Thursday, December 05, 2019
Locust Grove bulletin for December 8, 2019
December 8, 2019
Sunday
School – 9:15 AM
Worship
Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re Glad You’re Here!
Praise & Worship – Praise Team
Announcements
– Audra Franz
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Advent
Reading – Ben & Nickie Younts
Mennonite
Disaster Service Report – MDS Team
Sharing/Prayer Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greetings
Praise &
Worship
Hearing God:
Scripture – Isaiah 11:1-10
Sermon – “Hope from a Stump” – Ross
Weber
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – The MYF
Nursery – Audra Franz & Brooke Troyer
Offerings & Attendance – 12/01/19
General Fund - $ 6,248.00 Attendance – 171
Designations - $1,875.71
which includes the special offering and designations for the Primary SS project
($1,450.71).
CALENDAR
Today, 9:00 AM – Prayer
Time
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 6:30
PM – Women’s Bible Study
Wednesday, Dec. 11,
6:30 PM – Elder Team meeting
Thursday, Dec. 12, 6:00 PM – Christmas
Caroling at the Jail
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Reminder – There
will be an MYF
parent meeting today after the morning service. This will be regarding the Nicaragua trip.
The Women’s Bible Study
this week is on Tuesday. It will be the last one for this year.
Christmas caroling at
the county jail is scheduled for Dec. 12 at 6:00 PM. If you signed up to make cookies for this
event, please get them to the church kitchen by 4:00 PM on Dec. 11.
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.
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
The WMS project for
December is items for the Pregnancy Helpline (diapers size 4,5,6
and baby wipes).
Food
donations during December
will go to Keystone
Place.
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.
Birthday Greetings go
to: Dec. 10
– Jake Troyer; Dec. 17 – Rachel King; Dec. 19 – Rick
Bogen, Greg Blucker; Dec.
22 – Eric Lunger
Anniversary Greetings go
to: Dec. 22 – Charlie & Donna Casper
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) – Today, December 8, 4-5:30 PM
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and
families
- With our engaged couple – Phil Furney
& Alesia Walls – June 2020
- 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 Lew & Ruby Miller. Their
address is 27040 Chapin Lake 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, Steve Eichorn, Frank Fisher, Bill Kerschner, Connie Pagels, Martha Schwartz,
Marv Schwartz, and Richard Tribble.
