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Friday, July 21, 2017

Locust Grove bulletin for July 23, 2017 

July 23, 2017

Sunday School – 9:15 AM

Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM

We’re Glad You’re Here!
            Announcements – Christine Oswald
            Call to Worship
            Offering Prayer/Offering
            Sharing/Prayer Concerns – Bill Beck
            Congregational Prayer
            Greeting
            Praise & Worship – Praise Team
           
Hearing God:
            Scripture – Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43  
            Sermon - “Wheat & Weeds” – Ross Weber
           
Responding
            Praise & Worship

Sending
            Benediction
            Sending Song




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.

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 Sunday school class taught by Greg Blucker
Text Box: Elders: Rich Oswald, chair; Greg Blucker, LeRoy Hochstetler, Bill Lederman, Brian Oswald
Website: 
Email:  office@lgrove.org
Fax:  270-423-3673
Colton Eby – 217-778-1603
Nursery Kalee Schrock; July 30 – Glendon & Danielle Miller
Jail Service – Wasepi Bluegrass
Offerings & Attendance – 07/16/17 
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 - $2,786.00                        Attendance – 164
      Designations – $216.26
          
CALENDAR
Tuesday, July 25, 10:00 AM – Women’s Bible Study
July 27 & 28 – Rental Rehearsal & Wedding

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Food donations during July will go to Salvation Army.
The next Red Cross Blood Drive will be August 28. 
It’s time again to order take-home papers for the 2017-18 church year.  A list of available papers/booklets is on the shelf under the church mailboxes.  Please check any papers you would like to receive, sign your name, and put the form in Greg & Carolyn Gautsche’s mailbox by August 6.  If you want to get Our Daily Bread, please designate $10 per booklet in the offering.  All other papers are paid for from the church budget.
Sample ballots for church offices for 2017-18 are in your mailboxes today.  The vote of affirmation has been changed from August 6 to August 13.  Please be in prayer about this ballot.
Ross Weber was chosen in the lot for Elder last Sunday.
All women are invited to attend the WMSC Fall Retreat at Amigo Centre on Oct. 6-8.  The theme is “Remain in Me” and Marlene Bogard is the guest speaker.  Prices and registration information are posted on the bulletin board. 


ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
MYF –
JYF – July 28 – Michigan Adventure.  More details to come.

Birthday Greetings go to:  Aug. 1 – Isaiah Fellers; Aug. 2 – Dorothy Troyer, Eva Beeker, Dillon Barrington; Aug. 5 – Jeanne Osborn
Anniversary Greetings go to:  July 31 – Galen & Carol Eichorn

PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With Greg & Carolyn Gautsche and family in the passing of Delmar last Tuesday.  Funeral services were here at Locust Grove yesterday.  Please remember the Gautsche family as it was only six weeks ago that they said good-bye to their mother, Donna.  May God give them comfort.
- With Rick & Doris Bogen and family in the recent death of Doris’s sister, Sharon Closson.  May God give them peace and comfort.
- With our marriages and families
- With our expectant parents – Tangi Gautsche & Ralph Kimble - September; Eric & Kelsey Lunger – October; Darin & Rachel King - January
- With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
- With the Conference Affiliation Committee – Ross Weber, Audra Franz, Darin King, Lew Miller, Ben Younts and Bill Beck
- With Paul & Fran Eichorn and their daughter Sierra.  Their address is 24501 M-86, Sturgis, MI  49091.     
- With our friends the Denlingers in Israel.     

- We seek God’s provision and care for these individuals:  Evelyn Blucker, Erma Eash, Galen Eichorn, Bill Kerschner, Mary E. Miller, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz, John Sies and Bill & Florence Wickey 

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