Habitat For Children Ministries

Habitat For Children Ministries

Current Building Needs for their medical office complex in Haiti

Items Needed Cost Per Item Total

Truck Load of Sand (7 needed) $150/ load $1050

Concrete Blocks (2000 needed) $3/ each $6000

Rebar 3/8, 1⁄2 & 1⁄4 (5 tons needed) $1000/each ton $5000

Cement (500 bags needed) $10/ bag $5000

2×4 Wood (20 pieces needed) $4/ each $80

Plywood (30 pieces) $55/each $1,650

2 Rebar Tie Wire Steel $100/each $200

12 Dozen Metal Poles $35/each $5040

2 cases of nails $100/each $200

You can make any donation amount to either of the following:

Grace Lutheran Church, mark the donation as “Habitat for Children”

Visit our website: www.hfcm.info

Paypal- https://www.paypal.me/Habitatforchildren

Mail: Habitat For Children Ministries- P.O. Box 1195, West Palm Beach, FL 33402

[Sunday] Famous Expectations - Missio Dei

Questions for the week

1. The people of Nazareth thought they were entitled to receive Jesus’ gracious words and deeds because they were his friends and relatives. What things cause us to feel entitled to receive God’s grace and mercy?  How do we counteract that sense of entitlement?

2. Read Luke 4:14-30.  Nazareth was a thoroughly Jewish community.  As such, the people labored non-stop to keep themselves pure from spiritual uncleanliness of the Gentile world surrounding them.  Their penchant for personal purity, however, blinded them to God’s compassion for the world and their participation in his mission.  How do we do similar things today that get in the way of our participation in God’s mission to the world?

3. How has Jesus liberated you to serve in his mission?  Who might you bring this Good News of Jesus to this week?

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

Grace Ladies Tea

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DNF

Read whole article at DNF - Mockingbird (mbird.com)

I came to with a blur of faces standing over me. “Let me finish,” I mumbled. “Please, please let me finish.” I tried to get up from the stretcher but was gently pushed back down.

“We need to make sure you’re okay first,” someone told me. “We need a doctor to clear you.” I nodded and lay back down. I told myself that I would be fine, that I just needed to start running again.

A man who I assumed was the doctor came over to my stretcher. He looked me over. He asked the nurses, “She threw up?”

[Bible Study] Galatians Overview 1

[Sunday] Feather In The Wind - Missio Dei

Questions for the week

1. How have you seen God work in the middle of chaos in your life?

2. Read John 12:27-36 (and John 18 and 19 for extra credit). How do you see God in control at all times, even in chaos?

3. How can we be more effective as witnesses in presenting the cross as a sign that God is in control of the chaos?

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Bollywood Remake of Forrest Gump Trailer

Opening Scene From Forrest Gump Featuring the Feater

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

[Bible Study] Chapter 16 | Gospel of Mark

Enduring the World

Read the whole Article at https://mbird.com/everyday/enduring-the-world/

Like most people, I’m not immune from feeling the pressure to be perfect in this world. For me it often manifests in body image stuff. I’m prone to compare myself to others, even those in superhero movies, and find my lack of a six pack distressing. Whether it’s because of this insecurity or because of my love of sports, I’ve always been rather familiar with the inside of a gym………………..

[Sunday] Constant Christmas - Missio Dei

Questions for the week

1. Describe a time when you’ve misunderstood Jesus or a teaching of His.

2. If someone were to ask you “Who is Jesus?”, how would you answer?

3. Read Matthew 16:13-20. How does Peter appear to get it all correct but also get it all wrong about Jesus at the same time?  

4. How does knowing that Jesus came even for “the Peters” of the world, give you hope?  

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

[Bible Study] Chapter 15 | Gospel of Mark

[Sunday] I Am Sending - Missio Dei

Questions for the week

1. How "Sent by Christ" do you feel? That is, how aware are you each day that Christ has sent you on His mission to proclaim the forgiveness of sins?

2. What does it mean to you that the risen Christ came back for Thomas? What does this say about Jesus, about Thomas, about you?

3. As a mission-hearted Christian, give your best answer to the question, “Where do you come from?”

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

Tales the Carpenter Told - Mission of God

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Jesus’ father was a carpenter. Presumably his father was a carpenter as well. And his father before him. We might well imagine a few generations of tradesmen, passing their sophisticated engineering knowledge down from father to son: how to hang a plumb line, sharpen a hand saw, or level a wall. Jesus, likewise, would have learned the highly specialized craft from a young age. Alongside the usual religious education for children, Jesus and his siblings would have at least helped his father in the family business. If your roof caved in from a windy storm, Jesus would have been handy with a bow saw. Everything changed, however, when Jesus turned thirty. Leaving behind his auger, Jesus went into the kingdom o………………..

[Bible Study] Chapter 14-15 | Gospel of Mark

Missio dei: The Heart of God (Teaching Series)

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From the beginning, God has been sending his spirit out to bring life and beauty in the universe. It's a great sending. In this sending, we can see the heart of God as we join in with God’s mission.

Here is the amazon link for the book we are using.

The Great Sending: God's Heart for the World Beating Through You

By Sohns, Will

Buy on Amazon

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Reading Plan
Read around the readings for Sunday

• 7/24/22

  • Acts 2:14a 22-321
    Peter 1:3-9
    John 20:16-24

• 7/31/22

  • Malachi 3:1-5
    Hebrews 3:1-6
    Matthew 16:13-20

• 8/7/22

  • Numbers 21:5-9
    1 Corinthians 1:18-25
    John 12:27-36

• 8/14/22

  • Isaiah 61:1-4
    Galatians 4:4-7
    Luke 4:16-24

• 8/21/22

  • Isaiah 40:1-5
    Hebrews 10:11-18
    John 1:29-348

• /28/22

  • Isaiah 53:4-12
    1 John 4:9-16
    John 8:21-30

• 9/4/22

  • Psalm 103:8-19
    2 Corinthians 5:11-21
    John 14:1-6

[Sunday] 2 Corinthians 12:9 - Richer

Questions for the week

1. No Questions this week.

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

New Members at Grace Photos

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Photos of 36 Backpacks!

Thanks so Much

We collected 36 Backpacks and 700 dollars.

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Learning Limitations When There Is No More Room

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In my younger years, I was often complimented for my firm grip. Physically, I mean. I was skinny as a stick and not at all strong, but I could hold on tightly to something or someone and they’d have a hell of a time prying me off. My dad used to call me spider-monkey because whenever I was awake when he left for work or home when he returned, I would climb up his legs, wrap my skinny-as-sticks-arms — my brother, for his part, called me “twig” — as tightly as I could around them, and cling for dear life. It was a feat to loosen me……………………

[Sunday] 1 Peter 3:15 - Richer

Questions for the week

1.  Describe a time you felt persecuted or experienced suffering for your faith.  How did you respond to that persecution and suffering?

2. Read 1 Peter 3: 8-22.   What does Peter encourage us to do in the midst of suffering?  Why does he encourage us to do that?

3. Read Daniel 6.  What happens to Daniel in the middle of unjust suffering?   How does Daniel respond?   Why do you think Daniel could respond the way he did?  How does the chapter end?

4. Following the advice of Peter, who is someone you can do good to this week?  

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

Haiti Backpacks & School Supplies + Chairs July 10th

Last Day of Collection is July 10th

Give though Paypal at gracelutheranpsl.com/give

What we need

• Physical Backpacks

• Funds for

  • School Supplies

  • Shipping Chairs for a church in Haiti

We have chairs that have been donated to a church in Haiti. We at grace have committed to the shipping of chairs over the Haiti.

We are not collecting school supplies this year due to the high tariffs Haiti is charging habitat for children ministries for importing. We are collecting funds and this will allow us to also support local Haiti retailers.