Thursday, February 26, 2015
Locust Grove bulletin for March 1, 2015
Locust Grove
A
Journey with Jesus
Sunday School – 9:15 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
Welcome
and Opening
Welcome/Announcements
– Gerri Schwartz
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational
Prayer
Greeting
Time
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing
God’s Word
Scripture: Matthew
28:16-20
Sermon – “We
Endeavor …”
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – The Fidelis Class
Nursery – Joel & Monica Lederman; Mar. 8 – Jenna Beeker
Jail Service – New Jerusalem
Offerings & Attendance – 02/22/15
General Fund - $2,633.00 Attendance
– 104
Designations
– $793.54 – which includes the special offering for the Gideons
in the amount of $707.54 plus checks written directly to the Gideons for $40.00.
Today, 6:00 PM – YFC Fully Alive Choir
Monday, Mar. 2 – Red Cross Blood
Drive
Wed. Mar. 4, 5:30 PM – Wednesday Connection
Sunday, Mar. 8, 8:30 AM - Prayer Time for Adults & Children
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Fully Alive group from Youth for Christ will
be here tonight at 6:00 PM to present
a musical program. Bring finger foods
for a fellowship time after.
The next
Red Cross Blood Drive
at Locust Grove will be March 2. Volunteers are
needed – drivers, people to load and unload the truck, registration and canteen
workers. You don’t have to work all day
- even just a couple hours are helpful.
There is a sign-up sheet in the fellowship hall.
Craft Club is at
Martha Franz’s home Thursday, Mar. 5 at 7:00 PM .
Daylight Savings Time
begins next Sunday, Mar. 8. Be sure to
turn your clocks ahead 1 hour Saturday evening before you go to bed.
Remember
to bring your food donations that will go to the Salvation
Army. Specific items needed are canned corn and butter.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Bill Miller’s Sunday school
class will be hosting a fellowship night on Mar. 21. They will be showing the movie “God’s Not Dead”. Everyone is invited and asked to bring finger
foods.
Women’s Fellowship
will be sponsoring a shopping trip to Ikea Store and/or Woodfield Mall in Chicago on Saturday, Apr. 18. The bus will be boarding at 7:15
AM at
our church, leaving at 7:30 AM , and returning at 9:30
PM . There will be a stop for breakfast on the way
and a stop on the way home for a meal.
Cost will be $50 per person. This
will be a 48 passenger bus, so please invite all your friends so we can fill
the bus! There will be a sign-up sheet
next Sunday on the counter in the fellowship hall.
You are invited to a hymn sing at 3:00 PM on Mar. 22 at Pine Grove Mennonite Church in Battle Creek . They will be singing about 1 ½ hours followed by
a finger food fellowship time. Please bring
sandwiches, etc. to share.
MYF – Mar. 8, 5-7:00 PM at Joel & Monica
Lederman’s
JYF – Mar. 4, 6-7:30 PM
Birthday Greetings go to:
Mar. 10 – Marie Fisher; Mar. 12 – LeRoy
Hochstetler; Mar. 14 – Scott Bontrager, Roselyn Roberts
Anniversary Greetings go to:
There are no anniversaries Mar. 9-15.
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With
the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With Sgt. Timothy Beck – B Company,
1-187 IN, TB Gamberi, APO AE 09354.
-
With Joe & Mandy Yoder. Their address is 22911
Mintdale Road , Sturgis , MI
49091 .
- With our friends
the Denlingers in Israel .
- We seek God’s
provision and care for these individuals: Evelyn Blucker, Dave
Coblentz, Erma Eash, Bill Kerschner, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, Florence Wickey and Andrea Yeager