thanksgiving

Gratia Members Celebrate Thanksgiving Together

Gratia members celebrated Thanksgiving together at church with a special Thanksgiving service followed by a meal. Students who remained in San Francisco also joined the celebration. Pastor Peter shared a message based on Colossians 2:6-8, titled “Overflowing with Thankfulness.”

Members enjoyed a wonderful time of fellowship, reflecting on God’s work in their lives and expressing their heartfelt gratitude. May God’s grace continue to overflow abundantly in the hearts of all members in the years to come.

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Gratia Graceful Friday Prayer Meeting

Gratia Church held a graceful Friday prayer meeting on November 22. Pastor Julia shared a brief message based on Philippians 3:12, titled A Life Captured by Christ. She emphasized that without Christ as our ultimate goal, we risk grasping at whatever comes our way-things we neither need nor truly desire. Instead, we must hold firmly to the Lord. On this journey to gain Christ, pruning is essential. Just as a branch that bears many fruits and flowers is trimmed to produce the best fruit, so too must we cut away the excess in our lives to focus on what truly matters.

After the message, members prayed together and for one another, experiencing a powerful time of renewal through the Holy Spirit. Even in the midst of the storm, members who were thirsty for the Lord came to the prayer meeting, driven by their deep passion for Jesus Christ. May the Lord use their lives to bear abundant fruit.

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Get up! Pick up Your Mat and Walk

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

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Remember the Lord

When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

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