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Derek Hawkins
Middle School Director
Middle School Gatherings
Middle School gatherings are held during the 9A & 11A Main Sunday Gatherings and are dedicated to students in 6th – 8th grade. Students will learn an impactful and applicable lesson each week, all while having some fun with other students.
Brooke Schneider
High School Director
High School Gatherings
High School Saturday Nights are held on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month for students in 9th to 12th grade. Meet us in the Warehouse at 7P on these nights for fun, fellowship, worship, and the Word! Click here for a schedule of all upcoming High School Gatherings for the school year.
Applications open now!
Middle School
Park Heights - July 16–21
Capacity: 25 students, 5 leaders
Cost: $450
For the past few years, our students have traveled to Park Heights in Baltimore to serve them. This year, we are excited to bring Park Heights students to Grace to experience Vacation Bible School and other fun activities at our facilities in Fulton. During the week, Grace Students will lead a VBS for all the students, serve our community through various service projects, and go on a local field trip to First Fruits. To help them begin embracing the nature of a missions trip, students will stay overnight in the Warehouse under adult supervision and will eat all their meals in the Warehouse.
High School
For the Nations, Richardson, TX - July 2-8
Capacity: 20 students, 5 leaders
Cost: $1200
Grace Students will partner with a Missions organization called For The Nations in Richardson, Texas, and will help with education, acculturation, and Gospel presentations to refugee adults and children. They will engage in developing relationships with the refugees to share the love of Christ with those who have endured difficult circumstances.
Bugembe, Uganda - July 1-10
Capacity: 15 students, 4 leaders
Cost: $3200
The team will serve in Bugembe working at the AOET’s primary and secondary schools to encourage the students and run a Vacation Bible School. The team will also conduct child sponsorship interviews to update student profiles, complete a service project at the clinic, and visit the children’s village to spend time with children who live there.
High School
Middle School
Book Suggestions
A Little Pot of Oil
by Jill Briscoe
A time comes when we just don’t have anything left over to give. We run out of faith, energy, strength, patience, options, peace, joy, ideas, and even love. So when God’s call comes knocking and our resources seem thin, we tend to hole up and hide from the needs of others. But that’s exactly when God’s greatest blessing is within a single step, according to Jill Briscoe. He’s asking us to obey, senseless as it may seem.
Crazy Love
by Francis Chan
Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do’s and don’ts—it’s falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.
Don't Waste Your Life
by John Piper
The American Dream beckons people to spend their lives on trivial diversions, slipping through life caught up with seeking success, comfort, and pleasure above all else. But God designed people for far more than this.
What's So Amazing About Grace?
by Philip Yancey
In What’s So Amazing About Grace? award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. If grace is God’s love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more of cruelty and unforgiveness than it does of mercy?
Radiant
by Priscilla Shirer
The culture will try to define you, but this world is starving for something different that comes only from the creative genius of your God. You were created to reflect His light. . . . You were created to be radiant.
Virtual Prayer Box
You may add your prayer request to our prayer wall using the form below. Once your prayer request is received, we will share it according to your instructions. Feel free to submit as many prayer requests as you like!
This prayer has been answered!
Anonymous
I pray for my friend Gail and her husband, Johnnie who have tested positive for the virus. I pray for a cure for this virus. I pray for a healing solutions to remove this deadly virus. God bless our world, the USA, Maryland and each and everyone of our homes.
I pray for the 1st responders, doctors, medical researchers,, nurses, everyone who has to continue working so that we can have the supplies we need to survive while we are quarantined.
I pray for the politicians to make sound decision and secure the safe of our country and the world.
Received: April 28, 2020
Anonymous
I didn’t really grow up in a Christian home. I found god threw going to church when I was little with some friends and sometimes I get very angry and sad with my parents for not understanding when I am on a path to build a relationship with God. Just now I was on ringcentral when my dad came in yelling at me for not being down stairs cleaning and it just made me think how many setbacks their are even in littlest of things and I just ask that someone pray for me to have the strength to continue trying to build my relationship with God and just the strength to continue at home because the isolation really gets to me and puts me in very dark and heavy mindsets and it’s very difficult for me to ask for help but if I’ve learned anything throughout this retreat is to be face to face with my weakness. Thank you
Received: April 25, 2020
This prayer has been answered!
Student Friend of Grace
I’m having a harder time staying motivated with school and resisting distractions and the temptation to procrastinate during the day. I try to be a really good student, and I do really want to do well and glorify God in my studies. But I feel like I’m always constantly buried in school, I don’t have very much time to pursue some of my passions outside of school which can tempt me to resent the work I’m doing even though I know it’s good work. I don’t really want my work ethic to be circumstantial (i.e. I only do good work when I know there will be free time at the end of the day/week or I’ll have an instant reward.) I want to do my best work not for a good grade or for free time but because it’s going to please the Lord, and I want to do my best work regardless of whether I’ve had a tough week or an easy one. I’ve tried a lot of different things to avoid distractions and stay motivated, but I haven’t made nearly as much progress as I would like. Prayers would be very much appreciated (especially that I wouldn’t stop trying, even if progress in this issue is slow.) Thank you all so much for your help! I appreciate it a great deal, and it really means a lot to me. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Received: April 24, 2020
A Senior
The class of 2020 is losing so many memories they’ve been looking up to and working towards since they were kids. Please pray that God will provide them with everything they’re missing out on, and also that the students are reminded that the plan God has for them is way bigger than the plan they have for themselves.
Received: April 24, 2020
Anonymous
My grandpa has cancer and a lot of complications right now... He is in the hospital but we are not allowed to see him due to COVID-19. He is not eating and probably only has a couple days to live. Pray that we can get him moved out of the hospital to an end of life facility and say our goodbyes. Pray for peace and know that it is okay to let go. Pray that he goes peacefully and he is not in pain. I also pray that eventually he will get a funeral service that he deserves and can be celebrated after the coronavirus is gone.
Received: April 5, 2020
Anonymous
please pray for my quiet time with the Lord to be consistent, I don't really have any excuses.
Received: April 2, 2020
Anonymous
prayer for peace and calmness over my brother who has been very thrown off by this unstructured time, and for patience for the rest of us so we can care for him the best we can.
Received: April 2, 2020
Christen
Hello friends!! Please pray for my friends in Dallas who have the coronavirus. Their names are: Matt, Erin, Cindy, Robert, Paul, Erin, and Pete.
Received: March 30, 2020
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Grace Students
Meet the Team
Dave Brewer
Grace Families Pastor
Derek Hawkins
Middle School Director
Brooke Schneider
High School Director
Chae Shiao
Students Event Coordinator
Isaac Brunk
Grace Students Resident
Dave Brewer
Grace Families Pastor
Chae Shiao
Students Event Coordinator
Derek Hawkins
Middle School Director
Isaac Brunk
Grace Students Resident