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Friday, June 22, 2018

Locust Grove bulletin for June 24, 2018 

June 24, 2018

Sunday School – 9:15 AM

Worship Gathering - 10:30 AM

We’re Glad You’re Here!
            Announcements –  Audra Franz
            Call to Worship
            Offering Prayer/Offering
            Graduate Recognition for Kalee Schrock – Bill Beck
            Sharing/Prayer Concerns
            MYF Service Project Commissioning
            Congregational Prayer
            Greetings
            Praise & Worship – Praise Team

Hearing God:
            Scripture:  Mark 5:35-41
            Sermon – “Is Your Boat Rocking?” – 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 SS Class taught by Gerri Schwartz
Text Box: Elders: Ross Weber, chair; Greg Blucker, LeRoy Hochstetler, Bill Lederman, Brian Oswald
Website: 
Email:  office@lgrove.org
Phone:  269-489-5041

Nursery Cecelia Franz & Myah Troyer; July 1 – Isaac & Annie Miller
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



Offerings & Attendance – 06/17/18
   General Fund - $ 2,825.00                                   Attendance – 182
   Designations - $ 130.00
                                   
CALENDAR
Today, 9:00 AMPrayer Time
Monday, July 2 – Red Cross Blood drive

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pastor Bill will be on vacation June 25-July 1.
If you want your page in the church directory updated or want a page because you are not in it, let Rin Bontrager know in the next couple of weeks because the pages are going to be printed soon.
The next Red Cross Blood Drive is July 2 starting at 11:00 AM.
Summer Bible School is July 15-19.  Registration forms are in the fellowship hall and can be returned to Cathy Fellers, Janell Lederman or Rachel Oswald.  There are also publication flyers that we urge you to take to places of employment or give them to friends, remembering our church’s mission statement of “Helping people to connect with Jesus”.
The Elder Lot selection will be July 22 during the morning service.  Please be in prayer about this process.
There will be a Congregational Meeting and carry-in noon meal on July 22.  The primary discussion item will be conference affiliation.
John Sies’s address is The Laurels, Rm. 355, 90 N. Michigan Ave., Coldwater, MI  49036.


ANNOUNCEMENTS, cont.
The Life & Nurture Committee has put together a procedure manual that has been approved by the Elders.  The binder will be kept in the church library.  Feel free to check it out.
Food donations during June will go to Keystone Place.

Kid’s Club – There will be no Kid’s Club today.
MYF – June 24-29 – Service Trip
JYF – Today, June 24 – Adventure Zone in Coldwater; July 15 –Lake Day at Tribble’s; July 27-29 – Know Jesus at Goshen College; Aug. 12 – Summer Wrap-Up at Doug & Kim’s

Birthday Greetings go to: July 3 – Teresa Troyer; July 4 – Aiden Hasbrouck; July 6 – Randy Dudley, Jenny King; July 7 – Kim Schwartz, Marcy Bontrager
Anniversary Greetings go to: July 4 – Rich & Sharon Davidson

PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL NOTES
- With our marriages and families
- With engaged couples – Matt Jorgensen & Phiona Namuddu – July 7, 2018; Darian Kirby & Christen Kahila – Aug. 25, 2018
- With our college studentsMarty Diller, Isaac Miller
- With Matt Hasbrouck in the Marine Corp 
- Abby Fellers on Africa Mercy Ship; if you wish to send letters:
Abby Fellers—Reception, Mercy Ships AFM, PO Box 2020, Lindale, TX 75771-2020, USA. If you wish to send a package, talk to Cathy.
- With the St. Joseph County Jail Ministry
- With the Conference Affiliation Committee – Audra Franz, Darin King, Ross Weber, Ben Younts and Bill Beck
- With Fred & Marilyn Schwartz.  Their address is 62613 Nottawa Rd., Sturgis, MI  49091.
- With our friends the Denlingers in Israel.  
- We seek God’s provision and care for these individuals:  Evelyn & John Blucker, Dave Bontrager, Erma Eash, Galen Eichorn, Frank Fisher, Bill Kerschner, Martha Schwartz, Marv Schwartz and John Sies    



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