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.
Hills To Die On
How do you categories or prioritize your beliefs? Are there some things you believe more strongly than others? Which beliefs are non-negotiable? What areas are you willing to overlook as personal conviction and/or opinion?
Know Your Hills
In his book, Finding the Right Hills To Die On, author Gavin Ortlund describes what he calls “theological triage,” the process of discerning theological essentials from non-essentials. An exercise on how to distinguish essential doctrines of the Christian faith from our personal convictions.
Finding The Right Hills To Die One - Gavin Ortlund
You can order Gavin’s book online, or swing by the church bookstore and grab a copy. After reading (or even while reading) work on completing your very own theological triage and then find someone else who has read the book to compare and discuss your results. Let this exercise serve as an opportunity to help us learn to grow together and engage in helpful theological dialogue, even in areas where we might disagree. Together we can help one another learn to discern essentials of the faith from mere opinions and preferences.
Peter, A Fellow Elder
We are gearing up to start our next men’s and women’s study this Fall. Beginning Monday, September 22nd (For the Women) and Thursday, September 25th (For the Men) we will embark on a study through the first letter written by the Apostle Peter. Though brief, this letter is saturated with Jesus, our enduring hope in the midst of suffering.
The apostle Peter was inspired by the Spirit to pen this brief letter. And it will be our desire this Fall to sift through the many treasures that encourage men and women of the faith to endure the faith and look to our great Chief Shepherd for comfort.
Women | Mondays @ 7pm
Men | Thursdays @ 7pm
Serve One Another
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. - Mark 10:45
Grace Hill is a living organism, composed of many believers who desperately need one another as we navigate this life. One small way we intentionally invest time in one another’s lives is through our regular acts of serving.
Not To Be Served, But To Serve
The church by nature is a collection of individuals that forge a unified community. The concept of a lone ranger Christian is foreign to Scripture. And a church with only few participating in the life of the church is on its way to becoming an unhealthy church. We all need one another as we endeavor to build up a thriving body of believers.
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. - 1 Peter 4:10–11