Grace Church - 10323 28th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98146 (206) 937-8400 gracechurchseattle.org

Pastor Ryan Faust Senior Pastor prfaust@gracechurchseattle.org follow on Twitter @RyanJFaust

Pastor Daniel Hill Worship & Assoc. Pastor danielh@gracechurchseattle.org

Pastor Jerry Buell Children’s Ed & Family Ministry jerryb@gracechurchseattle.org

Pastor Nathan Schlaud Youth & College Ministry nathans@gracechurchseattle.org follow on Twitter @el_schlaudius

Janis Lemert Community Life Director janisl@gracechurchseattle.org

Let us LOVE God & people by praying for: Barbara Stuart (breast cancer treatment), Smith/Nielsen

Family (passing of Steve Nielsen), Daley Family (niece killed

in an avalanche), Ralph Smith (knee problems), Bill Hall

(ongoing health issues), Betty Saunders (dementia), and

ongoing health needs: Kim Smith (seizures), Martha Miller,

and for the family of Grace Church, elders & staff.

Prayer Requests Like to be added to the Prayer Partners distribution list?

Please contact the Church office. Have a prayer request?

Call or email the office during office hours. If the office is

closed, call Barb Stuart 932-7459 or Elsie McCoy 938-0644

who will get your request to our prayer warriors right away.

LOOKING AHEAD

Nov 22 ··········· Holiday Craft Bazaar - 9am - 3pm

Nov 30 ··········· Advent Begins

Nov 30 ··········· Grace Advent Family Day - preparing our facility for Christmas

Dec 24 ············ Christmas Eve Service 6pm

November 16, 2014

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD CHALLENGE

Awana is again heading up the collection

of Shoe Boxes for needy children in other

countries around the world. Last year

Grace Church collected 95 boxes. We

would really like to collect 125 boxes this

year. Please consider packing a shoe box

– See today’s insert for details. Packing

information and boxes are available in

the lobby.

2014 HOLIDAY BAZAAR & BAKE SALE

Nov 22 - 9am-3pm Calling all crafters, bakers & helpers.

The 2014 Holiday Bazaar is quickly

approaching, but there’s still time to

reserve space, bake goodies and help

with set up, clean up, etc. Spaces are

approx. 8’ and the cost is $15. We have

tables & chairs available. All proceeds

from space and the bake sale will be

donated to Living Water. Please contact

Mona Johnen with any questions: email

gracechurchbazaar@gmail.com or call or

text (206) 552-6758. If you are not a

crafter or baker, there’s still helping

opportunities such as set-up & clean-up.

GRACE ADVENT FAMILY DAY Join us, young and old, November 30

after worship, as we get everything ready

to celebrate the birth of Jesus. We will

enjoy a meal together after the service,

decorate and clean the facility, all while

listening to Christmas music. All ages

welcome! We will plan on being done at

3pm. Please sign up in the foyer today to

let us know you are coming!

NURSERY & PRESCHOOLER PARENTS Out of consideration for those who

minister in these age groups, we are

asking you to head downstairs and pick

up your children anytime the service

goes past 11:45am. Also, feel free to

have your children join you for worship

in singing following the sermon.

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY NEEDS:

Church time rotation:

1 month on / 3 months off:

• One Lead & one Assistant in 2’ & 3’s

• One Lead & one Assistant in 4’s – K

• One Assistant in Early Elementary

• One nursery volunteer – One Sunday

church time per month

• Awana substitute secretaries

• One Awana games assistant

See Tony Aramburu, Children’s Ministry

Intern or Pastor Jerry thru the office.

THANK YOU FROM PASTOR DANIEL

A BIG THANK YOU to all who helped

with our stage transformation last

week. Thank you, David & Heather May,

Melinda Hill, Rhoman & Jana Goyenechea,

Mike & Sarah Croasdill, Drayton & Janis

Lemert, Charles Ramsell, Will Finn, Shane

Hopkins, Ariel Westfall, and David

Henderson. We are always looking for

people for our worship who can help in

multiple ways. And, it’s not just limited to

musicians. We need creative thinkers,

skilled men and women for construction

projects, computer savvy individuals,

photographers, videographers, etc. If you

think you might be interested in getting

involved, contact Pastor Daniel at

danielh@gracechurchseattle.org.

THIS WEEK AT GRACE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16

9:00 am Sunday Classes & School of Theology

10:05 am Quiet Preparation for Worship

- in the sanctuary until 10:25 am

10:30 am WORSHIP - sanctuary

1st-3rd grade will be dismissed

to Children’s Church

Kid’s bulletins available in the foyer.

6:30 pm Youth Small Groups - various

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Church Office open 9 am to 4 pm

9:30 am MOPS - foyer & various

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Church Office open 9 am to 4 pm

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Church Office open 9 am to 4 pm

6:30 pm AWANA

7:00 pm Youth Group

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Church Office open 9 am to 4 pm

8:00 pm College Age Group - see Pastor Nathan

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Church Office closed

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Church Office closed

10:00 am GriefShare rm 122

9:00 am Holiday Bazaar & Craft Sale - foyer

GRACE CHURCH exists to LOVE God

& people, PROCLAIM Christ,

BUILD community, EQUIP the saints,

MULTIPLY ministers, and missionally

SEND out followers of Christ to

be the Church wherever we are.

CONNECT Welcome to Grace! Thanks for joining

us today. Feel free to bring your coffee

into worship and make yourself

comfortable. Take a deep breath, clear

your head, and prepare your heart

and mind to worship our Lord and

Savior, Jesus Christ.

Grace Church is committed to living

authentically in relationship with God

and others. Together we strive to meet

the needs here and around the world.

To learn more, grab a booklet from the

desk in the foyer.

If you would like us to follow up with

you, feel free to fill out this form, tear

it out and drop it at the Welcome

Center or in the offering plate.

today’s date

name

I am a guest of

address

phone

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How to begin a relationship with Jesus Want to know more about Grace

Interested in joining a Group

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Interested in baptism

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Home Community Questions

For HC this week:

(1) Everyone in your HC should bring a Bible.

(2) You, the leader, should know the story for the week so that you can tell it without notes and without reading from the Bible (Jonah 1:17-3:3a).

(3) During group, you the leader have everyone open their Bibles to Jonah 1:17-3:3a. Tell them the story without you reading the story. And have them be reading the story as you tell it and have them purposefully look for mistakes you made in telling the story. But don’t let them interrupt while you tell the story.

a. Mix it up this week by intentionally getting certain things wrong so they can help you re-build the story.

(4) When you are done telling the story, ask everyone to share parts that you missed or got out of order and rebuild the story.

(5) Then ask questions such as:

a. What new thing did you discover in the story that you didn’t know before?

b. What did you learn about God?

c. What did you learn about people?

d. Do you identify with Jonah in this story? If so, how?

e. What is holding you back from evangelizing?

f. What will you take away from this discussion?

g. What will you do with what you have learned?

“Arise, go and preach…” – Jonah 1:17-3:3a November 16, 2014

I. Context – Jonah was disobedient on a ship running from God, it was about to break up, the sailors knew the storm was because of Jonah’s disobedience, the sailors asked – “What should we do?”

o Nothing everyone faces consequences o Repent God calms the storm and Jonah goes to Nineveh o Turned over to God thrown into the sea to drown

II. Jonah hurled into the great sea BUT… (1:17)

Jonah 1:17 [But] the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah

was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. What kind of fish?

Plausibility of this happening?

Is this historical? Jesus believed so – see Matthew 12:38-40

What’s the main point? This story is not about a fish – rather the point is GOD performed a miracle this story is about God’s power, sovereignty, and that He sustains life and saves.

“Left on our own, we human beings think we can determine the course of our lives and history, but our plans and destiny are always being changed by that divine and decisive ‘but.’ This God of Jonah is in control of human life and its outcome.” – Elizabeth Achtemeier

Jonah didn’t want to be saved, BUT Yahweh had other plans:

III. Jonah composed a Psalm of Repentance / Thanksgiving (2:1-9) Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the

fish, 2 saying,

“I called out to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; Petition out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.

3 For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me. 4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look Crisis upon your holy temple.’ 5 The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head 6a at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever;

6byet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God. 7 When my life was fainting away, Deliverance I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.

8 Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. 9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; Praise what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!”

IV. The LORD’s response (2:10-3:2)

Jonah 2:10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land. 3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” No shame, no rebuke.

But an expectation to obey.

V. Jonah’s response (3:3a)

Jonah 3:3a So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Sometimes you have to be completely stripped before you have

a humility that God can use.

What can we take away from this story? This story is not about a fish.

The story is about God and His GOSPEL:

“The author is telling us a story in order to say some very important things about God, and all arguments over the fish tend to divert our attention from the main points being made. The important fact is that Jonah, despite his disobedience, inability to pray, and acceptance of his just sentence of death, has been saved from a watery grave by the totally underserved grace of God.” – Elizabeth Achtemeier

BI: Jonah didn’t want to be saved, but Yahweh Saves with undeserved grace!