GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION NEWS Caring for the Ministry of Grace: "Ecclesia Perpetua" January 2020
Board of Directors Carolyn Warloe President Shelly Lundahl Treasurer Hal Dick Secretary Michael Beachley Director Kris Saathoff Director Bill Strohlein Director Kathy Vohland Director Jeff Beck Ex officio Pastor Wendell Hendershott Ex officio Joy Linn Administrative Asst. The Grace Lutheran Church Foundation is a professionally managed corporate nonprofit foundation established by Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Corvallis, Oregon.
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	We people of Grace have just lived through another period of Thanksgiving and gift giving. Let's begin a new year by reflecting on the spirit of giving. Let Us Give Thanks by Gerhard Frost Let us give thanks this moment: for the sturdy fact of God's continuing love, for mercies which go before us and follow after us, for those free gifts which cost God so much. Let us give thanks: for memory and expectation, for the good that we have known and know today in Jesus Christ, for the Spirit's brooding presence in our nights and in our days. Let us give thanks: for pleasures which comfort and pains which force our growth and keep us at the Shepherd's side, for deep meanings revealed and mysteries mercifully concealed, for the image of God within us, the capacity to inquire and adore. Let us give thanks for one another, for just being together, for differences which complement and complete, for gifts which enrich and disagreements which challenge, for our oneness in Christ. Let us give thanks for melody and mirth, for rhythm and beat, for the repeated and the common, for the ever-unfolding, and for senses with which to respond. And let us give thanks for Someone to thank.

Grace Lutheran Church Foundation Financial Report January 1 - September 30, 2019 Contributions Foundation Total Assets * Expenses $1,455.00 $626,793.49 $19,581.78 Projects Approved, Pending, and Paid MIF4KIDZ Baptism "donations" for     children under age 16, $50 each Giving It Forward Initiative     1:1 matching funds, 2017 grant Camp Lutherwood Scholarships - 2019     Schultz Family Youth Fund Lines for Life training - J. Lapham     Brian Smith Fund "Making Peace with Your Cancer"     Seminar     Storvick Parish Nurse Fund Lutherfest 2019 Youth Bibles for Sunday school     Roger Lindquist Fund Corvallis Drop-In Center     Storvick Parish Nurse Fund Gondar Sister City trip, Hadlock family     Schultz Family Youth Fund $300.00 $15,526.63 $500.00 $500.00 $1,812.79 $2,700.00 $1,000.00 $2,250.00 $2,000.00 Memorial Funds Rebinding of Lectionary $45.00       Total Projects $26,634.42   * The Foundation's total assets on January 1, 2019, were $572,047.06.

The Board of Directors acknowledges the generosity of the following donors: May 2019 In Memory of Jeff Mueller Dale and Mary Jane Weber, Corvallis, OR July 2019 In Memory of Jim Norlie Larry and Donna Blus, Portland, OR August 2019 John Engel, San Antonio, TX In Memory of Jim Norlie Mark Klopsch and Judith Quam, Corvallis, OR In Memory of Coy Scroggins Ron and Kay Larson, Corvallis, OR Cathy Mueller, Corvallis, OR Gloria Werth, Corvallis, OR September 2019 In Memory of Coy Scroggins Dale and Mary Jane Weber, Corvallis, OR Poem, quotes and other thoughts provided by Hal Dick.

Concepts to Ponder Legacy Honoring Bequeathing Remembering Investing Endowing Gifting Benefitting Funding In Memoriam In Perpetuity GLCF Let us give thanks for those who with forethought and generosity made the Grace Foundation possible. Thank You! Serving God with our little, is the way to make it more; and we must never think that wasted with which God is honored, or men are blest.                     -- John Hall The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.                     -- Martin Luther It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed someone else with it through us.                     -- Phillips Brooks