NEWSPAPER TREATMENT Published weekly except during July by GRACE LU-THERAN CHURCH, 517 N. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA 17603. Vicki L. Mumma, Editor. Periodicals Postage Paid at Lancaster, PA. Postmaster: Send address changes to GRACE NEWS, 517 N. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA 17603.

Staff The Rev. Dr. Stephen P. Verkouw, Pastor

The Rev. Nancy L. Weiss, Visitation Pastor Kathryn H. Verkouw, Program Director

Angela Smith, Assistant Program Director Murray J. Foreman, Director of Music

Kathryn H. Verkouw, Director of Bell Choirs Vicki L. Mumma, Parish Secretary

Dennis L. Maharg, Sexton

Church Office-397-2748 www.GraceLutheranChurch.com

CALENDAR - September 15-21

Friday Sunrise Bible Study—Parlor ……………..….6:30 a.m. Wedding Rehearsal—Nave ………………....6:00 p.m. NA Home Group—Stafford Room …….…..11:00 p.m.

Saturday Lindt/Dupkanick Wedding—Nave ………….3:00 p.m. Worship—Chapel …………………………...6:00 p.m.

Pentecost 15 Genesis 50:15-21, Psalm 103:[1-7] 8-13 Romans 14:1-12, Matthew 18:21-35

Worship—Nave …………………….…........ 7:45 a.m. Kyrie Bells—Balcony ………….…………...8:30 a.m. Christian Formation Hour ….….………..…. 9:00 a.m. Reno / Cong. Mtg.—Fellowship Hall……….9:00 a.m. Worship—Nave ...……….............................10:30 a.m. Matu—Chapel ……………………………....1:00 p.m. NA—Fellowship Hall.……………...…..……7:00 p.m.

Monday Staff Meeting—Office …………………......10:00 a.m. Gloria Bells—Balcony ………………….…..6:30 p.m.

Tuesday Book Group—Parlor ………………….…….6:45 p.m. Lancaster Flute—Fellowship Hall ………….7:00 p.m.

Wednesday Community Meal—Fellowship Hall ……......5:30 p.m. Sanctus Bells—Balcony ………...…………..6:30 p.m.

Thursday Grace Choir—Auditorium …………………..7:15 p.m.

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Saving Seed From Your Garden Earteasy.com / By Shannon Cowan Posted Aug 29, 2016

The easiest seeds to save are from self-pollinating annuals.

These plants usually pollinate themselves because the flowers they produce contain both male and female parts. They don’t need bugs or humans to help them reproduce, and they won’t usually cross-pollinate, which means you don’t have to separate your plants to ensure true seed.

There are exceptions to every rule of course, and sometimes an insect will transfer the pollen of one plant to another, causing cross-pollination, but that outcome is less likely with these plants.

Self-pollinating annuals set their seed during the same year you plant them and grow quickly to mature be-fore frost. These plants include beans, peas, lettuce, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers.

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September 12, 2017

Vol.52, No. 6

HOLY WORSHIP † WHOLLY SERVING

From Grace Church News 1917 published monthly in the interests of

Grace Evan. Lutheran Church

The year was 1917, and in April the United States of America entered “The Great War,” World War I. The year was 1917, and Lutherans across the nation were preparing to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the start of the Reformation.

The largest ethnic group in the USA at that time was German-Americans. However, there was much anti-German sentiment in the nation due to the fact that the USA had joined Britain, France, Italy, and Russia in fighting the Germans.

The November 1917 issue of Grace Church News was published just after Lancaster’s Luther-ans on November 4 jointly observed the 400th anniversary of the Reformation at three of the city’s Lutheran churches – including Grace.

It was reported that “each of the prominent Lutherans who spoke (at those services) gave utter-ance to the sentiments of the highest loyalty and devotion to the Star Spangled Banner.” Lutheran German-Americans, who probably accounted for a majority of worshippers at Lancas-ter’s Lutheran churches in 1917, were very careful to make it publically clear that they were loyal and patriotic American citizens, even while they commemorated “the heroic deeds and unequalled service of the most distinguished of all Germans,” Martin Luther.

Did Lancaster’s Lutheran churches, including Grace, keep the 400th commemoration of the Reformation low-key because of the wartime situation? Look for answers to this question in the conclusion of this report in an upcoming issue of Grace News, based on Grace’s archival material.

How blessed we are at Grace to have such references to help us understand where we have been and how we have been re-formed and renewed as a Lutheran congregation.

Reformation 500

Sunday School for children and youth begins at 9:00 a.m. in the following locations:

Toddler and Preschoolers meet on the second floor daycare rooms.

K-5th Grades meet in the 3rd floor Music room.

Confirmation (grades 6-8) meet in Confirmation room by Chapel.

High school youth meet in Stafford room under the church office.

Adult offerings begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Auditorium unless noted otherwise.

September 17th – Congregational Meeting / Renovation Update and Rick Steve’s movie on Germany’s Luther towns.

September 24th – Two adult choices 1. “Holding Your Family Together” - This video/discussion class is geared for adults with school age children and younger. 2. “Together by Grace” Reformation Study (each week, for 5 weeks, a different presenter with a different focus. Week 1: “Our Global Lutheran Family” Presenters: Nan Yoder (El Salvador),

Sue Smith (Growing up in East Germany) and Lois Strauss (Tanzania).

Christian Formation

What’s needed in each Personal Care Kit:

One light-weight bath-size towel (20” x 40” to 52” x 27”), dark color recommended Two or three bath-size bars of soap equaling 8 to 9oz, any brand, in original wrapping; (no mini or hotel-size bars) One adult-size toothbrush in its original packaging One sturdy comb (no picks or fine-toothed combs), remove packaging One metal nail clippers (attached file optional), remove packaging

What’s needed in each School Kit:

Four 70-sheet notebooks (280-300 sheets total) of wide or college-ruled paper approximately 8” X 10½”; (no loose-leaf paper) One 30-centimeter ruler, or a ruler with centimeters on one side and inches on the other One pencil sharpener One pair of blunt scissors (safety scissors with embedded steel blades work well) Five unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers; secure together with a rubber band Five black or blue ballpoint pens (no gel ink); secure together with a rubber band One box of 16 or 24 crayons One 2½” eraser

If you wish to donate for towels, school backpacks, loose items for kits, or fleece for blankets, put your gift on the offering plate, marked "For Grace Church's Lutheran World Relief Group." Money will be used for items needed.

Lutheran World Relief Our Ingathering this year is October 7/8.

Deborah Elizabeth Circle Meeting September 19th Please join us at 10:30 AM in The Round in the Muhlenberg Building at Luther Acres for discussion of the first article of the Apostle’s Creed followed by lunch together. September 17, 2017 (15th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, Proper 19)

Then Peter came and said to Jesus, "Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I

forgive? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.”

- Matthew 18:21-22

Jesus teaches us how to be stewards of God’s love and mercy. Though our

world encourages us to hold grudges and “get even,” Jesus tells us to be

forgiving, just as God is forgiving to us. God’s love and mercy helps us

become more loving and merciful.

Please Keep in Your Prayers For healing from illness or surgery this week: Shirley Brady, Donald Busteed, Ellen Hines, Barbara Music, Karin Randazzo, Pat Suter, Marge Worley

Grace folks who have asked for our continued prayers: Gloria Ashby, Bonnie Beecher, Mary Bitts, John & Dolores Byers, Rose Fasig, Ruth Galebach, Barry Gentzler, Jennie Hanna, George & Judy Hansalik, Pat Long, Jeremy Morant, Jim Morant, Mike Ober, Gina Pacelli, Myrna Pierson, Mark Powell, Jean Schuam, Catherine Schnader, Dave Schober, Fred Shilling, Jay Smoker, Mike Snyder, Lorraine Steele, Harvey Stewart, Pat Stewart, Emma Stumpf, Pat Suter, Gene Tabbutt, Janet Wood

Grocery cards are available every Sunday morning or by calling …

Duane and Kitty Weiss at 464-2536.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Dear Members of Grace,

We give thanks for the life and witness of the Reverend Doctor Robert Jenson, who died September 5, 2017. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to his wife Blanche. Please keep Robert’s family in your prayers.

Our Children helping on God’s Work. Our Hands Sunday!

LWR School Kit Service Project!

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