Our Ministries
United in Grace ministries reach out in practical ways to feed and to clothe those in need of food and clothing. As an ELCA Reconciling in Christ congregation, United in Grace invites and welcomes the full participation of LGBTQ+ persons in our worship life and ministries.
Brown Bag Meal Ministry
We are continuing to place our Brown Bags into the hands of hungry folks we encounter on street corners and parking lots.
We encourage those of you who are reluctant to hand them out, to try it. I think you will find it rewarding. Just roll down your window and hold up a bag. Ask if they would like a lunch. Very seldom will someone decline.
We can’t pick up Brown Bags at church during our renovation but call or email me and I will gladly bring some to your house. It’s a small thing we do, but much appreciated.
Each Brown Bag costs about $5.00 to fill. Please consider making a donation. In the memo line of your check, put “Brown Bag Ministry”.
Thank you for your generosity, and may God bless our efforts.
Karen Spears
707-643-5761
Food Bank Ministry
The United in Grace Food Bank Team takes to the field every second Wednesday of the month from 1 - 3pm at the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano warehouse in Fairfield.
At the warehouse, the team sorts and bags produce for distribution to our hungry neighbors in Solano County.
Please join us.
Outreach Ministry
We make quilts that are 60 x 80 and collect items for personal care kits and school kits for Lutheran World Relief (LWR).
We make hats and scarfs for Vallejo's unsheltered and for the San Francisco Night Ministry.
At Christmas time we provide lap quilts and collect items for the Seniors love Santa program and also collect small cosmetics for distribution to the unsheltered.
You are invited to join this ministry. Regardless of your skill level, there is rewarding work for you to do.
For more information, please contact
Judy Faye at
707-643-5761 (voice/text)
Book Study
Wednesdays
10am in-person and 7pm on Zoom
Judy Faye welcomes your participation
whether in person or on Zoom.
You may reach Judy at
707-643-5971 (voice/text)
The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem
The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan has been selected for our next reading. This very timely selection will take us into Lent and Easter.
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson’s blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus’s crucifixion.
Using the gospel of Mark as their guide, Borg and Crossan present a day-by-day account of Jesus’s final week of life. They begin their story on Palm Sunday with two triumphal entries into Jerusalem.
The first entry, that of Roman governor Pontius Pilate leading Roman soldiers into the city symbolized by military strength. The second heralded a new kind of moral hero who was praised by the people as he rode in on a humble donkey. The Jesus introduced by Borg and Crossan is the new moral hero, a more dangerous Jesus than the on enshrined in the church’s traditional teachings.
The Last Week depicts Jesus giving up his life to protest power without justice and to condemn
the rich who lack concern for the poor. In this vein, at the end of the week Jesus marches up
Calvary, offering himself as a model for others to do the same when they are confronted by
similar issues. Informed, challenged, and inspired, we not only meet the historical Jesus, but
meet a new Jesus who engages us and invites us to follow him.
The Book Study groups meet weekly on Wednesdays. A morning group meets in person each Wednesday at 10 am in rotating participants homes and an evening group meets at 7 pm on
Zoom.
If you would like to participate, you can order a copy from Amazon or other sources before our first meeting.
Martha Circle
Martha Circle is a Luncheon Bible Study Group for women that meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 12pm - 2PM.
Please join us for lunch and discussion of a study from “Gather” magazine, a publication from the Women of the ELCA.
Bring your own bag lunch. Dessert will be provided.
For more information, please contact
Jan Jackson
707-643-5761