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Hey OWNit365.com participants!!!  Want a free iPad???  Check out this announcement from Grace Church!

OWNit365.com Stories - Win a Free iPad. We’d love to hear how OWNit365.com has impacted you, your family, or others in your world. Send us your story at stories@graceks.org and we’ll enter your name in the drawing for a free iPad. Mark 2:11 “so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying , ‘We never saw anything like this!’” Please submit your stories by Thursday, August 4.

Register for our Men's Quarterly Breakfast! (Sat 7/23)

Have you registered for this quarter's Men's Breakfast Fellowship yet?  (It's Sat, July 23, 7:30-9:00 a.m. at Grace.) It is one of the most rewarding 90 minutes you can spend -- great food, new friends, helpful messages. And you're back home before the weekend starts!

Our speaker is our new Spiritual Development Pastor, Phillip Kelley.  Phillip grew up in Spring Hill, KS and went to Liberty University on a full baseball scholarship. In his freshman year he felt the calling of God to hang up the spikes and go into pastoral ministry. Phillip returns to Kansas after being the Senior Pastor of a 1,000 member church in Kentucky. His special message to Grace Men will be one you won't forget.

Cost is only $5 per man. And bring your son! He's a man too! (I always bring mine!)

Please confirm you're coming by emailing  Men@graceks.org 

Web Bonus - Jesus & the Four Friends

We kicked off our "Friended" series this weekend, where we're spending 3 weeks in the book of Mark (where we're reading in our OWNit365.com plan right now). We spent time with the story of the four (great) friends in Mark 2:1-12.

• Group Brainstorm -- We kicked off each service brainstorming together on what people DO for friends (actions) that they might not do for people who aren't yet friends. Here's what you came up with:
  
  • Sat 5p -- Give a ride to the airport, Watch their dogs/cats, Watch their kids, Help move, Share a meal, Send cards, Email
  • Sun 8a -- Argue, Tell them no, Listen, Spend time, Share a secret, Lend them money, Share toys, Use the phrase "it's not about u", Show your ugly side
  • Sun 9:30a -- Hug, Spend time together, Share secrets, Confess, Help them move, Tell them you love them, Take care of their kids/pets, Listen
  • Sun 11a -- Give them a hug, Spend time with them, Help them move, Cook dinner for them, Pray for them, Play games with them, Clean their kitchen, Bring them to the men's breakfast, Watch their cat
•  People's Comments -- Here's what I heard this week after the talk:
  
  • "Went to @graceks Church tonight and heard an awesome message by @TimHowey about friendship. I think I need to be a better friend. #inspired"
  • "when jesus says 'your sins are forgiven' God in heaven, when he looks at your life, says 'I am unfamiliar with any sin!'" @TimHowey WORD!
  • "I want you to know that I followed through with what I felt let to do after the sermon today & contacted my friend...It was well received...I plan on emailing [them] a prayer everyday and hope that God will do what He does best...draw [them] to Him. Praise the Lord who loves me so much that I get to do His work."

It's time to intentionally & prayerfully reach out to our friends who don't know Christ yet...to pick up "our corner of the mat" & do WHATEVER it takes, to introduce them to Jesus!!! Call a friend today & invite them to church, to a study, to a sporting event, to coffee, ANYTHING!!! Then tell them what great things God has done for you (Mark 5).

Next weekend, we'll continue our "Friended" series. Don't miss it!