WASHINGTON
MENNONITE CHURCH
GOD GATHERS US
Prelude
Sharing of the Parable
Children’s
Time
Songs of Worship
GOD ADDRESSES US
Scripture Reading
Matthew
20:1-16
Meditation “How fair is justice?”
Song of Response
GOD RECEIVES OUR GIFTS
Sharing
Offering & Offertory
Pastoral Prayer
GOD SENDS US
Benediction
Sending Song
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Worship Leaders:
Prelude/Offertory: Angela
Widmer
Sharing the Parable: Amy Widmer
Song Leader: Mary Lou Farmer
Message: Amanda Beachy
Pastoral Prayer: Grant Nebel
We welcome all to this place for the worship of God
and for Christian fellowship. Let us
worship God in spirit and in truth, reaching out to one another in Christ’s
love. We welcome our guests and visitors
and hope you will join us again soon.
Offering for 8/21/11:
$2215.00 (regular), $250.00 (Moya College Fund)
Note: The church fiscal year ends on August 31. Please turn in ALL invoices to Treasurer,
Mary Lou Farmer today. Thanks
EDUCATION LEADERS
Adult Sermon Extension (Sanctuary): Roger Farmer
Adult Bible Study: (end
classroom of Fellowship Hall): Barb
Ramsey
Preschool - K (middle classroom in Fellowship Hall): Gloria Widmer
Grades 1-5 (classroom off kitchen): Cindy Widmer
Youth grades 6-12 (upstairs): Grant Nebel
VISION STATEMENT: As followers of Jesus Christ, we are a
community of faith
empowered by the Holy Spirit,
seeking to love God with all our heart, mind, soul,
and strength, and to love others as our self.
Ministers: All of
God’s People
Pastors: Grant Nebel:
256.7252 (home) Amanda
Beachy: 319.325.4522
319.931.2579
(cell) (cell)
Elders: Francis Litwiller 656.3426, Becky Widmer 653.4714,
Gay Widmer 653.3423
Church Secretary:
Martha Graber 653.6393 Church
Office Phone: 653.6041
Church Office e-mail:
wash.mennonite at juno.com
Preaching Schedule
for September:
September 4, Grant—Romans 13:8-14
September 11, Amanda—Matthew
18:21-35 and Genesis 50:15-21
September 18, Amanda—Psalm 105
September 25, Grant—Matthew
21:23-32
It’s time to gather
the reports for our year end. Please
give your reports to Martha Graber, send them by email or put them in her
church mailbox by September 9, 2011.
Happy Birthday to:
Adam Miller (8/31), Nathan
Miller (9/3)
MABROK (Menno’s Annual Bike Ride on the Kewash) is scheduled for 2:00 PM on Sunday, September
4, 2011. This is our (almost) annual
bike ride on the Kewash Trail. Meet at
the trailhead in Centennial
Park, on the north side
of Main Street. We’ll ride the trail to West
Chester and back, or whatever distance you want to make it. This is a family ride for all ages…you set
your own pace. We’ll have hot dogs and
jalapenos back at the park. Sign up in
the foyer so we know how big a crowd to expect.
Bring relatives, neighbors and friends.
On behalf of the congregation, the elders have requested to Central Plains Mennonite
Conference that Amanda Beachy be licensed for ministry at Washington
Mennonite Church
& in Mennonite Church USA. After Amanda has had an interview with
Pastoral Leadership Committee, there will be a licensing service for her at a
later date.
Employment opportunities:
The Crowded Closet is in the
process of filling a staff vacancy.
Connie Freyenberger has resigned as manager of the Crowded Closet. As we consider reorganizing our staff, we are
taking applications for manager, assistant manager and a staff position. If you are interested in applying, please
pick up an application at the Crowded Closet and return it to the Crowded
Closet with a resume on or before Tuesday, September 6th. The manager and assistant manager positions
are full time and the staff position is part time. For questions call Connie at the Crowded
Closet or Janice Wenger at 319.750.2171.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Sept. 4: MABROK, 2:00 PM
Sept. 21: Fall Business Meeting, 7:00 PM at the church
We extend our sympathy to the Dean Swartzendruber family as they grieve the death of Rev. Dean
Swartzendruber, 84, who died on Monday, August 22, 2011 at Mercy Hospital
in Iowa City, Iowa.
Dean was a long time pastor and conference leader in the former
Iowa-Nebraska Conference, serving on numerous committees including the
Iowa-Nebraska Conference Mission Board for nine years and as a Mennonite Church
General Board member for six years. Dean
served as pastor at Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church
for nearly 30 years and was overseer of three Hispanic churches in Muscatine and Davenport
for 20 years. He also served as interim
pastor at numerous congregations before retiring in Kalona, Iowa. Please remember in prayer Dean’s wife Lois
and their children along with their extended families as they grieve Dean’s
death and as they celebrate the fruitful life Dean lived as husband, father,
grandfather, pastor, conference leader and faithful servant of Jesus Christ. Memorial donations may be directed to Iowa
City Hospice or to Mennonite Mission Network in memory of Dean Swartzendruber.
We have keenly felt the prayers of God’s people during the time since Darvin’s
accident. Even before we knew what the
results of therapy would be we knew that we could not escape God’s care. Your ministry to us has been exhibited in so
many ways and it has brought us into the center of God’s love. We are grateful for you our brothers and
sisters in Christ. Therapy has gone well
and even the therapists seem amazed at Darvin’s progress. They anticipate sending him home very
soon. Praise to God from whom all
blessings flow. Martha and Darvin Yoder
The IMS sophomore class is once again selling magazines.
Purchase or renew a magazine subscription through an IMS sophomore
between August 26 and September 9, or online at QSP.com. (If you purchase or renew online the IMS
account is listed as Iowa Mennonite School Sophomore Class not as IMS.) Please call the IMS office (319.656.2073) for
more information, and thank you in advance for your support!
Sing & S’mores
will be hosted at Crooked Creek Christian Camp on Sunday, September 11, 2011 at
5:30 PM. Bring your lawn chair, your
blue Hymnal Worship Book, your singing voice and your creativity as the camp
will provide a S’mores Smorgasbord limited only by your appetite! Please, join us for a night of fellowship
through hymns, stories and s’mores! Free will offering will be taken.
Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels will present a concert at Iowa Mennonite
School on Saturday,
September 10, at 7:00 p.m.; the concert will be in Celebration Hall. Tickets are on sale at IMS – please call the
school office at 656-2073 or 683-2586 – for $12 (adults) and $10 (students). The group features 1994 IMS graduate, Brian
Dickel, and has been described as “Shenandoah Valley’s
newest and brightest songwriting force” ( The Blue Ridge Outdoors
magazine). The band is based out of Virginia.
Please save the following date—October 2, 2011.
Plan on spending some time at Parkview home which will be celebrating 50
years of caring. Further details will be
coming. To assist us in our celebrations
we are searching for memorabilia from the past 50 years. If you would like to share photographs or
memories of Parkview, please have items to either Tammy or Bill by Friday,
September 9. If you have photographs
please send copies or label them so we can return them to you. Thank you very much.
The Christian Formation Committee of Central Plains Mennonite Conference will host a one-day
workshop on children’s ministry on Saturday, October 15, 2011, at Hidden Acres
Christian Center
near Dayton, Iowa.
This workshop is for persons who are working in any ministry to
elementary and middle school children that operates in addition to Sunday
School—whether that be Bible Memory, a kids’ club, Venture Club, junior youth
group or your church’s own unique variation.
Please save the date. See Martha
for a registration form.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has surpassed its initial target of raising $1 million for
the East Africa drought and is now expanding its response to the continuing
crisis in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. MCC is planning to provide emergency food
assistance and emergency relief for internally displaced people around the Somalia border town of Dhobley,
the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya
and in two districts in southeastern Ethiopia. MCC continues to work with long-term partner
organizations in over 50 countries to help lessen the effects of future
droughts. Please consider giving a gift
for ‘East Africa Drought’, or to ‘Where Needed Most’ to support MCC’s
sustainable development work around the world.
Send checks to MCC Central States, PO Box 235, North Newton,
KS 67117
or donate online at mcc.org.
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