LGMC Bulletin

The member list for Elder selection is in your mailbox today.  On Mar. 22, you will be asked to mark all names of persons you feel have the gifts to serve as an Elder.  Please be in prayer about this process.  Also, please add the names of Tangi Gautsche and Mel Mullett to the list for consideration. 

Bill Miller’s Sunday school class will be hosting a fellowship night on Mar. 21.  They will be showing the movie “God’s Not Dead”.  Everyone is invited and asked to bring finger foods.

You are invited to a hymn sing at 3:00 PM on Mar. 22 at Pine Grove Mennonite Church in Battle Creek.  They will be singing about 1 ½ hours followed by a finger food fellowship time.  Please bring sandwiches, etc. to share.

Women’s Fellowship – Mar. 24, 6:00 PM – Potluck at the church with

   DeVonna Allison as the guest speaker.

ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.

Remember to bring your food donations that will go to the Salvation Army.  Specific items needed are canned corn and butter.

The Missions Commission is having a service project night on Mar. 27 from 6-8:00 PM at the MCC Resource Center/Depot in Goshen.  It is for all ages and you will be assembling school kits.

Each year the Mennonite colleges – Bethel, Bluffton, EMU, Goshen, and Hesston – offer students a grant that matches home congregation contributions dollar for dollar up to $1,000 per year ($500 per semester).  Locust Grove has a line item in the budget that goes to that fund.  If you are a high school senior or current college student, are planning to attend one of the Mennonite colleges, and would like to take part in this program, please notify Gerri Schwartz by Mar. 29.

Women’s Fellowship will be sponsoring a shopping trip to Ikea Store and/or Woodfield Mall in Chicago on Saturday, Apr. 18.  The bus will be boarding at 7:15 AM at our church, leaving at 7:30 AM, and returning at 9:30 PM.  There will be a stop for breakfast on the way and a stop on the way home for a meal.  Cost will be $50 per person.  This will be a 48 passenger bus, so please invite all your friends so we can fill the bus!  The sign-up list is on the counter today and will be there during the month of March.

The March WMSC project is bath soap for MCC.  (No Ivory soap please.)

“We express our sincere thanks for the cards received in the mail.  It was a bright spot in the day.  May God bless you.  Sincerely, Andrea & Merle”

MYF – Today, 5-7:00 PM at Joel & Monica Lederman’s; Mar. 22, 6-8:00 PM – “Unite” at the Youth for Christ building in Sturgis

JYF – Mar. 11, 6-7:30 PM – The Beginning of Worship

- With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry

- With Sgt. Timothy Beck – B Company, 1-187 IN, TB Gamberi, APO AE 09354.

- With Betty Yoder.  Her address is 26215 Spring Creek Road, Mendon, MI  49072.

- With our friends the Denlingers in Israel.