Thursday, September 16, 2021
Locust Grove bulletin for September 19, 2021
September 19, 2021
Sunday School – 9:30 AM
Worship Gathering – 10:30 AM
Welcome & Opening
Welcome/announcements – Isaac Miller
Call to Worship
Praise & Worship – Praise Team
Hearing God’s Word
Sharing & Prayer Concerns - Matthew
Yoder
Congregational Prayer
Sermon – “Better
Together – Unity”
Scripture – Romans
12:9-21
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
CALENDAR
Wednesday, Sept. 22,
5:00 PM – Praise Team practice
Sunday, Oct. 3, 5:30 PM
– Fall Sing Fling at Beeker’s Barn
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 6:00
PM – Women’s Fellowship - Bingo
Offering & Attendance – 09/12/21 Attendance – 115
General Fund - $9,943.12 Designations - $0.00
My Coins Count - $177.07
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Food donations
during September will go to the Salvation Army.
The 2021 church budget was affirmed
100%. Thank you!
Red Cross Blood Drive results – 40 presenting
donors, 36 units collected, 3/6 power reds.
The next blood drive is scheduled for November 8. Thank you to all who helped with the drive
last Monday.
Please add Richard Hochstetler’s cell
number to your phone list – 269-503-9459.
If you or a family member are attending
college this fall and would like to be on the college prayer list, please let
the office know.
Congratulations to Darin & Rachel
King and family on the birth of Ellianna Joy on Sept. 11. She weighed 7# 1oz. and was 19.5 inches long. Caden, Gabby and Julia are very excited about
their little baby sister and are ready to be helpers for Mom & Dad. May God continue to bless this precious
family!
Please hand in your annual reports
for the 2020-21 church year.
Sympathy and prayers go to Carol Eichorn
and family in the death of her son Mark on Sept. 9. May God continue to give them peace and
strength as they grieve.
Please remember Jason & Jenny Troyer
and family in the recent death of Jenny’s step-father, David Bristle. May they find comfort and peace through God’s
love.
Church Mowing – week of Sept. 19 – Greg Blucker; week
of Sept. 26 – Rich Oswald
Nursery – Brian & Rachel Oswald; Sept. 26 –
Darin & Rachel King
Birthday Greetings go to: Sept. 28 – Pauline Hochstetler; Oct. 1 – Caz Moore
Anniversary
Greetings go to: Oct. 3 – Bill
& Louanne Younts
JYF (Middle School Youth) – Today, Sept. 19, 4:00
PM – People Hunt at the St. Joe County Fair. Meet under the grandstands to receive
instructions.
MYF (High School Youth) – Today,
Sept. 19 – People Hunt at the St. Joe County Fair with the JYF; Oct. 3, 5:30 PM – Variety
Show at Beeker’s Barn
PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL
NOTES
- With our marriages
and families
- With our engaged
couple – John Miller & Sierra Eichorn - Oct. 9
- With our expectant
parents – Darian & Christen Kirby – March
- With our college
students – Regan Barrington (Glen Oaks), Cecelia Franz (Glen Oaks),
Collin Keeslar (MSU), Allison Littlefield (MSU). Drew Litwiller (Manchester U.),
Isaiah Fellers (K College), Myah Troyer (Northern Michigan)
- With the St. Joseph
County Jail Ministry
- With the Pastoral
Search Committee – Charlie Casper, Brent Beeker, Audra Franz, Clint Gautsche,
Katrina Hasbrouck, Louanne Younts
- With Beth Miller. Her address is 19512
Wittenberg Road, Constantine, MI 49042
- With our friends the
Denlingers in