Friday, October 21, 2016
Locust Grove bulletin for Oct. 23, 2016
Sunday School – 9:15 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
Welcome
and Opening
Welcome/Announcements
– Louanne Younts
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill
Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greeting
Children’s
Story – Mandy Yoder
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing
God’s Word
Scripture – 2 Timothy 3:14 – 4:8
Sermon – “Can
Things Get Any Verse?”
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Sending
Song
Ushers/Greeters – The Sunday school class taught by Bill Miller
Nursery – Darin & Rachel King ; Oct. 30 – Candace Beck
Jail Service – Calvary Chapel
Offerings & Attendance – 10/16/16
General Fund - $2,740.25
Attendance – 140
Designations
– $425.01
CALENDAR
Wednesday,
Oct. 26, 7-7:30 PM – Time of Prayer
for our Nation
Sunday,
Oct. 30, Noon – Pastor Appreciation
Fellowship Meal
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Elders would like to invite you to a time of prayer on Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 7-7:30 PM to pray for
our nation and its leaders and our congregation.
Pastor Bill will be on vacation Oct. 27-Nov. 5. If you have any pastoral needs, please
contact one of the Elders.
Prayer Partner Party—Oct. 27 at Donna Schrock ’s at 6:30 p.m.
Bring your “revealing” gift and a snack to share.
October is Pastor
Appreciation Month. We will be
celebrating with a fellowship meal on Sunday, Oct. 30 after the
morning service. The main dish will be
provided and you are asked to bring salads and desserts.
The prayer
partner year ends October 31. Present prayer
partners have new sign up forms in their mailbox. Please fill them out and return them to Tonya
Barrington’s mailbox by today so Tonya can get new partners assigned and in your
mailbox by Nov. 6. For NEW partners—all
ladies are welcome—sign up forms are on the console. Please take one, fill out and return to
Tonya’s box. Return and new partners
please sign the sign up sheet on the console.
Khankeo Kerschner’s
new phone number is 269-221-3473.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Women’s
Fellowship is planning a trip Nov. 5 to Turkeyville USA to see the
Church Basement Ladies perform “A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement”.
Annual Reports
for the 2015-16 church year are due.
Food donations during
October will go to Keystone Place.
Daylight Savings Time
ends November 6.
The next Red Cross blood drive is scheduled for
November 7.
There is a sign
up sheet in the fellowship hall for the 2017 Marriage Retreat which will take place
Feb. 10-12. Please sign up and have a
$100 deposit to Pam Keeslar by Oct. 30.
MYF – Today, 5:00 PM – Costume Party at the Fellers’
JYF –
Birthday Greetings go to:
Nov. 1 – Louanne Younts , Taylor Schwartz;
Nov. 2 – Aaron Barrington; Nov. 3 – Delmar Gautsche
Anniversary Greetings go to:
There are no anniversaries Oct. 31–Nov. 6.
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With our expectant parents – Isaac & Annie Miller (November)
- With our college students – DeVonna Allison , Jenna Beeker,
Sierra Eichorn, Cody Litwiller, Dylan Schwartz
-
With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With the Youth Pastor Search Committee
– Gerri Schwartz , Adam Fellers ,
Marilyn Schwartz, Brian E. Troyer, and Nickie Younts
-
With Brian & Jessilyn Troyer and
their daughters Myah (14) and Brooke (10). Their address is 67580
Thunderbird Drive , Sturgis , MI 49091 .
- With our friends
the Denlingers in Israel .
- We seek God’s
provision and care for these individuals: Evelyn Blucker, Erma
Eash, Bill Kerschner, Mary E. Miller, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, John Sies
and Florence Wickey