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Brenda and I were at a dinner with George W. Bush.  True story. Are you impressed?  Don’t be.  It was just before he was elected president. It was a campaign dinner in a large gymnasium at Grand Valley State University. The dinner was being catered, and we were behind a partition plating up the meals for the guests.  While the president was speaking, we began cleaning up. 

What is the closest you have come to a very important person?  Did you feel out of place? 

A worldly woman from Samaria shared drinks with a famous Jewish rabbi just outside of a sleepy town one afternoon at a local watering-hole.  It was awkward at first, and then it got awesome!  Jesus told her plainly that he was the Messiah that they were all waiting for.  She believed in him and told a lot of others who also believed in him.  They spent a couple of days with Jesus Christ and that little town was transformed.  They had been outcasts and now they were partakers in the kingdom of God. 

On Sunday we are going to take a look at this encounter with the most important VIP that ever walked this planet.  Please know that he wants to meet with you too.  What would you ask?  How would you feel?  

Get a head start by reading John 4:1-42.

Pastor Rich

Kitchen Help:

We have an abundance of plastic silverware that we are looking for a few people who could help us wrap 'restaurant style' to keep in the pantry in preparation for future funeral dinners, potlucks, etc. If this is something you'd be able to help with, please let the Stewards know! (Richelle, Darlene, Amanda & Kara)

Transportation Help:

We are in need of help with getting Kevin Maxwell to and from church on Sunday mornings.

• Pick up at his house at 10:20am to get him to church for morning service
• Take him home after service

There are also appointments and other errands they need rides to. **A list and more details for the next few months are posted in our Helping Hands group found below.

If this is something you could do, please let Pastor Rich know.

NDI - To make Christlike Disciples in the Nations

See what the kids are up to!

• Check out the kids' wish list on Amazon by clicking the image above. Thank you for all the ways you help our kids!
• We are in need of kids volunteers for Sunday School and Children's Church. Can you spare a couple hours a month to serve on this team? See Kara Purves or John Harris for more info

CHANGING GEARS: A 4-WEEK SERIES FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT ON JESUS' MINISTRY

SERIES OVERVIEW:

Clank! Beep! Clunk! Kids love robots, especially ones that can transform into something new or have really cool abilities. In this four-week series from Jesus’ ministry on earth, you’ll introduce kids to a different story each week that shows us how God’s truths never change, but Jesus changes everything — including us! We’ll see that we change when we know who God is, our past doesn’t change God’s love for us, and that Jesus changes how we see things because Jesus can change anything!

We are collecting wrapped candy donations to fill plastic eggs for our Community Easter Egg Hunt! You can drop bags of candy in the bin in the foyer or if you'd like to have us do the shopping for you, monetary donations are also welcomed. You can give online for this event as well by choosing the "Easter Egg Hunt" fund on Faithlife.com. More details coming soon!

See what the teens are up to!

• Click the image above to view the teens Amazon wish list
• The teens are also in need of some helpers for Sunday School and Youth Group on Sunday nights. If you could spare a couple hours to help lead our teens, see John Harris or Stephanie Dewey

Hosted by the Church of the Nazarene, NYC is a powerful youth event that has been held in different locations over the past six decades. NYC takes place every four years and provides an opportunity for high school students from the USA and Canada to be united in a time of worship, teaching, and community service.

Our Life Groups will join to form one large group for a special time to watch and study The Chosen - Season 2 together. Starting Sunday, January 29th, we will meet at 5:00pm in the Fellowship Hall to share a dinner together then watch one episode per week.

If you haven't joined a Life Group yet, this is a great time to start! You can RSVP on the event below.

If you would like a study book, please let Brenda know.

See you then!

All meetings are held from 6:30-8:30 PM at Grand Ledge Church of

the Nazarene in the overflow room off of the sanctuary. Meetings

are on Thursday unless otherwise indicated.

Cost of 13 sessions are free.

Book is $15 (If this is a hardship, scholarships are available.)

1. Thursday, February 16

2. Thursday, February 23

3. Thursday, March 2

4. Thursday, March 9

5. *Friday, March 17

6. Thursday, March 23

7. Thursday, March 30

8. Thursday, April 6

9. Thursday, April 13

10.*Tuesday, April 18

11.Thursday, April 27

12.Thursday, May 4

13.Thursday, May 11

* indicates a different day of the week than Thursday

See Richelle for more information or if you would like to join

Would you like to take control of your money? See John or Darlene Harris for a one-on-one FPU class or sign up for a group class with others. We have 8 spots available, so let us know before they are gone

Pick up a list of the titles and descriptions of the breakout sessions in the foyer. Don't forget to register soon!

The St Patrick's Day Parade is this Saturday, March 11th at 2:00pm. We will meet in the Sawdon Administrative Building parking lot to line up starting at 1:00pm. We will be lined up at cone #30, in front of the fire trucks. Look for our golf cart with I Love My City signs and flags! I will have vests, gloves, trash bags, trash grabbers and trash cans at the golf cart so meet us there any time after 1:00. The more the merrier! We will also have a wagon pulling a couple kiddos to wave in the parade. If you have any questions, please call/Corinne at 517-899-3098. Thanks for helping us love our city!

Save the date to love our city with our Community Easter Egg Hunt!

We are looking forward to welcoming our neighbors into our building to learn about the meaning of Easter, have some fun and eat some food together! We can't do it without our amazing I Love My City Crew and volunteers. There is a sign up sheet in the foyer for many different ways you can help. Individually wrapped candy donations can be placed in the green bin in they foyer. Thank you!

We are excited to continue our partnership with Shared Pregnancy Women's Center. There are many ways we can give, donate, volunteer and pray for this ministry.

See the list below of items they can use. You can bring them in and drop them in the toy box in the kids hallway.

If you wish to donate money, you can drop change or bills in the baby bottle outside the kids room or give online at https://faithlife.com/glnaz/give and choose the "Shared Pregnancy Women's Center" Fund

If you have any questions, see Kara Purves

Join us for NMI Movie Night featuring the movie MULLY

Sunday, March 26th

6:00pm in the Fellowship Hall

Popcorn and pop provided!

Watch the movie trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT4nqTV1tFY

See you then!

Crisis Care Kits are a way we can help others in emergency situations. Receiving simple items like toothpaste, a comb, or band-aids become very helpful in a natural disaster, war or other crisis. Crisis Care Kits (CCKs) are designed to provide people with some of the essentials they may not have due to those scenarios.

Our NMI Council has set a goal for Grand Ledge to collect 12 boxes (72 CCK's) by July 2023. Each month or so, we will feature an item to collect. (Although you can always give any of the items at any time!)

See below for this month's featured item and the details on the specifics. Thank you for helping us work toward reaching our goal!

March - Band Aids (box of 30 or more)

We will be collecting these at the Missions corner in the foyer. Here is an idea of how many we will need by July 2023:

1 per CCK

6 per box

72 for all 12 boxes