Thursday, March 12, 2015
Locust Grove bulletin for March 15, 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
Children’s
Story – Ben Younts
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing
God’s Word
Scripture: Philippians
4:4-13
Sermon – “The
Christian Home : Living Room”
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Ushers/Greeters – The Ben Younts Family
Nursery – Kalee Schrock; Mar. 22 – Matt & Audra Franz
Jail Service – Word Fellowship
Offerings & Attendance – 03/08/15
General Fund - $5,219.50 Attendance
– 192
Designations
– $86.50
Wed. Mar. 18, 5:30 PM – Wednesday Connection
Thursday, Mar. 19 - WMSC
Thursday, Mar. 19, 6:00 PM – Praise Team
practice
Sunday, Mar. 22, 8:30 AM - Prayer Time for Adults & Children
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The
member list for Elder selection was in
your mailbox last Sunday. 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.
The next WMSC meeting is Thursday, Mar. 19. Audra Franz
will have devotions and Gerri Schwartz is in
charge of the kitchen. The project is bath soap for MCC. (No Ivory soap please.)
Bill Miller’s
Sunday school class will be hosting a fellowship night on Mar. 22 starting with snacks at 5:30 PM . They will be showing the movie “God’s Not Dead” starting at 6:00 PM . Everyone is invited and asked to bring finger
foods.
Women’s Fellowship – Mar. 24, 6:00 PM
– Potluck at the church with
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
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.
Remember
to bring your food donations that will go to the Salvation
Army. Specific items needed are canned corn and butter.
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.
Amigo Centre is
accepting applications for part time work in the dining hall and kitchen. Call 651-2811 for more information.
Congratulations
to Brian & Nancy Nunemaker on the birth of another grandson. Max Alexander was born to John &
Stephanie Nunemaker on Mar. 10. He
weighed 6 lb. 3 oz. and was 19.5 inches long.
Blessings to little Max and all his family including great grandpa,
Menno Chupp.
MYF – Mar.
22, 6-8:00
PM – “Unite” at the
Youth for Christ building in Sturgis
JYF – Mar. 18, 6-7:30 PM – Our Condition
Birthday Greetings go to:
Mar. 23 – Bill Younts; Mar. 24 – Brian W. Troyer; Mar. 25 –
Stephanie
Lederman; Mar. 27 – Tommy Roberts; Mar. 28 – Ken Schwartz
Anniversary Greetings go to:
Mar. 24 – Hezir & Ann Araujo;
Mar. 25 – Frank & Marie Fisher
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 Sylvanus Yoder. His address is 1001S 600W, LaGrange, IN
46761.
- 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