Grace Church

Grace Church in Holland feeds over three hundred people a warm meal and distributes over eight thousand pounds of food and also toilet paper and laundry detergent through our monthly Feeding America mobile pantry ministry. The ministry is intergenerational - lots of kids have been involved in serving alongside of older Grace members. Grace serves regularly at our Community Kitchen which is also supported by our Diocesan ministry, The Order of Naucratius. Grace sees these ministries as fundamentally related to our formation, presence, and offering as a Eucharistic people.

This Fall we are also welcoming a refugee family to our Parish House. This is a joint ministry with our neighborhood and St Francis deSales Parish, one of our local Catholic Churches. We look forward to living into this ministry of hospitality and the offering of safe shelter to a family coming from the South Sudan.

Sacred Ground is dialogue series on race, grounded in faith. Small groups are invited to walk through chapters of America’s history of race, racism, and whiteness while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity. The 10-part series is built around a powerful online curriculum of documentary films and readings that focus on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American histories as they intersect with European American histories.

Sacred Ground is a resource coming out of Becoming Beloved Community, The Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice in our personal lives, our ministries, and our society. This series is especially designed to help white people talk with other white people, while being open to all racial/ethnic groups. Participants are invited to peel away the layers that have contributed to the challenges and divides of the present day – all while grounded in our call to faith, hope and love.