Friday, March 06, 2015
Locust Grove bulletin for March 8, 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: Luke
10:38-42
Sermon – “The
Christian Home :
Kitchen/Dining Room”
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – The Clint Gautsche Family
Nursery – Jenna Beeker; Mar. 15 – Kalee Schrock
Jail Service – Sturgis Missionary & Pilgrim Fellowship
Offerings & Attendance – 03/01/15
General Fund - $5,724.00 Attendance
– 158
Designations
– $828.83 which includes the special offering for Fully Alive
($441.33)
Wed. Mar. 11, 5:30 PM – Wednesday Connection
Wed. Mar. 11, 7:30 PM – Elder Team
meeting
Sunday, Mar. 15, 8:30 AM - Prayer Time for Adults & Children
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The
member list for Elder selection is in
your mailbox today. On Mar. 22, you will
be asked to mark all names of persons you feel have the gifts to serve as an
Elder. Please be in prayer about this
process. Also, please add the names of
Tangi Gautsche and Mel Mullett to the list for consideration.
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.
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.
Women’s Fellowship – Mar. 24, 6:00 PM
– Potluck at the church with
DeVonna Allison as the guest speaker.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Remember
to bring your food donations that will go to the Salvation
Army. Specific items needed are canned corn and butter.
The Missions Commission is
having a service project night on Mar. 27 from 6-8:00 PM at the MCC Resource
Center/Depot in Goshen . It is for all ages and you will be assembling
school kits.
Each year the Mennonite colleges
– Bethel , Bluffton, EMU, Goshen , and Hesston – offer students a
grant that matches home congregation contributions dollar for dollar up to
$1,000 per year ($500 per semester). Locust
Grove has a line item in the budget that goes to that fund. If you are a high school senior or current
college student, are planning to attend one of the Mennonite colleges, and
would like to take part in this program, please notify Gerri Schwartz by Mar.
29.
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! The sign-up list is on the
counter today and will be there during the month of March.
The March WMSC project
is bath soap for MCC. (No Ivory soap
please.)
“We express our sincere thanks
for the cards received in the mail. It
was a bright spot in the day. May God
bless you. Sincerely, Andrea & Merle”
MYF – Today, 5-7:00 PM at Joel &
Monica Lederman’s; Mar.
22, 6-8:00 PM – “Unite” at the Youth for Christ
building in Sturgis
JYF – Mar. 11, 6-7:30 PM – The Beginning of
Worship
Birthday Greetings go to:
Mar. 19 – Nancy Nunemaker; Mar. 20 –
Matt
Farrand; Mar. 22 – Dean Brubaker, Dana Sommers, Ross Weber
Anniversary Greetings go to:
Mar. 22 – Matt & Audra Franz
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 Betty Yoder. Her address is 26215
Spring Creek Road , Mendon , MI
49072 .
- 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