Newsletter for August 11, 2013

Bearing Fruit

August 11, 2013

 

 Our Church

Happy Birthday to:  Vicki Wulf (8/12), Jon Litwiller (8/12)

Happy Anniversary to:  Francis & Phyllis Litwiller (8/11),

        Matt & Kelly Wood (8/14)

Offering for 8/4/2013: $2835 (regular), $200 (HACAP)

“Thanks to everyone who helped us move last weekend.  We're creating order out of a chaos of boxes !!  Our new address is:  Roger and Mary Lou Farmer, 1208 North Seventh Street, Washington, Iowa 52353.  Our phone number remains the same:  319-653-2547.   Come visit sometime !!”

All who write reports for our year-end Annual Report need to submit their reports by August 28^th.  They can be emailed  to the church or placed on Andrea’s desk or mailbox.

Iowa Mennonite School

Join us for a morning of golf at the 3^rd annual IMS Fairway Fun golf outing on Aug 17^th.  Bring a foursome or sign up individually for the 4-person best-ball tournament.  There will be prizes, lunch, 18 holes of golf (and a cart) included in your $75 entry fee; proceeds will benefit our Student Aid Fund.  Principal Norm Yoder will join us and be available to chat as well.  Please contact Larry Swartzendruber at the school to register.

Crooked Creek Christian Camp

Don’t forget to sign up for the canoe trip down Skunk River with CCCC on Sat, Aug 24^th starting at 8:30am.  We will spend the day canoeing 16 miles down Skunk River.  Registration fees are $20/adult and $15/child (12 and under).  The day includes snacks, lunch, transportation, canoes and life jackets.  Register online at our website www.crookedcreekcamp.org/programs or call the camp to save your spot today!  319.653.3611  Half day option is available.

Central Plains Conference

The Sower Prayer Request:  Pray that the congregations of Central Plains would continue to develop loving relationships with one another, as well as with Christians across the church and around the world, to discern a common way of life as a contrast society.

Mennonite Agencies

MCC Central States is accepting applications for an Office Manager/Bookkeeper in the North Newton, KS office.  Check for more details at serve.mcc.org (look for Office Manager/Bookkeeper-Central States) or email mwaltner at mcc.org.

You are invited to the MCC Learning Tour “Ukraine: Addressing the Basic Social Issues of a Broken-Down Society” July 25^th-Aug 4^th, 2014.  Contact Anna Yoder, annayoder at mcc.org or 316.283.2720, for more info.

Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request:   Praise God for positive changes at the War Trauma Center in Serbia where Lane Stopher of MMN served for more than four years.  Pray for Lane as he answers a call to the Lombard (IL) Mennonite Peace Center and begins ministry there this month.

Prayers for faith and learning:  Pray for Rafael Barahona, director of the Anabaptist Biblical Institute, who will be teaching the IBA students at Iglesia Agua Viva, Riverside, CA on Aug 16-18, 2013.  Pray for safe travel and for God’s wisdom upon Rafael as he teaches.  Pray that his course be a source of learning and of many blessings for the students and their congregation.

Area Events

On Sunday Aug. 18th at 4:30 p.m. Pathway Christian School will have a time of praise and worship, along with a time of prayer to bless and dedicate Pathway Christian and its ministry, as the new school year begins. Everyone is invited: parents, students, grandparents, alumni, former parents, former students, staff, former staff, friends, and neighbors. This is an opportunity for the community to bless a part of the next generation as they prepare to hear and live out the call that God has and will put on their life.