Thursday, September 14, 2017
Locust Grove bulletin for Sept. 17, 2017
Sunday School – 9:30 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re
Glad You’re Here!
Announcements
– Kim Schwartz
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational Prayer
Greeting
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing God:
Scripture – Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon - “To Forgive Is Divine”
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Sending
Song
Ushers/Greeters – The Sunday school class taught by TJ
& 
Nursery – Avian & Mayleen Younts; Sept. 24 – Darin & Rachel King
Jail Service – Word Fellowship
Offerings & Attendance – 09/10/17
General Fund - $3,453.00 Attendance – 146
Designations
– $890.45
Money
given to My Coins Count as of 9/12/2017 - $2,196.00
CALENDAR
Sept. 18-20
– WMSC
quilting at the County Fair
Wednesday,
Sept. 27, 5:30-7:30 PM – Wednesday Connection
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The church
budget for 2017-18 was approved.
If you have a
new picture or need your picture taken for the church directory, talk to Rin
Bontrager.
Food donations
during September will go to Salvation Army.
The Praise
Team will be singing at the St. Joseph County
Fair today at 3:30 PM .
WMSC will be meeting at the County Fair on
Sept. 18, 19 & 20 from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
to quilt. The WMSC project for September
is food items for the Salvation Army.
The 50th Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale will be Sept.
22-23. Please plan to attend and also to
donate items such as quilts, high-quality crafts, antiques, and baked
goods. Talk to Chris Oswald for more
details.
Annual reports are
due once again.
We will be
having communion
October 1.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Wednesday Connection will begin on Sept. 27. Supper
will be served from 5:30-6:15 PM .
Classes start at 6:30 PM and include one on teaching with Ross
Weber, a ladies study of Genesis with Audra Franz, and Kids Club for K-5 with
Pastor Bill Beck. Nursery care will be
provided.
Men’s Retreat is Oct. 6-7 at Camp
Elvin Factoryville ,
MI Darin King for more details.
The Elders are
proposing an amendment to our constitution to shorten the length of Elder term
from 5 to 3 years. The wording for this amendment is in your
mailbox today and the vote will be on Oct. 22.
If you have any questions, please talk to one of the Elders.
If you have a
church key because of an office you held previously and no longer have that
position, please return the key to the church office.
The next
Red Cross Blood
Drive will be October 23.
MYF – Today, 6-8:00 PM – at the County
Fair; Sept. 24, 6-8:00 PM – TBD
JYF – Sept. 24 – Noon-3:00 PM – at Doug & Kim Schwartz’s; Oct. 8 – Beeker’s Barn; Oct. 22 – A-Mazing Acres Corn Maze in Edwardsburg; Nov. 12 – TBD; Dec. – Cookie Baking & Christmas Party
Birthday Greetings go to: Sept. 25 – Dave Bontrager; Sept. 28
– Pauline
Hochstetler, Austin Reed; Oct. 1 – Caz Moore
Anniversary Greetings go to:
There are no anniversaries Sept. 25-Oct. 1.
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With Ramona King as she returns from Moldova
- With our expectant parents – Eric & Kelsey Lunger – October; Nick
& Katy Troyer (Brian & Teresa) – October; Darin & Rachel King – January;
Isaac & Annie Miller – February
- With our college students – DeVonna Allison , Jenna Beeker, Sierra
Eichorn, Cody Litwiller, Isaac Miller , Dylan Schwartz
-
With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With the Conference Affiliation Committee –Audra
Franz, Darin King, Lew Miller, Ross Weber, Ben Younts and Bill Beck
-
With Greg & Carolyn Gautsche. Their address is 485
N. Snow Prairie Road , Coldwater , MI 49036
- With our friends
the Denlingers in Israel .
- We seek God’s
provision and care for these individuals: Evelyn Blucker, Erma
Eash, Galen Eichorn, Bill Kerschner, Mike Krick, Martha Schwartz, Marv
Schwartz, John Sies and Bill & Florence Wickey
