LGMC Bulletin

 

July 10, 2022

 

Sunday School – 9:30 AM

 

Worship Gathering – 10:30 AM

 

Welcome & Opening

         Welcome/Announcements – Adam Fellers

Call to Worship

Praise & Worship – Praise Team

Hearing God’s Word

Elder Lot - Matthew Yoder  

Sharing & Prayer Concerns

Congregational Prayer

Sermon – “Renewing Our Mission” – Matt. 28:18-20

Responding

         Praise & Worship

Sending

         Benediction

 

 

 

CALENDAR

Sunday, July 10, 10:30 AM – Elder Lot

Monday, July 11 – Blood Drive

Monday, July 11, 6:00 PM – Elder Team meeting

 

Offering & Attendance – 07/03/22    Attendance – AM-123

General Fund - $10,035.00   Designations - $1,380.00

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Food donations during July will go to the Salvation Army.

Needed – drawings for our bulletin cover.  Please put them in the mailbox outside the church office.

The next blood drive is tomorrow, July 11.  Volunteers are needed to help with registration, to drive donors to and from the blood drive, and to help tear down.  A sign-up sheet is in the fellowship hall.  Volunteers and donors are no longer required to wear masks.

If you would like to receive the Purpose and/or Our Daily Bread, order slips are in the mailbox room.  Just fill one out, sign your name, and place it in Kay Large’s mailbox by July 17.  A donation of $10 is requested for Our Daily Bread.  You can either give your money to the church secretary or place it in the offering with it marked clearly for Our Daily Bread. 

The WMS project for July is school kits for MCC.

Below is an important timeline of dates for you to be aware of:

Today, July 10 - Candidate Weekend - 9:30am - Q&A w/ Matt - donuts and coffee provided; 10:30am - Matt brings morning message (No Sunday School)

Sun, July 17 - Voting during morning service

Absentee ballots will be available from Beth Miller on July 10 and need to be returned to the church office by 5pm Thurs, July 14.  If approved by 75% vote, the installation service for Matt Yoder as our lead pastor would take place on Sun, July 31.  Thank you for all of your prayers and support during this time. We are praising God for his faithfulness throughout this process.  The Pastoral Search Team

There will not be Sunday school on July 31.  Jayson & Julie Casper will be sharing during the SS time that day.

We will be having a baptismal service on Aug. 28 after our Camp Amigo service.  If you are interested in being baptized, please let Matthew Yoder know.

The church email address is locustgrove@gmail.com  The old address of office@lgrove.org does not work anymore. If all else fails and you can’t send your message with either address, you can use my personal address –

    bababeth@gmail.com

The MCC Relief Sale will be September 23-24 in Goshen.

 

Announcements continued…

Items are needed for the Youth for Christ Benefit Auction.  They can be big items like vehicles or new or high-quality items with a minimum value of $25.  Items will be sold online on Aug. 22-27.  Call 269-651-1669 to donate.

Nursery – July 10 – Fellers Family; July 17 – Gerri Schwartz & Lyza Oswald

 

Mowing – Week of July 10 – Greg Blucker; Week of July 17 – Rich Oswald

 

Birthday Greetings go to:  July 19 – Carol Eichorn; July 23 – Fred Schwartz; July 24 – Ben Gautsche

Anniversary Greetings go to:  There are no anniversaries July 18 – 24. 

 

Youth Connection – Carter Oswald’s home baseball games at the west diamond behind Wall School – July 14, 5:30 PM

JYF (Middle School Youth) – July 16, 4-8:00 PM – Fish Fry and swimming at Jerry & Nancy Dykstra’s.

MYF (High School Youth) – July 10, 24, & Aug. 14 – Lake Days.  On July 24, it will be at Richard & Marjana Tribble’s from 6-8:00 PM.  Supper will be provided.

 

 

PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL NOTES

- With our marriages and families

- With the Sheshenia family from Ukraine – Vlad, Jane and daughters Valeriia (12), Margo (9) & Sofiia (7).

- With our expectant parents – Regan Barrington – June, Eric & Kelsey Lunger - September

- With our college students – Tangi Kimble

- 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 Marcy Bontrager.  Her address is 69220 Vicky Drive, 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, Lew & Ruby Miller, Martha Schwartz, Richard Tribble, Irene Troyer, Erv Wickey, Merle Yeager and Betty Yoder.