Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Locust Grove bulletin for December 1, 2019
December 1, 2019
Sunday
School – 9:15 AM
Worship
Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re Glad You’re Here!
Praise & Worship – Praise Team
Announcements
– Adam Fellers
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Advent
Reading – Charlie & Donna Casper
Sharing/Prayer Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greetings
Praise &
Worship
Hearing God:
Scripture – Psalm 122
Sermon – “Climbing the Mountain”
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – The MYF
Nursery – SS – Angie Litwiller & Beth Miller; Worship
Service – Keeslar Family
Offerings & Attendance – 11/24/19
General Fund - $ 4,928.25 Attendance – 163
Designations - $228.23
CALENDAR
Today, 9:00 AM – Prayer
Time
Monday, Dec. 2, 6:30 PM
– Women’s Fellowship Christmas Tea
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 6:30
PM – Women’s Bible Study
Thursday, Dec. 5, 6:00 PM – Praise
Team practice
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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.
Greg
Blucker’s Sunday school class will be hosting an evening of Christmas caroling at
the church on Dec.
15 at 6:00
PM. Please bring
finger foods to share. They will be
gathering the gifts for the family the class has been helping. Please take a gift tag from the tree in the
fellowship hall, purchase the item on the card, gift wrap it, and bring it back
by the 15th with the gift tag attached.
Galen & Carol
Eichorn have sold their farm and relocated to 8658 Tozer Court,
Apt. 4, Portage, MI 49024. They want to thank everyone for the prayer
support. Stop by and see them
sometime. Galen’s cell is 574-612-4949
and Carol’s cell is 574-596-3641.
2020
offering envelopes are available. If
you have used them before and don’t want to use them next year, please let Debi
Schrock 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.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, continued
Food
donations during December
will go to Keystone
Place.
Last
call for annual reports for the 2018-19 church year.
Reminder – There
will be an MYF
parent meeting on Sunday, Dec. 8 after the morning service. This will be regarding the Nicaragua trip.
Church members – Any
church member/attender who is interested in going on the MYF Nicaragua trip
will need to let Doug Hasbrouck, Marcy Bontrager or Cathy Fellers know by Jan.
5. There is a $100 nonrefundable deposit
per person due on or before Jan. 5. A trip
information packet is on the counter by the library. Feel free to make a copy for yourself. The trip is planned for July 17-25, 2020. Talk to Doug, Marcy or Cathy if you have
questions.
Christmas caroling at
the county jail is scheduled for Dec. 12 at 6:00 PM. 12 dozen cookies are needed to hand out to
the inmates. There is a sign-up sheet on
the console by the library if you are willing to help with this project. Place 3 cookies in each small Ziplock bag and
get them to the church kitchen by 4:00 PM on Dec. 11.
Birthday Greetings go
to: Dec. 11
– Stefanie Patrick, Abby Fellers, Allison Gautsche; Dec. 12 – Regan
Barrington, Brooke Troyer; Dec. 15 – Jim Owsley
Anniversary Greetings go
to: Dec. 9 – Ben & Nickie Younts; Dec. 10 – Caz &
Sheila Moore
MYF (High School Youth) – Dec. 8,
6-8:00 PM – at Mike & JoAnn Krick’s home;
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) – December 8, 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 the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With Isaac & Annie Miller and their children – Penny (3), Jude
(1) & Harmony (1). Their address is 603 Cherry
Street, 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, Steve Eichorn, Frank Fisher, Bill Kerschner, Connie Pagels, Martha Schwartz,
Marv Schwartz, and Richard Tribble.
