Friday, August 23, 2019
Locust Grove bulletin for August 25, 2019
August 25, 2019
Worship
Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re Glad You’re Here!
Praise & Worship – Praise Team
Announcements
– Chris Oswald
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Ross Weber
Congregational
Prayer
Greetings
Praise &
Worship
Special
Offering for Amigo Centre
Reception of
New Members – Bill Beck
Hearing God:
Scripture –Luke 10:25-37
Sermon – “Who is My Neighbor?” – Ross
Weber
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – Lloyd & Sharon Schrock and Greg & Brenda Blucker
Nursery – Adam & Cathy Fellers; Sept. 1 – Matt, Audra & Cecelia Franz
Offerings & Attendance – 08/11/19
General Fund - $ 3,287.00 Attendance – 139
Designations - $723.62
CALENDAR
Today, 10:00 AM – Coffee
Time at Amigo Centre
Today, 10:30 AM – Worship
Service at Amigo Centre
Noon –
Carry-in Meal
Thursday, Aug. 29, 5:30 PM – Praise
Team practice
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Food donations
during August will go to Keystone Place.
The 2019-20
proposed church budget will be in your mailboxes next Sunday, Sept. 1, with
a vote on Sept. 15.
Church mowing – week of Aug. 18 – Kim Schwartz.
The Women’s
Sewing project for August is school kits for MCC.
If you are a college student or have a
child who is a college student and would like prayer for them for the coming
school year, please let Beth Miller know so that she can include them in the
college prayer list.
If
you are a church member willing and able to volunteer in the nursery during the
Sunday school hour and/or the Sunday morning worship service, please talk to
Rachel King or call her at 269-816-2305.
Amigo
Centre scrapbooking, crafting and sewing retreats are scheduled for Sept. 23-30
and Dec. 3-11. Call 651-2811 for more information
and to register. You are also invited to
participate in the MCC Bike Michiana event on Sept. 13-15. Call Amigo at 651-2811.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, continued
Pastor Bill is on sabbatical until
October 1.
The
next Red
Cross Blood Drive is scheduled for September 9.
Birthday Greetings go
to: Sept.
6 – Lynette Miller; Sept. 8 – Lennis Troyer
Anniversary Greetings go
to: Sept. 5 – Jim & Teresa Owsley; Sept. 6 – Erv &
Phyllis Wickey
MYF (High School Youth) – Today, 6-8:00 PM – Meet at
Richard & Marjana Tribble’s home.
JYF (Middle School Youth) –
Kid’s Club (Grades K-5) – Will resume in October
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and
families
- With our expectant parents – Eric
& Kelsey Lunger – December 2019; Matt & Phiona Jorgensen – January 2020
- With our college students – Jenna
Beeker, Abby Fellers, Isaiah Fellers, Ethan Schrock, Kalee Schrock, Dylan
Schwartz
-
With Matt Hasbrouck in the Marine Corp
-
With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
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: John Blucker, Dave Bontrager, Erma Eash, Galen
Eichorn, Steve Eichorn, Frank Fisher, Bill Kerschner, Martha Schwartz, Marv
Schwartz, and Richard Tribble.
FAITH
STORIES
Sue Cole – I was
born in Colon, MI. My parents were
Reuben & Mattie Troyer. When I was
5, we moved to Kansas. At 14, we moved
to Oklahoma. I was baptized in the Amish
church. I got married, had 3 sons, and
then in 1962 we left the Amish church.
In 1966 we came back to Michigan.
At that point I drifted away from God.
In 1982 I moved back to Oklahoma and met my 2nd husband. In 1998 I started going to Harvesttime
Ministries. My husband passed away in
2001. I was baptized again in 2004 and
enjoyed a good relationship with God and the members. I moved back to Michigan in 2009. I kept going to church. I tried quite a few churches, praying to God that
I wanted a desire to go to church and not just go because I thought I had
to. I found it! Thank you for accepting me!
Phiona Jorgensen – To me,
a church is a home, a family, a place of peace and joy in the presence of God
and from the very first day I stepped a foot into Locust Grove until now, that’s
how I’ve been feeling. Before knowing
about the procedures and the steps to go through to become a member of the
church, I had already considered myself a member because in my heart I knew and
felt that I belong here. So, taking the
confession of faith classes was to help me better understand who a Mennonite is
since that was a new vocabulary in my head.
This church chose me and in return, I chose it back.
I was baptized when I was a toddler in the
Protestant setting, but after learning and understanding how it’s done in the
Mennonite setting, it made sense to me.
Back then I had no free will but now I can make that decision on my own
which, by the way, should have happened some years back. But it’s never too late to do God’s
will. It’s always a good feeling to have
a sense of belonging and it’s such a great honor to belong and be a member of
Locust Grove.
RESPONSE BY THE CONGREGATION
As we now receive you into the fellowship of the church, we
make a covenant with you as we renew our own covenant with our Lord:
To bear one another’s burdens,
To share mutually in the forgiving or the
retaining of our sins,
To share in the abundance of this world’s
goods,
To assist each other in times of need,
To share our joys and sorrows,
And in all things to work for the common
good,
Thus, manifesting God’s
presence among us to his glory. As we
unite with each other now, may we all be joined with Christ our Lord.
