Welcome! If this is your first time worshiping at Grace Lutheran, the Visitor Center in the Gathering Hall (right outside the sanctuary) has information for you about our congregation. Please ask questions of the greeters and say hello if you feel comfortable!

Here at Grace we worship in two alternating styles, organ-led liturgy or piano-led liturgy. The style for today, as well as which liturgical setting is used, is listed on the front cover of the days
bulletin.

We worship together in many ways: Standing, sitting, singing, speaking, listening. You are invited to worship in as many (or few) ways as you are comfortable and able. When following along in the bulletin, the congregation is invited to read the items in bold (often marked with a C:) aloud. Large print bulletins are available from the ushers.

Children belong and are welcome in worship! Children’s bulletins are available from the  ushers, and activity bags are available outside the doors to the sanctuary. The Gathering Hall also has a Corner just for Kids. This space is intended as a place for children to be and play if they need to step out of worship and during times of fellowship.

Communion – We welcome all people to the Lord’s table to receive Holy Communion.       Children ages 3 and above are welcome at the parents’ discretion, after meeting for instruction with the pastor. Children not instructed are invited to come forward for a blessing. If you are not able to come forward to take communion, please notify an usher before the service. Then try to sit by the aisle and the pastor will commune you in your pew.

Starting June 7, we pre-record the worship service and post it on our website (www.gracedm.org) and on the Grace Lutheran Church Facebook Page.  There is currently a “Worship Link Test” in the News section of the homepage.  This is where the worship service will post each week and there so you can see how it works before Sunday.  The Facebook video will post at 9:00 a.m.  We will discontinue having worship on Zoom, but will still gather for a Virtual Coffee Hour at 10:00 a.m.  As a platform designed for conference calls and webinars, Zoom has been overwhelmed and crashed too many times to be viewed as a consistent option for worship but works well for fellowship.

Our hope is that once we have the broadband speeds to consistently offer live worship without glitches, we will again offer worship in real-time on Sunday mornings.  This live option will post on both the website and Facebook.  In the meantime, we will share in a Service of the Word that will be recorded and posted.