Friday, January 05, 2018
Locust Grove bulletin for January 7, 2018
Sunday School – 9:30 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re
Glad You’re Here!
Announcements
– Annie Miller
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational Prayer
Greetings
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing God:
Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon – “A
Passion for Worship”
Responding
Praise
& Worship
Sending
Benediction
Sending
Song
Ushers/Greeters – Bill & Janell Lederman, Richard &
Marjana Tribble
Nursery – Brian & Rachel Oswald ; Jan. 14 – Adam & Isaiah Fellers
Jail Service –
Offerings & Attendance – 12/31/17
General Fund - $7,810.00 Attendance – 147
Designations
– $208.05
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
Thursday,
Jan. 11, 9-10:30 AM – Ladies Bible
Study
Thursday,
Jan. 11, 6:00 PM – Praise Team
practice
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Wednesday Connection
will begin again on January
10. 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.
We will be serving Communion on January 21.
Food donations
during January will go to the Salvation Army.
The WMSC project for
January is twin size blankets for MCC.
Peggy Sies is
asking for your old Christmas and greeting cards. These are used by the ministry “Christmas
Behind Bars” and made into hand-made cards for inmates. You can place your cards in John Sies’s
mailbox.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
MYF – Today, 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. 15 – Jeremy Tyler, Myah
Troyer; Jan. 17 – Rin Bontrager; Jan. 20 – Cody Litwiller, Jenna
Beeker; Jan. 21 - Lyza Oswald
Anniversary Greetings go to:
There are no anniversaries Jan. 15-21.
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 Bill & Janell Lederman. Their address is 1204 S. Lakeview ,
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