Friday, December 15, 2023
Locust Grove bulletin for December 17, 2023
December 17, 2023
Sunday School – 9:15 AM
Worship Gathering – 10:30 AM
Call to Worship – Jason
Troyer
Lighting of the Advent Candle – Charlie &
Donna Casper
Praise –Praise
Team
Kids Ministry – Rachel King
Prayer – Matthew
Yoder
Sermon – “Seeking True Joy”
Matthew 1, Ruth – Matthew Yoder
Praise
–Praise Team
Benediction – Matthew Yoder
CALENDAR
Today, December 17, 6:00 PM – Children’s Christmas Choir program
Thursday, December 21 – Women’s Mission & Service
Thursday, December 21, 5:15 PM – Praise Team practice
Offering & Attendance – 12/10/23 Attendance – 114
General Fund - $2,955.00
Designations - $0
Welcome to Locust Grove!
We’re glad to have you join us for our time of worship together. If you haven’t already attended, we would
love to have you also join us for Sunday school next Sunday. Sunday school is an important step in making
further connections with a smaller group of people. Ask for help if you have any questions or
need more information about our church.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Food donations
during December will go to the Keystone Place.
The Women’s Mission & Service project for December
is the Kindness Closet in Centreville.
For the monthly meeting this Thursday, Gerri Schwartz is in charge of
the kitchen and Louellen Westover will have devotions.
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.
Mennonite Central Committee Meat Canning will be at the Depot in Goshen. Our church’s slot to work is January 6 from 1:45-8:00
PM. Wear clean clothes and hair
coverings. If you would like to
volunteer, contact Louanne Younts. They
would also appreciate donations for the $175,000 budget to purchase materials
and chicken or turkey. Checks can be
made out to the church with “meat canner” in the memo.
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.
The next Blood Drive will be January 8.
Nursery – December 17 – Keeslars; December 24 – Tami Tyler
& Nancy Dykstra
Birthday Greetings go to: December 28 – Jenny Troyer; December 30 – Greg
Murray; December
31 – Ruth Coblentz
Anniversary
Greetings go to: There are no
anniversaries December 25-31.
Youth Group (Middle & High School Youth) – December 17 – Helping
host the Children’s Christmas Choir Concert.
Be at the church at 5:15pm.
(Stage hands arrive at 4:00pm.) This
is a change from the original plan.
After the concert was planned, we asked if they could use help. December 31 – New Year’s Eve Party,
7:00pm – 12:15am. Come and go as you
please if you can’t make it for the whole time.
Youth Connection – Home Sports Events –
Carter Oswald – (boys freshman basketball) December 21 @ 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 Dennis & Rin
Bontrager. Their
address is 20778 Roys Road, Centreville, MI
49032.
- 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.
