WASHINGTON MENNONITE CHURCH
GOD GATHERS US
Prelude
Lighting of the Peace Candle: A rain stick/singing bowl will signal this
time. We
ask
that you reflect and prepare for worship during this time.
Welcoming/Opening Prayer
Songs of Worship “Holy, Holy, Holy” WB
120
“Come Thou Fount” WB
521
“Beloved, God’s Chosen” STJ
38
GOD ADDRESSES US
Children’s Time
NT Readings Romans
13:8-14
Message “The
Holy Put-on”
Song of Response “How Can We Be Silent” STJ 61
GOD HEARS US
Sharing
Pastoral Prayer/Offering Prayer
Offering
GOD SENDS US
Benediction
Sending Song “We Will Walk with God” STJ 78
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Worship Leaders:
Prelude/Offertory: Sandy
Buhrow
Worship Leader: Cindy Widmer
Children’s
Time: Marlene Leichty
Song Leader: Edie Nebel
Message: Grant Nebel
Pastoral Prayer: Amanda Beachy
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.
EDUCATION LEADERS
Adult Sermon Extension (Sanctuary): Roger Farmer
Adult Bible Study: (end
classroom of Fellowship Hall): Barb
Ramsey
Preschool – 2-5 years (middle classroom in Fellowship
Hall): Becky Widmer
Grades 3-6 (classroom off kitchen): Karen Bates
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,
Myron Graber 653.1674
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 11, Amanda—Matthew
18:21-35 and Genesis 50:15-21
September 18, Amanda—Psalm 105
September 25, Grant—Matthew
21:23-32
Offering for 8/28/11:
$5483.79 (regular), $50.00 (Moya College Fund)
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.
Each week we would
like one person to list their favorite Bible scripture and how these verses
are encouraging them in their walk with God.
Each week Amanda and Grant will be asking someone for their
response. The congregation’s response is
to pray for that person during the week.
Happy Birthday to:
Lori Asbury (today), Janet
Payne, Courtney Bates (9/8)
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.
THIS WEEK:
Wed.: Council meeting at church, 7:00 PM
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Sept. 13: Elders’ meeting, 7:00 PM
Sept. 18: Family Fun Night at Crooked Creek Christian
Camp, 5:30 PM
Sept. 21: Fall Business Meeting, 7:00 PM at the church
Any student in the 6th – 8th grade considering attending—or would like more
information about—Iowa Mennonite School is invited to an ice cream social on
September 8. The IMS volleyball teams
are in action beginning at 5:30 PM, and ice cream will be served following the
varsity match. Bring a friend and learn
to know other potential students in a casual atmosphere…and meet IMS’s new
enrollment director, Candi Schmieder.
Call the school for more information (319.656.2073).
The IMS sophomore class is once again selling magazines.
Purchase or renew a magazine subscription through an IMS sophomore until
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!
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.
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.
Come to the 8th Annual Art & Flower Festival
on September 17. This family-friendly event benefits Habitat
for Humanity and is held from 10 AM to 4 PM at Anna’s Cutting Garden (1259
Rohret Rd. SW, Oxford). You may purchase
local artwork, pick flowers, enjoy live music and eat homemade ice cream and
masonry-oven pizza. Bring a friend! Info at www.iowavalleyhabitat.org.
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.
Loaves & Fishes: A Consultation on Children’s Ministry will be held on Saturday, October 15, at Hidden Acres
Christian Center near Dayton, Iowa. This
one-day workshop is for anyone involved in or thinking of offering a ministry
to children beyond Sunday School. On
Friday night, Mary Ann Weber, the managing editor for curriculum for Mennonite
publishing, will lead a discussion of what People are looking for in the next
children’s Sunday School curriculum.
Come early and share your thoughts, hopes and dreams for children’s
Sunday School with Mary Ann! See Martha
for registration forms.
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.
Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church youth group will be selling Christmas Greenery from September 7
through November 2. Please contact
Lindsay Widmer (319.530.2762) or Laurie Miller (319.325.4398) for more details.
Mission Network prayer request: Last
month, children in Japan from areas contaminated by radioactivity were invited
to Menno Village, a partner of Mennonite Mission Network, for several weeks to
play outside and to enjoy clean food and water.
Pray that what these children learned about Jesus’ love will continue to
give hope to them and their families.
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