Pastor's Blog

Welcome to Our Website

Welcome to our website! This website is a doorway to the life that’s found at Grace UMC. Once you open the door (which you’ve just done) you can not only see who and what we are, you can also find information and links that will allow you to experience us!

Grace Church has been an active Christian community of faith in Hicksville for over 160 years. Having been around that long, we’ve not only dug some deep roots, we’re also continuing to live into our name - Grace. Our mission statement best describes it: We’re helping each other to find, follow, and serve Christ! We let this statement serve as a starting point of every ministry here at Grace Church. We have vital ministries for everyone. If we don’t have one you’re interested in being a part of, as long as it can be launched from our mission statement we’ll give it a try!

The beauty of the website is that you can visit us whenever you want and explore what we have with all the personal space you need. Our hope is that you’ll want to see and experience more, and perhaps contact us via email, telephone, or come visit us personally! In any case, may God’s love and grace continue to shine on, in, and through you!

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Meet Our Pastor

Hi! I'm pastor Greg Wack. In 1999, I was ordained an Elder in the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. Technically, ministry began for me at the age of 20 when a kind lady asked my wife, Karen, and I to teach the kindergarten Sunday School class. So, for the past 34+ years, my wife and I have been teaching Sunday School, leading youth groups, and/or anything else we could get involved in as we've grown as disciples of and for Jesus Christ. Sitting on my hands, content to simply watch things happen has never been part of my life. Joy in life, for me, is to step forward, even into the unknown, to see what God has waiting for us to experience and learn.

I feel that God called me from what felt like the drudgery of life full of unfinished dreams to live into God's dream for me. One of my goals is to live by the greatest commandment: to love God with all that I am and to love my neighbor as much as I love myself. In doing this, I want to help people discover God's unconditional love and grace for them and live into God's dream for their lives. It's my belief that our stories are the gears of life. God connects them and gives them power.

You've heard part of my story, let's talk so that I can learn part of your story and, together we'll discover the power in life God has for us!

Read more of what Greg has to say at his Pastor's Blog.