Grace and Peace Studio is a working ministry. Worship leadership for congregations that need it. Weddings, baptisms, and funerals officiated with care. Pastoral conversation when life asks for it. A daily word grounded in scripture, sent from someone who has been on a faith journey since his father died when he was nine.
Congregations between settled pastors. Pastors taking sabbatical, vacation, or recovery time who need someone trusted in the pulpit. Congregations marking a special Sunday and looking for a guest preacher. Couples planning a wedding who want a real liturgy, not a script. Families approaching a goodbye, looking for someone who will hold the room without performing. Parents bringing a child to baptism. Adults coming to baptism for the first time. People in spiritual return who want a steady voice along the way. Readers in the middle of their own thaw, looking for a daily word that is not curated and is not loud.
This work is rooted in a calling that has been tugging since youth and is now becoming front and center. The studio is the visible form of what has been quiet for a long time.
The ministry is available globally. Marc is based in Crystal Lake, Illinois, with deep ties to the Driftless region of Wisconsin, and travels naturally to other places. The conversation determines what is possible. Distance is not a barrier.
Sunday services for congregations that need a guest preacher. Pastorless congregations, vacation coverage, sabbatical, illness, or special-occasion guests. Built around the texts of the day and the people in the room.
More about guest worship WeddingsCustom liturgy written for the couple. Vows that hold. Remembrance of the people who could not be there. Music available when wanted. Everything customizable.
More about weddings BaptismsInfant baptism, child baptism, adult baptism. Indoor or outdoor. In a sanctuary or by a river. Liturgy prepared with the family, music available, scripture chosen with care.
More about baptisms FuneralsGraveside service, memorial service, full church service. A song over a grave when the family asks. Pastoral presence at the hardest moments.
More about funerals Pastoral CareNot therapy. A conversation with someone who has been in scripture every morning for a long time and who is willing to sit with you in the questions you are carrying.
More about pastoral careFor songs that are meant to outlast the moment, Grace and Peace Studio also offers custom studio recordings through working relationships with established producers and session musicians. A specialized capability, available in conversation.
Each morning, scripture and a short reflection. Sent quietly. The discipline began long ago. The Bible has been read cover to cover, twice. The daily reading time runs at least forty-five minutes, every morning, before the noise of the day. You can read along through a Bible reading plan, or simply receive the word as it comes.
Begin the daily wordFor many of us our faith has one foot in the world and the other in the church.From a forty-eight-year career professional, after a sermon
I think you must be an earth bound angel. There is only love in them.From someone in a season of spiritual return, after a sermon
Just an hour before you sent it, I was crying and grieving over the loss of one of our dearest friends since I was a teenager. That sermon was about one of my most favorite psalms.From a former neighbor, now living in another city
He spent His time with the people the religious authorities had labeled outside. He sat at tables with tax collectors. He talked with women at wells. He touched lepers. He let a sinful woman wash His feet. The people closest to Him were not credentialed. They were the ones the system had passed over.
Grace and Peace Studio is not denominational. It is rooted in Christian foundation, shaped by exposure to and respect for many traditions, and welcoming to people from every background and from no background at all. There are no labels here that decide who belongs. Anyone who is asking is welcome. Anyone who has been turned away somewhere else is welcome. Anyone who is not sure what they believe is welcome.