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email: washingtonmennonitechurch@gmail.com

phone: 319-653-6041

address:

815 Polk Street

Washington, IA 52353

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Newsletter for August 3, 2014

Bearing Fruit
August 3, 2014



Our Church

Happy Birthday to:  Lea Smothers (8/4)

Happy Anniversary to:  Jerry & Joyce Roth (8/5),
Nathan & Brandy Miller (8/5)

Offering for 7/27/2014:  $1,848.70 (regular)

With four Sundays remaining our spending blueprint is approximately $22,000 behind.  Keep this in mind as your prepare your offering.

Young people (grades K-6) are invited to Washington Mennonite’s Vacation Bible School on August 9th and 10th!  Come to learn about God, The Good Shepherd and have lots of fun.  On August 9th we’ll meet at church from 9:15-3:30, and then on August 10th we’ll have a picnic/swimming party at Crooked Creek Camp following the church service.  Call Amanda (319.325.4522) for more information, or see Mary Lou to pick up a postcard.

Bike to Church Sunday:  Start lining up your sponsors for  Bike to Church Sunday sometime soon.  We’ll meet in Central Park for juice and donuts and then actually bike to the church for the Sunday morning service.  Get people to sponsor you at $1 or $5 per block for the $16 block trip to benefit MCC.

Annual Reports need to be turned in to Andrea by August 31st.  They can be emailed to wash.mennonite at juno.com or left on the Andrea’s desk.  Thanks!

If your address, phone number, or email address have changed in the last 2 years, or you have recently started attending, please make the corrections/additions on the forms in the fellowship hall for the new church directory.  Or email your information to wash.mennonite at juno.com.



Iowa Mennonite School

Registration for all students attending IMS this fall will be Monday, Aug 4th, from 7:30-6pm in the school office.  Students will confirm final class schedules, meet with principal Tim Lehman, and should be prepared to pay incidental costs for the year.  Please contact the school for further information or to reschedule if these dates are inconvenient.

IMS opens the 2014-15 school year this week, with faculty and staff beginning Monday the 11th, and students arriving Wednesday the 13th.  Please keep the school in your thoughts and prayers during this time of new beginnings and anticipation of a positive year!


Central Plains Conference

Willis and Nadine Busenitz, pastoral couple at the White River Cheyenne Mennonite Church in Busby, Montana, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 18th, 2014.  Their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be hosting and celebrating at the White River Cheyenne Mennonite Church on August 3rd at 4pm.  All are invited.  Cards and greetings may be mailed to them at PO Box 50, Busby, MT, 59016 or emailed to littlebeark at gmail.com.  If you are interested in attending please email or call, littlebeark at gmail.com, 406.208.3740 and information on lodging, etc. will be provided.

The Sower Prayer Request:  Pray for the Iglesia Menonita Hispana Assembly meeting in Aurora, Oregon, next weekend and especially for those participants from Central Plains.


Mennonite Agencies

MC USA Announcement:  Send in your seminar ideas – The 2015 MC USA convention will run from June 30 to July 5, 2015, and we need your seminar and workshop ideas in order to make it especially awesome.  Submit your ideas online until Aug 15: http://convention.mennoniteusa.org /convention-411/seminars/.


Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request:  Last week, Muslims around the world finished celebrating Ramadan, their holiest month of the year.  MMN personnel in Muslim contexts find that this is a time of increased spiritual openness.  Today, pray that Muslims would encounter Jesus in life-giving ways.

Prayers for faith and learning:  Pray for students in preschool through twelfth grade as they embark on a new school year.  Pray for God’s presence with the students during this time of both excitement and anxiety.


Area Events

The Calvarymen will give the message through music at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church on Suday, August 10th¸at 10:30am.  A free-will offering will be taken.  The Calvarymen is a Southern Gospel singing group from Hartville, Missouri.  For more information go to www.thecalvarymen.com. 
 

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