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Would you like to sing in a low-stress and fun choir this spring? Join Penn State students and older locals in the Adult Choir at Grace! Choir rehearses each Wednesday from 7-8:30 pm in the worship space at Grace. Nate Glocke is the choir’s talented and fun musician and leader. He teachers music and 7th grade choir at Mount Nittany

Gather for a relaxed and community-built time of worship on Thursdays at 6 pm in the Worship Hall at Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.  You’ll find an informal and welcoming community; a place to step away from the demands of the week for a bit. There is music, prayer, reflection together, and lots of opportunity to connect with other students. It is

Spring Break 2025 – Hurricane Relief Service Trip: Caring for our Neighbors in Western North Carolina March 8 – 15, 2025      Cost: $200 Includes transportation, lodging, and food. -Scholarships available             Plans are coming together! We’d love to have you join a group from Lutheran Student Community and Abba Java/Wesley Student Fellowship in a week of service and hurricane relief

15As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, 16John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the

The season of Christmas includes the 12 days from December 25 through January 5.  On January 6th, we begin the season of Epiphany and mark the arrival of the magi who followed a star to find Jesus. The magi  were strangers, foreigners from another land and another religion who saw this sign from God in the heavens and were drawn by its

God of light, Show me your light in the long nights.Help me to see your love in the midst of sorrow and hate.Reveal your forgiveness and justice in the face of blame and retribution.Help me to see where compassion and healing are most needed. Make me your light in the world.Empower me to reach out with love and compassion to the stranger,

1 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.” 3 When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with

On Thursday evenings when we gather for worship on campus, we use the evening prayer liturgy, singing the ancient story of an angel announcing to Mary that she will give birth to the messiah.  We sing together Mary’s response accepting the responsibility, naming God’s commitment to the vulnerable and powerless while humbling the powerful and privileged.  This story is at

O God, Empower me to sing with Mary of your faithfulness and love. Help me to see your commitment to the vulnerable and powerless. Use me to work for justice and love in the world. Show me how you continue working through unlikely people and unlilkely circumstances. Remind me that you are here. Amen. singing with Mary | Mary and

39In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit