Thursday, December 11, 2014
Locust Grove bulletin for Dec. 14, 2014
Locust Grove
A
Journey with Jesus
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Sunday School – 9:15 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
Welcome
and Opening
Welcome/Announcements
– Gerri Schwartz
Call to Worship
Moments in
Mission Great Lakes
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Advent Reading
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greeting
Time
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing
God’s Word
Scripture: Isaiah 61:8-11;
Psalm 126
Sermon – “The
Sunday of Rejoicing” – Ike Porter
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – The Sunday school class taught by Gerri
Schwartz
Nursery – Joel & Monica Lederman; Dec. 21 – Jenna
Beeker
Jail Service – Calvary Chapel
Offerings & Attendance – 12/07/14
General Fund - $3,686.00 Attendance
– 197
Designations
– $750.67
Tonight, 6:00 PM – Christmas Hymn Sing
Thurs. Dec. 18 - WMSC
Thurs. Dec. 18 – Christmas Caroling at the Jail
Thurs. Dec. 18, 7-9:00 PM – Open Gym at Amigo Centre
Sunday, Dec. 21, 8:30 AM - Prayer Time for Adults & Children
ANNOUNCEMENTS
There
will be a Christmas hymn sing here tonight at 6:00 PM . We will also go caroling after to sing for
those that are unable to get out and join us.
All
ladies are invited to a Prayer Partner
Christmas Party on Dec. 30 at 6:30 PM
at Evelyn Blucker’s. This will be the
time to let your prayer partner know who has been praying for her and also to
sign up for 2015. Bring a snack to
share, as well as your “revealing” gift.
The sign up sheet and information forms are on the console by the
library. – Martha Franz
The
next Red Cross Blood drive is January
5. There is a sign-up sheet in the
fellowship hall with ways that you can help with things such as dropping off
brochures at various businesses, helping unload and load the equipment, and
helping with registration and/or the canteen.
Please sign up as soon as possible or contact Donna Schrock. We need your help!
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
The
Missions Commission will be collecting change during December for expenses for
the MCC Meat Canner.
The next
WMSC meeting
is Thursday. Chris Oswald will have
devotions and Betty Yoder is in charge of the kitchen. The project for December is infant care kits
for MCC. The list of needed items is in
your mailbox. You may purchase any of
the items and the WMSC ladies will put the kits together.
Recently
an envelope marked “MYF” was placed in the office. If you know what this money is for, please
contact Beth Miller.
Craft Club will be on Jan. 8 at 7:00 PM at Donna Schrock’s home.
Annual Reports for 2013-14 are by the
library. Please help yourself.
Remember
to bring your food donations that will go to the Keystone Place .
It’s almost
time for new 2015 offering envelopes. If you have used them before and don’t want
to use them next year, please let Natalie Bellaire know. Or if you didn’t use them and want to start,
let her know that, too.
MYF – Jan. 16-18 – Winter Youth Retreat
JYF – Dec. 17,
6-7:30
PM – Make cookies
for Inmates
Birthday Greetings go to:
Dec. 22 – Eric Lunger; Dec. 25 – Mary Carpenter; Dec. 26 – Mandy Yoder; Dec. 27 –
Connie
Pagels
Anniversary Greetings go to:
Dec. 22 – Jake & Martha Schwartz
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With
the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With Brian & Teresa Troyer. Their address is 380
Bullock Road , Coldwater , MI 49036
- With our friends
the Denlingers in Israel .
- We seek God’s
provision and care for these individuals: Evelyn Blucker, Dave
Coblentz, Erma Eash, Bill Kerschner, Sam Miller, Martha Schwartz, Marv
Schwartz, and Andrea Yeager
