Serve the Community

While Grace Community Church is our church family, our neighborhood and city are where daily life happens. It is here that we take the Good News of Jesus, by serving families, schools, and the impoverished.

Backpack Blessings

Many kids and families in our community struggle to have enough food for their family. Backpack Blessings helps fill the gap for over 38 families a week at East Gresham Elementary School, and 20 families a week at Hogan Cedars Elementary. This ministry seeks to provide easy to prepare, nutrition to kids over the weekend.

To support Backpack Blessings you can:

  • Donate food from the approved food list.

  • Donate money for the purchase of food and backpacks.

  • Join the food packing/delivery or shopping team.

Faithful Friends Mentoring Program

Mentoring is proven to powerfully change lives. We believe God wants us to invest deeply in relationship and love people where they are. For this reason, we partner with Faithful Friends to provide positive, healthy relationships for kids in our community.

Hogan Road Community Garden

The Hogan Road Community Garden, located in the southeast corner of Grace Community Church’s property, is a great place to learn gardening skills, meet new people and share in a crop of fresh produce for you and your family. All are welcome! The garden operates all year round, so there’s an abundance of ways to get involved.

Advent Conspiracy

Each year at Grace we slow down a bit to reflect on how we choose to celebrate the birth of Jesus. We conspire together to celebrate differently than the world. To focus our attention on Worshiping God Fully, Spending Less on material possessions we don't need, Giving More of ourselves in relationship and Loving All those who have spiritual and material needs in our community. We call this Advent Conspiracy.  As part of Advent Conspiracy, Grace has hosted a Community Christmas Celebration for staff and families from East Gresham Elementary School. This is a time when we can celebrate together by enjoying dinner, music and crafts in a fun party atmosphere as well as provide families with needed food, clothes and even a Christmas tree. We encourage you to reallocate money from normal holiday spending to give to AC. Money given to AC will be used to resource this party and be given to Living Water International to provide clean water, sanitation and the Gospel around the world. Click HERE to give to AC.

Serve East County

Every August, we partner with other local churches to gather to bless and serve East County. We do this because we take seriously our responsibility to go and be a blessing in our neighborhood.

Locations that we serve include East Gresham Elementary, My Fathers House, Gresham Pregnancy Resource Center, and Sandy Grade School.