Upcoming Events
Sweetheart Dinner
This is a major Youth Fundraiser. Join us for food, fellowship, entertainment and fun hosted by Grace Lutheran Youth. Contact Josh Craig for more information.
37th Annual Knippa Lecture 2024
Please join us in person at the 37th Annual Knippa Interfaith/Ecumenical Lecture on Sun., Feb. 4 at 4 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, 5th and S. Lewis Ave. in Tulsa, OK. Distinguished faith leader and author Kate Braestrup will be our guest lecturer.
Rev. Braestrup divides her time between her service as chaplain to the Maine Warden Service and her writing. Her most recent book— "Anchors and Flares"—reminds us that the threats we cannot predict have the power to knit us together as much as to rip us apart and that, as parents, we are as often called upon to bear loving witness as to be a guiding light. Other notable books by Braestrup include "Here If You Need Me," "Marriage and Other Acts of Charity," and "Beginner's Grace."
Braestrup is a popular public speaker around the country and abroad, entertaining and educating interested audiences with her characteristic honesty, good humor and poignancy.
For more information, visit her website at http://www.katebraestrup.com/aboutKate.html
Higher Things Conference
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
2023 HIGHER THINGS CONFERENCES
JULY 18-21, 2023
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
CARBONDALE, IL
Doubt. We confess to being poor miserable sinners every week but it can be hard to confess to wondering if there’s even a God who exists to listen at all. Doubt crept into the apostles’ hearts but we’re afraid of what it means if we find it in our own. The devil sets a trap to leave you feeling alone, cut off from the christians around you who don’t seem to struggle like you. What if it’s not real?
Jesus isn’t just some guy. He died and then didn’t stay dead. That’s our hope. You can even prove it. God gives us verifiable scripture that can be traced and upheld through history. You just can’t by your own reason or strength believe it. So He speaks to us, doubting hearts and minds that can’t quite help but question.
The same thing is the core of our hope and our worldview: the resurrection. Because it’s real. The gospel proclaimed by the Spirit to our hearts is something God dares us to question with our minds. If Christ has not been raised from the dead, we are above all to be pitied. So test it. There is evidence. This is the defense of the faith that defends you. It’s called “apologetics.” Your hope is rooted in a historic event, not in your own reason and strength.
O Ye of little faith, why did you doubt? It isn’t a challenge. It’s a call to be the one Jesus pulls from sinking waters. Like Peter. This is where you start to find your identity and belonging. You’re not cut off from Christ in this doubt…If you must doubt, doubt boldly.
In the summer of 2023 we’ll tackle a faith that isn’t a fairytale, and we’ll prove it. Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
Contact Joshua Craig (youth@glctulsa.org) for more details.
Grace Night - ASH WEDNESDAY
This week’s schedule:
6:00 pm - Supper (Tomato Soup)
7:15 pm - Ash Wednesdsay Worship
No other activities will take place.
Sweetheart Dinner
Tickets include a gourmet pasta dinner, dessert, and one free drink ticket for a celebratory adult beverage of your choice! Doors open at 5pm. Tickets are $25 apiece. (Singles feel free to enjoy our singles table or “couple” with a friend). Additional adult beverages will be available to purchase. Childcare will also be provided for $5 a child (this includes their dinner).
All proceeds from the event go towards the GLY trip to the Higher Things Conference.
Knippa Lecture Series
The 36th Annual Knippa Interfaith/Ecumenical Lecture Series
The Knippa Interfaith/Ecumenical Lecture Foundation Board of Directors is excited to announce that our 2023 speaker will be George Weigel, Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals (See Ethics and Public Policy Center feature at https://eppc.org/author/george_weigel/).
Youth Christmas Party
Junior and Senior Youth are both invited to our Youth Christmas Party! Parents are welcome to stay! There will be food, fun, and fellowship as we take the time to rejoice and celebrate the birth of Christ, our Savior.
Trivia Night
Grace Lutheran Youth are hosting Trivia Night in order to raise funds to attend the Higher Things next summer. We also hope to encourage bonds between congregation members with fun, food, and trivia.
JOY Oklahoma District Youth Gathering
The Oklahoma District of the LCMS hosts a Junior High Youth Gathering the weekend of September 30-October 2, 2022 at Camp Lutherhoma. The theme this year is "HEROES" and we will spend the weekend being inspired by our biblical ancestors in their faithful heroism and also in their relatable but fallen humanity.
Junior High Youth are in 6th - 8th grade (or turning 12-14 this year). The cost of the gathering including two nights and meals is $155 for each participant, however Grace Lutheran Church covers a third of the cost. So your out-of-pocket expense for each participant is $100.
100th Years of Grace - Anniversary Celebration
100th Anniversary of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
Special Event - September 25, 2022
10:00 am - Sunday Morning Mass
4:00 pm - Centennial Celebration Mass
5:30 pm - Reception Celebration - RSVP HERE (required by September 15, 2022)
Chicken or Vegetarian Plated dinner - $10 suggested donation per person (Lemon Caesar Salad, Roll, Chicken Breast Prosciutto or alternative for Vegetarians, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Grilled Seasonal Vegetables)
Child's meal & programming - $5 suggested donation (Chicken Nuggets, Mac and Cheese, Roll, Fruit Skewer)
Event Address
Grace Lutheran Church
2331 E. 5th Pl.
Tulsa, OK 74133
National Youth Gathering (NYG) 2022
About the Gathering
Held every 3 years since 1980, the LCMS Youth Gathering provides thousands of youth and adults the opportunity to come together as a community of God’s people to be encouraged in their walk with Jesus Christ and learn about the Christian faith and their Lutheran identity.
The Gathering is more than the five days of the event. The preparation process for the Gathering brings together young people and supportive adults to encourage each other in their baptismal identity. The Gathering provides young people a vision for the vastness of Christ’s Church and equips them for vocational service as they continue their walk with Jesus.
This event is organized by LCMS Youth Ministry in Saint Louis, MO. For additional ways to connect to LCMS Youth Ministry, please visit www.lcms.org/youth.
Vacation Bible School
5:30 pm - Supper in Graf Hall
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - VBS (meet in Knippa Hall)
For more information about registering or volunteering, please contact Betsy Fleming at flemibe@yahoo.com
Delancy/Loy Wedding
Please join us as we celebrate the union of Isabella Delancy and Nick Loy.
Trivia Night (Youth Fundraiser)
Join us for a fun evening of Trivia and a Salsa Cook-off/Taco Dinner. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact our Youth Director at youth@glctulsa.org.
Resurrection of our Lord
7:00 am - Sunrise Mass in the Courtyard Bulletin
8:30 am - 10:00 am - Pancake Breakfast
9:15 am - Easter Egg Hunt (toddlers)
9:30 am - Easter Egg Hunt (all other kids)
No Sunday School this morning
10:30 am - Late Mass Bulletin
Join us via livestream below or on Facebook @GraceLutheranTulsa.
Please note the livestream will appear a few minutes before the service starts.
It's OK to not be OK!
District High School Event in March: It's OK to not be OK! is an Oklahoma District High School Event on March 25 and 26, 2022. Cost will be $50/youth and $15/adult, & a FREE college age/young adult option!
All information/forms, etc. can be found here: https://drive.google.com/.../1IZx3RapERi4...
Guest speaker, Tanner Olson, is joining us as we focus on a Christian perspective of teen mental health!
Please contact Carrie Ann at Immanuel - cswaim@icaba.org or Suzanne at Christ the Redeemer suzanne.watt@ctrtulsa.org with any questions.
Lent 3 - Laudamus Choir
This Sunday, we are so pleased to welcome Laudamus, the premier, auditioned choral ensemble of the Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. They will be singing throughout worship services at both 8:00 am and 10:30 am.
8:00 am - Early Mass
9:15 am - Sunday School Classes
10:30 am - Late Mass
Join us via livestream below or on Facebook @GraceLutheranTulsa. The bulletin can be found HERE.
Please note the livestream will appear a few minutes before the service starts.
Altar Guild Work Day
Join us as we polish everything in preparation for Easter! For more information, please contact secretary@glctulsa.org.
Knippa Lecture Series
The Jan. 30, 2022 lecture is now VIRTUAL, and you are invited!
Please join the LIVE stream at 4 p.m. via the All Souls Unitarian Facebook page or their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/allsoulsunitarian).
Our speaker is Dr. Gregory Mobley, an ordained American Baptist minister and Yale Divinity School professor. The lecture topic is “What the Baptist Minister Learned from the Rabbi: Reflection on Two Decades of Interfaith Dialogue.”