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Below you will find information for the week of November 2nd and beyond.
OCC Shoeboxes
GracePoint is a Collection Site for Operation Christmas Child. Find the table in the lobby on November 8 to get a shoebox for your family to pack. Our church comes together to pack shoeboxes during GPKids Wednesday Night. You can get involved by helping transport packing items to the church on Thursday, Nov 12, at 6:30 (contact kate@gracepointnd.org for more info) or come to church on Wednesday(Nov 18) morning 9:30 to 11:30 to set up supplies to be packed on Wednesday night. Other ways to help include signing up to help during collection week or give financially to help with the shipping of the boxes that the Wednesday Night kids will pack in November. Shipping for each box is $10, so our goal is $6,000 to cover the 600 boxes the kids will be packing. Give here by selecting OCC as your fund.
COLLECTION WEEK IS NOVEMBER 16-23.
Drop off times:
Nov 16: 10am-2pm
Nov 17: 10am-2pm
Nov 18: 2-8pm
Nov 19: 4-7pm
Nov 20: 11am-2pm
Nov 21: 10am-1pm
Nov 22: 11am-1pm
Nov 23: 9am-12pm
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Bless a Mom This Christmas!
This Christmas, our Women’s Ministry is partnering with Women’s Care Center to bless single moms with a special Christmas stocking!
We invite everyone to join us in sharing the love of Christ by donating stocking stuffers to help make Christmas a little brighter for these moms. If you prefer to give a monetary donation and let us do the shopping, please note “Women’s Care Center” on your check.
📍 Drop-Off Location: Connect Desk
📅 Donation Deadline: December 5
Thank you for helping us share the joy of Christmas and remind these moms that they are loved and cared for!
Women of GracePoint! Here are some things for you to look forward to:
We want to invite you to a workshop on Saturday, November 7th at 10 am with one of our own to learn (or practice) decorating cookies! We will be in the Gym and will be using buttercream to decorate our cookies. There is a $10 fee for this to cover the cost of the materials. Enjoy the fun and the mini cookie cake that you made! Sign up here.
Monthly Coffee Dates on the first Saturday of the month in the GracePoint Lobby. Pickup your favorite coffee or bring a coffee pod and make your own at the church. Dates for the 2026-2027 year are: December 5, February 6, March 6, April 3
For more information on our Connect Groups, take a look at the GPAdults connect page or the calendar. For information about specific Connect groups please fill out the Connect Group Form.
Wednesday Nights 6:30 – 8:00 pm. We look forward to a new year with our students and helping them have a faith that they can call their own.
Wednesday Schedule:
- November 4th– CEF Joanne Sharing the Gospel
- November 11th- CEF Joanne Applying the gospel to who you are sharing with
- November 18th-Turkey Bowling & Operation Christmas Child
On Sundays during the first worship gathering at 9:00 am, youth will be dismissed when the kids are to go to the Youth area in the basement for a time digging deeper in our faith together.
Sunday schedule:
- November 8, 15, 22
You can find the full 2026 calendar here!
We are updating our GPStudents parent’s contact information so that we can start the summer and next school year off with the correct information for our communications. We look forward to hanging out with your middle and high schoolers as they learn how to have a faith of their own. Please fill out your information here.
Rehearsals for the Children’s Christmas Program have begun.
Rehearsals are during second service each Sunday until December 6th, 2026.
We will rehearse parts, songs, and stage directions for the first 25 -30 minutes of service each Sunday. We will take the rest of service to do normal small group lessons. First service will be regular children’s church.
There will be a dress rehearsal on Sunday December 6th during both services an Saturday December 12th for all involved.
The program will be a whole church worship experience with GPKids taking the lead. It will take place on December 13th, 2026 during morning service. There will only be one service that day at 10AM.
Any children interested in being in the program should plan to be at rehearsals as much as possible.
All regular volunteers will still be needed on Sundays as usual to help teach small groups as well as help with class management during rehearsals.
If you have any questions or concerns or you are interested in volunteering to help with the program, please contact Alea, GPKids Director.
WE NEED YOUR STORY OF FAITH! We are looking for people to interview about their testimony or another faith story for the Christmas program. The title of the program is “The Story Continues,” and we need short interviews of varying testimonials of how Jesus’s story has continued through your life. If you are interested or know someone with a great story that we could interview, please contact Alea.
God is doing amazing things through our missionaries, and we are excited to continue growing in how we partner with them as a church family! We are currently developing several opportunities for people to get involved on missions-focused teams that will encourage, care for, and strengthen our missionary partners in our backyard and around the world.
If you have a heart for missions and would like to learn more about serving, we’d love to hear from you! Contact us at missions@gracepointnd.org for more information. Together, we can play a meaningful role in advancing God’s work among the nations!
When you give financially to GracePoint, you join hundreds of others who are putting their faith to work by supporting a variety of Kingdom-advancing things: overseas missions, children’s and youth ministries, local outreach and service, our part-time and full-time staff and their families, and more. Please prayerfully consider how the LORD might want you to regularly and generously give to His work through the GracePoint family. Click here to give.
Financial Information
September
Budget: $120,793
Giving: $ 91,909
Expenses: 115,002
Fiscal (July-September ’26)
Budget: $362,378
Giving: $ 310,623
Expenses: $ 358,373
Sunday attendance for November 1st:
Adult Worship – 494
Online Worship – 45
All ages Sunday School – 148
