Our volunteers never cease to amaze us!  Each Friday in the summer months, volunteers invest nearly 300 hours to provide families in need with tens of thousands of dollars worth of fresh produce and kitchen essentials.  Now it may sound crazy, but summer is almost here!  We are already gearing up and preparing for our huge summer programs – Feed Our Kids and Grocery Giveaway. The GRACE Grocery Giveaway campaign was born from our commitment to stewardship, one of our five core principles.  The Mobile Food Pantry began as a pilot program during the summer of 2015 to ensure perishable food items donated at the end of the week could be utilized for at-risk families to enjoy food over the weekend at the peak of their quality.  Popular demand and community support throughout the past few years have made Grocery Giveaway a GRACE tradition. The program has worked seamlessly

    As the only Community Clinic in the immediate area GRACE is committed to providing holistic, preventative care that helps families overcome financial and physical hardship.  Your investment in GRACE programs spurs exciting changes for families in our community, including the over 800 individuals who consider the GRACE Community Clinic their medical home. The GRACE Community Clinic provides primary medical care for low-income individuals and families who do not have access to traditional healthcare. The goal of the Community Clinic is for every individual and family in our community to have access to basic medical care as well as preventative education for sustained health. GRACE Community Clinic offers the following healthcare services: Routine Family Practice Internal Medicine Endocrinology Cardiology Well Woman Chiropractic Care Our Clinic also holds monthly preventative care and education opportunities for concerns such as diabetes, pre-diabetes, self breast exam training, and nutrition classes.  In collaboration with

  GRACE is extremely honored and excited to announce Kimberly and Brent Tipps as our 2019 Chairs for the GRACE Gala, championing sixteen outstanding years of vital program funding with event proceeds! Kimberly grew up in Oak Park, Illinois and has now been a resident of Southlake for twenty years.  Lifelong Texan, Brent, was born and raised in Amarillo and made Tarrant County his home twenty years ago as well.  The happy couple just celebrated their first anniversary this past March, and life together keeps them ever busy and grateful. In 2002, Brent founded the BoomerJack’s restaurant family with a single location at Casa Linda Plaza in Dallas.  Fast forward to today and the Tipp’s company now includes 13 BoomerJack’s Grill & Bar locations across the DFW area and a live-music venue, Bedford Ice House, and they are not stopping there! Currently there are two more BoomerJack’s under construction —

In partnership with United Way and the City of Fort Worth, many households in our community were able to receive free basic tax preparation through VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance), which took place at GRACE Main from January 28 through April 17.  The services were provided not only to alleviate the burden of tax preparation, but also to allow low to middle income families to take advantage of identified Earned Income Tax Credits, financial coaching referrals and opportunities for continued education. VITA is provided by a partnership between United Way, the City of Fort Worth and GRACE, offering 100% free-of-charge tax preparation services to families who earn less than $56,000 annually.  This program puts hard earned dollars back into the hands of the individuals who earned them.  Not only are the services free, but they have also rendered better tax benefit returns this year and in past years. GRACE’s IRS-certified

  Come out to the GRACE Comunity Garden on Saturday, May 11th from 9:00 a.m. until noon to plant sweet potatoes, corn and tomatillos 🌽 YUM! You can sign up here! The Garden is located at 837 E Walnut Street Grapevine, TX 76051. What to bring with you: Water bottle, closed toe shoes, and sunscreen. If you own gardening gloves and knee pads, please bring them! There are some at the gardens for those who do not have any. To view the full calendar, please click here. The GRACE Community Gardens are a way for GRACE to provide those in need with healthy, organic produce. Each month, volunteers are needed to help with a major planting, prepping, or harvesting event. Don’t worry, experience is not necessary! Garden Leaders will be there to give direction and educate volunteers on gardening. Contact: Alison Shumaker at alison.shumaker@yahoo.com Phone: 817-907-6617  

We pray you and your loved ones feel the nearness of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in the coming days. GRACE Main Office, Client Services, Community Clinic and Food Pantry will be closed tomorrow, April 19, in observance of Good Friday.

Our programs are only as good as our volunteers, and the compassionate care GRACE provides to over 5,000 family members each year is only made possible by the talented, selfless, and generous volunteers from our community.  So, of course, any chance we get to celebrate our treasured volunteers we get super EGG-cited! We channeled our inner Easter Bunny spirit animal this week, and handed out goody-filled Easter eggs to our EGG-ceptional volunteers.  Most eggs were filled with sweet candy treats while a few select, EGGS-clusive eggs were filled with prize-winning gold coins!  The lucky golden coin recipients were given gift cards.  Plus, all throughout the week our various GRACE sights celebrated with pizza parties, donuts, brownies and many other treats to show their appreciation. Here at GRACE, we are in awe and humbled by the outpouring of countless hours, hard work, resources, and love from the EGGS-traordinary people who serve. 

  Nicole and Mike Tesoriero of Southlake Style are excited to invite you out to their upcoming second annual FÜDTRUKY (food-TRUCK-ee) coming to The Marq in Southlake’s Aria Amphitheater on Saturday, May 11. Last year the event raised $10,000 for GRACE, enough to supply 3,500 meals for our Feed Our Kids Program which provides lunches for children who do not have access to the free or reduced lunch program when school is not in session. For 2019 Southlake Style has set the bar even higher with the goal of raising $15,000 through the festival – enough to provide more than 5,000 nutritious lunches to area children who might otherwise go without while school is out for the summer. These lofty do-gooder goals are not possible to reach without the lending of many helping hands. There are many volunteer opportunities available. Click here to sign up for a variety of our very

    We feel blessed to welcome another woman and her child into our family. Alexus and her three year old daughter, Madison, moved into their new home this past Monday, April 15. Alexus is a very driven and motivated young lady. We are so eager to welcome her into the GRACE family and assist her with achieving her goals. She is young, energetic and ready to go full speed ahead with going back to school and earning more income. She’s ready for guidance and to regain her independence. This bright woman has worked as a preschool teacher the past four years, and is eager to march into her future with optimism and tenacity.  She has her sights set on becoming a paralegal. Alexus has also long had an interest in becoming a police officer as another career path option.  Luckily for her, four of Grapevine Police Department’s finest were

“Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.” 1 John 3:18 “Connection is what it is all about,” GRACE Chief Program Officer, Stacy Pacholick, explains.  The focus of GRACE is connecting people in need to services and resources to help.  Connections between GRACE and other organizations, volunteers, and churches make this support possible.  We are incredibly appreciative for our relationships with partnering churches and organizations who share a heart for helping others as we do. A couple of weeks ago, 121 Community Church Grapevine Local Mission Minister, Bryan Bundick, called us to discuss a situation involving a family new to the church congregation.  A single mother who recently moved to our area from out-of-state was in great need.  The mother had worked hard to prepare for her family’s relocation –  securing a job, finding a church home, and settling