Thursday, November 14, 2019
Locust Grove bulletin for November 17, 2019
November 17, 2019
Sunday
School – 9:15 AM
Worship
Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re Glad You’re Here!
Praise & Worship – Praise Team
Announcements
– Isaac Miller
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greetings
Praise &
Worship
Hearing God:
Scripture – Acts 2:42-47
Sermon – “The Birth of the Church” – Ross
Weber
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – Brent & Eva Beeker, Fred & Marilyn Schwartz
Nursery – Sunday School – Rachel King and Annie Miller; Worship
Service – Cecelia Franz and Phiona Jorgensen
Offerings & Attendance – 11/10/19
General Fund - $ 4,846.00 Attendance – 211
Designations - $100.00
CALENDAR
Today, 9:00 AM – Prayer
Time
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 6:30
PM – Ladies Bible Study
Thursday, Nov. 21 – WMS
Thursday, Nov.21, 6:15
PM – Praise Team practice
Sunday, Nov. 24, 2:30 PM – Baby
Shower for Phiona Jorgensen
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Annual
Reports for the 2018-19 church year are due.
The monthly
WMS meeting is Thursday. Faith
Carpenter is in charge of the kitchen and Audra Franz will have devotions. The project for November is twin-size
blankets for MCC. Bring taco toppings
for lunch.
All
ladies are invited to a baby shower for Phiona Jorgensen on Sunday, Nov.
24 from 2:30-4:00 PM in the church fellowship hall.
Volunteers
are needed to help with the Community Thanksgiving Dinner on Nov. 28
at Grace Christian Fellowship. Sign up
on the sheet by the library to help with food prep, serving or delivering
meals.
The
next Women’s Fellowship event will be a Christmas Tea on Dec. 2
at 6:30 PM. Bring a dish to pass. Let Marty Diller, Nickie Younts or Rachel
Oswald know if you would like to decorate a table.
Thank
you from the Red Cross for sponsoring the blood drive. 34 units of blood were collected.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, continued
Service
Team Send Off – The following people will be traveling to Wharton, TX for a
week long service trip through MDS – Matt, Audra & Cecelia Franz, David
& Ayla Miller, and Isaiah Fellers.
Join them at the church Saturday, Nov. 23 at 7:45 AM for a time of
prayer and sending before they start the long drive down.
“Thank
you all for caring for and supporting my mother, Erma Eash. It was a lovely birthday party and we all
enjoyed it!” – David Eash & Family
Greg
Blucker’s Sunday school class will be hosting an evening of Christmas caroling on
Dec. 15. There will also be
opportunities to help a needy family in our community. More details later on ways to help.
Someone
signed up for both the Daily Bread and Purpose and
forgot to sign their name on the request form.
Please let Carolyn Gautsche know if that could be you.
The “who does what”
booklet (as it was recently referred to) for the 2019-20 church year is
available on the console by the library.
Help yourself!
Food donations during November will go to the Salvation Army.
Birthday Greetings go
to: Nov. 25
– Doug Schwartz; Nov. 28 – Matt Hasbrouck; Nov. 29 – Sheila
Moore; Dec.
1 – Ethan Schrock
Anniversary Greetings go
to: There are no anniversaries Nov. 25-Dec. 1.
MYF (High School Youth) – Nov. 17,
6-8:00 PM – Shopping for Keystone Place; Nov. 24, 6-8:00 PM – Fun night at
Connie Pagels’; Dec. 8, 6-8:00 PM – TBD; Dec. 15, 6-8:00 PM – Ugly Christmas Sweater Party/White Elephant Gift
Exchange at Fellers’
JYF (Middle School Youth) –
Kid’s Club (Grades K-5) – November 24, 4-5:30 PM
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and
families
- With our expectant parents – Eric & Kelsey
Lunger – December; Matt & Phiona Jorgensen –
January, Deric
& Ashley Mostrom – April; Darian & Christen Kirby - April
- With our college students – Jenna
Beeker, Abby Fellers, Isaiah Fellers, Ethan Schrock, Kalee Schrock, Dylan
Schwartz, Kali Tyler
-
With Matt Hasbrouck in the Marine Corp
-
With our MDS Service Team working in Wharton, TX Nov. 23-Dec. 1
-
With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With Glendon & Danielle Miller and sons – EJ (14), Gavan (12),
Reece (10) and Sammy (3). Their address
is 66269 Robison Road, Burr Oak, MI
49030.
- 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, Connie Pagels, Martha Schwartz,
Marv Schwartz, and Richard Tribble.
