Our Global Workers Reaching Ayutthaya SIM (Serving in Missions) - Ayutthaya Team Mission Focus SIM Thailand’s vision is “By faith we see the unreached of Thailand authentically responding to the Gospel and being discipled into biblically-based, community transforming churches that engage in mission.” With this vision, SIM Thailand started a team in Ayutthaya, Thailand. SIM Ayutthaya is a multi-cultural and multi-skilled team. Members come from different countries and cultures but are united by their response to the Great Commission. The team is currently focused in four main core ministries: Hope for Life (Ministry to the Underprivileged), Santisuk Church (Church Planting Ministry), AUR Community (University Students Ministry) and Joyful Heart Bilingual House (Language Teaching Ministry). Reaching Ayutthaya Ayutthaya is a city in Thailand that is 0.5% Christian. The SIM mission in Ayutthaya seeks to reach out to its neighbors in a variety of ways: Hope for Life: This program includes English and life skill classes for children in the schools and on the temple grounds, as well as home visits to families. Joyful Heart Bilingual House: These tuition-based language classes teach English and Mandarin in a structured setting. This enables the mission to reach a segment of the population who are more educated and/or financially able. In order to serve the Thai people well, the staff are dedicated to improving their Thai language skills. This allows them to be effective communicators with those that they are trying to reach. Additionally, understanding the Thai culture is vitally important to interacting well to build credibility and trust with those they seek to serve. Church planting: Santisuk Church - A pastor and his wife work diligently to shepherd their small flock and draw others in. Serving in local churches: The staff and global workers of the Ayutthaya team split up to attend four different local churches. Their goal is to become giving and serving members of these churches. By dividing up among different churches, they are able to build relationships between churches and to strengthen the church overall in Ayutthaya. AUR Community (University Students Ministry): ministry to University Students. Back to Global Workers

Our Global Workers Paul and Angie Kimball School of Missionary Aviation Mission Focus Our mission is to be a part of reaching the nations with the gospel of Christ by training the next generation of mission aviators. As full-time missionaries with Proclaim Aviation assigned to SMAT in Ionia, Michigan, we get to be a part of equipping families to share the love of Jesus in remote areas of the world where aviation provides access to medical care, transportation, and the gospel. Paul is SMAT's Chief Flight Instructor, helping to teach the flight students in ground school and in the airplane, and also mentoring and supervising the other flight instructors. Angie works part-time in the office and is also involved in ministry with the female students and student wives. Testimony Paul's Testimony I grew up in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where my parents ministered among the Loko people and completed a New Testament translation for them. Having been raised in a Christian home, I heard the Gospel and watched it being lived out in my parents’ lives from the time of my earliest memories. I cannot pinpoint the specific time I came to saving faith in Christ, but I do remember clearly understanding my need for a personal relationship with the Lord and for forgiveness of sin, when I was nine, one evening after family devotions in Sierra Leone. At 12 years old, at a missions conference in Illinois, I committed to serve the Lord wherever and in whatever way He led. In my senior year of high school I learned about the need for aviation in missions. The Lord provided in a wonderful way and allowed me to attend Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and graduate as a pilot and aircraft mechanic from Moody’s aviation program, then located in eastern Tennessee. During my time in Tennessee the Lord brought Angie and I together. Loving and serving the Lord together with her has been the greatest joy of my life. Angie's Testimony I grew up in a small town in Iowa with wonderful parents and one older sister. We were active in church, and I remember asking Jesus into my heart around age 10. I didn’t tell anyone, but read my Bible more and tried very hard to be good. In college, God used some foolish choices and a Christian roommate to show me that I was trying to follow God with one foot and keep my other foot in the world. He opened my eyes to my sin and need for forgiveness, and the grace He offered, not because of what I’d done, but because of what Christ had done for me. It was a turning point in my life, and it’s amazing to see that I have yet to stop learning more about the depths of His mercy and love. That next year, I began looking into teaching overseas (I was getting my elementary education degree). When I met Paul and found out he was studying to become a missionary pilot, I was fascinated – with the man and with missions! – and worked to find out more about what he was wanting to do. It was easy for me to join him in pursuing missions as our life work, and it has been a privilege to use the gifts and interests He’s given us to help people know the truth of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Back to Global Workers

Our Global Workers Scott & Jayne Cuidon Global Missionary Counseling Mission Focus Our focus is to provide a holistic approach to spiritual and emotional health for those wearied or wounded on the front lines of ministry around the globe. Through spiritual friendship, spiritual direction and biblical counseling, we offer time and space to listen to God, refocus life and ministry priorities, and rest. Three, six or twelve day retreats serve as an opportunity to heal, gain perspective, and receive input from fellow missionaries in a confidential and safe environment. Testimony Scott's Testimony: As I was filling out the application for the dorm at K-State, I had a very distinct urge to live on a certain floor in a certain dorm, although I knew no one there. As it turned out, a group of CRU students had picked that dorm floor as their evangelism target that next year. I showed up with a big “bull’s-eye” on my chest. Sometime before Thanksgiving in 1981, I was alone in my dorm room reading Hal Lindsey’s, “The Late, Great, Planet Earth” which pretty much scared me into the Kingdom ☺. And although at the time I didn’t know that I was “becoming a Christian” that night, I made a sincere decision to invite Christ into my life, to forgive my sin, and to make me the person He wanted me to be. I became more and more involved with CRU over the next months/years, to the point that I dropped out of the Architecture program that I was in because I thought I wanted to be a missionary . . . and so I transferred to Truman State to study math education. I thought that it would be easy to get into any country in the world as a math teacher. Jayne's Testimony: I remember as a young child not only wanting to please my parents, but also wanting to avoid hell (a topic spoken of often in our Free Will Baptist circles). I “asked Jesus to come into my heart” at 4, was baptized at 8, worked and grew up in the church 3-4 nights a week, and even went on mission trips, but it wasn’t until college that I began to understand what it meant to walk with Jesus daily even though I had a thorough knowledge of Scripture. I was discipled and developed a deep love for the word of God for transformation rather than knowledge. Back to Global Workers

Memorial Service Friday, September 13th | 1PM Service Time 2 :00 PM CST

December Goal: Reflect on this year’s 11 challenges and design a personal goal for December. Overview: As we close out the year, take time to reflect on the journey so far: What challenge grew you the most? What stretched you or pushed you out of your comfort zone? Why was it so hard, and what did you learn? Using your reflections, create a goal for December that builds on what God has already started in your life this year. Make it something meaningful, achievable, and uniquely tailored to your own growth. Examples of Personal Goals: Commit to praying daily for someone in your life. Dedicate time each week to serve your community or someone in need. Focus on deepening your understanding of a specific Scripture passage or theme. Revisit a past challenge and try it again with renewed energy. Write your goal down and pray over it. Consider sharing it with a friend or family member who can encourage and support you as you finish the year strong, keeping your eyes on Jesus. "Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14

Prayer Why do we pray? In Galatians, we are called to "bear one another's burdens," and one of the ways we can practically do this is through prayer. We want to partner with you as you seek the Lord's will in whatever circumstance. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. - Galatians 6:2 NEED PRAYER? REQUEST IT HERE Lift others up in prayer. Join the prayer chain. One way we can encourage each other is to pray specifically for each other's needs. If you are a member or regular attender at GCC we invite you to join our prayer chain. JOIN THE PRAYER CHAIN Join Our Prayer Team Are you seeking a supportive community to lift up the ministries and staff of Grace Community Chapel in prayer? Join us for an informal time of conversational prayer where we come together to support our church family. When: Sundays: 8:30 AM | 9:50 AM | 11:15 AM Where: Conference Room in the Main Office Whether you have a specific prayer request or simply want to participate in praying for others, everyone is welcome. If you have something you would like us to pray for, please use the link below to submit your request NEED PRAYER? REQUEST IT HERE Come be a part of this heartfelt time of connection and support through prayer. We look forward to praying with you!

Our Global Workers Raymond & Kathryn Hain Greater Europe Mission | Rome, Italy Mission Focus For 5 decades, we have been on mission to share the gospel cross-culturally, but especially to Muslims. Seventeen years in the Middle East gave us Arabic language skills that break down walls when we explain Jesus (Essa) in the language and concepts of the Quran. Rome has given us a place where we have freedom to share Jesus without fear of the secret police, stoning or deportations. By leaving the spiritual principalities that rule over their countries, individuals are more open to question Islam. In one park downtown, we can share the gospel in a neighborhood that speaks 120 languages, many from unreached people groups. Once on the bus, I sat next to a Wolof from Senegal. With only 15 minutes all I could do was help him question his Islamic upbringing, “Why could Essa heal people and raise the dead, but Mohammed couldn’t?” or “Why is Mohammed dead but Essa is alive?” I rarely am refused when offering the Gospel of John in Arabic as the story of the “Life of the Messiah” (one of Jesus’ titles in the Quran). Seeds planted. From God comes the growth. With prayer, Bible portions, and gentle questions, we plant seed after seed in Italy’s fertile soil. Thank you so much for coming along side us in reaching the displaced peoples from the 10-40 window in Rome." Back to Global Workers

STATEMENT OF FAITH Statement of Faith 1. We believe the sixty-six books of the Bible to be the only inspired, authoritative Word of God, inerrant in the original manuscripts. (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21) 2. We believe that there is one God , the Creator, eternally existent in three Persons–Father, Son and Holy Spirit–each having the same essence and attributes. (2 Corinthians 13:14; Matthew 28:19) 3. We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man in indivisible union. We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary atonement through His shed blood, His death and bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His future bodily return in power and glory. (John 1:1,14; Philippians 2:6-8; 1 Timothy 3:16; Revelation 19:11-16; I Corinthians 15:1-8) 4. We believe the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, filling them as they yield to Him with the goal of conforming them to the image of Christ. (Titus 3:5; 1 Corinthians 3:16, 12:13; Ephesians 1:13, 5:18) 5. We believe salvation is a gift of God received through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone and His sacrifice for sin. We believe that a person is justified by grace through faith apart from works and that all true believers have eternal life. Saving faith includes repentance, which is a change of mind about sin and the need for Jesus as Savior. (Ephesians 2:8-9; John 3:16; I John 5:10-13; Mark 1:15) 6. We believe that the true Church is composed of all such persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the Body of Christ of which He is the Head. (Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22-23, 2:19-22) 7. We believe that water baptism and the *Lord’s Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church during the present age. They are, however, not to be regarded as means of salvation. (Acts 8:12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28) 8. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to everlasting glory in heaven with God and the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment in hell apart from God. (2 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 22:3-5, 20:15; Daniel 12:2) *Communion is open to all who have trusted Christ as Savior whether members of Grace or not and is observed on the first Sunday of each month.

Change For Change "Change for Change" is a monthly program designed to provide assistance to our missionaries during critical times and to fund projects aimed at enhancing the worldwide spread of the gospel. August Change for Change Equipping Teachers. Transforming Lives. Opening doors for the gospel in 5 new countries! Amy Scott serves as associate director of the Sparrow Project through TeachBeyond , a teacher education program for under-resourced schools around the world. As a direct result of this training, teachers have come to faith in Jesus Christ. Their transformed lives go on to influence their families, classrooms, schools, and communities. TeachBeyond would like to launch Sparrow Project in five new countries: Malawi, Guinea-Bissau, Brazil, Mexico, and Belize . Each new country represents an opportunity to equip educators who will impact countless children and families for years to come. The August Change for Change collection will help launch these new programs. The estimated cost is $1000 for each country, for a total of $5000 . Any funds beyond this will support other Sparrow Project needs. Praise God for the effectiveness of The Sparrow Project in reaching teachers for Christ! Pray for Amy as she continues to help direct The Sparrow Project. If you'd like to give, drop your donation in one of the offering boxes in the building, or donate online using the button below. You can make a Difference. We invite you to partner with us in standing by our missionaries and demonstrating our unwavering support through this donation opportunity. DONATE NOW! 2025 CHANGE for CHANGE Through your generous missions giving, we accomplished so much this year! These are just a few ways GCC has been a part of God's global work in 2025. Thank you for your prayers and support. We look forward with excitement to all He will do in 2026! HIGHLIGHTS: January February March April May June July August September October November December $10,076 $5,741 $5,132 $5,866 $6,203 $3,880 $6,765 $8,658 $15,044 $7,545 $8,934 $5,600 Support Syrian refugees Kentucky Mountain Mission Travel expenses for the Kendagors New vehicle for Eric and Rachel McEachron Bartimaeus Foundation Camp for the Blind Zambia trips Practical, gospel-centered care in the Persian region Irwin’s transition back to the US Christmas in September Our Linguistics worker travel and equipment Support The Greatest Journey (Operation Christmas Child) Making disciples in Thailand through 'Hope for Life' Total: over $83,000 Thank You For Your Generosity Additional Projects: Help Cuidons pay for travel/conference expenses A gospel centered Christmas party in Thailand through the Reaching Ayutthaya team Help Ryan Symens with unexpected ministry-related expenses These endeavors vividly illustrate GCC's active involvement in God's global mission this year. Your prayers and support have been invaluable, and we eagerly anticipate witnessing the wonders He will unfold in 2026!

Catechism Study Anchored in Christ Introduction: The word "catechism" comes from the Greek word κατηχέω (katēcheō), which means "to instruct" or "to teach." Throughout church history, catechisms have been written to instruct new believers in the faith so they can understand what a church believes on major issues. Ultimately, the purpose is to ensure new believers (of all ages) will be able to articulate the faith they believe. What to expect: A typical catechism includes a list of questions and answers. The catechism user is expected to memorize the question and answer. The hope is not to cover every possible element of each doctrine, but that in each question a foundation of sound doctrine can be laid to prepare the believer for maturity. Catechisms can be done by an individual memorizing the questions and answers themselves, or by an instructor (often a parent, pastor, or teacher) asking the question, and the student providing the expected answer. Get started today! Get Your Copy of the Catechism Course: You can purchase a printed copy of the Catechism Course on Amazon, or if you prefer, download a digital copy using the links below. Start your journey today and deepen your understanding of the faith! DIGITAL DOWNLOAD PURCHASE PAPER COPY Teach and Disciple: Looking for a biblically grounded way to teach your kids, guide your family, or disciple others? The following lessons, paired with the companion book, deepens understanding of essential Christian beliefs and equips you to lead with confidence. Click on a lesson to download the teaching guide Lesson 1 Document Scripture Bibliology Download Lesson 4 Document Jesus Christ Christology Download Lesson 7 Document Angels and Demon Angelogy/Demonology Download Lesson 10 Document The Church Ecclesiology Download Lesson 2 Document Attributes of God Theology Proper Download Lesson 5 Document Creation Creation Theology Download Lesson 8 Document The Holy Spirit Pneumatology Download Lesson 11 Document The End Times Eschatology Download Lesson 3 Document Trinity Trinitarianism Download Lesson 6 Document Man Anthropology Download Lesson 9 Document Salvation Soteriology Download Extras Document Appendix Download