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Friday, September 19, 2014

Locust Grove bulletin for Sept. 21, 2014 

Locust Grove
  Mennonite Church
    A Journey with Jesus
 


29525 Findley Road, Burr Oak, MI  49030, 269-489-5041

September 21, 2014

Sunday School – 9:15 AM

Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM

Welcome and Opening
            Welcome/Announcements – Bill Miller
            Call to Worship         
            Offering Prayer/Offering      
            Sharing/Prayer Concerns – Bill Beck
            Congregational Prayer
            Greeting Time
            Praise & Worship – Praise Team
                       
Hearing God’s Word
            Scripture – Matthew 6:1-18
            Sermon – “The Christian’s Reward” – Ross Weber

Responding
            Praise & Worship

Sending
            Benediction




Text Box: Welcome to Locust Grove!  We’re glad to have you join us for our time of worship together.  If you haven’t already attended, we would love to have you also join us for Sunday school next Sunday.  Sunday school is an important step in making further connections with a smaller group of people.   Ask for help if you have any questions or need more information about our church.

Ushers/Greeters – The Intergenerational Mixed SS Class #2
Text Box: Elders: Ross Weber, chair; Adam Fellers, Bill Lederman, Rich Oswald, Dana Sommers
Website: 
Email:  office@lgrove.org
Fax:  270-423-3673
Nursery – Dave & Lynette Miller; Sept. 28 – Joel & Monica Lederman
Jail Service – Locust Grove
Offerings & Attendance – 09/14/14  
Text Box: Ministers:  All who are part of this body
Lead Pastor:  Bill Beck, 503-3800 (cell),
 651-2313 (home), 
 pastorbill@lgrove.org
Secretary/Bookkeeper: Beth Miller
Church office hours: Tues-Thurs 9 AM-5 PM, Friday 9 AM-Noon. Closed Monday



      General Fund - $3,100.00                        Attendance – 145
      Designations – $602.50
           
Thurs. Sept. 25, 5:00 PMWomen’s Fellowship Cookie Bake
Sunday, Sept. 28, 8:30 AM - Prayer Time

ANNOUNCEMENTS
The proposed church budget for the 2014-15 year is in your mailbox today.  A vote of affirmation will take place Oct. 5.  If you have any questions, please talk to Brian Oswald.
Women’s Fellowship – Thursday, Sept. 25 at 5:00 PM – Cookie Baking for the Relief Sale.  If you would like to donate ingredients for cookies and brownies, there is a sign-up sheet in the Fellowship Hall.
Kalamazoo Mennonite Fellowship is hosting a hymn sing and potluck supper on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 3:30 PM.  Please bring your own table service and food to share to Skyridge Church of the Brethren, 394 South Drake Road, Kalamazoo, MI.  Contact Will Fitzgerald at 269-381-4264 if you have questions.
We will be having communion and footwashing on October 5.  We will also be receiving four new church members that Sunday.  Marcy Bontrager and TJ Diller will be received by affirmation of faith.  Matt & Heather Farrand will be received by baptism.  The baptisms will be at Amigo Park beach at 1:30 that day.  Please plan to attend.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Annual Reports for the 2013-14 church year are due. 
The next LGMC Red Cross Blood Drive will be November 3.
To sign up to receive general announcements (church cancellations/potluck reminders, etc.) send a text with the message @lggeneral to 269-503-8987.  To sign up for the church prayer chain, text @lgprayer to the same number. 
Remember to bring your food donations that will go to Salvation Army.

MYF –
JYF – Wednesday, Sept. 24, 6-7:30 PM

Birthday Greetings go to:  Oct. 1 – Caz Moore; Oct. 4 – Caleb Schwenk
Anniversary Greetings go to:  Oct. 3 – Bill & Louanne Younts; Oct. 4 – Dana & Donna Sommers

PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With engaged couples – Ken Schwartz & Brandy Schwenk – Oct. 18, 2014
- With expectant parents – Dillon & Tonya Barrington (November)
- With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
- With Lloyd & Sharon Schrock.  Their address is 65810 Omena Lake Court, Sturgis, MI  49091.      
- With our friends the Denlingers in Israel.    
- We seek God’s provision and care for these individuals: Shirley Beier, Evelyn Blucker, Dave Coblentz, Erma Eash, Delmar Gautsche, Bill Kerschner, Sam Miller, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, and Andrea Yeager






















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