Pastor's Corner

May 2013

Grace Lutheran Church and School / St. Matthew’s Church for the Deaf 2222 Vauxhall Road, Union, New Jersey 07083 | Phone: 908-686-3965 • Fax: 908-686-5111 • TTY: 908-851-2004 • GraceLu4U@yahoo.com

Grace Lutheran Church & School / St. Matthew's Church for the Deaf

GraceLu4U@yahoo.com 2222 Vauxhall Rd, Union, New Jersey 07083 Phone: 908-686-3965 • Fax: 908-686-5111 • TTY: 908-851-2004

With the month of May comes our national observance of Mother's Day - a day we have set aside to appropriately thank and recognize our mothers for their tireless acts of love for us on a daily basis. Accordingly, it is also a time for us to think of the families which the Lord God has blessed us and to be thankful for them as well. The family is the basic societal unit as designed by God Himself. He created the first couple, Adam and Eve, and then blessed them and told them to be fruitful and multiply. Part of that blessing came in the personage of their children. They were God's gift to them for them to raise in a Godly environment, manifesting and showing them God's love on a daily basis in everyday acts, occurrences and situations. The family is still the basic societal unit as designed by God even though it is coming under increasing attack today within our society. We need to uphold it and maintain it as God intended it to be, not only for our own personal well-being but for that of our society as a whole. In many of our homes, it is the mother who holds it all together and establishes and lays the groundwork for the stability of the home - again for which we must be thankful. The "community of believers of Grace" is of such a size that we are similar to a family. Everyone is known by name and care and concern for one another is felt by all. If you are looking for this kind of a family which to worship the Lord God, serve Him and grow in your relationship with Him, then we invite you to become a part of our family. Check our monthly newsletter, our worship video, our weekly updates and other tabs on this website for more information. Please be aware - and make known to any Deaf that you may know, that our weekly 10:30 worship service on Sunday mornings is interpreted for the Deaf.