Register for Vaca on Bible School TODAY! Vaca on Bible School July 13-17 is only two weeks away—register your children age three through the comple-

on of 4th grade today! You can get forms in the Ac vity Center, the church office, or online at www.peopleofgrace.org/vaca on_bible_school. You may also register online at the same URL. Payment of $30 per child must be made in person in the church office prior to the start of VBS. Side-by-Side Slide Show Tonight! What a great week our Side-by-Siders had in Pensacola! Come see and hear what they did at a slide show next Sunday evening, June 28, 7:00 p.m. in Fellowship Hall! Hope at Home Commissioning This Morning at 11:00, Mee ng at 12:15 Our Hope@Home mission serving the Chicagoland area is July 7-9. Those a ending the trip are being commissioned this morning at 11:00 a.m. Please see their names under “Beyond the Pew” in this Grace In Mission. There is also a Hope@Home mee ng today, 12:15-2:00 p.m., in Room 233. Vaca on Bible School Needs Teen Helpers Margaret Harrison is in great need of 5-6th graders, junior high, high school and college age help this sum-mer at Vaca on Bible School, July 13-17. Please consider offering your me for a week this summer at Vaca on Bible School. Adults are needed too! Please contact Margaret at gumcstory@peopleofgrace.org or 630-355-1748. Seniors, Pick Up Your Portraits! High school seniors who provided a portrait for our display case may pick them up in the main church office.

Children and Youth Children and Youth

GUMC Operating Budget Contributions and Worship Attendance

PERIOD April YTD

Fiscal Year

2015 Anticipated

Income $1,543,510

ANTICIPATED INCOME

$611,814

ACTUAL INCOME

$628,013

VARIANCE

$16,173

PERCENT

102.6

ATTENDANCE May 30/31 602 June 6/7 582 June 13/14 414 June 20/21 329

Worship attendance will be updated weekly. Thank you for your commitment to your pledges

and to the life and future of Grace Church.

How Can You Help? How Can You Help?

People Needed

Host Family Needed for African Li le Girl Children’s Medical Mission is looking for a host family for approximately 3-6 months for a li le girl (under a year) from Africa who is coming to the Chicago area to undergo surgery. The host family would take the child to and from doctors’ visits and surgery, provide food, clothing and diapers, and update the child’s le-gal guardian, Tammy Shobe, regularly on her progress. This is no other financial commitment, nor is there any compensa on provided. The sur-gery and hospital stay will take place at Children’s Advocate Hospital in Oak Lawn. For more informa on, please visit www.cmmwest.com, or con-tact Pastor Tammy Sco (630-355-1748, ext. 3246, or deacontammy@ peopleofgrace.org). Thursday and Sunday Morning Recep onists The Grace Church office is in need of a recep onist to man the front desk on Thursday mornings, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., and Sunday mornings, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Volunteer re-cep onists will be trained, and no computer skills are necessary. If you are interested in volunteering or learning more about this vital ministry, please contact Joan Williams at 331-454-6766 or Sharon Ferguson at 630-355-1748, ext. 3223. Nurses Needed! Grace’s Health and Wellness Commi ee is looking for nurses interested in taking blood pressure readings for members of our congrega on on occasional Sunday mornings. Please contact Barb McCar-thy at 630-579-4588 or s-bmccarthy@sbcglobal.net. Seeking 9:30 Greeters Grace is in need of some new persons/families to greet worshipers at the beginning of the 9:30 worship service. This is only a 15-minute me commitment, just a few mes per year. While there is a core group of greeters in place, Dianne Calhoun is seeking to expand this group. Please contact her at diannecalhoun@wideopenwest.com. Hear, Hear! Sound Board Operators Needed Our 9:30 a.m. worship ser-vice is in need of addi onal sound board operators. Training will be pro-vided! If you’re interested in learning how to improve acous cs during worship, you’re welcome to explore this opportunity. Please contact Laura Hoogerwerf at 630-978-1988 or lhead@transunion.com. Items Needed Preemie Hats for Kenya Please con nue to knit and crochet preemie hats for next year’s mission to Kenya. Pa erns can be found online or in the church office. We have nearly 100 completed so far! Place your finished ones in the pink box marked “Hats For Kenya” in the office. Thank you!

Give to Grace Through E-Giving Grace’s online E-Giving tool allows you to fulfill your pledges in a way that is convenient, flexible and secure. You can give any me, 24/7, via your checking or savings account or credit/debit card. Click the “E-Giving” link found on every page of our website, peopleofgrace.org. Or scan this QR code with your smart device to instantly pledge via E-Giving to Grace’s opera ng budget, Capital Cam-paign, or various support/relief efforts as they arise.

Information and Upcoming EventsInformation and Upcoming Events Ed Wolak Will Be 103 On July 11—Let’s Send Him Our Gree ngs! Long-

me Grace member Ed Wolak will be 103 years old next Saturday, July 11. If you would like to send him a card or birthday gree ngs, please mail them to Edward Wolak; 29W419 Laurel Dr., Naperville, IL 60564. Let’s make this centenarian (and then some) feel special on his special day! July Healing Worship Saturday evening healing worship services are scheduled for July 11 and July 18, 5:00 p.m. in the Ac vity Center with Pam Riley-Valesh. Join with fellow worshipers in an in mate circle of friends, and let the touch of sacred, anoin ng oils comfort and strengthen you. Summer Picnic Tix On Sale Now! Every summer, our Grace family cele-

brates the warm weather and a wonderful week of Va-ca on Bible School with our annual picnic. This year, it’s on Sunday, July 19, beginning at 11:30 on the field adjacent to the lower parking lot. Please join us for hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream sundaes, Moon Jump, and fun for the whole family! This will also be an ex-cellent opportunity to meet our new senior pastor, Cindy Marino, joining us on July 1. Picnic ckets are available in the church office during the week and in the Ac vity Center today as well as on July 5 and July 12. Tickets are $3 per person or $10 max. per family.

Please bring a salad to share (two if your family exceeds four people). Massed Choir Celebrates Pastor Cindy’s First Sunday at Grace Music Min-ster Dan Wagner invites all of our Grace choir members—and anyone who likes to sing!—to join a special massed choir in honor of Pastor Cindy Marino’s first Sunday with us on July 12. Register to sing at www.peoplefograce.org/music. Music will be available in advance. Register Today For Vaca on Bible School! Vaca on Bible School is only

two weeks away! NOW is the me to regis-ter your children aged three through the comple on of fourth grade to a end Vaca-

on Bible School this summer, July 13-17, 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. at Grace! Cost for the week is $30 per child, payable in the church office BEFORE the start of VBS. Register in the Ac vity Center today or online at www.peopleofgrace.org/vaca on_bible_school. Dinners For Eight! Sign Up Today! Sign-ups for “Dinners For Eight” con n-ue today through August 1 in the church office. This fun group of people of all ages, couples or singles, meets for dinner and great conversa on four

mes per year. Hosts open their homes just once, preparing the main en-tree, while other par cipants bring side dishes. Contact Alice Mann at 630-369-5455 with any ques ons or for further informa on. Wear Your Nametags! Let’s all get into the habit of wearing our nametags

in prepara on for the arrival of our new sen-ior pastor, Rev. Cindy Marino, who will be in the pulpit for the first me the weekend of July 11/12. We have only her name to re-member, but she’s got hundreds! Wearing your nametag is also a good way to help eve-ryone greet you and put a name to a face!

Let’s help Pastor Cindy Marino learn who we are!

Sunday 28 8:15am-12:00pm-Sunday Worship-

Sanctuary 9:15-11am-Recep on for Bob Poland-

Ac vity Center 7:00-8:30pm-Side-by-Side Slide Show-

Fellowship Hall Monday 29 7:30am-4:00pm-WSEA Tutoring-Rooms 224-

227, 232 9:00-10am-Temple Builders-Ac vity

Center 9:00am-1:00pm-PDO-Lower level

classrooms 3:00-4pm-Prayer Ministry-Chapel 7:00-8:15pm-Healing Flow Yoga-Chapel 7:00-9pm-NOW Council-Room 232 7:00-9pm-Questors Mee ng-Conf. Room 7:00-9pm-Wedding Music Seminar-

Sanctuary 7:15-8:30pm-Scout Troop #555-Fellowship

Hall Tuesday 30 7:30am-4:00pm-WSEA Tutoring-Rooms 224-

227, 232 9:00am-1:00pm-PDO-Lower level

classrooms 10:00am-12:00pm-Youth Bell Ensemble-

Room 160 10:00am-2:00pm-Staff Mee ng-Room 254 7:00-9pm-Wedding Music Seminar-

Sanctuary 7-30-9pm-Alanon Mee ng-Room 232 Wednesday 1 7:30am-4:00pm-WSEA Tutoring-Rooms 224-

227, 232 9:00-10am-Temple Builders-Ac vity

Center 9:00am-1:00pm-PDO-Lower level

classrooms Thursday 2 7:30am-4:00pm-WSEA Tutoring-Rooms 224-

227, 232 9:00am-1:00pm-PDO-Lower level

classrooms 7:30-9pm-CoDA Mee ng-Room 224 Friday 3 BUILDING CLOSED FOR JULY 4 HOLIDAY Saturday 4 5:00pm-Saturday Evening Worship-Ac vity

Center Sunday 5 8:15am-12:00pm-Sunday Worship-

Sanctuary 11:00 a.m. features Hope@Home

Commissioning 12:15-2pm-Hope@Home Mee ng-Room

233

CHILDREN/YOUTH CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Nursery Care-8:15 am-12:00 pm: Infants-Room 130 Toddlers-Room 131 Children-9:30 am: 9:30-9:45am-K-5th gr. gathers in Fellowship Hall, or as posted Two’s (2 by Sep. 1, 2015)-Room 134 Preschool (3 or 4 by Sep. 1, 2015)-Room 137 Kindergarten-Room 122 1st Grade-Room 123 2nd Grade-Room 152 3rd Grade-Room 153 4th Grade-Room 154 5thGrade-Room 155 Children-11:00 am: “Gather Together” (age K-3rd grade)-Begins in Sanctuary, moves to Room 231 Youth-9:30 am: Jr. High-Grades 6-8-Room 233 Sr. High-Grades 9-12-Room 234 8th Grade Confirma on-Room 231 ADULT CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 9:30 am: Hearts On Fire-“Restless: People” Forum-Fireside Room-“Celebra ng Ellen Burrows”; next week: NO CLASS FOR 4TH OF JULY HOLIDAY Questors-Room 254-”Scientology,” Jan Smucker New Connec ons-Room 227-Study of “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount,” by John Sto Parent-to-Parent-Room 224 Confirma on Parents-Room 232 11:00am: OHM-Room 232-”Embracing Emergence Chris ani-ty” (Dr. Phyllis Tickle) New Member Classes– Contact Sharon Ferguson at 630-355-1748, ext. 3223

Grace in Mission is a Communica ons Ministry of:

Grace United Methodist Church

300 E. Gartner Road Naperville, IL 60540

630-355-1748 www.peopleofgrace.org

News for Grace in Mission must be

received by Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. Please submit news to Barb Ceru

via e-mail at barbceru @peopleofgrace.org;

by phone at 630-355-1748, ext. 3240; or drop in the church office, ATTN: Barb

This Week’s CALENDAR

Beyond the PewBeyond the Pew

Join us this summer in worship as we explore our Grace mission statement: “Gather to Christ, Grow as Disciples, Go to Serve.”

S , J 28 - G : L Y L B

Pastor Tammy Sco S , J 5 - L , T U , E

E-mail deacontammy@peopleofgrace.org with your ques ons about anything relat-ed to faith, life...whatever. They will determine the content of this sermon! Pastors Ma hew Johnson and Tammy Sco And be sure to join us on Saturday, July 11/Sunday, July 12 when we welcome Pastor Cindy into the pulpit for the first me!

Grace in Mission Grace in Mission

This Week at Grace Announcements for the People of Grace June 27 and 28, 2015

Greek Tour to Visit the Journeys of Paul Bill and Erma Bryan are leading a trip to Greece, depar ng from Chicago on October 3, 2015. It is a structured tour orga-nized by Educa onal Opportuni es of Lakeland, Florida, en tled “Journeys of Paul In Greece.” The basic trip lasts eight days, including air travel me to and from Greece. The sites visited by tour bus with a trained guide will include Athens, Thes-salonica, Philippi, and several other loca ons where Paul carried the Chris an mes-sage and established churches. A four-day extension cruise on the Aegean to Ephe-sus, Patmos, and Santorini is available. The cost is approximately $3,200 for the basic trip; the extension is extra. If you would like to a end this trip, or for more informa on, contact the Bryans at 630-637-8724. Human Trafficking DVD Available For those who were unable to a end a very im-portant program on human trafficking April 26, DVD’s of the program are available in the church library (Room 223). Human trafficking is a crime of modern day slav-ery, involving either forced sexual ac vity or labor, that affects children and teens all over the world. You might be surprised to learn that it happens right here in our community, too. Visit the Grace library, or contact Ro Willard at 630-430-4489. Grace Quilters On Summer Break United Methodist Women Quilters will meet again August 10 at a new me of 9:30 a.m. Enjoy the summer, and get ready to quilt again in a few months! Scleroderma Fundraising Walk The Naperville Scleroderma Support Group is hold-ing its 2nd annual fundraising walk, “Reason to Rock,” on July 26 at the Kane County Cougars ballpark from 12:00-3:00 p.m. Come out for an a ernoon of walking around the ball field, food, music, a car show, and raffles. For more informa on, to register and/or support this cause, visit www.reasontorock.org. Career Networking with Thatch Irwin Looking for a job or a new career path? Grace member and career networking professional Thatch Irwin is happy to share his services and exper se with the family and friends of Grace. Feel free to contact him at rwin@wideopenwest.com or 630-961-3278.

This Morning: Celebrating the Ministry of Bob Poland Please join us in the Ac vity Center this morning, June 28, a er the 8:15 and 9:30 a.m. worship services for a cele-bra on of the ministry of Business Office Manager Bob Poland, who has faithfully served Grace above and be-yond the call of duty for many years. Please join us!

Side-by-Side Slide Show Tonight! Last weekend, 80 youth, teens and adults from Grace and the community returned from Pensacola, Florida, where they worked with Habitat for Humanity on building projects in the area. Come see and hear their stories at a slide show this evening, June 28, 7:00 p.m. in Fellowship Hall. All are welcome!

Tonight! 7:00 p.m.

Fill a Grocery Bag for Common Pantry Next Sunday is our first-of-the-month hunger collec-

on for Common Pantry of Chicago. Please take a grocery bag from a member of our Hunger team to-day, fill it with the items listed on the bag, and return it to Grace next Sunday, July 5. You may also give a monetary contribu on to the ceramic “Love Loaf”

outside the Sanctuary, payable to GUMC, with “Love Loaf” on the memo.

The Grace Church building will be closed this Friday, July 3, for the 4th of July holiday. It will be open all day on Saturday, July 4th.

Please join us for Saturday evening worship at 5pm in the Act. Ctr.!

CAMPAIGN RECEIPTS 1/4 OF MONTHLY HVAC EXPENSES! There is good news and bad news on our Capital Campaign building front, as Building Committee Chair John Bodine will share with us this morning in wor-ship. The good news is, we have sufficient pledges to do most of the projects we had hoped to accomplish. The bad news is, we do not have adequate receipts to cover our $80,000/month HVAC costs. To be specific, we have only $21,000 in receipts per month, or 1/4 of what we need to pay out. In short, we’re in a seri-ous cash flow situation. WE ASK FOR EVERYONE TO ACCELERATE PLEDGE PAYMENTS TO NOW, RATHER THAN STRETCH THEM OUT OR WAIT UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR. New pledges or upticks in existing pledges are also most appreciated. Thank you!

Youth Helen Chase Patrick Conniff Myla Connors Caroline and Lee Costello Hannah Fredericks Danielle and Ryan

Gewin

Dominick Gramarosso Abby Gregory Amy and Erica John Isabel and Thomas Kelsh Sarah McCarthy Cooper McClure Emily Nay Elyse Osmun

Dylan Reher Elizabeth Rumrey Gabe and

Mateo Scharosch Ashlyn Schnute Megan Stemm Mackenzie Stevens Jacqueline

Vazquez-Perez Sean Wagner

Adults Jerry and Judy

Corne John Dudich Gaye Lynn Loufek Bob Tschirhart Ericka Wagner

O H H J 7-9 - C O M P T 11:00!