Bearing Fruit
October 28, 2012
Our Church
Happy Birthday
to: Ken
Miller (10/28), Sarah Miller (11/1)
Offering for 10/21/12: $2662 (regular)
After the service, we will be starting a new Sunday School
class facilitated by Roger Farmer. This class will be for people who are reading through the
Bible in one year, following the Bible reading plan that was handed out in
September. The class will be a place for people to discuss the scriptures that
they have been reading each week. Please let Roger Farmer know if you are
interested in being a part of this class.
After Sunday School, we will have a noon meeting for all who are interested in
thinking about/making decisions about a dinner/dessert theatre in the
coming year. From this meeting, we will appoint a dinner/dessert theatre
committee. We will order in pizza for lunch during this meeting. All are
welcome!
There
will be a bridal shower for Caleb & Heidi Detweiler following church on Sunday, Nov 25th. More details will follow next week.
Iowa Mennonite School
This afternoon’s performance of Stealing Home will actually begin at 2:30pm instead of 3:00 as
earlier publicized. Please note the time change!
Tickets are available for the IMS Pork Supper on Sat,
Nov 3, hosted by the junior class and their parents. The menu includes roast pork, baked potato,
salad, and homemade desserts; serving is from 4:30-7:30pm in the IMS gym. Call the school office to purchase advance
tickets (they will also be available at the door). Thanks for your support of the class in their
efforts to raise funds for their class trip next summer!
IMS’s National Honor
Society is sponsoring a blood drive through the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, on
Monday, Nov 5th. Donation
time is from 7:30-11:30am; walk-ins are certainly welcome, but you can make an
appointment by calling the school at 656-2073 or 683-2586.
Mennonite Agencies
Anyone interested in participating in a Fellowship and Work Team to Ecuador
leaving the last week of February, 2013 contact Doyle Roth Roth at doyleroth at hotmail.com, Ph. 402.641.0266. Anyone interested in participating in a
Fellowship and Learning Tour to Ecuador January 24 to February 5, 2013 contact
Don Kempf at donaldkempf at windstream.net,
Ph. 402.759.1285.
MennoMedia
has released two new Mennonite Hour CD collections, “A Cappella Christmas—2nd Edition” with seven NEW songs
including the perennial favorite, “The Star and the Wiseman.” Also on CD for
the first time is a second album, “18 Most Loved Hymns.” CDs are $12.95
each. For a complete list of CDs and the songs available on each, go to www.MennoMedia.org/MennoniteHour or
call 800.245.7894.
The Sower
Prayer Request: Pray for the churches at Ashland, Lame Deer,
and Busby, Montana as they prepare to host our Central Plains Annual Meeting in
June 2013.
Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request: Connie Byler
of MMN carries Jesus’ light to hurting people despite her own chronic
pain. In Spain, she visits people in
hospitals and provides spiritual companionship to those living with AIDS, in
addition to a women’s ministry. Pray
that God would bring healing to Connie as she serves others.
Mennonite Education Agency Prayer Request: Praise God
for the committed faculty, staff, and board at Philadelphia Mennonite High
School, for generous donors and for the great students and their parents!
Washington Area
JPOG
(Just Peace Outreach Group) invites you to consider the emerging and entrenched
faces of poverty in the nation and Washington County. We
invite you to view a DVD documentary about poverty in the aftermath of the
recession and also hear comments about local poverty from Edie Nebel, Washington County Director of Public Health. Join us at the Kalona Mennonite Church, 902
6th Street, Kalona, Iowa on Sunday, October 28, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. for a
finger-foods potluck and conversation (please bring your own table service) or
at 7 pm for the program on poverty. For
more information call Roger Farmer at 319.653.2547 or email Jane Yoder-Short at
yodershort at netins.net.
Wayland MYF is organizing a community-wide fall
festival at the cafeteria
and gymnasium of WACO Secondary School on Sunday, October 28th from 12pm to
3pm. You can join us for a fall meal from 12pm to 1:30pm. You can bid on our
silent auction items from 12:30pm to 2:30pm. And you can participate in our fun
activities (crafts, games, hay ride, bake sale, cookie walk, pumpkin sale,
caramel apples and much more) from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. All proceeds will help the
youth attend MC USA Youth Convention in July 2013. Invite your friends, family
and neighbors to this extraordinary event!
The Harper Family will be at Lower Deer Creek this evening at 7 p.m. From the hills of Missouri,
the Harpers are a family group that shares their music and faith in a bluegrass
style. Also featured is Highway
Home. You are all invited to attend!
A pork loin supper and auction benefit for Carissa
Swartzendruber will be
held on November 3rd at the Pathway Christian School from
5:00-7:20. Carissa was born with
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. For
more information contact Amy Drayfahl at 319.461.4049, Kim Gingerich at
319.430.4690, or Valerie Gingerich at 319.430.5529.
There will be a Caring for the Heart conference at Upper Deer Creek Church, November 4-8.
This is for anyone wanting to better understand how to resolve personal
and marital difficulties. For more information, you may contact
Elmer Miller at 319.656.3843.
Get your feather or foam pillows cleaned, sanitized, deodorized & NEW TICKING
on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 from 8:30am – 4:00pm at Kalona Mennonite Church
(902 6th St). Sponsored by
the Kalona Mennonite WMSC.
Bethel
will be hosting Seth Wenger and a group of singers on Sunday, November 11th to present during Special Music, hymns from the "Sacred Harp," hymnal. The group will be
staying in the afternoon to have a potluck lunch and a few hours of group
singing. Anyone who is interested in the music, and would like to participate
in an afternoon sing, is welcome and encouraged to come and join. More about
the history and culture of Sacred Harp singing can be found at the web site http://fasola.org
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