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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Locust Grove bulletin for March 1, 2015 

Locust Grove
  Mennonite Church
    A Journey with Jesus
 


29525 Findley Road, Burr Oak, MI  49030, 269-489-5041

March 1, 2015

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




Text Box: 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.

Ushers/Greeters – The Fidelis Class
Text Box: Elders: Ross Weber, chair; Greg Blucker, Bill Lederman, Rich Oswald, Dana Sommers
Website: 
Email:  office@lgrove.org
Fax:  270-423-3673
Nursery – Joel & Monica Lederman; Mar. 8 – Jenna Beeker
Jail Service – New Jerusalem
Offerings & Attendance – 02/22/15  
Text Box: Ministers:  All who are part of this body
Lead Pastor:  Bill Beck, 503-3800 (cell),
 651-2313 (home), 
 pastorbill@lgrove.org
Secretary/Bookkeeper: Beth Miller
Church office hours: Tues-Thurs 9 AM-5 PM, Friday 9 AM-Noon. Closed Monday



      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 PMYFC Fully Alive Choir
Monday, Mar. 2 – Red Cross Blood Drive
Wed. Mar. 4, 5:30 PMWednesday 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










































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