Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Locust Grove bulletin for November 26, 2017
Sunday School – 9:30 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re
Glad You’re Here!
Announcements
– Gerri Schwartz
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill
Beck
Congregational Prayer
Greeting
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing God:
Scripture – Ezekiel 34:11-16
Sermon - “I’m the Lamb” – Ross
Weber
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Sending
Song
Ushers/Greeters – Ben & Nickie Younts and daughters
Nursery – Corey & Pam Keeslar; Dec. 3 – Cecelia Franz & Myah Troyer
Jail Service – Pilgrim Fellowship & Sturgis Missionary
Offerings & Attendance – 11/19/17
General Fund - $3,132.00 Attendance – 164
Designations
– $450.00
Total
designations and special offering for the Thanksgiving Community Meal -
$440.00.
CALENDAR
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 5:30-7:30
PM – Wednesday
Connection
Thursday,
Nov. 30, 6:00 PM – Praise Team
practice
Tuesday,
Dec. 5, 6:00 PM – Women’s
Fellowship Christmas Tea
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Food donations
during November will go to the Salvation Army.
Women’s Fellowship Christmas Tea – Dec. 5, 6:00 PM .
Bring a dish to pass. Let someone
on the committee know if you would like to decorate a table.
Christmas at the County Jail
– December 14
Last call for
Annual Reports.
It’s almost
time for new 2018 offering envelopes. If you have used them before and don’t want
to use them next year, please let Natalie Bellaire
know by putting a note in her church mailbox.
Or if you didn’t use them and want to start, let her know that, too.
The book Rekindled by Tamara Alexander is missing from the church library. Please check to see if you have it at
home. Thanks.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Joe & Mandy Yoder
have new phone numbers. Joe’s number is
269-718-3059 (home & cell). Mandy’s
is 269-651-5839 (cell).
MYF – Dec. 3, 6-8:00 PM – Get together at
Mark & Debi Schrock’s home; Dec. 10, 5:00-9:00 PM - Christmas party with JYF at the
church. Be sure to bring a Christmas
cookie cutter, a rolling pin, and a white elephant gift. Wear your ugly Christmas sweater, too! Dec. 17, 5-7:30 PM – Man Hunt Banquet
JYF – Dec. 10, 5-9:00 PM – Cookie Bake & Christmas Party
at the church with the MYF. Be sure to
bring a Christmas cookie cutter, a rolling pin, and a white elephant gift. Wear your ugly Christmas sweater, too!
Birthday Greetings go to: Dec. 5 – Sam Eicher
Anniversary Greetings go to:
Dec. 5 – Lennis & Nancy Troyer ; Dec. 9 –
Ben
& Nickie Younts; Dec. 10 – Caz & Sheila Moore
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With Edna
Carpenter as she heals from a broken ankle.
You can send get well wishes to her at 25894 S.
Whitetail Road , Sturgis , MI 49091 . While she is with Jim & Faith, you can
reach her at 269-625-0765.
- With our expectant parents – Darin & Rachel King – January; Isaac
& Annie Miller – February; Brad & Jayme Geers - April
- With our college students – DeVonna Allison , Jenna Beeker, Marty Diller , Sierra Eichorn,
Cody Litwiller, Isaac Miller , Dylan Schwartz
-
With Matt Hasbrouck at: Matthew G Hasbrouck, Task Force Jordan
H5 T22, APO AE 09315.
-
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 Bill &
Khankeo Kerschner. Their address is 22024
Banker Street Road, Centreville ,
MI 49032 .
- With our friends
the Denlingers in Israel .
- We seek God’s
provision and care for these individuals: Evelyn Blucker, Edna
Carpenter, Erma Eash, Galen Eichorn, Frank Fisher, Bill Kerschner, Mike Krick, Martha
Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, and John Sies