LGMC Bulletin

 

December 12, 2021

 

Sunday School – 9:30 AM

 

Worship Gathering – 10:30 AM

 

Welcome & Opening

          Welcome/Announcements – Audra Franz

Call to Worship

Advent Lighting – Clint & Jenn Gautsche

Praise & Worship – Praise Team

Hearing God’s Word

Sharing & Prayer Concerns – Matthew Yoder

Congregational Prayer

            Sermon – “Advent - Love”

        Scripture – Romans 5:8, 1^st John 4:9-11

Responding

          Praise & Worship

Sending

          Benediction

 

CALENDAR

Monday, Dec. 13, 6:30-8:00 PM – Women’s Advent Bible Study

Thursday, Dec. 16 – Women’s Sewing

 

 

Offering & Attendance – 12/05/21    Attendance – 101

General Fund - $7,300.00                  Designations - $310.00

ANNOUNCEMENTS

There will be no Sunday school on December 26 & January 2. There will be coffee at 10:00 AM & the worship will begin at 10:30.

Everyone is invited to help Richard & Marjana Tribble celebrate their 50^th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, Jan. 1 from 3-7:00 PM at Locust Grove.

Food donations during December will go to Keystone Place.

The December WMS meeting is this Thursday, Dec. 16.  Gerri Schwartz is in charge of the kitchen and Louellen Westover will have devotions.  The monthly project is colored bath towels for MCC.

2022 offering envelopes are available.  If you have used them before and don’t want to use them next year, please let the church office know.  Or if you didn’t use them and want to start, let us know that, too.

Annual Reports for 2020-21 are available on the console by the library.

 

 

Nursery – Dec. 12 – Brian & Rachel Oswald; Dec. 19 – Tami & Kali Tyler

 

Birthday Greetings go to:  Dec. 22 – Eric Linger

Anniversary Greetings go to:  Dec. 22 – Charlie & Donna Casper

 

JYF (Middle School Youth) – 

MYF (High School Youth) – Sunday, Dec. 12, 6-8:00 PM – MYF Christmas Party at the church.  Supper will be provided.  More details to come.

 

 

 

PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL NOTES

- With our marriages and families

- With our expectant parents – Darian & Christen Kirby – March

- With our college students – Regan Barrington, Audra Franz, Cecelia Franz, Collin Keeslar, Allison Littlefield. Drew Litwiller, Isaiah Fellers, Myah Troyer

- 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 Mark & Debi Schrock.  Their address is 26370 M-86, Sturgis, MI  49091.

- With our friends the Denlingers in Israel.  

- We seek God’s provision and care for these individuals:  John Blucker, Dave & Bertha Bontrager, Erma Eash, Carol Eichorn, Bill Kerschner, Martha Schwartz, Richard Tribble, Irene Troyer, Merle Yeager and Betty Yoder.