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Bible Study, Daily Devotional, Daily Devotions, Family, featured, Members, UPDATED, Worship

Grace Services Online

If you are planning to worship with us in person on Sunday morning, our guidelines ask that you call to pre-register your attendance so that we can effectively seat everyone in the sanctuary while maintaining social distance. The deadline to pre-register is Friday at noon. Please call the church office to pre-register.

Worship and broadcasts will be live Sundays at 10:00am and On-Demand.

Easily access archives of previous services and devotions through most of these same resources!

The online worship options we have include: 
(Click on the highlighted links below for quick access)

  • Facebook, 
  • YouTube,
  • Grace’s FireTV Channel,
    • from your FireTV, search for the Grace United Methodist Church Columbia channel (or click the link above or Add the channel via the web to your FireTV device by visiting:  amazon.com and select apps and devices in the search bar – Grace United Methodist Church),
  • ROKU –  
  • and our website.

You can find the bulletin here, and the announcements here. Our online giving page can be found here. You can still mail your offering to the church at 410 Harbison Blvd. Columbia, SC 29212 or you can bring it by and drop it in the mailbox outside of the church office.

featured, Outreach, Service

Outreach – Even in These Times!

Did you know you are a member of the Outreach committee at Grace?

Well, you are!  You know Jesus and make him known to others everywhere you go and that is outreach.

Our Outreach committee serves our community in feeding the hungry monthly, Operation Christmas child, kettle ring for the Salvation Army at Christmas, Salkehatchie, Seeds of Hope Angel tree ministry, Hand y Mano, adopt a highway (trash pickup).  As you can see, our programs that we sponsor are a powerful witness. Meaning you can be involved with one or several and you will be truly blessed a thousand-fold by the sharing of your time and your talents.  

For more information on how you can make Jesus known to others, please contact Susan Floyd  803-429-3194 or Marlin McPhail 803-730-8355

Administrative Council, Education, featured, Memorials, Memorials, Scholarship, Tithes and Offerings, Youth

Choral Scholars

Grace United Methodist Church is currently experiencing a trend that has been affecting churches all over the U.S. High schools and colleges are not producing trained singers to volunteer in church choirs in the high numbers that they once did, even ten years ago. Sadly, some churches have done away with their choirs altogether. At Grace, it is our goal to strive toward excellence in our music ministry and worship, led by the Chancel Choir, aided by choral scholars.

Choral Scholars are music students or in some cases young music graduates, who lead their respective sections in the choir.

Through a Choral Scholars program, Grace is able to invest in the lives and careers of young musicians who are either training for a career in Music or who are underemployed music graduates needing help in launching a music career. A Choral Scholars program is an outreach ministry to our community, and can help us achieve Grace’s 2020 vision of reaching out into our community.

Through this program, we are able to bring young musicians into our church and minister to them at a time in their lives when many young adults are unchurched. A Choral Scholars program also helps to train young musicians to be the church music leaders of the future. In fact, our own Mark Merritt was once a choral scholar.

We have received some seed money to assist in starting a Choral Scholars program at Grace. We believe that we could have choral scholars on all four parts in the choir for $900 per year, per singer.

Cooking Class, Family, featured, fellowship, Outreach

John Childs Cooking Class

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I have been asked about the cooking class for June, the class has been cancelled due to Covid19.  At this point we do not know when they will be resumed.  I will let everyone know once we start scheduling the classes again.  In the meantime please stay safe.

Thank you,

Bill  Walker
Office Manager
Grace United Methodist Church

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These classes are held in the Grace UMC Fellowship Hall Kitchen. For information or to register for the class please call the church office at 803-732-1899 Monday – Thursday 9:00am – 3:00pm or Friday 9:00 am – noon or email us at:
office@gracecolumbia.org

Master Chef John Chiles, former owner of Restaurant 123 in Irmo, General Manager for Club Corp international and Part Owner and Operator of Blue Marlin is the instructor.

It is at no cost to you.
It is a lot of fun and we know that you will enjoy them.