LGMC Bulletin

 

May 9, 2021

 

Meet & Greet – 9:30 AM

 

Worship Gathering – 10:30 AM

 

Welcome & Opening

          Welcome/announcements – Darin King

Call to Worship

Praise & Worship – Praise Team

Hearing God’s Word

Sharing & Prayer Concerns 

Congregational Prayer- Matthew Yoder

Sermon – “So What Now? Teaching”   

Scripture: Acts 2:42-47

Responding

          Praise & Worship

Sending

          Benediction

 

 

CALENDAR

Monday, May 10 – Red Cross Blood Drive

Tuesday, May 11, 6:00 PM – Women’s Fellowship

Sunday, May 16, 6:00 PM – Congregational Meeting

 

Offering & Attendance – 05/02/2021

General Fund - $3,556.00; Designations - $285.00; Attendance – 126

 

Nursery – Today – Darin & Rachel King; May 16 – Audra Franz & Alli Gautsche

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Please welcome the Yoder family - Matt, Liz, Isabella (14) and Drew (almost 11).  Their address is Goshen and their children attend Fairfield Schools. 

Food donations during May will go to the Salvation Army.

The next blood drive will be Monday, May 10. Volunteers are needed to help with setup, registration, tear down and driving donors who may need rides. A sign-up sheet is in the fellowship hall. If you want to donate blood, call the Red Cross for an appointment 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

Women's Fellowship: Coffee & Canvas, Tuesday, May 11 @ 6:00 PM. Cost is $10 per person. There is a sign-up sheet in fellowship hall. 

The Women’s Mission & Service May project is hygiene kits for MCC.  Kits bags can be picked up at each sanitation table.  Contents to be purchased – 1 medium-weight hand towel, 1 large bar of bath soap, 1 adult toothbrush, 1 good quality nail clipper, 1 wide-tooth comb.  Returned the filled bags to the WMS counter in the fellowship hall.  Thanks for your help!

May Prayer Request from the Pastoral Search Team:  Please pray expectantly with us from Matt. 7:7, “Ask and it will be given to you.  Seek and you will find.”  This month our Pastoral Search Team will be creating a timeline and beginning a pastoral profile for our church’s ideal candidates based on Locust Grove’s ministry needs, vision and mission.

Church Mowing – for the week of May 9 – Rich Oswald; week of May 16 – Erv Wickey

 

JYF (Middle School Youth) – May 16, Noon - ? – Airborne Adventure Park.  Lunch will be provided at the church.  You will be back before the business meeting in the evening.

MYF (High School Youth) – May 8, 5:30 PM – Auction. 

 

Birthday Greetings go to:  May 19 – Marjana Tribble; May 20 – Jackson Fish; May 22 – Bertha Bontrager; May 23 – JoAnn Krick

Anniversary Greetings go to:  No anniversaries May 17-23.

 

PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL NOTES

- With our marriages and families

- With our engaged couple – John Miller & Sierra Eichorn - Oct. 9

- With our expectant parents – Matt & Phiona Jorgensen - July 27; Darin & Rachel King - September

- With our college students – Jenna Beeker, Abby Fellers, Dylan Schwartz, Jake Troyer, Myah Troyer

- With Isaiah Fellers in Service Adventure in Alaska.  His address is 1310 W 47^th Ave., Anchorage, AK  99503.

- With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry

- With the Pastoral Search Committee – Charlie Casper, Brent Beeker, Audra Franz, Clint Gautsche, Katrina Hasbrouck, Louanne Younts

- With Matt & Phiona Jorgensen and their son Luke (1) and baby due in July.  Their address is 442 Maple Street, Colon, MI  49040.  Especially remember them as they are traveling to Uganda at the end of this month.

- 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, Bill Kerschner, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, and Richard Tribble.