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Friday, March 06, 2015

Locust Grove bulletin for March 8, 2015 

Locust Grove
  Mennonite Church
    A Journey with Jesus
 


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

March 8, 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:  Luke 10:38-42
            Sermon – “The Christian Home:  Kitchen/Dining Room”  
                                   
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 Clint Gautsche Family
Text Box: Elders: Ross Weber, chair; Greg Blucker, Bill Lederman, Rich Oswald, Dana Sommers
Website: 
Email:  office@lgrove.org
Fax:  270-423-3673
Nursery – Jenna Beeker; Mar. 15 – Kalee Schrock
Jail Service – Sturgis Missionary & Pilgrim Fellowship
Offerings & Attendance – 03/01/15  
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 - $5,724.00                        Attendance – 158
      Designations – $828.83 which includes the special offering for Fully               Alive ($441.33)
           
Wed. Mar. 11, 5:30 PMWednesday Connection
Wed. Mar. 11, 7:30 PMElder 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



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