We encourage every member of Grace to fully participate in the life and mission of the church by doing the following:
Biblical community is built on a foundation of trust and authenticity. As believers, our connection is based on our eternally secure status as brothers and sisters in the family of God.
We encourage every member to join a Grace Group where we can be known, supported and challenged to grow in faith.
Setting up a Membership class in CCB
Membership Process Queue in CCB
We want our members to practice what they learn by obeying God’s word and helping others to know God through His word. Resources like classes, curriculum, and Bible studies equip our people to grow individually and in groups.
[Communication via Church Community Builder (CCB)](https://grace-bible.notion.site/Communication-via-de212a4a40be4d0aa97b8d091a31c052)
We challenge every member to become a disciple-maker together with the people in their small group community, praying for and supporting each other to reach the people in our spheres of influence and beyond.
Volunteer Serve Application Process
We encourage every member at Grace to share in the responsibility of the church by consistently doing the following:
We believe in the power of prayer and ask members to faithfully pray for all aspects of our church. We also faithfully pray for prayer requests from members and attenders of Grace submitted via our website.
We believe that giving is an act of worship. Each of us is called to worship God with our entire life, including our time, talent and money. Giving generously is an excellent way to worship the Giver of all good things. The leadership of Grace pledgers to be a good steward of your gifts, taking great care in how we manage and track the resources entrusted to us.
The Holy Spirit has given every believer one or more spiritual gifts. These gifts are supernatural, given to us to serve God, to draw others to God and to build up the church. Each person’s gifts are valued and necessary as we work together with God to accomplish His mission.
We want every member to know their gifting and to use it to serve God’s family and God’s world. There are many opportunities to serve at Grace and in our city. We’d love to help you discern where and how God might be leading you to serve.
We aim to be outwardly focused. It is natural for individuals, families, and church communities to become inwardly focused on their resources unless there is an intentional effort or a cultural catalyst to turn outward.
One catalyst for Grace’s multi-generational outward focus has been our passion for the next generation. Since our earliest days, the high percentage of students in our midst has motivated a selfless attitude in our most faithful members.
Another catalyst has been our emphasis on reaching the nations. These 2 catalysts combined have motivated the sending of hundreds if not thousands from Grace to the nations. Our Global Outreach budget has grown from $360 a year in the 60s to nearly $1 million a year in the mid 2020s. An atmosphere of selflessness in a setting of sending will catalyze lavish launching…it certainly has here in Aggieland.
So…we have always been a church that is known for being generous – historically among those who are reaching the nations, and more notably in recent years, here in our community. Every campus now has a global AND a local partnership. This enhances our members’ relationships with fellow-members who run a local outreach AND with those who have been sent and are being supported by us. That connectivity mobilizes more and more of us too engage ministry, here and abroad.
And that engagement has grown more courageous through the decades. Not satisfied to send to the most comfortable or popular places, we strive to go to those place that are least reached and potentially most uncomfortable. Locally, ministries like Youth Impact have, for 50 years, brought light and the gospel to some of our community’s most under-resourced families.
Grace strategically partners with the following organizations who expertly carry out the mission of the Gospel within their unique areas of focus. Below, you’ll find links to these ministry partners to help you personally engage, and to challenge those you lead to engage with you: