Saturday, September 18, 2010
8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Grace Presbyterian Church
5500 Mansfield Road, Arlington, TX 76017

The issue of care giving and caring for caregivers is always a part of life, whether it involves young families, mid-life or empty nesters. As an ongoing ministry of Grace Presbyterian Church we are offering a workshop to reach out to those who need support and resources as they care for people with life-altering and chronic long-term conditions. Choose from six different presentations covering all aspects of caregiving. The presenters are licensed professional counselors, attorneys, accountants and financial planners from our community. We believe the church is a place of support and resource for both our spiritual and physical needs. Please consider joining us for this day as we offer support, encouragement, and valuable information. There is NO COST for this event and CHILDCARE is available with reservation. LUNCH will be provided!

Brochures with registration cards are available in our church office. Register BEFORE September 10, 2010 using the form below or mail the registration card to reserve your space. For more information call Grace Presbyterian Church at (817) 468-0868.

All-Church Breakfast
Saturday, August 14, 2010
9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. at church

Yes, we did say SATURDAY! Rev. Sanders and the Vision Ministry request the honor of your presence for breakfast and church ministry analysis on Saturday, August 14. Bring your favorite breakfast dish to share and enjoy some fellowship and help do your part to move the ministry of Grace Presbyterian Church forward.

After breakfast we will be completing a church survey. Pastor Craig has used this survey at previous churches and feels it is a vital starting point to defining our direction for the future. The survey will be tabulated and we will have small group meetings in September to discuss the results.

When the survey is complete, we will then go back to the “What You Do Best Profiles” and work to implement all the information we have collected. We appreciate your support and your patience in this process.

We started preparing for the remodeling on Monday, May 24^th and finished Saturday afternoon, May 29^th.  The team did a fantastic job in getting everything done.

As part of the remodeling, we:

• Prepped Room 101 for painting
• Painted Room 101 (we even preserved the butterflies – Ask Linda and Whitney about how difficult that was)
• Repainted cabinets in Room 101
• Replaced the countertops in Room 101 and the connecting bathroom.
• Replaced the carpeting in both rooms 101 and 102.
• Installed rolled carpet baseboards in rooms 101 and 102
• Installed a new fan in the bathroom.
• Washed all of the toys
• Purchased storage bins and sorted the toys into the new bins.

Special thanks to the following who helped us.
- Linda, Whitney, Lauren, and Chip Black
- Paula and Joshua Bauerle
- Betty Sicks
- Dixie and Chuck Conine
- Brian Musfeldt
- Jennie Johnson & Alex
- Ron Musfeldt
- Roger & Anna Perez
- Hector & Kathy Bayona
- Ruth Gornet-Irwin

Special thanks to Linda Black, Dixie Conine, Ruth Gornet-Irwin, and Brian Musfeldt for helping to put this together and see this project through completion.

Where were you 25 years ago? Likely it would take you, as it did us, a few minutes of searching your memory bank to remember bits and pieces and start to put it together.

Help! We need ADDRESSES!!

We’ve set up a new Facebook group called “Grace Presbyterian Church Arlington – 25th Anniversary”. On this page we hope to reach everyone with news of coming events. Additionally, we want to put the word out that we are looking for mailing addresses of former members and those that have moved out of the area.

We’ll take that information on the web or send it to lblack@wans.net so that we can get you and the rest of the membership on the mailing list for fun things we will be sending out. We have our first planned mailing November 1, 2010 and need to get all the address updates by the end of October.

Anniversary Events

We are working to make this a memorable event with a number of activities planned including :

The History of Grace

Up until the time of our 25^th anniversary celebration, we will reminisce about the history of Grace Presbyterian Church. These musings are intended to give our congregation an opportunity to take a look back and share what it felt like to be a part of the wonderful thing God started in South Arlington in 1985.

We would love for you to share your memories! Please send your thoughts to Linda Black (lblack@wans.net) or to Becky Couch (becky.couch@tx.rr.com). If you have any pictures from those early days we would love to borrow them for the newsletter/website.

March 2010 – Chip Black
April 2010 – Becky Couch
May 2010 – Becky Couch
June 2010 – Betty Sicks
July 2010 – Becky Couch

This year’s theme is “Egypt – Joseph’s journey from prison to palace.”  We’re looking forward to a really exciting week.

See the registration link: http://www.groupvbspro.com/vbs/hl/westminstervbs for more details on both registering and helping with this years Vacation Bible School.

We hope your family can join us for a visit with Joseph in ancient Egypt.   Contact the church office (817.468.0868 or office@gpcarlington.org) – or Ron/Brian Musfeldt if your family has any questions.