Friday, December 04, 2015
Locust Grove bulletin for Dec. 6, 2015
Sunday School – 9:15 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
Welcome
and Opening
Welcome/Announcements
– Bill Miller
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Advent Reading
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greeting
Time
Children’s
Story – Audra Franz
MDS Sharing – Cheryl Mast, Martha,
Matt, Audra & Cecelia Franz
Praise
& Worship - Praise Team
Hearing
God’s Word
Scripture – Luke 3:7-18
Sermon – “What Should We Do?” – Ross Weber
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Sending
Song
Ushers/Greeters – Ross Weber’s Sunday School Class
Nursery – Dave & Lynette Miller; Dec. 13 – Joel
& Monica Lederman
Jail Service – Pilgrim Fellowship & Sturgis Missionary
Offerings & Attendance – 11/29/15
General Fund - $3,229.25
Attendance – 174
Designations
– $144.50
Today, 5:00 PM – Singing & Fellowship at Beeker’s barn
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 5:30 PM – Wednesday Connection
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 7:30 PM – Elder Team Meeting
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Join
the Worship Team in Beeker’s barn tonight at
5:00 PM for an evening of Christmas
songs. There will also be a light
meal. Please bring finger foods and your
own chair.
We
will be collecting your loose change during the month of December. Money collected will be given to MCC for the Meat Canning project.
The WMSC project for December is infant care
items.
On
Dec. 13 there will be no Sunday school for the adult classes. MCC representative Les Gustafson-Zook will be
with us to share about MCC’s work in Syria
and to answer questions.
We are
in need of 12 dozen cookies for caroling night at the jail. It is requested that the cookies be packed in
quantities of 3 in ziplock bags; no nuts on cookies, please. They must be delivered to the church no later
than Dec. 15. Contact Monica Lederman
with questions.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
It’s almost
time for new 2016 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.
Remember
to bring your food donations that will go to the Keystone Place .
MYF –
JYF – Dec. 9
– Daniel: Standing; Dec. 16 – Esther:
Being; Dec. 31-Jan. 1 – New Year’s Eve
Lock-in
Birthday Greetings go to:
Dec. 15 – Jim Owsley,
Michelle Jorgensen; Dec.
17 – Rachel
King, Evena Losee; Dec.
19 – Rick
Bogen, Greg Blucker
Anniversary Greetings go to:
There are no anniversaries Dec. 14-20.
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With expectant parents Darin & Rachel King (February); Matt & Heather Farrand (February)
- With
the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With our college students – Candace
Beck , Jenna Beeker, Sierra Eichorn, Ashley Hasbrouck, Christen
Kahila, Cody Litwiller, and Courtney Troyer
-
With Tangi Gautsche and her children Alden (11), Adalynn (9) and Eli (1). Their address is 376
Ember 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, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, Florence Wickey and Andrea Yeager
