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)
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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