Prayer, Pie & Praise
Join us at the Enge home on Wednesday evening, November 26th for a brief time to sing, pray and give thanks to God for the good things He has done. Afterwards, there will be tea and pie to share and enjoy with one another. Please bring along a pie to share and your voice to sing of His praises!
Wednesday, November 26th | 7pm
“Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.”
Sempre Reformanda
On October 31st 1517, Martin Luther famously nailed his 95 theses to the Wittenberg door, prompting a debate, and setting off a cascade of doctrinal shifts in an effort to return to the Scriptures. This movement would spread far and wide for many years and would ultimately culminate in what we now fondly refer to as the Protestant Reformation.
Reformation Day
If you call yourself a Christian (and are not Roman Catholic), then you are Reformed, and you are Protestant. We are “Protestants” so we affirm the Five Solas of the Reformation.
Sola Scriptura
The Bible is our only infallible authority.
Sola Fide
Faith alone unites us to Christ and justifies us before God.
Sola Gratia
We are saved by the grace of God alone.
Solus Christus
Jesus is the only mediator to God.
Soli Deo Gloria
God alone saved, so God alone gets the glory.
The Sweetest Treat
Fall festivities are upon us. Our neighbors have begun venturing out to take part in all that the holiday season has to offer, including navigating the streets with their children dressed in costumes to collect an abundance of candy!
Our Neighbors Are Out
Historically Halloween is a celebration of the end of harvest and the beginning of winter, which involved lighting bonfires and wearing costumes. The name "Halloween" itself comes from the Christian feast of “All Hallows' Eve,” a day before “All Saints' Day,” which incorporated many older traditions. Today, Halloween has evolved into a modern celebration focused on fun activities like trick-or-treating, wearing costumes, and carving jack-o-lanterns.
Right To Your Door
Regardless of what you think of Halloween, this is a wonderful opportunity to meet and interact with our neighbors, some of which we may rarely see throughout the year. Yet in the next few days those people we rarely see will take to the streets and may even come right up to your door! This is one cultural tradition that brings communities together and gives us an incredible opportunity to forge relationships with our neighbors and hopefully one day offer them the sweetest treat of all, the gift of God’s Son.
Home Life
Our small groups encourage genuine relationships within the church, developing the kinds of relationships that will help us mature and persevere in the Faith together. Small Group is where we intentionally practice the “one another” statements we find sprinkled throughout the Scriptures. We will mature and persevere in our relationship with God as we grow in our relationship with people who are helping one another learn to follow Christ and His Word (Ephesians 4:11-16).
Small Groups
Meetings occur in a member’s home every 1st & 3rd week, splitting their time between affirmation, prayer, Bible study and discussion. While every group is unique, we all serve the same Jesus and hope to use our time throughout the week to pursue meaningful relationships that further point us to our great Savior.
Every 1st & 3rd Week
If you have yet to join a Small Group, please check out the available groups by clicking the button below to join a group!
Why Do We Meet?
Our gatherings are spiritual, yet ironically, they’re spiritual (at least in part) because they’re physical. God has always meant for his people to be physically gathered together. This is evident in why he created Adam and Eve with physical bodies and proceeded to walk with them in the garden. And perhaps the clearest demonstration of God’s desire for togetherness is manifested in the incarnation of His Son.
God’s People Gathered Together
Sometimes we like to say that “a church is a people, not a place.” However, it might be more helpful to say that “a church is a people gathered together in a place.” Regularly gathering together is necessary for a church to be a church, just like a team has to gather together to play in order to be a team.
Making togetherness a priority requires shifting our question from “Should we go to church today?" to instead become, “How can we make the most of our church gathering?”
We Need All Of Us
Check out Tony Merida’s book “Love Your Church” available at the church bookstore. And for a shorter read, try Gavin Ortlund’s article “Make Sundays the Sweetest” published on Desiring God.
A Dorm For Brazil
Our friends, the Ketchams, are building two new dorms in an effort to provide adequate housing for the missionary’s children who are studying at Puraquequara, contributing to their development in excellence as disciples of Jesus Christ.
Dorm Fundraising Project
The current aging dorm has already been vacated and is ready for demolition. However, the actual reconstruction will not begin until sufficient funds are secured to ensure that, once started, the project can proceed without interruption until the building is complete.
For The Gospel In Puraquequara
If you would like to give to the Puraquequara Dorm Project, please go to Church Center, or click the button below, and select “Ketcham Building Fund” from the drop down option. Thanks for supporting our friends and the spread of the Gospel in Brazil.
How Can We Pray?
Life is filled with both blessings and difficulties. One of the ways God amplifies our joys and comforts us in our sorrows is through one another’s prayers. Submitting our prayer requests to the church is just one of the many ways our members are equipped to pray for the needs in our body. It’s also an opportunity to love one another by going to our Lord regularly in prayer throughout the week.
How Can We Pray?
Do you have an upcoming surgery or procedure? Did you or a loved one recently receive a difficult diagnosis? What has God been doing in your life that we can celebrate together? Are you on the hunt for a job?
While we continue to encourage you to gather regularly for prayer during small groups and our corporate gatherings on Sunday mornings, we remain committed to pursuing additional opportunities to call God’s people towards unity in prayer. We invite and encourage you to join us at 9:00am to call upon the Lord.
Sunday at 9am
Submit your requests on The Hill and let the members of Grace Hill Church know how they can bring your needs before the throne of God. Once we receive your request, they will be added to the prayer list on The Hill
October Youth Night
Our next youth event will be Saturday, October 11th from 4-8pm at Grace Hill Church. The youth will unleash their artistic gifts (or lack thereof) as they embark on a guided painting expedition. Afterwards, they will share a meal and continue their study through tough questions about Christianity. This month’s question: Hasn’t Science disproved Christianity?
Saturday, October 11th | 4-8pm
We currently meet once a month to learn and grow. Every meeting is different. Sometimes it's a party. Sometimes it's a service project. Often we have deep theological conversations. 7th-12th graders from inside and outside the church are welcome to join.
We Passed
All three pastors of Grace Hill have successfully completed their Trinity Fellowship ordination exams. These exams included one Bible knowledge exam, two written theology exams (stretching over 4.5 hours), and one final two hour oral exam. In addition to these exams, each pastor submitted multiple papers and sermon manuscripts.
Exams For The Glory Of God
The pastors are grateful for the opportunity to study, learn and grow throughout this rigorous ordination standard process. The pastors firmly believe this intense evaluation will not only better equip them for ministry, but also better serve the church for years to come.
Thanks For Your Prayers!
Once formal partnership with Trinity Fellowship is complete this Fall, your leaders will have several layers of accountability that have never existed before. This gives us great joy knowing that we will be stepping into a season of meaningful partnership where your leaders are held accountable and encouraged to serve together for the glory of Jesus.