Thursday, December 16, 2021
Locust Grove bulletin for Dec. 19, 2021
December 19, 2021
Sunday School – 9:30 AM
Worship Gathering – 10:30 AM
Welcome & Opening
Welcome/Announcements – Gerri Schwartz
Call to Worship
Advent Lighting – Brian & Rachel Oswald
Praise & Worship – Praise Team
Hearing God’s Word
Sharing & Prayer Concerns – Matthew
Yoder
Congregational Prayer
Sermon – “Advent - Joy”
Scripture – Psalm
126, II Cor. 6:4-10
Responding
Praise & Worship
Sending
Benediction
CALENDAR
Monday, Dec. 20,
6:30-8:00 PM – Women’s Advent Bible Study
General Fund - $4,415.00 Designations - $125.00
ANNOUNCEMENTS
There will be no Sunday school on
December 26 & January 2. There will be coffee at 10:00 AM & the worship
will begin at 10:30 AM.
Everyone is
invited to help Richard & Marjana Tribble celebrate their 50th
Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, Jan. 1 from 3-7:00 PM at Locust Grove.
Food donations
during December will go to Keystone Place.
The Life & Nurture Commission
is looking for a way to support our youth by attending their extracurricular
activities such as sports events, dramas, etc.
If you or your child is interested in participating, please contact a
member of the L&N Commission and/or provide a schedule of the
activities. Commission members are Darin
King, Greg Blucker, LeRoy Hochstetler, Beth Miller and Louellen Westover.
2022
offering envelopes
are available. If you have used them
before and don’t want to use them next year, please let the church office know. Or if you didn’t use them and want to
start, let us know that, too.
Annual
Reports
for 2020-21 are available on the console by the library. Also,
updated phone lists of current attenders
are on the console by the
library.
Help yourself.
Nursery – Dec. 19
– Tami & Kali Tyler;
Dec. 26 – Rachel King & Isabella Yoder
Birthday Greetings go
to: Dec. 28 – Jenny Troyer; Dec. 29 – Adalyn
Rumsey; Dec. 30 – Greg Murray, Kara Franz; Dec. 31 – Ruth
Coblentz; Jan. 1 – Merle Yeager, Gerri Schwartz, Khankeo
Kerschner
Anniversary Greetings go to: Jan. 1 – Richard & Marjana Tribble
JYF (Middle School Youth) –
MYF (High School Youth) –
PRAYER & DEVOTIONAL
NOTES
- With our marriages
and families
- With our expectant
parents – Darian & Christen Kirby – March
- With our college
students – Regan Barrington, Audra Franz, Cecelia
Franz, Collin Keeslar, Allison Littlefield. Drew Litwiller, Myah Troyer
- 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 Doug & Kim
Schwartz. Their
address is 69310 Workman Road, Burr Oak, MI
49030.
- With our friends the
Denlingers in Israel.
- We seek God’s
provision and care for these individuals:
John Blucker, Dave & Bertha Bontrager, Erma Eash, Bill Kerschner,
Martha Schwartz, Richard Tribble, Irene Troyer, Merle Yeager and Betty Yoder.