Who We Are
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church is a member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Grace is a small rural-suburban congregation with friendly, welcoming members who genuinely care for each other and who, through Grace’s benevolence programs, actively care for the “least of these.”
Where We Are
Grace is located one mile northwest of Elmore on State Highway 51, at the junction of Highway 51 and West Witty Road. Contact the church via email at: graceelc@gmail.com or by phone: 419-862-3630. Entrance doors to both the sanctuary and office are handicap accessible.
19225 W. Witty Road
Elmore Ohio 43416
Pastor Jaci Tiell
To contact the Pastor, call 419-862-3630 or email graceelc@gmail.com
Services
Grace's current worship schedule is as follows:
Sunday Worship: Worship services are held every Sunday during the summer in the air-conditioned Fellowship Hall.
Sunday School is not meeting during June, July and August.
Drive-Up Worship: Grace has returned to inside worship but also transmits to the parking lot for those wishing to worship in their cars. Services are broadcast via a short-range radio transmitter on FM 94.1. Worship guides are sent to everyone on the Grace email list before each service (if you are not on the Grace email list, you may subscribe below or on our “CONTACT US” page). Printed guides are also available before each service.
Communion: Communion is served every Sunday. Worshippers can receive communion in their vehicles. Worshippers may either bring their own communion elements (bread and wine) or pre-packaged communion elements are available before worship starts.
Sunday worship during the months of June, July, & August: Worship is held in the air-conditioned Fellowship Hall .
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Grace Benevolences
At Grace, 10 percent of all offerings are dedicated to benevolences. Those funds support ELCA benevolences and world hunger as well as many local local Christian charities selected by the Church's Board of Witness and Mission. In addition to this basic benevolence commitment, Grace conducts special benevolence projects throughout the year including special appeals during Lent and Advent.
We take for granted our many appliances that we use to prepare meals and the clean safe water available on our sinks. It can be difficult to realize that there are still places where people cook over an open fire on a dirt floor inside their home and have limited access to clean water.
The Grace Care Team, think Witness and Mission, in partnership with the local organization “The Lord’s Hands and Feet”, is asking you to improve the lives of rural Guatemalan families by providing donations to purchase a cookstove and water filter.
The stoves are manufactured in Guatemala by a local company and installed by residents and visiting volunteers.
$250 gets a family the stove, water filter and a Bible.
Funds will be collected during the month of May. Thrivent Choice dollars will match up to $500.
The goal is to raise a minimum of $1000. Checks can be written to Grace Lutheran Church with “Stoves” in the memo line.
Sunday May 17, 2026
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Acts 1: 6-14
Psalm 68: 1-10, 32-35
1 Peter 4: 12-14, 5: 6-11
Gospel: John 17: 1-11