April 8, 2012
Our Church
Happy
Birthday to: Cindy Widmer (4/8), Jon Widmer (4/14)
Offering for 4/1/12: $4270 (regular)
Upcoming Events
·
Spring Business Meeting on Wednesday, April 18 at 7pm – all are invited
Prayers of
Washington Mennonite
·
Marion Leichty
Iowa Mennonite School
Financial
Assistance to attend IMS is available for any family wishing
to apply. Please go to www.iowamennonite.org/admissions/financial-aid
for the appropriate application forms.
There are three sources of aid, with stipulations on each; please note
the deadlines to apply for each. Contact
the school for further information.
IMS’s Touring Choir,
under the direction of Karenza Yoder, will embark on their annual tour from
April 12-16. The trip includes a concert
in Elkhart, IN, and will culminate with the 50th annual MSC Choir
Festival in Kidron, OH. Please pray for
traveling safety and the many students from more than a dozen schools who will
gather to create some wonderful music.
Enrollment Director Candi Schmieder invites anyone interested in sharing enrollment ideas to a
brainstorm/planning session on Monday, April 16. The meeting will take place at 6:30pm in the
conference room on the IMS campus.
Please contact her at candi.schmieder at gmail.com for further
information.
Mennonite Agencies
Everence representative
Justin Brokaw will be available from 10am to 2 pm on April 17th
at Wayland Mennonite Church to help with questions on current accounts,
Medicare supplement, budgeting and retirement savings assistance, as well as
health, life and long term care insurance needs.
Subscribe to
Mennonite Church USA’s new online newsletter, On
the Way! This is a free, short online resource through which we hope
to start conversations about how we are living out our vision and mission that
will help us learn from each other. Each of the first seven issues, which will
come out every six weeks, will focus on one of the seven denominational
priorities. Check out the latest issue at http://mennoniteusa.org/on-the-way/march-on-the-way/, and subscribe at http://eepurl.com/i8oX9.
Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request: MMN requests prayer for the three Mennonite congregations in Paris,
France, as they seek to discern, by next Sunday, whether God is calling them to
collaborate in youth ministry by inviting a North American mission couple. Pray for authentic listening to God’s voice
and for patience with the process.
The Sower Prayer Request: Pray for Daniel and Kristi
Winings as they bring closure to their time as pastor at Shalom Mennonite
Church in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Sunday, April 15. Remember the Shalom Mennonite congregation as
they process ongoing and future leadership needs.
Washington Area
Curtis
Fry, who went to jail for muder, is
speaking Sunday, April 15th at 7pm in the WACO High School gym,
sponsored by the Bethel Mennonite Church Youth Group. Curtis made the choice to celebrate his 21st
birthday with alcohol and while heavily intoxicated he killed a man with his
fists. Curtis will be sharing his story
and speaking about how the choices we make in life affect those around us. Most importantly he will share how our
choices represent Jesus Christ. Contact
319-548-0068 for more information.
An
evening of music, prayer, and drama
at the Stockyard, Hwy 78 in Wayland on Sunday, April 15 from 6:30-8:30. Sharon Benell will minister in music, and
Michael Ernst is performing “America, Did You Know.” Hosted by Partners in Prayer, www.seiowaworshipandprayer.com. Snacks available.
You are invited to a French Toast Breakfast on Saturday,
April 21st, to benefit "Empowering
Haiti: The Ivy Jane Yoder Baby Rooms" from 6:30AM - 10:30AM at Kalona
Mennonite Church. Come join us as we raise money
to help build a permanent health clinic in Lambert, Haiti. The menu will
include French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage, and homemade rolls. There will
be a free will donation and carryouts are available. Questions? Call Trent and Tammy
Yoder at 656-3743. More information about Empowering Haiti can be found online
at www.empoweringhaiti.org .
You
are invited to a fundraiser meal and cake auction
at East Union Mennonite Church on Sunday, April 22nd for Mitch and Heidi Siemens-Rhodes and family, starting at noon. Mitch is the son of Dale and Charlene Rhodes
and grew up in the Kalona area. Mitch met Heidi at Goshen College and after
they were married, they lived in the area from 2000-2002. During this time, they actively attended East
Union and Mitch worked on the family farm while Heidi taught English at IMS for
a semester. Mitch and Heidi now live in
Goshen, Indiana with their three sons. In
late September of 2011, Heidi was diagnosed with metastasis of melanoma. Heidi
is currently on a vigorous immunotherapy infusion treatment plan. For more
detailed information, go to www.caringbridge.org then enter HeidiSiemensrhodes to
visit her site. The meal and cake auction are sure to be a fun and lively time!
Your RSVP to mitchandheidifundraiser
at gmail.com is appreciated to help with planning.
The Crowded Closet is seeking 2 part time and 1 full time positions. One part time workroom assistant, one part
time retail assistant manager, and one full time workroom manager. All positions must be able to lift, bend and
be on your feet much of the day. Should be able to work independently and
as part of a team. All positions will help with opening and closing the
store, and answering phones. Applicants must be able to work one Saturday
a month, and occasional evenings. Excellent public relations skills
required. Post secondary education appreciated, and required for the full
time position. For more information, contact Betsy at 319-337-5924.
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