in solemn silence, we anticipate the coming days.
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Read with Grace
Do you love to read? Enjoy learning about new books and genres? Join the “Read with Grace” book club in April as we discuss “The Women,” by Kristen Hannah. Read with Grace meets on the second Sunday of each month at 7:00 pm over Zoom to discuss that month’s book. Each month is a stand-alone conversation, so you can join for one month or for many months. If you are interested in joining, you can find the Zoom link below or email Margo Swanson (swansonmes@aol.com) to be added to the notifications list.
Book of the month: “The Women”, by Kristen Hannah
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Palm Sunday Community Choir Sing
Join us for an evening of performances featuring several ensembles and a combined choir from all participating congregations. There will be a time for fellowship and snacks following the performance.
The Adel Ministerial Association represents churches in the Adel area. An emergency fund is available as a shared resource to help individuals with immediate needs who are living in or traveling through our communities. Your support helps this important ministry! Donate here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/X8BEUB879PK6G
Easter Egg Hunt
Join us for an Easter egg hunt on Sunday, April 13, following our Palm Sunday service, which starts at 9:00 am. We are currently accepting candy donations and encourage you to bring friends and family! Here is the direct link to sign up to bring candy: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409054FA5A62BA0F58-56002322-grace
Palm Sunday
Readings: Luke 19:28b-40 and Luke 22:14-23:49 (The Passion according to Luke, read by the confirmation class)
Devotional Reflection: Peter, Broken by Failure “He Denied It”
Today we follow Christ from triumphal entry to the cross, each waypoint of the journey marked by Jesus’ compassion for those who would betray, mock, accuse, or do violence to him. Though persecuted and beaten, Jesus the Son of God is not disgraced; instead, he asks forgiveness for those who put him to death. We have walked the Lenten pathway these forty days, each of us invited through baptism to “let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.” We enter this holy week accompanying Jesus to the cross with both grief and thanksgiving in our hearts, trusting in God’s redeeming love.
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Dine with Grace
Join us for Dine with Grace on April 8 at 6:00 pm at The Lucky Pig at 113 W Walnut St, Ogden, IA. Please RSVP to Lori Tabbert at 515-710-2439 or email tabrph@yahoo.com.
Communion Class
Save the date for Wednesday, March 12, the Christian Education classes will learn about Holy Communion for the first time or as a refresher.
PreK-1st grade – Pastor Tania will teach a class with kids and parents/caregivers that will include first communion instruction and practice.
2nd-6th grade – Bake communion bread.
Lutheran Day on the Hill
Pastor Tania and other members of Grace will be joining Lutheran Services of Iowa (LSI) and the three Iowa synods of the ELCA for Lutheran Day on the Hill in Des Moines on March 11! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about LSI, advocacy, and to speak with your state legislators about issues that matter to you. Lutheran Day on the Hill is LSI’s biggest advocacy event of the year. Hundreds of Lutherans from all over Iowa will gather at Capitol Hill Lutheran Church to learn about the critical issues that children, adults, and families are facing in our state. After learning about advocacy and LSI’s mission in action, the group heads to the Iowa State Capitol to talk directly with legislators. This year's keynote speaker is State Senator Rev. Sarah Trone-Garriott. Registration is open through Wednesday, March 5. For more information, visit https://lsiowa.org/ldh/. If you have any questions about what to expect or would like to carpool, please contact Pastor Tania at pastortania515@gmail.com.
Read with Grace
This month, we are reading “Lessons in Chemistry,” by Bonnie Garmus. We meet on the second Sunday of each month at 7:00 p.m. over Zoom. Each month is a stand-alone conversation, so you can join for one month or for many months.
For more information and a complete book list for 2025 visit: https://www.gracelutheranadel.org/read-with-grace
Please email Margo Swanson (swansonmes@aol.com) to be added to the notifications list.
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Ash Wednesday Evening Service
NOTE: Ash Wednesday worship has been cancelled. A video devotion with prayer and reflection is available: Ash Wednesday Devotional
We begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.
Ash Wednesday
Join us March 5, 2025, for Ash Wednesday Worship Services at 12:00 pm and 6:35 pm as we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Games
Who is the best pancake flipper in town? How many sausages fit on a plate? Join us on Tuesday, March 4 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm for Grace’s annual “fat Tuesday” celebration with feasting, fellowship, and fun with food for all ages. Flip pancakes! Relay races in the Narthex! Games and trivia! Find the shrove! (What's a shrove? Come and see!) See you there!
Community Blood Drive
On Saturday, 3/1/2025, the Team Ryan Blood Drive will be held at Grace from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. Victoria Edwards says: “My son, Ryan, had open heart surgery when he was 6 months old and coded the following morning which required him to be placed on ECMO for a week. During this time he lost A LOT of blood, and we host a blood drive every year now in hopes that our blood drive can replace the amount that he required in 2019 through a large amount of blood transfusions. I never understood the importance of donating blood until my son desperately needed it, and luckily for us the blood bank had it for him at the time and now it’s my mission to spread the word and do everything in my power to make his blood drive a success.”
Please consider donating if you have a little free time on Saturday morning! Sign up for a time slot here: https://donor.lifeservebloodcenter.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/189690
Lunch Connections
Let’s meet-up for lunch! Join Pastor Tania on Thursday, February 27 at 12:00 pm at Fiesta Mexican Restaurant in Adel (715 Main St.) for casual conversation and chips and salsa. RSVP at pastortania515@gmail.com or 515-707-3815 so we can let them know the size of the group.
Christian Education Service Project
Calling all Sewists!
For our upcoming service project on February 5th, Christian Education will be creating NICU Developmental Hearts. These hearts are worn by parents to absorb their scent and then placed with the baby in the isolette or crib to soothe the baby. This is also a way for babies to bond with parents through the comfort of having their scent nearby when physical contact isn't an option.
We are in need of help tracing and cutting the hearts out of the fabric so that we are able to jump right into the fun of sewing on the night of February 5th. The heart pattern and flannel fabric will be provided to you - you'll just need to provide the scissors! Fabric and patterns will be available to pick up from the church office starting on Wednesday (1/15) evening during regular church office hours and worship times. Please plan on returning the cut out hearts by Sunday, February 2nd at noon.
We are also in need of sewing machines to make these hearts! We'd greatly appreciate it if you are able to loan your machine for the night for the kids to sew on. We could also use the expertise of experienced sewists to help guide our students on the machines. Please click here to sign up to help make this service project possible!
Parents, please plan on joining your student(s) at Christian Education on February 5th to help make this a fun way for your students to help out in our community. We will begin the service project at 5:30 and be cleaned up and done at 6:25 for worship at 6:35.
Dine with Grace
Dine with Grace will be held on Tuesday, February 11th at 6:00 pm at 5 Points Bar and Grill in Dallas Center. Please email or text Sue Cave to confirm your attendance: (515)669-6617 or sbiowalaw@gmail.com.
Read with Grace
Do you love to read?
Enjoy learning about new books and genres?
Join a lively group for the “Read with Grace” book club!
Each month is a stand-alone conversation, so you can join for one month or for many months. If you are interested in joining, please email Margo Swanson (swansonmes@aol.com) to be added to the notifications list. For more information and a complete book list for 2025 visit: https://www.gracelutheranadel.org/read-with-grace
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83711405764?pwd=a0RvVnI0bktyeWJZSDhEb2luVG9Bdz09
Meeting ID: 837 1140 5764
Passcode: 372643
Annual Meeting of the Congregation and Potluck
The annual meeting of the congregation and potluck will be on Sunday, January 26, 2025, starting at 10:30 am (after worship).
The annual report will be available at Grace on Sunday, January 12.
Dine with Grace
Join us for a delightful evening as Dine with Grace gathers at Patrick's in January.
Read with Grace
In January, we are reading the New York Times’ bestseller: The Art Thief. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times…
Christmas Lessons & Carols
This year’s Christmas Lessons & Carols will include reflections from Martin Luther’s Christmas Book, and even more carols! Worship with holy communion is at 9 a.m. with coffee and fellowship following the service.
Worship is also available over Zoom:
Meeting ID: 468 805 568
Password: Grace
