Friday, December 14, 2018
Locust Grove bulletin for Dec. 16, 2018
December
16, 2018
Sunday School – 9:15
AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30
AM
We’re
Glad You’re Here!
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Announcements
– Kim Schwartz
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Advent
Reading – Mayleen Younts & Isaiah
Fellers
Sharing/Prayer Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greetings
Children’s
Story – Sandy Dudley
Praise
& Worship
Hearing
God:
Scripture
– Zephaniah 3:14-20
Sermon – “God
Delights in You” – Ross Weber
Responding
Praise
& Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters
– The SS Class taught
by TJ & Marty Diller
Nursery – Avian, Mayleen & Rilyn Younts; Dec. 23 – Isaac & Annie Miller
Offerings &
Attendance – 12/09/18
General Fund - $ 3,095.00 Attendance – 173
Designations - $ 483.15
Designations to MCC Meat Canner so far total $450.21.
CALENDAR
Today, 9:00 AM – Prayer
Time
Thursday, Dec. 20 – WMSC
Thursday, Dec. 20, 6:00
PM – Praise Team practice
ANNOUNCEMENTS
There will be
no Wednesday Connection Dec. 19, 26, or Jan. 2.
We will resume Jan. 9.
The WMSC monthly meeting is this
Thursday. Faith Carpenter is in charge
of the kitchen and Rachel Oswald will have devotions. The monthly project is Relief Kits for MCC.
Food donations
during December will go to the Keystone
Place
The Missions
Commission will be collecting change during the month of December for MCC
meat canning. You are encouraged to
collect your change to donate to this offering.
2019
offering envelopes are available. 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 next Red Cross Blood Drive January
14, 2019 .
The next
Women’s Fellowship will be Jan. 15 at Five Lakes Coffee.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, continued
Last year, MCC distributed more
than 24,500 relief kits and the need continues to grow as lives are disrupted
by conflict or disaster. The WMSC thanks
you for helping with this month’s project in making these kits. There are still a few items on the tree in
the back for needed supplies. Please
help yourself.
Birthday Greetings go
to: Dec. 27
– Connie Pagels; Dec. 29 – Adalynn Rumsey; Dec. 30 – Greg
Murray, Kara Franz
Anniversary Greetings go
to: There are no anniversaries Dec. 24-30.
MYF – Today, Dec. 16, 6-8:00
PM – Christmas Party with the JYF at the church. Wear your ugly Christmas sweater and bring a
white elephant gift.
JYF – Dec. 16 – Christmas
Party with the MYF. See their
announcement for details.
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and
families
- With our expectant parents – Darin
& Rachel King – June 2019
- With engaged couples – Charlie
Casper & Donna Schrock – Dec.
22, 2018 ; Deric Mostrom & Ashley Hasbrouck – March 23, 2019 ; Matt Hasbrouck
& Marissa Samuels – May
25, 2019
- With our college students – Jenna
Beeker, Marty Diller, Isaiah Fellers, Phiona Jorgensen, Cody Litwiller, Isaac
Miller, Dylan Schwartz, Kali Tyler
-
With Matt Hasbrouck in the Marine Corp
-
With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With Bill & Sherry Beck. Their
address is 26859 Banker Street Road, Sturgis, MI 49091.
- With
our friends the Denlingers in Israel .
- We
seek God’s provision and care for these individuals: John Blucker, Dave Bontrager, Erma Eash, Galen
Eichorn, Frank Fisher, Bill Kerschner, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, and
Richard Tribble.
