Friday, September 22, 2017
Locust Grove bulletin for Sept. 24, 2017
Sunday School – 9:30 AM
Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM
We’re
Glad You’re Here!
Announcements
– Kim Schwartz
Affiliation
Committee Update – Audra Franz
Call to Worship
Offering
Prayer/Offering
Sharing/Prayer
Concerns – Bill Beck
Congregational Prayer
Greeting
Praise
& Worship – Praise Team
Hearing God:
Scripture – Matthew 20:1-16
Sermon - “The Day Worker’s Wage” – Ross Weber
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
Sending
Song
Ushers/Greeters – The Sunday school class taught by TJ
& 
Nursery – Darin & Rachel King; Oct. 1 – Cecelia Franz & Myah Troyer
Jail Service – Locust Grove
Offerings & Attendance – 09/17/17
General Fund - $3,293.00 Attendance – 152
Designations
– $1,155.69
Money
given to My Coins Count as of 9/17/2017 - $2,892.94
CALENDAR
Wednesday,
Sept. 27, 5:30-7:30 PM – Wednesday Connection
ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you have a
new picture or need your picture taken for the church directory, talk to Rin
Bontrager.
Food donations
during September will go to Salvation Army.
Annual reports are
due once again.
We will be
having communion
October 1.
Reminder – Bring your
boxes for Samaritan’s Purse Christmas Project. The primary children should
bring the items for their boxes also.
These will ship the 1st week of November.
New
addresses: Eric & Kelsey Lunger have moved to
105 Field St. , White
Pigeon, MI 49099. And Bill & Florence Wickey will be moving to 1425
Greencroft Drive, Apt. 224 , Goshen , IN 46526
ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
Wednesday Connection will begin on Sept. 27. Supper
will be served from 5:30-6:15 PM .
Classes start at 6:30 PM and include one on teaching with Ross
Weber, a ladies study of Genesis with Audra Franz, and Kids Club for K-5 with
Pastor Bill Beck. Nursery care will be
provided.
All ladies are invited to a baby shower honoring Kelsey Lunger and her baby girl here at Locust Grove on
Saturday, Oct. 7 at 2:00 PM .
Kelsey is registered at Amazon.com.
Men’s Retreat is Oct. 6-7 at Camp
Elvin Factoryville ,
MI Darin King for more details.
MCC Comforter Bash will
be Oct. 20 (9-5) & 21 (9-3) at Pleasant
View Mennonite Church Goshen . They need people to knot and also to sew and
piece comforter tops.
The Elders are
proposing an amendment to our constitution to shorten the length of Elder term
from 5 to 3 years. The vote on this will be on Oct. 22. If you have any questions, please talk to one
of the Elders.
If you have a
church key because of an office you held previously and no longer have that
position, please return the key to the church office.
The next
Red Cross Blood
Drive will be October 23.
MYF – Today, 6-8:00 PM – TBD
JYF – Today, Noon-3:00 PM – at Doug & Kim Schwartz’s; Oct. 8, 5-9:00 PM @ Beeker’s Barn; Oct. 22 – A-Mazing Acres Corn Maze in Edwardsburg; Nov. 12 – TBD; Dec. 10, 5-? – Cookie Baking & Christmas Party
Birthday Greetings go to: Oct. 8 – Taner Patrick
Anniversary Greetings go to:
Oct. 3 – Bill & Louanne Younts
PRAYER
& DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With our expectant parents –Nick & Katy Troyer (Brian &
Teresa) – October; Eric & Kelsey Lunger – November; Darin & Rachel King
– January; Isaac & Annie Miller – February
- With our college students – DeVonna Allison , Jenna Beeker, Sierra
Eichorn, Cody Litwiller, Isaac Miller , Dylan Schwartz
-
With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
-
With the Conference Affiliation Committee –Audra
Franz, Darin King, Lew Miller, Ross Weber, Ben Younts and Bill Beck
-
With Tangi Gautsche and her children Alden (13), Addy (11), Eli (3) and the twins Jeb & Laura (3 weeks). Their address is 376 Ember Road, Coldwater,
MI 49036.
- 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, Mike Krick, Martha Schwartz, Marv
Schwartz, John Sies and Bill & Florence Wickey
