Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Locust Grove bulletin for Dec. 28, 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
– Adam Fellers
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greeting
Time
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing
God’s Word
Scripture: Galatians
3:26-4:7
Sermon – “Heirs
of the Kingdom”
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – The Sunday school class taught by Gerri
Schwartz
Nursery – Kalee Schrock; Jan. 4 – Matt & Audra Franz
Jail Service – Pilgrim Fellowship & Sturgis Missionary
Offerings & Attendance – 12/21/14
General Fund - $3,813.75 Attendance
– 179
Designations
– $506.14
Tues. Dec. 30, 6:30 PM – Prayer Partner Christmas Party
Fri. Jan. 2, 4-8:00 PM – Visitation for
Sam Miller
Sat. Jan. 3, 10:00 AM – Funeral for Sam
Miller
Sunday, Jan. 4, 8:30 AM - Prayer Time for Adults & Children
Mon. Jan. 5 – Red Cross Blood Drive
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The
children from the Primary Department have “gifts” from the church downstairs on
the counter. Their names are on the
gifts.
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. Your help is needed!
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Craft Club will be on Jan. 8 at 7:00 PM at Donna Schrock’s home.
The
church office will be closed Thursday and Friday this week. The bulletin
will be printed Wednesday.
This
is the last Sunday that the Missions Commission will be collecting change for expenses
for the MCC Meat Canner.
If you
have any food items in the kitchen, for any reason, PLEASE label them! Otherwise they may be taken care of by the
Kitchen Committee.
The WMSC project for
December is infant care kits for MCC.
Remember
to bring your food donations that will go to the Keystone Place .
Offering
envelopes for 2015 are in your mailboxes today. Please start using them next Sunday and throw
away any old ones you have left. (You
may have a different number this year.)
If you didn’t receive a set and would like one or if you did get a new
set and don’t want them, please see Natalie Bellaire.
Sympathy and prayers go to Mattie Miller,
her children Sue and Lynn and families, and all of the extended families. Sam will be missed by many. May the Lord give them comfort and peace.
MYF – Jan. 16-18 – Winter Youth Retreat at
Amigo
JYF – Dec. 31, 6:30 PM – Jan. 1, 9:00 AM – New Year’s
Eve Lock-In at Matt & Audra’s; Jan. 9-11 – Winter Youth Retreat at Amigo
Birthday Greetings go to:
Jan. 5 – Danielle Miller,
Justin Beeker, Jan. 7 –
Lew Miller, Jesse Lederman; Jan. 9 – Betty Yoder; Jan.
10 – Joyce Weber, Collin Keeslar, Noah Eicher; Jan. 11 – Carolyn Gautsche, Kendall Farrand
Anniversary Greetings go to:
There are no anniversaries Jan. 5-11.
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With
the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With Dorothy Troyer. Her Florida
address is 11587 SW Pine Ave. , Arcadia ,
FL 34269
- 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, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, and Andrea
Yeager
