Friday, April 29, 2016
Locust Grove bulletin for May 1, 2016
Sunday School – 9:15 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
Welcome
and Opening
Welcome/Announcements
– Joel Lederman
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greeting
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing
God’s Word
Scripture – Revelation 19:1-9
Sermon – “After This…”
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Sending
Song
Ushers/Greeters – TJ & Marty Diller’s Sunday School
Class
Nursery – Cecelia Franz and Myah Troyer; May 8 – Tangi Gautsche
Jail Service – Pilgrim Fellowship & Sturgis Missionary
Offerings & Attendance – 04/24/16
General Fund - $4,246.00
Attendance – 191
Designations
– $1,063.42 which includes the designations and
special
offering for WMSC in the amount of $858.50.
Today, 6:00 PM – Evening of Fellowship
Monday, May 2 – Red Cross Blood
Drive
Tuesday, May 3, 6:00 PM – Mother/Daughter Banquet
Thursday, May 5, 6:15 PM – Praise Team practice
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Ross Weber’s
Sunday school class will be hosting a fellowship event this evening at 6:00 PM
with the focus on the days of yesteryear.
Everyone is invited. Bring finger
food for a fellowship time following the program.
The next
Blood Drive at Locust Grove will be tomorrow, May 2.
Women’s
Fellowship will be having a Mother/Daughter Banquet on Tuesday, May 3 at 6:00 PM here at the church.
Carma Schwartz Kelley from Kelley
Creek Gardens
will be the speaker. The theme will be
“Propagating God’s Promises”. She will
be sharing about gardening and plant propagation and relating that to our
Christian life. The sign up list is on
the console by the library. Please bring
a salad or dessert. Meat will be provided.
We will have a
Parent/Child dedication service next Sunday, May 8.
Those children being dedicated are Jacquelynn Farrand and Caden King.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Remember
to bring your food donations that will go to the Salvation
Army.
The
WMSC project for May is bath towels for MCC.
The
JYF would like to thank everyone for their support last Sunday. $931.58 was raised. Thanks!
Prayers
and sympathy go to Bill & Sherry Beck and family in the recent death of
Sherry’s step-father, Max Beier.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 2-7:00
PM at Moeller’s Funeral Home in Valparaiso , IN. A memorial service will be Wednesday at 10:30 AM at the funeral home.
Amigo Events – Summer Camp with the theme
“One Body: Many Members”
MYF –
JYF – May
15, 12-3:00
PM – Put-Put Golf in
Sturgis
Birthday Greetings go to:
May 13 – Bill Lederman, Bob
Lederman; May 15 – Marv Schwartz, Brad Litwiller, Mia Martinez
Anniversary Greetings go to:
May 15 – Jim & Katrina Hasbrouck
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With our expectant parents – Glendon &
Danielle Miller (July)
- With
the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With the Youth Pastor Search Committee
– Joel Lederman (chair), Adam
Fellers , Marilyn Schwartz, Brian E. Troyer, and
Nickie Younts
-
With our college students – DeVonna
Allison, Candace Beck, Jenna Beeker, Sierra Eichorn, Tangi Gautsche, Cody
Litwiller and Justin Schwartz
-
With David & Lynette Miller and their children Ayla (9), Trevor (8) and Kinley (4). Their address is 22219
Featherstone Road , Sturgis , MI 49091 .
- 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, Mary E. Miller, Martha Schwartz, Marv
Schwartz, and Florence Wickey