Thursday, December 19, 2019
Locust Grove bulletin for Dec. 22, 2019
December 22, 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
Special
Music
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greetings
Children’s
Story – Cathy Fellers
Praise &
Worship
Hearing God:
Scripture – Isaiah 7:10-16
Sermon – “Smoldering Sticks” – Ross
Weber
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – The MYF and JYF
Nursery – Darin & Rachel King
Offerings & Attendance – 12/15/19
General Fund - $ 4,404.00 Attendance – 136
Designations - $1,550.00
CALENDAR
Today, 9:00 AM – Prayer
Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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.
Annual
Reports are printed and on the console by the library.
Any church
member who is interested in helping with a children’s program (ages 4-10)
during the sermon portion of the worship service, please let Gerri Schwartz or
Rachel King know. We ask that you’d
prayerfully consider this opportunity to serve.
The WMS project
for December is items for the Pregnancy Helpline (diapers size 4,5,6 and baby
wipes).
On December 29,
there will be a special offering for the MCC meat canner.
Food
donations during December
will go to Keystone
Place.
Congratulations
to Eric & Kelsey Lunger on the birth of their son Ronan Ty on Dec. 18. His sister Bowie (2) is ready to give him
lots of love and kisses as are grandparents Greg & Carolyn Gautsche and
great-grandparents Dave & Bertha Bontrager.
May God bless this family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, continued
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.
Sympathy
and prayers to Lennis & Nancy Troyer and Brian & Teresa Troyer and
their families in the death of Lennis and Brian’s mother, Esther (Carpenter)
Troyer on Dec. 13. Esther was also a
sister to Bertha Bontrager, Ann Araujo and Edna Carpenter. Services were Dec. 20 at Calvary Chapel. May God give all her family comfort and
peace.
Birthday Greetings go
to: Dec. 30
– Greg Murray, Kara Franz; Dec. 31 – Ruth Coblentz; Jan. 1 – Merle
Yeager, Gerri Schwartz, Khankeo Kerschner; Jan. 5 – Danielle Miller
Anniversary Greetings go
to: Jan. 1 – Richard & Marjana
Tribble
MYF (High School Youth) –
JYF (Middle School Youth) –
Kid’s Club (Grades K-5) –
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 Deric & Ashley Mostrom and their baby due in April. Their address is 24275 Draper Drive, 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.
