LGMC Bulletin

 

December 3, 2023

 

Sunday School – 9:30 AM

 

Worship Gathering – 10:30 AM

 

Call to Worship – Jason Troyer

Lighting of the Advent Candle - Matthew Yoder

Praise –Praise Team

Prayer – Matthew Yoder

Sermon – “Seeking True Hope”

   Matthew 1, Genesis 38 – Matthew Yoder

Praise –Praise Team

         Benediction – Matthew Yoder

 

CALENDAR

Today, December 3, 4:00 PM – Children’s Choir practice

Today, December 3, 6:15 PM – Congregational meeting

Tuesday, December 5, 6:00 PM – Women’s Fellowship Christmas Tea

Thursday, December 7, 5:15 PM – Praise Team practice

 

 

Offering & Attendance – 11/26/23             Attendance – 128

General Fund - $4,830.00   Designations - $750.00

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Food donations during December will go to the Keystone Place.

We will be having a congregational meeting tonight at 6:15 PM.  Absentee ballots are available at the welcome center for the vote on changing the name of the church.  If you can’t be here tonight, fill out a ballot, sign it, and put it in the box beside the ballots. Bring finger food to the meeting to share.

December 5 at 6:00 PM - Christmas Tea. Timberly Tree Farm will be here to decorate wreaths with us. Please sign up at the welcome station. The cost will be $30. Bring a dish to pass for the tea and sign up to decorate a table if you are interested. 

The Women’s Mission & Service project for December is the Kindness Closet in Centreville.

We will plan to not have Sunday school on December 24 but will have it on December 31.

2024 offering envelopes are available.  If you have used them before and don’t want to use them next year, please let the church office or Kay Large know.  Or if you didn’t use them and want to start, let us know that, too.  They will be in your mailboxes Sunday, Dec. 31.

Our youth will be going on a service trip to North Carolina next summer, June 29-July 6.  To secure your spot on the trip, a $50 non-refundable deposit is due to a youth sponsor by Sunday, January 7.  After this date, there is no guarantee that a spot will be available.

Annual Reports for the 2022-23 church year are ready and are at the welcome center.

The next Blood Drive will be January 8.

 

Nursery – December 3 – Eva & Jenna Beeker; December 10 – Sheshenia Family

Birthday Greetings go to:  December 11 – Stefanie Patrick, Abby Fellers, Allison Gautsche; December 12 – Regan Barrington, Brooke Troyer; December 15 – James Owsley; December 17 – Rachel King

Anniversary Greetings go to:  There are no anniversaries December 11-17.

Kid’s Club –

Youth Group (Middle & High School Youth) – December 10, 6-8:00 PM – Regular meeting; December 17 – To be determined

Youth Connection – Home Sports Events – Carter Oswald – (boys freshman basketball) December 5 @ 4:15 PM.

 

PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL NOTES

- With our marriages and families

- With the Sheshenia family from Ukraine – Vlad, Jane and daughters Valeriia, Margo & Sofiia.

- With our college students – Cecelia Franz, Collin Keeslar,

   Drew Litwiller, Evan Litwiller, Kali Tyler, Myah Troyer

- With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry

- With John Blucker.  His address is 63907 West Shore Road, 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, Bill Kerschner, Gary Large, Lew & Ruby Miller, Richard Tribble, Merle Yeager and Betty Yoder.