Community Welcome & Host Info Session
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Community Welcome & Host Info Session
One of the opportunities we have is to share our church and welcome with all of the passers-by in the neighborhood. When we open our doors for community events, we find so many folks love to stop in, pray, hear about our church, see the crosses, and be in our sanctuary. In our strategic plan we identified a goal to have our church open more times for these opportunities. 
To support these, we seek to equip a group of church members trained as "hosts" who would be the face and friendly welcome present during these times. Pastor Brett is planning to hold an info session/training for hosts on Sunday, August 30 at 9am, and another at a weeknight on Zoom TBA. We'll discuss
  • the highlights of welcome and church info to share with guests,
  • upcoming community events where volunteer hosts are needed
  • whether we'd like to re-start having "open church" times on Sundays when hosts can welcome visitors
Please sign up on the sign-up desk at the sanctuary entrance if you're interested in learning more or attending a session.
Prospective & New Members: Getting Connected, 9/20!

If you're new to the GLC community, or would like to meet people who are, come join in for Getting Connected, 11:15-12:30 in the fellowship hall, on Sunday, September 20th! Getting Connected is a gathering to learn more about GLC and each other. It's open to any who are curious, and especially those considering church membership. Come if you've been before, are interested in joining, or a current member wanting to welcome others! Pastor Brett will share a bit about GLC, what it means to be a Lutheran Christian and a member of our church community. For those interested in joining, we'll celebrate welcoming you as members in the context of worship sometime soon. Questions? Interested? Talk with Pastor Brett (contact info on back of bulletin).

Bible Study Restarting - Your Input Wanted!

Weekly Bible Study will resume soon in September. Pastor Brett leads an open-ended study each week as we read a book of the Bible or other scripture passages. No experience or preparation needed - designed for you to jump in whenever you're able, and it's a good place to meet others, learn, and grow in faith. We invite your input on Bible study times (in-person, Zoom, or asynchronous) and topics on the quick, 4 question survey here. Watch this space for the announcement of study plans for this fall, and join us!

Zoom link HERE. 

 

Kids' Sunday Learning Groups

Parents and kids, you're invited! Kids' Sunday learning groups (Sunday School) is on break for summer, but we're planning some fun, simple gatherings through the season before we restart in September. So, watch this space and we'll share more.

If you're interested in helping lead kids' programming, have ideas or input to share, please reach out to Pastor Brett now, as we're working on plans and leadership for fall.

GLC Whatsapp Community

Connect with us in our GLC Whatsapp community

Click  HERE is you want to know more or have questions.

Study Guides & Resources

On our Read & Explore Faith page there are a few blog entries on various topics, which also point in the direction of further resources. We've also (just) started a Goodreads page to share reviews of different books - detail here.
Early in the summer we had two one-session topic studies - on topics which, given current events, our wider church has encouraged us to study our denomination's statements and faith perspective/resources on.  Pastor Brett created a study guide for self study or learning more about each topic: Abortion and Community Violence.