Friday, December 29, 2017
Locust Grove bulletin for Dec. 31, 2017
Sunday School – 9:30 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re
Glad You’re Here!
Announcements
– TJ Diller
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Praise & Worship – Praise Team
Sharing/Prayer Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational Prayer
Greetings
Praise
& Worship
Hearing God:
Scripture: Jeremiah 29:4-14
Sermon – “Living
in Babylon ” – Ross
Weber
Responding
Praise
& Worship
Sending
Benediction
Sending
Song
Ushers/Greeters – Gary & Kay Large, Jesse & Laura
Schwartz and family
Nursery – Glendon & Danielle Miller ; Jan. 7 – Brian & Rachel Oswald
Jail Service – Edwards Corners
Offerings & Attendance – 12/24/17
General Fund - $3,894.00 Attendance – 201
Designations
– $200.00
CALENDAR
Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 – Red Cross Blood Drive
Wednesday,
Jan. 10, 5:30 PM – Wednesday Connection
Wednesday,
Jan. 10, 7:30 PM – Elder Team meeting
ANNOUNCEMENTS
2018 offering envelopes are available. If you would like to start using them, please
see Natalie Bellaire .
You are invited
to a 65th
Wedding Anniversary celebration for Bill & Florence
Wickey on Monday, Jan. 1 from 1-5:00
PM at their former home at 28314 Findley
Road .
Wednesday Connection
will begin again on January
10. Watch your mailboxes for details about the exciting new classes that
will be offered. If you have questions, talk to Audra Franz .
The next Women’s
Fellowship get-together is Jan. 16 at 6:30 PM at Great Lakes Chocolate & Coffee.
Food donations
during January will go to the Salvation Army.
The WMSC project for
January is twin size blankets for MCC.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
MYF – Jan. 7 , 6-8:00 PM - @ Bill &
Sherry Beck’s; Jan. 14, Noon – Combined event at Amigo with JYF; Jan. 21,
6-8:00 PM – Pizza & Movie Night at Darin & Rachel King ’s; Jan. 28,
Noon – Combined
event at Pokagon with the JYF
JYF – Jan. 14, Noon – Amigo Gym & Tube Run; Jan. 28, Noon – Pokagon; Feb. 16, 17 – Ignition 2018 @
Grace Christian Fellowship. Sleepover at
Lederman’s; March 4 – TBD; March 18 – Climb Kalamazoo
Birthday Greetings go to: Jan. 9 – Betty Yoder; Jan. 10 –
Joyce
Weber, Collin Keeslar, Noah Eicher; Jan. 11 – Carolyn Gautsche;
Jan. 13 – Ruby Miller, Pam Keeslar
Anniversary Greetings go to:
There are no anniversaries Jan. 8-14.
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- 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 Gary & Kay Large. Their address is 1401 W. Rishel ,
Sturgis , MI 49091 .
- 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, Martha Schwartz,
Marv Schwartz, and John Sies