SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES:
Services at 9 & 11 AM in the Sanctuary & Available Online
65 Needle Boulevard
In the Heart of Merritt Island, FL

Gracevine Message

Thanksgiving

Dear Grace Church Family, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!  May your time with friends and family be richly blessed.  I have my aunt from Richmond, Virginia visiting.  You might have heard me tell a story or two about her.  When I was a child, she would bring me to church with her.  I would sit in the pews and wait for her to…

Unpredictable Moments

Dear Grace Church Family, Life is full of unpredictable moments.   Part of living is dealing with the ebbs and flows of circumstances.  As many of you know, I was scheduled to get my port removed a couple of weeks ago.  It should have been a quick procedure.  I was to get the port removed, spend the night in Tampa, and head back to Merritt…

Give Our Thanks

Hello Grace Family! I pray that everyone has had a wonderful week. Can you believe it is getting close to Thanksgiving? We are in the season of turkey and all the trimmings! It is a time where we tend to think about gratitude, and we all have something to give our thanks. So, what are those things for you? For me, I have five wonderful grandchildren who…

A Quiet Place

Hello Grace Family!  There comes a time when life is so noisy we need a quiet place. We need to take a step back away from all the demands on our time and just listen to our soul. And in doing that we also open space up for God to speak to us. The question becomes, do you have a quiet place.…

Great Things

Hello Grace Family!  I am having a hard time believing today is the first day of November! October went by so fast! But then we lost a week because of hurricane Milton as we prepared our homes and businesses, waited for the storm to go through our area, and then put everything back together. It was a lot. And then we begin setting up the…

Taking our Next Steps

Dear Grace United Methodist Church Family, Pastor Beth and I had the wonderful gift of gathering with other clergy in our District this past week!  It was a good opportunity for me to meet colleagues in this area and our DS, Sharon Austin, organized a wonderful training for us on Church Vitality.  We worshipped together, learned together, and dreamed together!  One of the…

Weathered the Storm

Dear Grace Church Family, By the time you receive this communication, my hope is we will all have weathered the storm coming our way as I write this.  There are things I know even before the storm reaches land.  I know we are going to be called to be the church now more than ever before.  There are things I am not…

Pumpkin Patch!

Dear Grace Church Family, This Sunday is Laity Sunday.  It is a very special day in the life of the church.  It is the day we honor the role of laity within the life of the Church.  I have been so impressed with the number of “high capacity” leaders at Grace UMC.  A high-capacity leader is one that takes on an area…

Something Important

Dear Grace Church Family, God’s grace and peace to each of you this day.  I have so much on my mind to share with you this morning, but sometimes all that is whirling in our world needs to stop and all our eyes need to turn to something more important.  We are in such a time as this.  The devastation brought on…

Staying Connected

Hi Grace Family! I hope you are all having a wonderful week, and I look forward to seeing you all in church this Sunday. I was delighted to see I am preaching on the passage in John about the vine and the branches. I love this passage found in John 15. I find it is a beautiful metaphor for staying connected to God and the church. In fact, when…