Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church

No one in our community should go hungry.  Our food pantry serves as a welcoming space where anyone can receive support without judgement.  We are ready to share with anyone needing extra support.  No appointment is needed. If you or someone you know is in need of groceries, please visit us.

We try to keep our shelves stocked with canned goods, rice, beans, crackers, granola bars, cereal and other items.  We also provide diapers, baby wipes and feminine products.  Our pantry is stocked completely with donations.  We appreciate anything you are called to share with the food pantry. On each day we are open, we serve approximately 50 shoppers, and our services reach an estimated 225 individuals.   It takes many cans of corn or tuna to keep us stocked.

Our pantry is open on the 2^nd and 4^th Thursdays of each month from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  We believe the pantry embodies the church’s commitment to service and compassion.

Grace Abounds Food Pantry recently adopted the following Mission Statement.

Grace Abounds Food Pantry is guided by faith to share God’s abundance with our neighbors, community members, families, and all those in need.

We pledge to:

• Be a welcoming environment for those entering our food pantry.
• Be a low barrier, safe place.
• Provide food and other items and share it with abundance and grace.
• Serve with compassion, respect and hope.

Please watch the church newsletter or the Sunday brief to see our needs.  Look at our shelves and see if you would like to help with any items. There will be a bin in the Narthex each Sunday for supplies.  We are so appreciative of whatever you can provide to help ensure our shelves are full.

Hurricane Helene’s impact is far from over. Thousands of our neighbors still face the threat of eviction, foreclosure, and utility shutoffs. That’s why Grace Covenant has partnered with the Land of the Sky Association of REALTORS® to launch the Grace in Action Fund—a long-term effort to provide direct housing support to those most impacted.

Our history on this land is complicated. These ancient mountains speak to us about wisdom, balance, tumult, and the turning of time. The Cherokee Ancestors, the Fire People,  called this land,“Togiyasdi,” (Toe-ghee-yatsy). Our Cherokee neighbors tell us this land recognizes this name, and they invite us to call it by name as an expression of reverence and love.

Grace Covenant is located along the path that was once was a frequented trade route of Indigenous people. When white colonizers came to this land, the history of this place became violent and tragic. Forced removal decreed by the US Government and violently enforced by white settlers, caused horrific sorrow, suffering, and death of thousands of Cherokee people.

We will continue to deepen our understanding of this harmful history and the long standing history of Christianity, land speculators, government officials, and corporations stealing land and destroying cultures all over the world. We remember the harm done by the Doctrine of Discovery and Christianity authorizing and sanctifying genocide. This painful and unjust history is part of our legacy on this land.

This church is now on this land because of a series of transactions between white people who benefited from systems of advantage created by white land owners. The value of this land and the desire to have a Presbyterian church here was driven by things like Urban Renewal, Red Lining, Segregation, white sprawl and white solidarity. We seek ways to repair the long standing and harmful history of Presbyterian support and participation in chattel slavery, boarding schools for indigenous children, and in the upholding of white supremacy in the ways faith has been lived out.

This land teaches us also about resolve, resistance, and regeneration in the food, community, justice and joy that grow and flourish here. We will continue to practice following Spirit on unknown paths, letting go and leaning in, and believing that we can change and that the world can change, too.

You can join us in-person or online for Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church worship on Sundays at 10:00 am.

(Previous worship services and devotionals are also available at this link.)

Email prayer@gcpcusa.org

Grace Covenant uses an online membership platform called Realm. This system offers ways to connect with each other and support your involvement in our church.

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